reappearance
Reappearance
- Always came back to me like a dog to his kennel —Nathan Shaham
- (The day) began all over again, like a toothache, in her memory —Frank Swinnerton
- [Kisses can … ] come back like ghosts —Carl Sandburg
Sandburg used this simile to open and close a poem, as well as for its title. In between are several additional similes to illustrate that love does come to an end to be put away “Like a clock,” “Like a violin,” or “Like a summer day near fall time.”
- Double back like a fox eluding his pursuing hounds —Robert Traver
- Keeps cropping up, like toadstools after a flood —Jonathan Kellerman
- Like a repentant lover, I returned to that previous way of life —John Rechy
- Recur like wind from a returning storm —Hallie Burnett
- (Questions about her parentage) recurred like malaria —Rita Mae Brown
- Recurring like a motif in music —G. K. Chesterton
- (They were) returning again, like birds to their roosts —Graham Swift
- Return like a bad penny —Anon
- Return like a homing pigeon —Anon
- Rolled like a stone back to where he’d started —Martin Cruz Smith
- Turn up like an old arrest record —Marge Piercy
- Turn up like a single boot after I finally threw the other away —Marge Piercy
- [A deep-seated flaw] would surface like an aching wisdom tooth —James Lee Burke
| Noun | 1. | reappearance - the event of something appearing again; "the reappearance of Halley's comet" |
| 2. | reappearance - the act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited" |