A Christmas Carol
What is the simile in the second paragraph
Second Paragraph in Stave one
Second Paragraph in Stave one
The simile is in bold type.
I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.
A Christmas Carol