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| Additional, like the cipher on the left. | 1 |
| Changeable, like the sparrow, who stops not on one twig. | 2 |
| Like a chameleon, he changes. | 3 |
| His work is as clean as silver lace. | 4 |
| As difficult as for a slave girl to please a slave-dealer. | 5 |
| With disgust … like one who draws out a hair from fresh butter. | 6 |
| He flits like a bee. | 7 |
| He flies like a dog that has burnt his paw. | 8 |
| A profitless friend is like a fleece without hair. | 9 |
| Like a camel’s guide, he always keeps in front. | 10 |
| He growls like a bear that has burnt his paw. | 11 |
| The ignorant person is like a cock out of season, which crows at midnight. | 12 |
| Like a broker’s mouth, he speaks incessantly. | 13 |
| Limpid as the eye of a heron. | 14 |
| Noisy as women bathing in a river. | 15 |
| He pierces like a lady’s needle. | 16 |
| He reels like a ship that has met with waves raised by the southeast wind. | 17 |
| Rich as an alum seller. | 18 |
| They scattered like a brood of partridges. | 19 |
| He sings like an empty water jar. | 20 |
| Smudged, like a shopkeeper’s account-book. | 21 |
| He stings like a scorpion. | 22 |
| Sullen as an Algerine colt. | 23 |
| His tongue is like a biscuit-seller’s shovel—long tongued. | 24 |
| Upright, like a taper. | 25 |
| Vain as to strike an axe on a rock. | 26 |
| He vanishes like a man who has caused his property to be snatched from a swindler. | 27 |
| Voracious as a camel, swallowing his leaven. | 28 |
| Waddles like a Armenian bride. | 29 |
| He whines like a Jew whose house is burnt. | 30 |
| The world is like a tree trunk full of ants; he who comes into it knows nothing; he who goes from it, comes not again. | 31 |
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