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

Fine

Fine as a Maypole on May-day.
—Anonymous

Fine as a mist of lace.
—Anonymous

Fine as five-pence.
—Anonymous

Fine as gossamer.
—Anonymous

Fine as point lace.
—Anonymous

Fine as a skein of the casuist Escobar’s worked on the bone of a lie.
—Robert Browning

Fyn as ducket in Venice.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Fine as an ape in purple.
—Clarke’s Proverbs

Fine as a silver dollar saloon.
—Elbert Hubbard

A sound so fine, there’s nothing lies ’twixt it and silence.
—James Sheridan Knowles

Fine as bronze floss.
—Amy Leslie

Fine as light.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fine as silkworm’s thread.
—Robert Southey

Fine as the gleamy gossamer that spreads its filmy web-work o’er the tangled mead.
—Robert Southey

More fine than moonbeams.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fine as ice-ferns on January panes.
—Alfred Tennyson

Fine as a hedge in May.
—Samuel Wesley