It is like a court train.

It is like seven horses' manes tied together, if they were red.

It is like a comet's tail.' It is probable that the hairdresser only took in that part of this speech upon which he was in the habit of concentrating his attention, and that the force of the similes which followed one another like electric shocks escaped him altogether.

He was about to show the new customer into the ladies' room, where his staid and elderly sister was accustomed to officiate, but she drew back with decision.
'No, not at all; I have come to have my hair cut by Mr.Saintou, and I want to have it done in the room with the long row of chairs where the long row of men get shaved every morning.

I told my sister I should sit there.