| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Theodore Watts-Dunton |
| | | Ashamed, like a guilty thing. | 1 |
| Clear as diamonds. | 2 |
| Eyes, dark and mysterious as Night’s; but, like Night’s own eyes, ready, I thought, to call up the throbbing fires of a million stars. | 3 |
| Eyes flashing like sapphires. | 4 |
Eyes like English skies, where seemed to play
Deep azure dreams behind the tender grey. | 5 |
| Wild wordless melodies of love like murmur of dreaming brooks in Paradise. | 6 |
| Red as the reddest ruby. | 7 |
| Safe as hunted wolf within his lair. | 8 |
| Shine like fairy flags unfurled. | 9 |
| Still as an image of a boy in stone. | 10 |
| Translucent, like a virgin’s veil. | 11 |
| Trembling like a storm-struck tree. | 12 |
| Trembles like a tender spark. | 13 |
| Unconsciously as water drops over a coral reef in a tropical sea alive with the eyes of a thousand sharks. | 14 |
| White as Carrara marble. | 15 | | |
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