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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
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  Slid like water.
            —Josiah Gilbert Holland		  1
  Slide off them like July rain off a duck’s back feathers.
            —Thomas Hughes		  2
  Slid like an evil dream.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  3
  Slid like a corpse afloat.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  4
  Around him slid like a wave.
            —Bayard Taylor		  5
  Slideth back as a backsliding heifer.
            —Old Testament		  6
 
 
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