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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
White
 
  White as a moonlit sail.
            —William Alexander		  1
  White as the necks of swans.
            —James Lane Allen		  2
  White as a bean.
            —Anonymous		  3
  White as lime.
            —Anonymous		  4
  White as a baby’s arm.
            —Anonymous		  5
  White as a diamond.
            —Anonymous		  6
  White as a doll.
            —Anonymous		  7
  White as a dove.
            —Anonymous		  8
  White as a fish.
            —Anonymous		  9
  White as a flock of sheep.
            —Anonymous		  10
  White as a ghost.
            —Anonymous		  11
  White as a live terrier.
            —Anonymous		  12
  White as a pillow.
            —Anonymous		  13
  White as arsenic.
            —Anonymous		  14
  White as a sheet.
            —Anonymous		  15
  White as a shroud.
            —Anonymous		  16
  White as a spirit.
            —Anonymous		  17
  White as a statue.
            —Anonymous		  18
  White as a sycamore.
            —Anonymous		  19
  White as a whale’s tooth.
            —Anonymous		  20
  White as chastity.
            —Anonymous		  21
  White as his neck-cloth.
            —Anonymous		  22
  White as salt.
            —Anonymous		  23
  White as silver.
            —Anonymous		  24
  White as sin forgiven.
            —Anonymous		  25
  White as sunbeams.
            —Anonymous		  26
  White as the breakers’ foam.
            —Anonymous		  27
  White as the breast of a gull.
            —Anonymous		  28
  White as the blossoms of the almond tree.
            —Anonymous		  29
  White as the foam that danced on the billow’s height.
            —Anonymous		  30
  White as the gown of a bride.
            —Anonymous		  31
  White as the hand of Moses.
            —Anonymous		  32
  White as the snowy white rose that in the moonlight sighs.
            —Anonymous		  33
  White as white satin.
            —Anonymous		  34
  White like the inside of a shoulder of mutton.
            —Anonymous		  35
  White as the stem of a young palm.
            —Arabian		  36
  White as paper of Syria.
            —Arabian		  37
  White as camphor.
            —Arabian Nights		  38
  Brow white as day.
            —Arabian Nights		  39
  White as morning.
            —Arabian Nights		  40
  White as the full moon when it mooneth on its fourteenth night.
            —Arabian Nights		  41
  White like egg of the pigeon hen.
            —Arabian Nights		  42
  White as bismuth.
            —William Archer		  43
  White as frost on field.
            —William E. Aytoun		  44
  A maid as white as ivory bone.
            —English Ballad		  45
  White as snow-drops.
            —Serbian Ballad		  46
  Purely white as the mountain snow.
            —Welsh Ballad		  47
  White as porcelain.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  48
  White as soap.
            —Richard Harris Barham		  49
  White as the hawthorn’s crown.
            —Mary Barry		  50
  White as a thread by hands of angels spun.
            —Francis Beaumont		  51
  Whiter than mountain snow hath ever been.
            —Francis Beaumont		  52
  White as swanne.
            —Sir Harry Beaumont		  53
  Soul as white as heaven.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  54
  White as innocence herself.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  55
  White as the foaming sea.
            —Park Benjamin		  56
  White as snow.
            —Bion		  57
  White as an angel.
            —William Blake		  58
  White as foam-drift in the moony shimmer of starlit, wave-pavilioned dells.
            —Mathilde Blind		  59
  White as the sun.
            —Emily Brontë		  60
  White as candles against the altar’s gold.
            —Katherine H. Brown		  61
  White as foam thrown upon rocks from the old-spent wave.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  62
  White as gulls.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  63
  White as moonshine.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  64
  White as wax.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  65
  White like a cloud at fall of snow.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  66
  White like a spirit’s hand.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  67
  White with coming buds, like the bright side of a sorrow.
            —Robert Browning		  68
  White as a curd.
            —Robert Browning		  69
  White as the winding-sheet.
            —Robert Buchanan		  70
  White as death.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  71
  White, as if she lived on blanched almonds.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  72
  White as a clout.
            —John Bunyan		  73
  As white’s a daisy.
            —Robert Burns		  74
  White as the thoughts of an angel.
            —Mary Frances Butts		  75
  White as a white sail on a dusky sea.
            —Lord Byron		  76
  White as fleece.
            —Alice Cary		  77
  White as a cloth.
            —Bliss Carman		  78
  White as the chaulkie clyffes of Brittaines isle.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  79
  Whyte hys rade [neck] as the sommer snowe.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  80
  Whit as chalk.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  81
  Whyte as floure.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  82
  Whit as is a lylie flour.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  83
  Whyte as lylye or rose in rys [twig].
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  84
  White as snowe falle newe.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  85
                White of hewe,
As snowe on braunche snawed newe.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  86
  White was his berd as is the dayesie.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  87
  Whit was as the flour delys (Flower-de-luce).
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  88
  White as a flock of egrets.
            —Chinese		  89
  Gleaming white, like peach and plum blossoms.
            —Chinese		  90
  Dressed in white—all white, like a bride or a bandaged thumb.
            —Irvin S. Cobb		  91
  White as new-plucked cotton.
            —Frederick S. Cozzens		  92
  White as an infant’s spirit.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  93
  White as ashes.
            —Charles Dickens		  94
  Hands … white, as if the blood began to chill there.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  95
  As white as teeth of twenty-five years old.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  96
  A sail as white as blossom upon spray.
            —William Dunbar		  97
  The beautiful young lady, all in white, like a lily in the night, or the moon sweeping over a cloudless sky.
            —Joseph von Eichendorff		  98
  White as the canna upon the moor.
            —Ancient Erse		  99
  White as snow-wreath in the eye of spring.
            —Frederick William Faber		  100
  White as molten glass.
            —Phineas Fletcher		  101
                Breasts
As white as hedgeside May.
            —Norman Gale		  102
  White and awful as a shroud-enfolded ghost.
            —Richard Garnett		  103
  His beard was whiter than the feathers which veil the breast of the penguin.
            —Oliver Goldsmith		  104
                Pure and white,
As some shy spirit in a haunted place.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  105
  White as the lips of passion.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  106
  As white as bear’s teeth.
            —Thomas Heywood		  107
  As white as the pale ashes of a wasted coal.
            —Josiah Gilbert Holland		  108
  White as sea-bleached shells.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  109
  White as the sea-gull.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  110
  White as Irish linen.
            —Thomas Hood		  111
  White as parading breeches.
            —Thomas Hood		  112
  White as a chicken.
            —Victor Hugo		  113
  White as the gowan [daisy].
            —John Imlah		  114
                White,
Like ships in heaven full-sailed.
            —Jean Ingelow		  115
  White as the snowy rose of Guelderland.
            —Jean Ingelow		  116
  White as flocks new-shorn.
            —John Keats		  117
  Whiter than a star.
            —John Keats		  118
  White as the moon.
            —Omar Khayyám		  119
  White as the wonder undefiled of Eve just wakened in Paradise.
            —Harriet McEwen Kimball		  120
  White as an embodied hush.
            —Harriet McEwen Kimball		  121
  Thin-flanked woman, as white and as stale as a bone.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  122
  White as an angel clad in light.
            —James Sheridan Knowles		  123
  White, like the apparition of a dead rainbow.
            —Charles Lamb		  124
  White as maiden purity.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  125
                White,
Like a gravestone seen in the pale moonlight.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  126
  White as Ketak’s snow flower.
            —Lays of Ancient India		  127
  White as a nun.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  128
  White as ivory.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  129
  White as the face of the dead.
            —Camille Lemonnier		  130
  Whiter than the downy spray.
            —John Leyden		  131
  White as a live terror.
            —George Cabot Lodge		  132
  White as a cloud that floats and fades in the air.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  133
  White as a schoolboy’s paper kite.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  134
  White as seas’ fog.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  135
  White as the gleam of a receding sail.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  136
  White as a dove.
            —Samuel Lover		  137
  White as thistle-down.
            —James Russell Lowell		  138
  White as alabaster.
            —John Lyly		  139
  White as driven snow.
            —John Lyly		  140
  White as untrod snow.
            —Lewis Machin		  141
  White as the foam of streams.
            —James Macpherson		  142
White as the whitest foam of the sea
That tosses its waves under fervent skies,
Or a feather dropped from an angel’s wing
As it leant o’er the walls of Paradise.
            —A. W. Marshall		  143
  White and pure as any bridal veil.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  144
  Sightless white, like eyes of lifeless stone.
            —William J. Mickle		  145
  White as the bloom o’ the pear.
            —William Miller		  146
  White as a sinner’s shroud.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  147
  White as virgin’s pall.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  148
  Lilly-white as a lady’s marrying smock.
            —Thomas Nash		  149
                Venerable beard
White, hoary like the foam o’ the sea.
            —Enrico Nencioni		  150
                White
Like girls for a first communion dight.
            —Roden Noel		  151
  White … like angels in their ascension clothes, waiting for those who prayed below.
            —Fitz-James O’Brien		  152
  White as a winter home.
            —John Payne		  153
White as is the new blown bell
Of that frail flower that loves the wind.
            —John Payne		  154
  As white … as clay.
            —Winthrop Mackworth Praed		  155
  White as the waxen petal of the flowers.
            —Helen. C. Prince		  156
        White like a young flock,
Coeval, newly shorn, from the clear brook recent, and branching on the sunny rock.
            —Matthew Prior		  157
  White as swans.
            —François Rabelais		  158
  White as fear.
            —Opie Read		  159
  White as the living cheek opposed.
            —Charles Reade		  160
  White as grit.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  161
  White as the cream-crested wave.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  162
  White as the gleam of her beckoning hand.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  163
  White a hand as lilies in the sunlight.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  164
  White as the moon lies in the lap of night.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  165
  White like flame.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  166
  Whiter than sawn ivory.
            —John Ruskin		  167
  Wings as white as a dream of snow in love and light.
            —A. J. Ryan		  168
  White as Dinlay’s spotless snoe.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  169
  White as a lily.
            —William Shakespeare		  170
  Soft as dove’s down and as white.
            —William Shakespeare		  171
  White his shroud as the mountain snow.
            —William Shakespeare		  172
  Teeth as white as whale’s bone.
            —William Shakespeare		  173
                Perfect white
Show’d like an April daisy on the grass.
            —William Shakespeare		  174
        White as the foam o’ the sea
That is driven o’er billows of azure agleam with sun-yellow.
            —William Sharp		  175
  White as isinglass.
            —George Bernard Shaw		  176
  Whitens like steel in a furnace.
            —George Bernard Shaw		  177
White with the whiteness of what is dead,
Like troops of ghosts on the dry wind past.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  178
  White as a swan’s stray feather.
            —Harry B. Smith		  179
  White … like the flying cloud at noon.
            —Robert Southey		  180
  White as the swan’s breast.
            —Robert Southey		  181
  White, withouten spot or pride, that seemed like silke and silver woven neare.
            —Edmund Spenser		  182
  White … like a dazie in a field of grass.
            —Sir John Suckling		  183
  White as a custard.
            —Jonathan Swift		  184
  White as dead stark-stricken dove.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  185
  White as faith’s and age’s hue.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  186
  White as moonlight snows.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  187
  White as the live heart of light.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  188
  White as the sparkle of snow-flowers in the sun.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  189
  White as the unfruitful thorn-flower.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  190
  White as mountain cotton-grass.
            —Irish Epic Tales		  191
  White as any flower.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  192
  White as privet.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  193
  White as utter truth.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  194
  White as the light.
            —New Testament		  195
  It was like coriander seed, white.
            —Old Testament		  196
  Whiter than milk.
            —Old Testament		  197
  White as a ceiling.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  198
  I turned as white as cold boil’d veal.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  199
  White, and ghastly, like an army of tombstones by moonlight.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  200
  Like the mists of spring, all silvery white.
            —The Hagoromo		  201
  More white than curds.
            —Theocritus		  202
  Slight and white as a peeled wand.
            —Vance Thompson		  203
  White as sculptured stone.
            —Francis C. F. Tiernan		  204
  White as the down of an angel’s wings.
            —John T. Trowbridge		  205
  White, like the Shah of Persia’s diamond plume.
            —Mark Twain		  206
  White as Carrara marble.
            —Theodore Watts-Dunton		  207
  White as evening clouds.
            —Charles J. Wells		  208
  White as the wings of prayer.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  209
                Stainless white,
Like ivory bathed in still moonlight.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  210
  Whiter than a moony pearl.
            —Oscar Wilde		  211
  White as a charnel bone.
            —N. P. Willis		  212
  White as flashing icicle.
            —N. P. Willis		  213
 
 
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