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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Tranquil
 
  Tranquil as night.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Tranquil as a star.
            —Alfred Austin		  2
  As tranquil and unmoved as Fate.
            —Ambrose Bierce		  3
        Tranquil like a summer cloud
Which, having rained itself to a tardy peace,
Stands still in heaven as if it ruled the day.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  4
  Tranquil as a child who goes to gather flowers.
            —Fernán Caballero		  5
  Tranquil as a marble statue.
            —Theodore S. Fay		  6
  Tranquil as the clear moonlight, that woos the palms on Orient shores.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  7
  More tranquil than a musk-rose blowing in a green island.
            —John Keats		  8
  Tranquil as a summer sea.
            —William Wordsworth		  9
  Tranquil as a dreamless sleep.
            —William Wordsworth		  10
 
 
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