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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Green
 
  Green as May.
            —James Lane Allen		  1
  Green as a gooseberry.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Green as a gourd.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Green as a lizard.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Green as bottled glass.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Green as emeralds.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Green as grass.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Green as the deep waters.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Green as the sea.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Green as a leaf.
            —Thomas Ashe		  10
  As green as any privet-hedge a bird might choose to build in.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  11
  Green as blissful Eden.
            —R. C. Dutt		  12
  Green as the mantled pool.
            —Thomas Hood		  13
  Green as hope before it grieves.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  14
  Green as a meadow by Chaucer.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  15
  As green as the leaves of the fir tree.
            —Mabinogion		  16
  Green as jealousy.
            —George Meredith		  17
  Green as an arum leaf.
            —Ouida		  18
  Green as the grave of a loved one.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  19
  Green as leeks.
            —William Shakespeare		  20
  Green as the forest’s night.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  21
  Green as summer.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  22
  Green as the salt-sea billows.
            —William Wordsworth		  23
 
 
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