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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Sting
 
  Sting like a hornet.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Stung like a nettle.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Stung like bees unhived.
            —Robert Browning		  3
  Sting like a serpent.
            —Robert Burton		  4
  Care stings like pois’nous asps to fury wrought.
            —Nathaniel Cotton		  5
  Stung … like amber asp.
            —Matthew Green		  6
  Stinging, like the wind when frosts are keen.
            —Henrik Hertz		  7
  Stings like fire.
            —Lucretius		  8
  Stung like a bee in the warm core of a rose.
            —Ouida		  9
  He stings like a scorpion.
            —Osmanli Proverb		  10
  Stung like fire.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  11
  Stingeth like an adder.
            —Old Testament		  12
 
 
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