| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Edgar Allan Poe |
| | | Bounded like a madman. | 1 |
| Children are never too tender to be whipped; like tough beef-steaks, the more you beat them the more tender they become. | 2 |
| Dark as the caves wherein earth’s thunders groan. | 3 |
| Declined—like shadow in the dying of the day. | 4 |
| Departed as a shadow. | 5 |
| The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of its sorrow. | 6 |
Luminous eyes,
Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda. | 7 |
| Glide to and fro like ghosts of buried centuries. | 8 |
| Glistened, like a globe of burnished gold. | 9 |
| Holy as the watch of an invisible spirit. | 10 |
| Increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier in courage. | 11 |
| Lines as vivid and as durable as the exergues of the Carthaginian medals. | 12 |
A melancholy strain,
Like the low moaning of the distant sea. | 13 |
| Pure as the wishes breathed in prayer. | 14 |
| Shook as the quivering plumes upon the hearse. | 15 |
| Shook like a spied spy. | 16 |
| Shriek … such as might have risen only out of hell. | 17 |
| Sighed as if a deadly burthen had been taken from her breast. | 18 |
| Swollen immensely, like that of a man who has been drowned and lain under water for many weeks. | 19 |
| True as the Pentateuch. | 20 |
| Various as the hues of a rainbow. | 21 | | |
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