Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | Philip Massinger |
| Lips, as blue as salt-water. | 1 |
Her breath Like a soft western wind, when it glides oer Arabia, creating gums and spices. | 2 |
Her constancy, that, like a rock, Beats off temptation, as that mocks the fury Of the proud waves. | 3 |
As the index tells the contents of the book, and directs to the particular chapter, even so do the outward habit and garments, in man or woman, give us a taste of the spirit, and point to the eternal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident and gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghill blood and breeding, than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside. | 4 |
Familiar as eating. | 5 |
Glorious as the Spring. | 6 |
Killing as a plague. | 7 |
Looks
as killing as the basilisks. | 8 |
Lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them. | 9 |
Naked as my nail. | 10 |
His bones Rattle in his skin, like beans tossed in a bladder. | 11 |
Small as atoms. | 12 |
Stares as he had seen Medusas head. | 13 |
Tedious as dull sorrows. | 14 |
Wanton
as a cat in a bowl of water. | 15 | |
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