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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Comfort
 
  Comfortable as coin.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Comfortable as an annuity.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Comfortable as matrimony,—to an old woman.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Comfortable as an anvil.
            —Irvin S. Cobb		  4
  Comfortable as the hungry pig was, when he was shut up by mistake in the grain department of a brewery.
            —Charles Dickens		  5
            Comforting as April air
After the snow.
            —Jean Ingelow		  6
  Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
            —William Shakespeare		  7
        That comfort comes too late;
’Tis like a pardon after execution.
            —William Shakespeare		  8
 
 
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