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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Dumb
 
  Dumb as Philomel.
            —Anacreon		  1
  Dumb as an oyster.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Dombe as any stoon.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  3
  Doumb as a tree.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  4
  Dumb as a senator.
            —William Cowper		  5
  Dumb as death.
            —Sydney Dobell		  6
  Dumb as a fish.
            —Ben Jonson		  7
  Dumb as the grave.
            —John Keats		  8
  Dumb as pillar-posts.
            —George Meredith		  9
  Dumb as a mouse.
            —English Proverb		  10
  As dumb as a dead cuddy.
            —Scottish Proverb		  11
  Dumb as a dream.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  12
  Dumb and mighty, as a tree grows on a fruitful soil.
            —Ivan Turgenev		  13
 
 
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