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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Proud
 
  Proud as a cock.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Proud as any prince.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Proud as a Government mule.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Proud as a king.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Proud as Lucifer.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Proud as a popinjay.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Proud as a Spanish Grandee.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Proud as a tiger-lily.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Proud as Juno.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Proud as Punch.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Proud as Sheba’s queen.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Proud as the man who got rich manufacturing soldiers’ shoes out of pasteboard instead of leather.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Proud as any queen.
            —George Barlow		  13
  Proud as the Pope behind the peacock-fans.
            —Robert Browning		  14
  Proud as a freeborn peasant.
            —Lord Byron		  15
  Proud as a peacock.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  16
  Proud as Gascon.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  17
  Proud as all the Guzmans put together.
            —Anthony Hamilton		  18
  Proud as a peer.
            —Bret Harte		  19
  Proud as a young bull.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  20
  Proud as a hen with one chicken.
            —B. Lowsley		  21
  Proud as the day is long.
            —John Lyly		  22
  Proud as a lion when passion-stirred.
            —Edwin Markham		  23
Proud as waves that on the beach
Lay their war-crests down and die.
            —Thomas Moore		  24
  Proud as an emperor.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  25
  Proud as a lord’s bastard.
            —English Proverb		  26
  As proud as a Highlander.
            —Scottish Proverb		  27
  Proud as an empress on her marriage-day.
            —Charles Sangster		  28
  Proud as a boy with a brand-new top.
            —John G. Saxe		  29
  Proud as an enjoyer.
            —William Shakespeare		  30
  Proud as a child who will what he would.
            —Arthur Symons		  31
  Proud as the Bourbons.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  32
 
 
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