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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Hum
 
  Hum like a cobbler.
            —Anonymous		  1
                Hum,
Like listless topers singing o’er their cups.
            —Arabic		  2
  Hum and murmur like a hive.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  3
  Hummed … as the sea in shells.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  4
  Humming, like bees that are swarming.
            —Heinrich Heine		  5
  Humming like a hornet.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  6
  Humming … like a hive of bees.
            —Joaquin Miller		  7
 
 
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