Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Simple

Simple as A. B. C. Anonymous

Simple as a Greek temple.
—Anonymous

Simple as a nun’s prayer.
—Anonymous

Simple as a schoolboy’s logic.
—Anonymous

Simple as a squash.
—Anonymous

Simple as rolling off a log.
—Anonymous

Simple as the choice of Hercules between virtue and vice.
—Anonymous

Simple as a child.
—Honoré de Balzac

Simple as the flowers in the field.
—R. D. Blackmore

Simple as milking.
—R. D. Blackmore

Simple as playful lamb.
—Robert Bloomfield

Symple as byrde in bouer.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Symple as dowve of tree.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

As simple as a saint might bathe in lakes of prayer.
—Richard Hovey

Simple as miracles always are after they are wrought.
—F. W. H. Myers

Simpler than the infancy of truth.
—William Shakespeare

Simple as breath.
—Arthur Symons

Simple as a snow-drop.
—Elizabeth S. P. Ward