| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Mark Twain |
| | | Darted away like a telegram. | 1 |
| Dodged and scrambled around like a woman who has lost her mind on account of the arrival of a bat. | 2 |
| Shadow … like a puddle of ink. | 3 |
| Shriveled … like the pictures of mummies you see in books. | 4 |
| He sighed like a zephyr. | 5 |
| Soft, like summer night. | 6 |
| Solid as a globe of mud. | 7 |
| Sparkling like all the stars of heaven had fallen down. | 8 |
| Spirituality … as refined and spotless as the Jungfrau’s silvery peak. | 9 |
| Steady as a mill. | 10 |
| Still, like Sunday. | 11 |
| Straight as bolt from crossbow sped. | 12 |
| Straightened himself up like a liberty-pole. | 13 |
| Tart and crisp … as the autumn butter that creams the sumac berry. | 14 |
| Tumbling … like rolling empty barrels down stairs. | 15 |
| White, like the Shah of Persia’s diamond plume. | 16 | | |
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