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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Brown
 
  Brown as forest flood.
            —Cuchulain		  1
  Browne as the fylberte droppyng from the shelle.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  2
  Browne as the nappy ale at Hock tyde game.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  3
  Broun as is a berye.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  4
            Brown,
As is the ribbed sea-sand.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  5
  Brown as a pineapple.
            —Alphonse Daudet		  6
  Brown as the hearth of a kitchen fire.
            —John Gay		  7
  Brown as a bun.
            —Thomas Hood		  8
  Locks … as brown as mavis in May.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  9
  Brown as nut.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  10
  Brown as vesper gloamings.
            —Walter Malone		  11
  Brown as buckeyes.
            —Edwin D. Schoonmaker		  12
  Brown in hue as hazel nuts.
            —William Shakespeare		  13
  As twilight brown.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  14
 
 
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