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Choose the sentence in this excerpt that contains examples of the figure of speech called simile.

Choose the sentence in this excerpt that contains examples of the figure of speech called simile.

From somewhere away to the right came, as the wind served, a low, intermittent murmur like that of ocean in a storm–like that of a distant railway train–like that of wind among the pines. Three sounds so nearly alike that the ear, unaided by the judgment, cannot distinguish them one from another. The eyes of the troops were drawn in that direction; the mounted officers turned their field-glasses that way. Mingled with the sound was an irregular throbbing. He thought it, at first, the beating of his fevered blood in his ears, and next, the distant tapping of a bass drum.




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