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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Dull
 
  Dull as a beetle.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Dull as a convent.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Dull as a Dutchman.
            —Anonymous		  3
  As dull as a hoe.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Dull as a post.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Dull as a Quaker meeting.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Dull as cloudy skies.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Dull as mutes at a funeral.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Dull as ditch water.
            —Anonymous		  9
  As dull as the debates of Dutch burgomasters on cheese parings and candle ends.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Dull as Lethe.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Dull as a dormouse.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  12
  Dull as the earth.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  13
  Dull as sin.
            —Samuel Laman Blanchard		  14
  Dull as lead.
            —Anne Brontë		  15
  Dull as any London afternoon.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  16
  Dull as an archdeacon.
            —Gilbert K. Chesterton		  17
  Dull as laudanum.
            —Charles Dickens		  18
  Dull as an ox.
            —Henry Fielding		  19
  With eyes as dull as smoky glass.
            —Norman Gale		  20
  Dull as a post.
            —John Gay		  21
  Dull as a bachelor beaver.
            —Sam Slick		  22
  Dull as a boiled codfish.
            —Sam Slick		  23
  Dull as a whetstone.
            —Robert Heath		  24
  Dull as a pig of lead.
            —Help to Discourse		  25
  Dull as a mud-flat.
            —Maurice Hewlett		  26
  Dull as an alderman at church, or a fat lap-dog after dinner.
            —Thomas Holcroft		  27
  Dull as a donkey.
            —Thomas Hood		  28
  Dull as lead.
            —Andrew Lang		  29
  Dull as a tract.
            —George Meredith		  30
  Dull as night.
            —William Shakespeare		  31
  Duller than a great thaw.
            —William Shakespeare		  32
  Dull as catalogues.
            —Richard Brinsley Sheridan		  33
  Dull as a sheep.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  34
  Sound as dull as unstrung drum.
            —James Sully		  35
  Dull as the dead fume of a fallen fire.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  36
  Dark and dull like the mould upon a skull.
            —Frank Waters		  37
  Dull as a platonic lover.
            —Woman Turned Bully		  38
  Dull as a country squire.
            —William Wycherley		  39
 
 
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