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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Terrible
 
  Terrible as a Cerberus.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Terrible as the curse of a dead man’s eye.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Terrible as Jove.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Terrible as the god of war.
            —Gustave Flaubert		  4
  Terrible … something like the shriek of a giant in pain.
            —Thomas A. Janvier		  5
  Terrible as a meteor of fire.
            —James Macpherson		  6
  Terrible as hell.
            —John Milton		  7
  Terrible as torrents in their fall.
            —James Montgomery		  8
  Terrible as war.
            —Hannah More		  9
  Terrible … like flames of death.
            —Ossian		  10
  Terrible as the sea.
            —John Ruskin		  11
  Terrible as fire.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  12
  His countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible.
            —Old Testament		  13
  Terrible as an army with banners.
            —Old Testament		  14
 
 
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