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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Close
 
  Close as clapboards on a house.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Close as one second is to another.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Close as heat to fire.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Close as lovers sitting upon the sofa.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Close as Noah in the ark.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Close-mouthed as a clam.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Close as a cockle.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  7
  Close as wax.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  8
Close as brother leans to brother
When they press beneath the eyes
Of some father praying blessings
From the gifts of paradise.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  9
Fitting as close as fits the dented spine
Its flexible ivory outside-flesh.
            —Robert Browning		  10
  Close as an oyster.
            —Robert Burton		  11
  Close as the finger nail and the quick.
            —Hugh Clifford		  12
  Close as a new cut yew-hedge.
            —George Colman, the Elder		  13
  Close as your jacket.
            —George Colman, the Younger		  14
  Close as a pill-box.
            —George Colman, the Younger		  15
  Close as a nut.
            —George Eliot		  16
  Close as hand and glove.
            —Foundling Hospital for Wit, 1743		  17
  Close as night.
            —Thomas Heywood		  18
  Close as thorn is to the rose.
            —Robert Lloyd		  19
  I will sticke as close to thee, as the soale doth to the shoe.
            —John Lyly		  20
  Hide closer than Rachel did her father’s images.
            —James Puckle		  21
  Close as oak and ivy stand.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  22
  Close as the young wheat.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  23
  Stick closer than a bump on your head.
            —Austin Strong		  24
  Close as a jail.
            —Thomas Tusser		  25
  Close as a lover in his hour of bliss.
            —N. P. Willis		  26
  Close as a flea in a blanket.
            —Yea and Nay Almanack, 1680		  27
 
 
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