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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Breast

Breasts as the buds of May.
—Lord De Tabley

His breast is like a gentlewoman’s closet, which locks up every toy or trifle, or some bragging mountebank that makes every stinking thing a secret.
—John Earle (Microcosmography; A Piece of the World Discovered, 1628)

Her brest fairer than the vernal bloom of valley-lily, op’ning in a show’r.
—John Logan

Breasts half-globed
Like folded lilies deepset in the stream.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Breasts like clusters dropping balm.
—George Sandys

Her brest like to a bowl of creame uncurdded.
—Edmund Spenser

Breasts like spring.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
—Old Testament