Like sheltered eggs in a nest.

As if they were eggs, safely hidden.

As though they were eggs hidden.

(Delicate and pure) as if they were (hidden) eggs (well) preserved.

As if they were closely guarded pearls.

so delicate as the hidden peel under an egg's shell.

(Pure) as they were hidden eggs (of the ostrich).

as if they were hidden ostrich eggs.

as if they were hidden pearls.

As if they were delicate eggs, well protected.

who are as chaste as sheltered eggs.

As if they were eggs carefully protected.

like closely guarded pearls.

As if they were (delicate) eggs closely guarded.

It is as if they had been swallowed up by the earth.

I'm frozen with fear, as if hypnotized.

You're trapped. You're in a tin can.

And I had this whole mental picture of, sort of like Cinderella.

As if the officer didn't exist. As if he were a ghost

As if Bugge has ...

Somehow I know

Like it was in the old days.

It was as though time had stopped.

We're in 1908.

You seemed far away.

Glowing as if on fire.

A sentence, once begun, hung suspended in the air, as if frozen by the frost,

It felt like a revolution.

Its spathes are like the prickly pear.

Its fruit like the heads of demons.

its spathes are as the heads of Satans,

The fruit thereof is as though the hoods of the serpents.

The shoots of its fruit stalks are like the heads of Shayatin (devils)

Its fruits are like the devils heads.

Its spathes are like the heads of satans.

Its crop is as it were the heads of devils

Its spathes are as if they were devils heads.

its spathes are like the heads of satans

Its emerging fruit as if it was heads of the devils.

and its fruits are like the heads of devils.

Its produce is as it were the heads of the serpents.

and its fruits are like devils' heads.

The shoots of its fruit stalks are like the heads of devils

Time no longer existed.

It looks a lot like sabotage.