Curl Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Curl


The maiden whose lip like a rose leaf is curled. —Philip James Bailey	1
Curl’d like a lamb’s back. —William Blake	2
Curled up like some crumpled, lonely flower-petal. —Rupert Brooke	3
Curled up like incense from a Mage-King’s tomb. —Robert Browning	4
Curled up like a blue racer in a partridge nest. —Irvin S. Cobb	5
Curling, like a wreath of smoke. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge	6
Curled and writhed like a snake stepped upon. —Stephen Crane	7
Curled like a pastoral crook. —Charles Dickens	8
Curled up like hot paper. —Charles Dickens	9
Curled up in his heart, like a little squirrel in its nest. —Sir William Schwenk Gilbert	10
Curled like the coat of a poodle. —George Bernard Shaw	11
Curling like tendrils of the parasite Around a marble column. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	12
Curl as if a frost had stung them. —Bayard Taylor	13
Curling like a kinked up ostrich feather. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox	14
Curled, as when the Sirian star Withers the ripening corn. —Oscar Wilde	15
Curls, like ivy. —William Wordsworth	16