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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Naked
 
  Naked as an Indian’s back.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Naked as night.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Naked as the graces.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Naked as a frog.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  4
  Naked as a flower.
            —Madison Cawein		  5
  As naked … as a corowne withe out stones.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  6
  Poor and naked as a fakir.
            —Joseph Conrad		  7
  Like winter-earth, naked.
            —Abraham Cowley		  8
  As naked as Norfolk dumpling.
            —John Day		  9
  Naked as a worm.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  10
  Naked as a peeled apple.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  11
  Naked as a nedle.
            —William Langland		  12
  Naked as my nail.
            —Philip Massinger		  13
  The country is naked as the sea.
            —Jules Sandeau		  14
  Naked as the vulgar air.
            —William Shakespeare		  15
  As naked as their mothers bore them.
            —Jonathan Swift		  16
  Naked as apes.
            —Voltaire		  17
  Naked as a Tower.
            —William Wordsworth		  18
 
 
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