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Select one simile from the paragraph below.
Whatever the small indulgences with which Granny Wallon warmed up
her old life, her neighbour, Granny Trill, had none of them. For 'Er-Up-
Atop was as frugal as a sparrow and as simple in her ways as a grub.
She could sit in her chair for hours without moving, a veil of blackness
over her eyes, a suspension like frost on her brittle limbs, with little to
show that she lived at all save the gentle motion of her jaws.