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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Smile (Verb)
 
  She smiled as though somebody were talking to her inside.
            —Marguerite Audoux		  1
  Like the wine and roses, smiles.
            —Anacreon		  2
  Smiling like a star on the darkest night.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Smiles like a sweet June rose.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Smiling triumphantly the while like one who had discovered a cure for duty.
            —J. M. Barrie		  5
  Smiling as a basket of chips.
            —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms		  6
  Smile like a cherub.
            —William Blake		  7
  Smiled like a siren.
            —William Blake		  8
  Smiled like the flowers of Eden.
            —Patrick Brontë		  9
  Smiled like Italy.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  10
  Smiling like a fiend who has deceived God.
            —Robert Browning		  11
  Smile, as infants at a sudden light.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  12
  Smiling, like a sickly moralist.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  13
  Smiling like a child in the grass, dreaming deep of the flowers, and their golden beguiling.
            —Isa Craig		  14
  Smiles like clockwork.
            —Charles Dickens		  15
  The singer smiled, as doubtless Orpheus smiled, to see the animals both great and small, the mountainous elephant and the scampering mouse, held by the ears in decent audience.
            —George Eliot		  16
  Smiling free as a rose in summer air.
            —Dora Greenwall		  17
  Smiling like a cherry.
            —Thomas Heywood		  18
  Smiling like a new-blown flower.
            —Richard Hengist Horne		  19
Faint-smiling like a star
Through autumn mists.
            —John Keats		  20
  Smiled like a paradise.
            —Gerald Massey		  21
Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter
On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds
That shed May flowers.
            —John Milton		  22
  Smiling like heaven.
            —William Morris		  23
  Smile, like the sun in his glory on the bud.
            —Winthrop Mackworth Praed		  24
  Smiles like a May morning.
            —Allan Ramsay		  25
  Smile like summer after snow.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  26
  Smiled, as all the world were his.
            —Thomas Sackville		  27
Smiling, as some fly had tickled slumber,
Not as death’s dart, being laughed at.
            —William Shakespeare		  28
  Smiling as smiles the fowler when flutters the bird to the gin.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  29
  Smile like an Oil Trust.
            —New York Sun		  30
  Smiled as dawn on the spirit of man.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  31
  Smiled as one living even on craft and hate.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  32
                Smiling dim
As the smile on a lip still fearful.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  33
                Smiled,
As though the spirit and sense unreconciled
Sank laughing back, and would not ere its hour
Let life put forth the irrevocable flower.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  34
  Smiled … like song’s triumphant breath.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  35
  Smiling, like a star in the blackest night.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  36
        Smiling as a master at one
That is not of his school, nor any school
But that where blind and naked Ignorance
Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  37
  Smiling … like beauty waking from a happy dream.
            —John Wilson		  38
 
 
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