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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Harmless
 
  Harmless as a strawberry festival.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Harmless as Sancho’s ass.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Harmless as the turtle-dove.
            —Patrick Brontë		  3
  Harmless and pleasant as the murmur of brook and wind.
            —Robert Buchanan		  4
  Harmless as an infant’s play.
            —William Cowper		  5
  Harmlesse as the bee that doeth but taste the flower and flee away.
            —William Drummond		  6
  Harmless as reptiles kept in spirits.
            —Sydney Munden		  7
  Harmless as the turtle of the woods.
            —Thomas Otway		  8
  Harmless as a paper tiger.
            —Chinese Proverb		  9
  Harmless as my life’s first day.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  10
  Harmless as the lightning life of song.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  11
  Harmless … as petals of a flower.
            —Bayard Taylor		  12
  Harmless as doves.
            —New Testament		  13
  Harmless as a babe.
            —William Wordsworth		  14
 
 
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