| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| | | Blind as moonless night. | 1 |
| Brief like a signal. | 2 |
| Brief as the word strong sorrow saith. | 3 |
| Conscientious as a dog. | 4 |
| Conspicuous like a cathedral. | 5 |
| Dull as a sheep. | 6 |
| Helpless as a ship in stays. | 7 |
| Impossible as to get the whole music of the spheres into a sonata. | 8 |
| Innocent as the age of gold. | 9 |
| Innumerable as maggots. | 10 |
| He leaped like a man shot. | 11 |
| Murmur like a shell. | 12 |
| Plain as the glistening planets shine when winds have cleared the skies. | 13 |
| Pleading like a frightened child. | 14 |
| Rare as a dodo. | 15 |
| As remote in thought as … the Apostles or the Cæsars. | 16 |
| Right as ninepence. | 17 |
| Shaking … like a drunkard after a debauch. | 18 |
| Sighed like a man near fainting. | 19 |
| Smile, it was like sunshine in a shady place. | 20 |
| Smiling as smiles the fowler when flutters the bird to the gin. | 21 |
| My fancy soars like a kite and faints in the blue infinite. | 22 |
| As solid as a landed estate. | 23 |
| Swift as a passing bird. | 24 |
| Thick as a mob. | 25 |
| Thick as a snow fall. | 26 |
| Thick as driving rain. | 27 |
| Thick as the stars at night when the moon is down. | 28 |
| Thick and silent like ants. | 29 |
| I was as uncouth as a sea-fish upon the brae of a mountain. | 30 |
| Withered like stars in the morning. | 31 |
| Yellow as sulphur. | 32 | | |
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