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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Beautiful
 
  Beautiful as a remembered single line of perfect poetry.
            —John Albee		  1
  Beautiful as a chemical blonde.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Beautiful as Adonis.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Beautiful as a sunset.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Beautiful as the dawn.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Beautiful as the face of a young Greek god.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Beautiful as the seraph’s dream.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Beautiful as Zenobia.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Beautiful as the bough of the myrobalan.
            —Arabian Nights		  9
  Darkly beautiful as death.
            —Philip James Bailey		  10
  Beautiful as a saint.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  11
  Beautiful as the day.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  12
  A note as beautiful as a thread of light.
            —Gustavo A. Becquér		  13
  Beautiful as the curtain of Soloman.
            —Saint Bernard		  14
  Beautiful as fire.
            —Ambrose Bierce		  15
            Beautiful as ever looked
From white clouds in a dream.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  16
  Beautiful as Absalom.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  17
  Beautiful as a feather in one’s cap.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  18
  Beauteous as a summer’s morn.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  19
  Beautiful as April rains.
            —William Cowper		  20
  Beautiful as heaven.
            —John Day		  21
  Beautiful as noon-day.
            —Charles Dickens		  22
  Beautiful as a rainbow.
            —John Dryden		  23
  Beautiful as a dying maid.
            —Ebenezer Elliott		  24
  Beautiful as is the rose in June.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  25
  Beautiful … as childhood’s dream.
            —Frederick William Faber		  26
  Beautiful as one of the swinging figures on a Greek vase.
            —Frank Harris		  27
  Beautiful as a fairy palace.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  28
  Beautiful as spring.
            —Gerard T. Hopkins		  29
  Beautiful as a Houri borne off from the Garden of the Seventh Heaven.
            —Jm		  30
  Beautiful as the vernal willow.
            —Dr. Samuel Johnson		  31
  Beautiful,… like a fairy pageant floating for a pastime on the tide.
            —Edward. C. Jones		  32
  Beautiful as angels.
            —Jean Jules Jusserand		  33
  Beautiful as an oriole.
            —John Keats		  34
  Beautiful as May.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  35
  Beautiful as morning.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  36
            Beautiful as feet of friend
Coming with welcome at our journey’s end.
            —James Russell Lowell		  37
  Beautiful like the Moon.
            —Mahabharata		  38
                Beautiful
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
            —Christopher Marlowe		  39
  Beautiful as dawn in Heaven.
            —Gerald Massey		  40
  Beautiful as Dian’s face.
            —James Montgomery		  41
  As beautiful as sorceress.
            —Ouida		  42
  As beautiful as ’twere a dewy flower.
            —George D. Prentice		  43
  Beautiful as youth.
            —Dollie Radford		  44
  Beautiful as an Olympian divinity.
            —George Rose		  45
  Beautiful as a piece of chalk cliff.
            —John Ruskin		  46
  Beautiful as pine bridges over Alpine streams.
            —John Ruskin		  47
  Her face as beautiful as though the rays of Paradise were there.
            —Sadi		  48
        Beautiful as sky and earth,
When Autumn’s sun is downward going.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  49
  Beauteous as the silver moon.
            —William Wordsworth		  50
  Beautiful as heaven.
            —William Wordsworth		  51
  Beauteous as the sun.
            —Edward Young		  52
 
 
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