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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Big
 
  Big as a church debt.
            —George Ade		  1
  Big as an elephant.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Big as a house.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Big as a whale.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Big as life and twice as natural.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Big as all out of doors.
            —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms		  6
  No bigger than an unobserved star.
            —John Keats		  7
  As big a liar as Tom Pepper who got licked out of hell for telling lies.
            —Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)		  8
  As big as a parson’s barn,—always ready for more.
            —Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)		  9
  Looking as big as bull-beef.
            —English Proverb		  10
Another stain, as big as hell can hold,
Were there no more but it.
            —William Shakespeare		  11
 
 
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