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A Dictionary of Similes
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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes.
1916.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Blind as moonless night.
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Brief like a signal.
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Brief as the word strong sorrow saith.
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Conscientious as a dog.
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Conspicuous like a cathedral.
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Dull as a sheep.
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Helpless as a ship in stays.
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Impossible as to get the whole music of the spheres into a sonata.
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Innocent as the age of gold.
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Innumerable as maggots.
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He leaped like a man shot.
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Murmur like a shell.
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Plain as the glistening planets shine when winds have cleared the skies.
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Pleading like a frightened child.
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Rare as a dodo.
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As remote in thought as the Apostles or the Cæsars.
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Right as ninepence.
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Shaking like a drunkard after a debauch.
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Sighed like a man near fainting.
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Smile, it was like sunshine in a shady place.
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Smiling as smiles the fowler when flutters the bird to the gin.
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My fancy soars like a kite and faints in the blue infinite.
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As solid as a landed estate.
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Swift as a passing bird.
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Thick as a mob.
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Thick as a snow fall.
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Thick as driving rain.
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Thick as the stars at night when the moon is down.
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Thick and silent like ants.
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I was as uncouth as a sea-fish upon the brae of a mountain.
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Withered like stars in the morning.
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Yellow as sulphur.
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