Facial Shape

Facial Shape

 

1. His flat face looked as if it were pressed against a window, except there was no window —Rebecca West
2. Big face, broad at the bottom, narrowed upward like a Dutch cheese —Saul Bellow
3. An enormous flat face like an unbaked pie —J. B. Priestly
4. Face as huge as the bowl of the sky —George Garrett
5. Face as long as his arm —Henry Van Dyke
6. Face, as round and white and incisively marked as the face of a clock —John Updike
7. Face … as round as a skillet —James Lee Burke
8. Face broad and oval as a meat dish —Angela Carter
9. Face flat as a dough pan —James Lee Burke
10. Face, like a large tomato, was round and very red —Kenzaburo Oë
11. Face long as a fence line in flat country —Linda West Eckhardt
12. Face long as an El Greco —Carlos Baker
13. Face round as a full moon —James Crumley
14. Face … round as a radar dish —John Updike
15. Faces as long as a wet week —H. E. Bates
16. Face shaped like a honeydew melon —Paige Mitchell
17. Face shaped like a shovel —Joyce Carol Oates
18. Face … thin as a knife —Honore de Balzac
19. A long face like a shoe —Christina Stead
20. A long narrow face cut like a tribal mask —Miles Gibson
21. A round chubby face, like a soft beachball —John Rechy
22. Round face like the full moon —W. Somerset Maugham
23. Sharp-pointed face like a cat —Honoré de Balzac
24. A sparkling, triangular face like a cat —Pamela Frankau
25. A thin face shaped like the hatchet Lizzie Borden chopped up her mama with —Davis Dresser

Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.