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Connections See Also: CLINGING - Attached [to an idea] like a slug to its shell —Paige Mitchell
- Bonds (of family) as immutable as a tribal code —Anon
- Bonds frail as spider webs —George Garrett
See Also: FRAGILITY - The bonds which I had thought bound me … turned out to be as flimsy and insubstantial as a kindergartner’s paper chain —Harvey Swados
- Bound as the sun to the world’s wheel —Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Bound together as two trees with interwoven roots —Edith Wharton
- Bound together … like stepsisters with completely different backgrounds forced to live together under the same roof —Margaret Millar
The comparison as used in the mystery novel, Beyond This Point Are Monsters, is applied to cities which are different in sight and sound but bound together by geography and economics. - (Different professional groups in an organization) bundled together, as carrots or sticks of asparagus are bundled together —Frank Swinnerton
- Closely connected … as a mother with her baby’s belly button —Bertold Brecht
- Connect like a recurring musical leitmotif —Anon
- Drawn together and held like snowflakes in a glass glove —Arthur A. Cohen
- (Lives and limbs) entwined like the roots of trees —John Logan
- Held together as backbone holds together the ribs and limbs and head to a body —H. G. Wells
- Holds together like a quilt —James Dickey
- Joined together as in a wedding of rivers —George Garrett
- Linked [together] like mountain climbers —Frank Swinnerton
- Linked together by bonds as deep and mysterious as those which tie the mother to her young —Harvey Swados
- Lives crossing like swords —Paige Mitchell
- Mixes like alphabet soup —Diane Ackerman
- Roped together like climbers on a rockface —Lawrence Durrell
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