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

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

Sing


Sing like a bird called a swine. —Anonymous	1
Sing like a cobbler. —Anonymous	2
Singest like an angel in the clouds. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge	3
Sing like a swan, as if thou went’st to bliss. —Sir John Davies	4
Sing like an angel. —John Evelyn	5
Singing as sweetly and making as heavenly a noise as doth an arbour of nightingales in a calm-winded night. —John Grange	6
Sing-song like a stiff puffet on a humdrum barrel-organ. —Leigh Hunt	7
Sings like the sighing of a tempest spent. —Dr. Samuel Johnson	8
Singing … like the shouting of a backstay in a gale. —Rudyard Kipling	9
Sings, like an inspired young Sibyl. —Thomas Moore	10
He sings like an empty water jar. —Osmanli Proverb	11
She sings As if a choir of spirits swept From earth with throbbing wings. —Christina Georgina Rossetti	12
About the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring. —William Shakespeare	13
Sang like sirens. —Voltaire	14