(The men were naked and) clear as the point of a sword in the sun -George Garrett. Clear as the note of doom -Lord De Tabley.Clear as the lines in a wet leaf -Charles Johnson.Clear as the figures at the bottom of a Profit and Loss Statement -Anon.“Clear as” comparisons linked with the day, time of day, and the sun at different times of the day include “Clear as noon” (shortened from the once popular “Clear as noon-day”) and “Clear as the sun” (both attributed to Roger North) “Clear as is the summer’s sun” (William Shakespeare) “Clear as the mid-day sunshine” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) “Clear as daylight” (Arnold Bennett). Clear as the A, B, C -George Washington.Clear as righteousness -Algernon Charles Swinburne.(The creek flashed) clear as quartz -Ella Leffland.(The morning was) clear as glass -Mark Helprin.Clear as A on the piano in the middle of all the tuning instruments of an orchestra -Sylvia Plath.Clear as a legal confession of murder -John Cheever.Clear as a lake -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.clear as a fountain -Walter Savage Landor.Clear as a cube of solid sunshine -Anon.Clear as a cloudless hour -Algernon Charles Swinburne.clear as a case history written in a book -Jean Stafford.The bell comparison along with “Clear as a whistle” and “Clear as crystal” are probably most frequently used and familiar. One could compile a small book of just “Clear as” similes. Clear and diminished like a scene cut in cameo -Edna St.(The consonants) blur together like ink on a wet page -Sue Grafton.(The image) blurred … like something familiar seen beneath disturbed though clear water -William Faulkner.As unreadable as a piece of modern sculpture -Frank Swinnerton.As sharp as the last daybreak -Joy Williamsonįrom a book jacket blurb about Tess Gallagher’s ability to portray aging people’s vision of irremediable loss in novel, The Lovers of Horses.(The scents of the garden descended upon him, their contours) as precise and clear as the colored bands of a rainbow -Patrick Suskind.
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