WISE BLOOD

"The few hogs nosing in the furrows looked like large spotted stones" pg 9
"a nose like a shrike's bill" pg 10
"like passages leading somewhere and she leaned halfway across the space that separated the two seats" pg 10
"He looked as if he were held by a rope caught in the middle of his back and attached to the train ceiling" pg 12
"He moved like a crow" pg 15
"women dressed like parrots" pg 15
"the knobs framed her face like dark toadstools" pg 18
"something in his throat like a sponge with an egg taste" pg 19
"he thought where he was lying was like a coffin" pg 19
"pulled her mouth down as if she wasn't any more satisfied dead than alive, as if she were going to spring up and shove the lid back and fly out and astisfy herself" pg 27
"He saw her in his sleep, terrible, like a huge bat, dart from the closing..." pg 27
"The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole order of hte universe and would take all time to complete" pg 37
"his neck was thrust forward as if he were trying to smell something that was always being drawn away" pg 37
"His cheeks were streaked with lines tht looked as if they had been painted on and had faded" pg 39
"Her eyes glittered on him like two chips of green bottle glass" pg 42
"He looked like a friendly hound dog with light mange" pg 44
"she had theseyer brown glasses and her hair was so thin it looked like ham gravy trickling over her skull" pg 47
"with his elbow out like sharp wings" pg 54
"it was like a large spread raveling and the separated threads disappeared down the dark streets" pg 55
"he was like something washed ashore on her" pg 59
"his throat got dryer and his heart began to grip him like a little ape clutching the bars of its cage" pg 60
"her eyes took everything in whole, like quicksand" pg 60
"his face had a fragile look as if it might have been broken and stuck together again, or like a gun no one knows is loaded" pg 68
"his face under the cap was like a thin picked eagle's" pg 69
"he was sitting huddled up as if he were freezing" pg 71
"they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church" pg 74
"he had the look of being held there, as if by an invisible hand, as if, if the hand lifted up, the figure would spring across the pool in one leap without hte expression on his face changing once" pg 84
"he hated them; just thinking about them made his face turn a chocolate purple color as if the malted milk were rising in his head" pg 90
"he only looked pressed down in that blue suit, as if inside it, the thing winding was getting tighter and tighter" pg 90
"looking at the woman as if he were looking at a wall" pg 91
"the eyes were like two clean bullet holes" pg 98
"his face was so close to the glass that it looked like a paper face pasted there" pg 103
"and it glared as if someone were aobu to insult him" pg 104
"he would find himself doing this or that, like a bird finds itself building a nest when it hasn't actually been planning to" pg 129
"his blood was rushing around like a woman who cleans up the house after the company has come" pg 134
"and then he got up and began to walk down the street as if he were led by a silent melody or by one of those whistles that only dogs hear" pg 139
"he looked like an ex-preacher turned cowboy" pg 148
"they had on brown felt hats and black town suits, and they looked like older and younger brother" pg 149
"with his head slightly forward, as if he weren't sure what he was hearing" pg 149
"various eyes looked through the back oval window at his situation, some with considerable reverance, like the boy from the zoo" pg 160
"the sky was an unpredictable surly grey like the back of an old goat" pg 173
"the umbrella kept slipping from under his arm and getting tangled in his feet, as if it meant to keep him going anywhere" pg 173