Facial Shape
Facial Shape
- His flat face looked as if it were pressed against a window, except there was no window —Rebecca West
- Big face, broad at the bottom, narrowed upward like a Dutch cheese —Saul Bellow
- An enormous flat face like an unbaked pie —J. B. Priestly
- Face as huge as the bowl of the sky —George Garrett
- Face as long as his arm —Henry Van Dyke
- Face, as round and white and incisively marked as the face of a clock —John Updike
- Face … as round as a skillet —James Lee Burke
- Face broad and oval as a meat dish —Angela Carter
- Face flat as a dough pan —James Lee Burke
- Face, like a large tomato, was round and very red —Kenzaburo Oë
- Face long as a fence line in flat country —Linda West Eckhardt
- Face long as an El Greco —Carlos Baker
- Face round as a full moon —James Crumley
- Face … round as a radar dish —John Updike
- Faces as long as a wet week —H. E. Bates
- Face shaped like a honeydew melon —Paige Mitchell
- Face shaped like a shovel —Joyce Carol Oates
- Face … thin as a knife —Honore de Balzac
- A long face like a shoe —Christina Stead
- A long narrow face cut like a tribal mask —Miles Gibson
- A round chubby face, like a soft beachball —John Rechy
- Round face like the full moon —W. Somerset Maugham
- Sharp-pointed face like a cat —Honoré de Balzac
- A sparkling, triangular face like a cat —Pamela Frankau
- 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.