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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Simple
 
  Simple as A. B. C. Anonymous  1
  Simple as a Greek temple.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Simple as a nun’s prayer.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Simple as a schoolboy’s logic.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Simple as a squash.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Simple as rolling off a log.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Simple as the choice of Hercules between virtue and vice.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Simple as a child.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  8
  Simple as the flowers in the field.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  9
  Simple as milking.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  10
  Simple as playful lamb.
            —Robert Bloomfield		  11
  Symple as byrde in bouer.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  12
  Symple as dowve of tree.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  13
  As simple as a saint might bathe in lakes of prayer.
            —Richard Hovey		  14
  Simple as miracles always are after they are wrought.
            —F. W. H. Myers		  15
  Simpler than the infancy of truth.
            —William Shakespeare		  16
  Simple as breath.
            —Arthur Symons		  17
  Simple as a snow-drop.
            —Elizabeth S. P. Ward		  18
 
 
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