Some similes from Grenville Kleiser’s 1910 phrasebook Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases still feel like tiny bits of poetry. Among the keepers: like footsteps upon wool for treading lightly, the sky was like a peach, and the wonderfully damp quaking and quivering like a short-haired puppy after a ducking. This is part of a complete episode.
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Grant, I want to share some more similes from this book, 15,000 Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser.
Okay.
Like footsteps upon wool. I really like that one. Footsteps, that’s nice. So that’s how you tread lightly.
Yeah.
Or what about this one? Quaking and quivering like a short-haired puppy after a ducking. I can just see that little puppy after he gets stopped.
Yeah, I can see that too. That’s nice.
Or what about The Sky Was Like a Peach? Does that work for you?
The Sky Was Like a Peach? The Sky Was Like a Peach.
Yeah, I think it does. For some of these require, I want to know more about the scene and the author.
I know.
But some of them do their own work, like tiny bits of poetry.
Exactly. And that’s one of the reasons that I’ve been enjoying going through this book.
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