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For instance, the beautiful word, the colored and glittering word, and the beautiful simile belong in prose now.
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In another place he remarks: St. Catherine of Sienna illustrates the subject by means of a beautiful simile.
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But often and often in the after years I have thought of Indaba-zimbi and his beautiful simile and gathered comfort from it.
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To the civilised poet, the fancy becomes a beautiful simile; to a savage poet, it would have become a material and a very formidable fact.
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He answered his questioner with a series of beautiful similes:
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Homer's rich invention gives us five beautiful similes on the march of the army.
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[Footnote 1: This beautiful simile is founded on a proverb which does honour to the English language: