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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes.
1916.
Mrs. Trollope
Empty as wind.
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Indistinctly visible as through a white gauze veil.
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Started like a guilty thing.
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Strangely there, as would a bower of roses in Siberia.
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Tossed about like a few potatoes in a wheelbarrow.
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