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

Robert Mowry Bell

Women, like birds, are shy of a single spring; perplex them by a choice, their heads become giddy, they flutter, and drop into the trap.

Women, like conjurers’ tricks, are miracles to the ignorant.

Women, like loadstones, lose their attraction, when they suffer the rust of a fretful temper to eat away their brightness.