Stars
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- The dipper burned like a strand of diamonds on a sable cloak —Joseph Wambaugh
- The divisions between the rings [of Saturn] are furrows in which the satellites rotate … like sheepdogs running around the flock to keep it compact —Italo Calvino
- The evening star flickered like a lamp just lit —Willa Cather
- In the dark vault of the sky, the stars hung like muted dots of leaden silver —Heinrich Böll
This lovely simile is the first sentence of Böll’s short story, The Ration Runners.
- Jupiter displays two equatorial stripes like a scarf decorated with interwoven embroideries —Italo Calvino
- A lovely star … large as the full moon —Jaroslav Seifert
- The Milky Way stands out so clearly that it looks as if it had been polished and rubbed over for the holidays —Anton Chekhov
- A star as bright as day —Anon Christmas ballad, probably dating to Middle Ages
- Starlight fell like rain —F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Stars are dropping thick as stones —Sylvia Plath
- (Tonight) the stars are like a crowd of faces moving round the sky —Wallace Stevens
- The stars burned steadily, like the lights of far-off ships —Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- The stars clung like snow crystals in the black sky —Ross Macdonald
- Stars … cold, like pieces of ice —Paige Mitchell
- Stars … dissolved like bubbles —Katherine Mansfield
The simile in full context: “In the sky some tiny stars floated for a moment and then they were gone —they were dissolved like bubbles.”
See Also: DISINTEGRATION
- Stars gleamed and winked like searching fireflies —Robert Traver
- Stars … huge, like daisies —May Sarton
- Stars large as asters —Mary Stewart
- Stars … like countless diamond lamps —Hans Christian Andersen
- (At night) stars rise like the bubbles of the drowned —Yehuda Amichai
- The stars seemed to look down like a thousand winking eyes —William Humphrey
- The stars which at midnight looked like a spillway of broken pearls, did not shine at this hour; they were holes of light, like eye squints in black masks —Paul Theroux
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star how I wonder what you are, up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky —Anne Taylor