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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Serious
 
  Serious as a philosopher.
            —Miles P. Andrews		  1
  Serious as an owl.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Serious as a portmanteau.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Serious as a doctor.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  4
  Serious … as one would whisper that a lion’s near.
            —Thomas Hood		  5
  Serious as the fifth act of a tragedy.
            —Joseph Jefferson		  6
  Serious as taxes.
            —George Henry Lewes		  7
  Serious as a pope.
            —Francisque Sarcey		  8
 
 
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