https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage Figurative language scavenger hunt en-us 2021-01-05 20:12:06 UTC 2025-09-30 07:02:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/270d.png mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057449462 The news came x 3]]> 2021-01-05 20:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057449462 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057450181 darkness x 4]]> 2021-01-05 20:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057450181 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057450546 The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat.]]> 2021-01-05 20:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057450546 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057450753 (...) the mangroves plunged like frightened cattle.]]> 2021-01-05 20:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057450753 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057453902 the Pearl of the World]]> 2021-01-05 20:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057453902 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057454543 Part of the shore disappeared into a shimmer that looked like water.]]> 2021-01-05 20:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057454543 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057455351 Kino moved sluggishly, arms and legs stirred like those of a crushed bug (...).]]> 2021-01-05 20:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057455351 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057457061 Kino's brain burned (...)]]> 2021-01-05 20:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057457061 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057457260 Quietly he tracked her, and his brain was red with anger.]]> 2021-01-05 20:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057457260 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057457739 The late moon arose (...).]]> 2021-01-05 20:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057457739 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057460833 The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it.]]> 2021-01-05 20:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057460833 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057464300 A town is like a colonial animal.]]> 2021-01-05 20:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057464300 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057476844 And the music of the pearl rose like a chorus of trumpets in his ears.]]> 2021-01-05 21:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057476844 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057480528 A wonderfuls thing, a remarkable thing, to want the doctor. To get him would be a remarkable thing.

He would not come.
He would not come. (...) The doctor would not come.]]> 2021-01-05 21:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057480528 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057494425 Then, snarling, Kino had it, had it in his fingers.]]> 2021-01-05 21:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057494425 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057498331 They knew every little scandals and some very big crimes. (...) And they knew the doctor. They knew his ignorance (...). They knew his clumsy abortions.]]> 2021-01-05 21:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057498331 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057507480 And to Kino the secret melody of the maybe pearl broke clear and beautiful, rich and warm and lovely, glowing and gloating and triumphant.]]> 2021-01-05 21:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1057507480 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064242990 2021-01-07 17:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064242990 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064246629 2021-01-07 17:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064246629 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064247214 2021-01-07 17:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064247214 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064292079 2021-01-07 17:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064292079 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064298028 He was an animal now (...).]]> 2021-01-07 17:43:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064298028 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064334252 2021-01-07 17:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064334252 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064335283 A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet.]]> 2021-01-07 17:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064335283 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064338944 And a town has a whole emotion.]]> 2021-01-07 17:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064338944 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064375653 He hissed at her like a snake, and Juana stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before the butcher.

]]> 2021-01-07 17:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064375653 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064387972 the wind x 4]]> 2021-01-07 18:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064387972 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064680235 (...) the hungry dogs and the hungry pigs]]> 2021-01-07 18:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064680235 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064699778 The gray oysters with ruffles like skirts on the shells (...).]]> 2021-01-07 18:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064699778 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064748017 the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld.]]> 2021-01-07 19:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064748017 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064784078 (...) and he sprang like an angry cat]]> 2021-01-07 19:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064784078 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064792011 little x 3
let us x 3]]> 2021-01-07 19:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064792011 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064816657 Her face was a dull pain.
(...) It meant that he was half-insane and half-god.]]> 2021-01-07 19:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064816657 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064849053 (...) she knew them, and accepted them, and needed them.]]> 2021-01-07 19:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064849053 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064854357 A flight of herring clouds had moved over the sky from the south.]]> 2021-01-07 19:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064854357 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064912221 Behind him, Juana's fire leaped into flame (...).]]> 2021-01-07 19:41:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064912221 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064927110 the wind]]> 2021-01-07 19:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064927110 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064936530 Now the dealer's hand had become a personality. (...) the forefinger poked and insulted it.]]> 2021-01-07 19:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064936530 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064947748 2021-01-07 19:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1064947748 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065107413 Kino awakened in the near dark.]]> 2021-01-07 20:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065107413 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065127423 She, who was obedient and respectful and cheerful and patient (...).]]> 2021-01-07 20:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065127423 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065135823 city of stone and plaster]]> 2021-01-07 20:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065135823 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065144652 lifted it x 2]]> 2021-01-07 20:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065144652 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065148546 He says a scorpion stung it.]]> 2021-01-07 20:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065148546 mcmouraux https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065167118 Greedy fingers went through his clothes, frantic figures searched him (...).]]> 2021-01-07 20:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mcmouraux/thepearlfigurativelanguage/wish/1065167118