![]() ![]() Paced around … like a jaguar on the prowl -Jonathan Kellerman.(The sun) moving up and down … like a musical note -Saul Bellow.Moving … slow and heavy as lead -Gerald Kersh.Moving quick and light as a fairy -Dame Edith Sitwell.Moving listlessly back and forth, like a fish in an aquarium -Jill Ciment.(Hand) moving imperceptibly like a marine plant -Marguerite Yourcenar.(Waiters) moving as deft and soft-footed as shadows -George Garrett.Move mindlessly, mechanically as a toy train through a Christmas tree town -Sharon Sheehe Stark.Movement … quick and quiet as a fish in deep water -Gerald Kersh.Move languidly … like a hostess in her bathrobe emptying ashtrays on Sunday morning -Alice McDermott.Moved with funny little steps, like a chicken with an egg wedged up its legs -William Kotzwinkle.Moved passively with her head down, like a prisoner between guards -Ross Macdonald.Moved like benign automata -Angela Carter.Moved like a water bug, like a skipping stone, upon the glassy tense surface of his new life -John Updike.Moved by as if on a treadmill -Jonathan Kellerman See: RESTLESSNESS.Moved as smoothly as light wind across water -James Crumley.A meandering pace that makes sweet Afton look like a white water stream -Helen Dudar, New York Times Book Review, September 21, 1986.Lowered herself cautiously, like a climber -Elizabeth Bowen.Like shoals of fish, they all headed one way -Elizabeth Taylor.Like a vein of gold I darted after you -Charles Simic.In the novel, A Personal Matter, the lethargy described is that of a man pedalling his bike. Lethargically, like sloth on the move -Kenzaburo Oë.Kicking and wriggling like a retriever pup -Walter Duranty.I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee -Muhammed Ali.Hurried with legs stretched out ahead of me like a horse -David Ignatow.His body waved like a flame in the breeze -TV obituary describing James Cagney’s physical grace, 1986.He moves like a piece of darkness -Joe Coomer.He dumped himself like a bag of bones -Robert Frost.Groped about like blind, cautious crabs -Ralph Ellison.Going (home) stealthily and unsteadily … like a dissipated cat -Charles Dickens.Go as if nine men pulled you and ten men held you -John Withal. ![]()
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