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Went through everything … like detectives after fingerprints -Edith WhartonĬareful, detailed examination or inspection.Watching people, probing like a dentist into their innermost thoughts -Ivan Turgenev.Being watched like a rabbit in a laboratory -Willa Cather.Surveyed like a guard with his flashlight making the midnight rounds -Elizabeth Hardwick.Studying him like a culture -William Mcllvanney.Study as though it were a pack of Tarot cards in some tricky configuration -Sue Grafton.

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Studies me like a teacher trying to decide how to discipline an unruly student -W.

Studied Barksdale’s face, openly, like a man taking inventory -Paige Mitchell.

Scrutinized … with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise -T.

Scrutinize as if he were a new character in a soap opera -Bobbie Ann Mason.

The description of the gestures the librarian studies includes another simile: “The way they … yank down the volumes and riffle the contents like the Yellow Pages.” The character thus studying faces in the novel, Criminal Trespass, is not surprisingly, a librarian.

Read their faces like texts and their gestures like punctuation marks -Helen Hudson.

Prodding like a great bird rummaging for seed -Edith Wharton.

Weizenbaum’s simile referred to the computer enthusiast’s intense absorption.

Pore over like possessed students of cabalist text -Joseph Weizenbaum.

Pore over … like a Little-Leaguer entranced by a pack of baseball cards -Jill Ciment.

Peered around like a hungry toad -Harold Adams.

(Should be) noted with care like the names of places passed on an important journey -John McGahern.

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Looking at it as if it were a code in need of breaking -Graham Swift.Look at as does an experienced fish at a purchased fly -Gregory McDonald.Like a traveller in unfamiliar regions she began to store for future guidance the minutest natural signs -Edith Wharton.Investigate … like a burglar twirling the dial of a well-constructed safe, listening for the locks to click and reveal the combination -Mary McCarthy.His scrutiny was like a well that pulled on you, making you eager to find your own face in the depths down there -Hortense Calisher.Explore … like someone trying to locate a hollow tooth -Lawrence Durrell.

Examine with care of diamond dealer examining a rare stone -Anon.Examine with care, like a horse player eyeing the “Racing Form” -Shana Alexander.Examine like a monkey picking fleas -Mike Sommer.Examine like a job hunter finecombs the employment ads or a New York apartment hunter finecombs the real estate ads -Anon.Examine as though it were a portrait in a public gallery -Ella Leffland.Carefully surveyed the living room and, like an auctioneer brought in for appraisal, every object it contained -Richard Russo.bent over (his guest list) like a conductor studying a score -Jonathan Valin.

Approach like a lapidopterist advances on butterflies -Shana Alexander.