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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Upright
 
  Upright as a ramrod.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Upright as a sentinel.
            —Anonymous		  2
  As upright as a stake.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Upright as a young apple tree.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  4
  Upright, like a taper.
            —Osmanli Proverb		  5
  Upright as a tower.
            —Charles Reade		  6
  Upright as a wooden sentinel at the door of a puppet-show.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  7
  Upright as the cedar.
            —William Shakespeare		  8
  Upright as a wild Morisco.
            —William Shakespeare		  9
  Upright as a sheer cliff’s wall.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  10
  Upright as an heap.
            —Old Testament		  11
 
 
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