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| Locks … as brown as mavis in May. | 1 |
| Careless as the Salmon with its million young. | 2 |
| Clear as the finest porcelain. | 3 |
| Democracy, like an army, has a way of persuading aristocrats to lead it. | 4 |
| Domesticated as marmalade. | 5 |
| As exploded as the mysteries of Eleusis. | 6 |
| Faith, like the phœnix, soars and sings. | 7 |
| Firm as the tread of lions. | 8 |
| Flashing like a scythe. | 9 |
| Green as a meadow by Chaucer. | 10 |
| Guileless as a candidate. | 11 |
| Irregular as a toper’s walk. | 12 |
| 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. | 13 |
| Laughed like the sun. | 14 |
| Monotonous as mutton. | 15 |
| Mystical as an astrological symbol. | 16 |
| Complete in perfection as a great line in poetry, as the flight of a bird, as the curve of a falling wave. | 17 |
| Phantasmagoric, like a mirage beyond the horizon. | 18 |
| Precious as a Grecian vase. | 19 |
| Proud as a young bull. | 20 |
| Real as the stars. | 21 |
| Repeating … like a drunken man with a tune in his head. | 22 |
| Ruthlessly as you lop a branch. | 23 |
| Safe as in the bank. | 24 |
| Scintillate like a human St. Catherine wheel. | 25 |
| Shone like an illuminated letter. | 26 |
| Slowly filling with life as a moon with silver. | 27 |
| Softly among the pines as a young witch gathering simples. | 28 |
| Stirs one like a martial tune. | 29 |
| Stubborn as the Rocky Mountains. | 30 |
| Sweet as the sound of bells at evening. | 31 |
| Talks like music set on fire. | 32 |
| Tough as a telegraph wire. | 33 |
| Twinged like a hollow tooth. | 34 |
| Typical as the sparrow is typical of London. | 35 |
| Useless as the leg of a man with a sprained ankle. | 36 |
| White as a nun. | 37 |
| White as ivory. | 38 |
| Wonderful as a starlit sky. | 39 |
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