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

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

Empty


Empty as a bird’s nest in December. —Anonymous	1
Empty as a politician’s address to the people. —Anonymous	2
Empty as a quill. —Anonymous	3
Empty of expression as a squeezed sponge of water. —Anonymous	4
Empty as Vanity Fair. —Anonymous	5
Empty … like a shell dishabited. —Thomas E. Brown	6
Empty of religion, as the white of an egg is of savor. —John Bunyan	7
Empty as shade. —C. C. Colton	8
Empty as a church on a week-day. —Alphonse Daudet	9
Empty as a cobbler’s curse. —Thomas Dermody	10
As empty of ideas as an opera. —Henry Fielding	11
Empty as an idiot’s mind. —George Cabot Lodge	12
Empty as space. —Guy de Maupassant	13
Empty as air-pumps drain’d of air. —William Shenstone	14
Empty as a skull. —Alfred Tennyson	15
Empty as wind. —Mrs. —Trollope	16