See Also: BRIGHTNESS, GLITTER AND GLOSS

1. Gleamed like dogs’ eyes in a car’s headlights —Frank Swinnerton
2. [A ballroom] polished like a skull —Lawrence Durrell
3. (Her face could) shine as a sack of apples —Wallace Whatley
4. Shine like a tear —Yocheved Bat-Miriam
5. [Hands] shine like old wood —Philip Levine
6. (A pool) shines, like a bracelet shaken in a dance —Wallace Stevens
7. Shines like a glowworm —Robert Penn Warren
8. Shines like a rhinestone in a trashcan —Nora Ephron reviewing a Jaqueline Susann novel within its context as a roman a clef
9. (Say to the court it glows and) shines like rotten wood —Sir Walter Raleigh
10. Shining and clear as white stones in a brook —George Garrett
11. [A table] shining like a pair of shoes —Shelby Hearon
12. [A room] shining like holiness —Jessamyn West
13. (Eyes) shining like the icing on a cake —Scott Spencer
14. Shone [the city in the light] as dazzling bright and pretty as money that you find in a dream of finding money —Edna St. Vincent Millay
15. Shone darkly, like water before a storm —Donald Seaman
16. Shone like a brand-new quarter —Karl Shapiro
17. Shone … like a cloud of lightning bugs —Eudora Welty
18. Shone like a meteor streaming in the wind —John Milton
19. Shone like patent leather —Rita Mae Brown
20. (The rails) shone like quicksilver —John Yount
21. (Her black, oiled hair) shone like a river under the moon —Colette
22. (Porch-slats) shone like sculpture —Alan Williamson
23. Sparkle like wedding cakes —Graham Swift

    In Swift’s novel, The Sweet-Shop Owner, the comparison refers the effects of the sun’s rays on graves.