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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Stiff
 
  Stiff as a board.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Stiff as a fakir in a box left too long buried.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Stiff as a frozen shadow.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Stiff as a plaster mask.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Stiff as a poker.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Stiff as a post.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Stiff as hedge-stakes.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Stiff as steel.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Stiff like a state coachman.
            —Charles Dickens		  9
  Sitting stiffly by, like a functionary presiding over an interview, previous to an execution.
            —Charles Dickens		  10
  Stiff as a dead body.
            —Jonathan Dickinson		  11
  Stiff as the corpse of a hanged man.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  12
  Stiff like a side of coarse leather.
            —James T. Fields		  13
  He stood … stiff as a marble statue.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  14
  Stiff as a pointer’s tail.
            —Maurice Hewlett		  15
  Stiff as a rubbing brush.
            —Thomas Heywood		  16
  Stiffly, and like one slain and cold.
            —Ebenezer Jones		  17
  Stiff as coat of mail.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  18
  Stiff as a ramrod.
            —Charles James Lever		  19
  Stiff as a turnpike.
            —Charles Macklin		  20
  Stiff as iron bars.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  21
  Stiff as oak-leaves after frost.
            —George Meredith		  22
  Stiff as logwood.
            —George Meredith		  23
  Stiff like a soldier on parade.
            —Charles Reade		  24
  Stiff as a stone.
            —John Ruskin		  25
  As stiff as a brick-built-wall.
            —James Kenneth Stephen		  26
  Stiff as a viper frozen.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  27
  Stiff as Lot’s wife.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  28
  Stiff as a dry Quaker.
            —Thomas Wade		  29
 
 
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