See Also: PAIN

1. Comfortable as a toothache —Mark Twain
2. (Kiss) comfortless as frozen water to a starved snake —William Shakespeare
3. Comfortless as salt —Sylvia Plath
4. Damp like a vault —Maurice Hewlett
5. Felt like a door-to-door salesman, pushing unwanted sets of nature encyclopedias complete with fake walnut case —Sue Grafton
6. Indigestible as Christmas dinner —Patricia Ferguson See Also: FOOD AND DRINK
7. I’ve a head like a concertina, I’ve a tongue like a button-stick, I’ve a mouth like an old potato —Rudyard Kipling

   Kipling’s triple simile to describe a hangover, continues as follows: “And I’m more than a little sick, but I’ve had my fun.”

   See Also: DRINKING, TASTE

8. Self-conscious as a stammer —Delmore Schwartz
9. (Joel’s fingers are cold.) The apartment is like a football game in the rain —Margaret Atwood
10. Uncomfortable as running a marathon in high-heeled pumps —Anon
11. Uncomfortable as trying to sleep standing up —Elyse Sommer
12. An uncomfortable feeling, like finding oneself in the same cell, and for the same crime, as a man one repudiated on every ground —John Fowles
13. Uneasy as a dog in a vet’s waiting room —Anon
14. Nothing unsettles man like a bed of stinging nettles —W. S. Gilbert