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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fragrant
 
  As fragrant as clover’s sod.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Fragrant as musk.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Fragrant as field-flowers.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  3
  Fragrant … as May.
            —Lord De Tabley		  4
  Fragrant as a violet on a summer’s night.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  5
  Fragrant as the breath of angels.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  6
  Fragrant as thyme upon the mountains.
            —Dr. Samuel Johnson		  7
  Apples, as fragrant, and as bright a hue, as those which in Alcinou’s gardens grew, mellowed by constant sunshine; or as those, which graced the Hesperides, in burnished rows.
            —Juvenal		  8
  Fragrant as the morning rose.
            —Christopher Marlowe		  9
  Fragrant as the frosted blossom of a May night.
            —George Meredith		  10
  Fragrant as the dewfall.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  11
  Fragrant as lilacs.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  12
  Fragrant as the breath of flow’rs.
            —William Thomson		  13
 
 
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