The bad taste, incorrect punctuation, false grammar, and ridiculous nonsense met with on signs and placards, and in advertisements, are really surprising. An advertisement tells us that "a pillow which assists in procuring sleep is a benediction"; a placard, that they have "Charlotte de Russe" for sale within, which means, if it means anything, that they have for sale somebody or something called Charlotte of Russian; and, then, on how many signs do we see the possessive case when the plural number is intended!
Simile. In rhetoric, a direct and formal comparison is called a simile. It is generally denoted by like, as, or so; as,
"I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
These many summers in a sea of glory."
"Thy smile is as the dawn of vernal day."—Shakespeare.
"As, down in the sunless retreats of the ocean,
Sweet flow'rets are springing no mortal can see;
So, deep in my bosom, the prayer of devotion,
Unheard by the world, rises silent to thee."—Moore.
"'Tis with our judgments as with our watches; none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own."—Pope.
"Grace abused brings forth the foulest deeds,
As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds."—Cowper.
"As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those who have just turned saints."—"Lacon."
Sin. See [Crime].
Since—Ago. Dr. Johnson says of these two adverbs: "Reckoning time toward the present, we use since; as, 'It is a year since it happened': reckoning from the present, we use ago; as, 'It is a year ago.' This is not, perhaps, always observed."