19 Metaphors for smooth

The fingers were short and tapering, dimpled at the base, with nails as smooth as rose-leaves.

Smooth were the waves, the ether clear, Yet all was desert, cold, and drear!

Smooth be her ways, secure her tread Along the devious lines of life, From grace to grace successive led, A noble maiden, nobler wife!

And his waist was slender to a degree and his navel neat; and smooth also was the region about his ribs.

dissembling smooth! Are honour, virtue, conscience, all exiled? Is there no pity, no relenting ruth, Points to the parents fondling o'er their child? Then paints the ruined maid, and their distraction wild?

That this is exactly what Spedding would have said we know from the letter he wrote on the subject to Mr. Holmes, reprinted in Essays and Discussions, and it completely upsets the whole scheme of arrangement of Lord Penzance's summing-up, which proceeds on the easy footing that the more difficulties you throw in Shakespeare's path the smoother becomes Bacon's.

It seem'd he did not cry: Few tears stand on his cheek, smooth is each eye; But when he saw my mother bent to die, He died with her.

And if the "boss" sometimes astonished the city by going out for a walk in midwinter in a suit of white duck, they, not to be outdone, would shave off their hair and eyebrows and show heads as smooth as billiard-balls behind the shop windows, to the great commotion of the city, which would flock en masse to see "Cupido's Chinamen.

Sometimes we hire a dogcart and a black horse named Punch, from the inn in the village, and we take long drives over roads that are almost as smooth as bowling alleys.

Next take either a large tablespoonful of brewer's yeast which has been rendered solid by mixing it with plenty of cold water, and letting it afterwards stand to settle for a day and night; or nearly an ounce of German yeast; put it into a large basin, and proceed to mix it, so that it shall be as smooth as cream, with 3/4 pint of warm milk-and-water, or with water only; though even a very little milk will much improve the bread.

The sea was just as smooth as glass!

When his cloaks and shawls and capes were at last pulled off by his auntie's eager hands, there came into view a serious little face, a pair of bright eyes, and a head as smooth as ivory, on which there was not a single hair.

He began to smile again, the frightful frown that rode over his eyes dispersing, leaving his forehead as smooth as marble.

He was as smooth as oil, admitting nothing, denying nothing.

A glacial deposit is left in patches on the rocks which is today as smooth as plate glass.

And their precious block, as smooth as sawn and polished timber, with never a notch from side to side, could not take in Hugo Gottfried, who had made a playmate and a printed book of the worn blocks of a hundred executionsto whom each separate chip made by the Red Axe had been a text for Gottfried Gottfried to expatiate upon concerning his own prowess and that of his fathers.

"As smooth as silk," said Sylvester aloud.

In the Ettrick and Yarrow district the smooth is a popular sheepdog.

A fair river ran down into the mouth of that valley and it was as bright and as smooth as silver, and on each side of it were smooth level meadow-landsvery greenand here and there shady groves of trees and plantations of fruit-trees.

19 Metaphors for  smooth