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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Ugly
 
  Ugly as a scarecrow.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Ugly as sin.
            —Anonymous		  2
  As ugly as were ever born of mud.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  3
  Ugly as the devil.
            —Henry Fielding		  4
  Ugly as the devil’s dam.
            —Richard Flecknoe		  5
  Ugly as a bear.
            —William Shakespeare		  6
  Ugly as apes.
            —Paulus Syllogus		  7
  Ugly as a worn-out cabhorse.
            —Anton Chekhov		  8
  Ugly as the angel of a sign-board.
            —Thomas Wade		  9
 
 
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