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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Bare
 
  Bare as a Scotchman’s knee.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Bare as a stone.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Bare as January.
            —Robert Armin		  3
  Bare as the back of my hand.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  4
  Bare as a naked bairn.
            —Robert Buchanan		  5
  Bare as winter.
            —Robert Burns		  6
  Bare as beggary.
            —Richard Cumberland		  7
  As bare …
As the willow of leaves
When the bough-breaking wind
The warm day endeth.
            —The Elder Edda		  8
  Bare as an Alpine precipice.
            —Charles Kingsley		  9
  Bare as a pig in a sty.
            —Francis Mahony		  10
  Bare as lies the mirrored moon in silver sleeping seas.
            —Gerald Massey		  11
  Bare as hop-stakes in November’s mists.
            —George Meredith		  12
  Bare as my nail.
            —Thomas Nash		  13
  Bare as a bird’s tail.
            —English Proverb		  14
  Bare as the birch at Yule.
            —English Proverb		  15
  Bare, like a carcass picked by crows.
            —Jonathan Swift		  16
  Bare as a beggar.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  17
  Bare as naked daylight.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  18
  Bare as shame.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  19
  As bare as a hornet’s cell.
            —Henry Van Dyke		  20
  Bare as an ape.
            —Voltaire		  21
  Bare as a goose-egg.
            —Artemus Ward		  22
  Bare as a school-boy’s diary.
            —H. G. Wells		  23
                As bare
As winter trees.
            —William Wordsworth		  24
  As bare as Egypt when the locusts got through with it.
            —Rida Johnson Young		  25
 
 
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