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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Quiet
 
  Quiet as a graveyard.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Quiet as a wasp in one’s nose.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Quiet as death.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Quiet as dreaming trees.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Quiet as murder.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Quiet as the hush of evening.
            —Anonymous		  6
  As quiet as the lighting of a fly on a feather-duster.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Quiet as two kittens.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Quiet fish are talkative in comparison.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Quiet as a woman the first day and a half after she’s married.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  10
  Quiet as despair.
            —Robert Browning		  11
  Quiet as are quiet skies.
            —Ellen Burroughs		  12
  Quiet as a sepulchre.
            —Charles Dickens		  13
  Quiet as a sleeping boa.
            —Hamlin Garland		  14
  Quiet as a statue.
            —William Ernest Henley		  15
  Quiet as if shod with felt.
            —Thomas Hood		  16
  Quiet as a mouse.
            —Arsène Houssaye		  17
  Quiet as a stone.
            —John Keats		  18
  Quiet as a nest of monasteries.
            —Amy Leslie		  19
  Quiet as a heart that beats no more.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  20
  Quiet as the tranquil sky.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  21
  Quiet, as of dreaming Trees.
            —Gerald Massey		  22
  Quiet as if the finger of God’s will had bade the human mechanism “be still.” Dinah Maria Mulock  23
  Quiet as at anchor in a dead calm.
            —Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen		  24
  As quiet as a settin’ hen.
            —Scottish Proverb		  25
  Quiet as a lamb.
            —William Shakespeare		  26
  Quiet as the sun.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  27
  Quiet as a moonbeam.
            —Elizabeth S. P. Ward		  28
                Quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration.
            —William Wordsworth		  29
 
 
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