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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Short
 
  Short as the life of a wave.
            —Leonid Andreyev		  1
  Short as Mahomet’s dream.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Short, thick and round,—like a suet-pudding.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Short as a militia drummer-boy.
            —J. B. Buckstone		  4
  Short as wash-day-dinner graces.
            —Irwin Russell		  5
  Short as any dream.
            —William Shakespeare		  6
  Short as a lawyer’s beard.
            —John Webster		  7
 
 
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