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

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 o’er 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 basilisk’s.	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 Medusa’s head.	13
Tedious as dull sorrows.	14
Wanton … as a cat in a bowl of water.	15