Phrases Flashcards
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Milk
A moustache of milk.
Blood
A stain of something unmistakable. Rusty-red in the snow. Blood
Darkness
Darkness descended like a hush.
World
It was an immense, silent world full of strange, distorted shadows and made up of a landscape that didn’t seem to belong on Earth at all.
Lights
Under the sheen of the flickering lights, the luminous green glinted off Bear’s fur and radiated out of him.
He
He was real. He was solid. He was alive.
Tap
It was like comparing a running bathroom tap to the rage of the Amazon River.
Cat
Cat’s whiskers
Dog
Dog’s dinner
Lion
Lion’s share
Bees
Bees’ knees
Cream
Cat who got the cream
Den
Lion’s den
Spirits
The spirits paced like caged tigers, rootless.
Preparing
In a castle built of broken boats, a wolf queen sharpened her spear. In the hall that was once his fortress, a lord buried his wife. In the mountains, an ancient girl opened her cobwebbed eye, and flexed her stone clad fingers with sounds like dropped pebbles.
Amulet
Her amber amulet was warn as smooth and orange as flame.
Knuckles
Her knuckles were showing like acorns with the effort being used agonisingly.
Night
The twighlight sky was as obsidian as tar; the air was glacial, drawing into the darkness like a omnipotant creature’s breath.
Posture
Their gait was more focused and commpact, like arrows skimming the road.
Glaw Wood
Place name
No Glaw Wood wolf would escort horses instead of attack them. No Glaw Wood wolf would fall into step with its companions like a battallion of soldiers. No Glaw Wood wolf would study her with such sharp intensity.
Felt
She felt hot and cold all at once.
Eyelids
Her eyelids were as heavy as skimming stones.
Palm
Her palm was lancing in pain as she tumbled down the dune to rest in the lapping tide.
Nose
She let the sentence hang like a nose.
Fire
She lay choking, eyes streaming, feeling heat, far off at first, in her back. Next it was licking her neck like a tongue, and she knew she must move, must lift herself up, must attempt the climb if she had any hope of attempting this growing inferno.
Pain
Her lungs were burning, legs sagging, sides aching.
Tugging
She tugged him alongside her, the rising sound of the fire chasing them through the trees.
Empty
She felt empty, like a hand being dropped that is used to being held.
Crumpled
She was crumpled like a pile of rags beneath the dogs.
Garnet
The large garnet was smoky and smooth from years of wear.
Cold
Mila’s cheeks sang with cold: a cold that reached down her throat and up her nose with every breath.
Glimmered
It glimmered like a drop of blood in the white.
Mountains
The mountains pierced the sun at sunset and sent its light dripping down the pale buildings like egg yolk.
Grit
There was a faint glint like grit in a wound.
Breath
She pushed them away, sending them spinning in a puff of cold breath.
Flames
The flames were leaping higher than the heads around them.
Fear
The web-like chill cracked into spiders of fear scuttling across Mila’s neck.
Opinion
Her opinion felt like fact.
Icicle
It felt as though she siezed an icicle.
Bile
Bile rose in her throat when he noticed it was no longer gold and pliable in her hand, but as dark and twisted as dried root.
Vicious
It was eminating that vicious cold, as if it were a living thing that had been plucked and was now shrivelled and dead.
Frost
Frost glittered like finery on the bare branches of the trees: the night air was crystalline and bright. The stars were as thick as clouds above the branches, bunching above Mila’s head.
Spine
Her spine clicked painfully, resulting tightening like a noose.
If
If only ____, if only ____, if only ____.
Animals
Airborn animals soared over and under each and every nimbus and nubis.
Consumed
Fear consumed her. Panic devoured her. Pity surrounded her.
Muzzle
The grateful deer rubbed its obsidian, velvet muzzle against her legs like a child.
Pyramid
They were seemingly black pyramids against the dazzling white (which was like glinting salt).
Golden
Golden days
Embellished
The stools and chairs were embellished in gold, dipped in gold, crusted in gold.
