unearths some literary gems.
From The Moosepire, by Daniel Pinkwater:
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“This moose spoke very good English and he was as blue as . . . as an onion.”
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“Blue as an onion?”
“Well, blue as a what-do-you-call-it then. Confound it, man, the moose was blue! Blue as an asparagus!”
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“He was as big as an . . . as an . . . as an onion! This moose was as big as a big, colossal, enormous, gigantic, oversized, vast, impossible, huge onion.”
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