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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Frail
 
  Frail as a lily.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Frail as flesh is.
            —Laman Blanchard		  2
  Frail as the leaf in Autumn’s yellow bower.
            —Thomas Campbell		  3
  Frail as the clouds.
            —Thomas De Quincey		  4
  Frail as a sigh.
            —Sydney Dobell		  5
  Frail as the web that misty night has spun.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  6
  Frail as dishes.
            —Thomas Hood		  7
  Frail as frost-landscapes on a window-pane.
            —James Russell Lowell		  8
  Frail as the clouds of sunset.
            —James Montgomery		  9
  Frail as glass.
            —Petrarch		  10
  Frail as a flake of snow.
            —A. J. Ryan		  11
                Frail
As May’s first lily in a Northern vale.
            —Bayard Taylor		  12
                Frail
As perfume of the cuckoo-flower.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  13
 
 
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