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

Richard Le Gallienne

Locks … as brown as mavis in May.

Careless as the Salmon with its million young.

Clear as the finest porcelain.

Democracy, like an army, has a way of persuading aristocrats to lead it.

Domesticated as marmalade.

As exploded as the mysteries of Eleusis.

Faith, like the phœnix, soars and sings.

Firm as the tread of lions.

Flashing like a scythe.

Green as a meadow by Chaucer.

Guileless as a candidate.

Irregular as a toper’s walk.

A little knowledge in some people is like little boys throwing stones into mysterious lakes. They make a great clatter but the silence was more wonderful.

Laughed like the sun.

Monotonous as mutton.

Mystical as an astrological symbol.

Complete in perfection as a great line in poetry, as the flight of a bird, as the curve of a falling wave.

Phantasmagoric, like a mirage beyond the horizon.

Precious as a Grecian vase.

Proud as a young bull.

Real as the stars.

Repeating … like a drunken man with a tune in his head.

Ruthlessly as you lop a branch.

Safe as in the bank.

Scintillate like a human St. Catherine wheel.

Shone like an illuminated letter.

Slowly filling with life as a moon with silver.

Softly among the pines as a young witch gathering simples.

Stirs one like a martial tune.

Stubborn as the Rocky Mountains.

Sweet as the sound of bells at evening.

Talks like music set on fire.

Tough as a telegraph wire.

Twinged like a hollow tooth.

Typical as the sparrow is typical of London.

Useless as the leg of a man with a sprained ankle.

White as a nun.

White as ivory.

Wonderful as a starlit sky.

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