True emotions (Metaphor)
The narrator of In the Court of the Dragon couldn’t believe that no one even noticed that the organist was playing that horrible thing “in the midst of divine service”. Everything seemed to be normal – except for music, of course – and he couldn’t help but wonder whether it was the reality or his mind played tricks on him. He even turned to a lady beside him but her “face betrayed nothing”. Nothing bothered her.
Fear (Metaphor)
The longer the organist played, the more worried the narrator of In the Court of the Dragon became. He felt hatred, evil and “a faint chill”. It was too much to handle and he felt his “heart sank” and his body freeze. Something strange and ominous was going on but he couldn’t put his fingers on it.
Valuable (Metaphor)
Boris managed to find a formula for a liquid which was capable of turning living things into their marble copies. Although it could bring him a lot of money, he decided to keep it in secret, for, according to him, there were enough precious metals in the world “to cut throats over”. This metaphor indicated that people were constantly fighting for valuable resources and there was no need to add one more to their list.
Without a flaw (Simile)
When Boris showed his friend, Alec, how that wonderful liquid worked on the example of a lily, Alec was struck by its beauty. “The marble was as white as snow” and even if he wanted he wouldn’t be able to find any flaw in it. That was an absolute perfection.
A shut-in (Simile)
Hildred Castaigne made Louise wonder what was really going on. His cousin had changed and he couldn’t recognize him. He started behaving rather strangely after that nasty fall. Hildred lived “like an owl”, spending the whole time at home or at Mr. Wilde’s, reading or talking nonsense.
Lovely and unpredictable (Simile)
Genevieve was young, lovely and beautiful. There was nothing surprising in the fact that Alec fell in love with her. Genevieve was never dull to be around. She was “as variable as an April day”. In the morning “grave, dignified and sweet, at noon laughing, capricious, at evening whatever one least expected”.
