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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Active
 
  Active as a boy climbing a crab-apple tree for a cargo of cramp-generators.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Active as a fire department during a conflagration.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Active as a pea in a bladder.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Active as a pea on a griddle.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Active as quicksilver.
            —Anonymous		  5
  As active as the roe.
            —Nathaniel Cotton		  6
  Active as some mind that turns a sphere.
            —Abraham Cowley		  7
  Active as an ape.
            —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle		  8
  Active as a griffin.
            —Thomas Hood		  9
  Active as light.
            —Henry Vaughan		  10
  Active as the sun.
            —Isaac Watts		  11
 
 
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