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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Countless
 
Countless, as the drops that glide
In the ocean’s billowy tide.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Countless as locusts.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Countless as the stars that roof our night.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  3
  Countless as the wraiths of slumber.
            —Julia C. R. Dorr		  4
Countless as the golden motes
That dance upon the sun’s earth-kissing beams.
            —Frances Anne Kemble		  5
  Countless as motes in the sunbeams.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  6
  Countless … as leaves on autumn’s tempest shed.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  7
  Countless as the desert sands.
            —Bayard Taylor		  8
 
 
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