Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Parch

Mouth parched like a shade that comes to salute friends of former days.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Parch’d like the fallow destitute of corn.
—Francis Fawkes

Parch to the peppered palate like a pea.
—Thomas Hood