Robert Buchanan Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Robert Buchanan


Bare as a naked bairn.	1
Came and went like the lighthouse gleam on a black night at sea.	2
As cosy as down among country lanes.	3
As dim as dim might be.	4
Fading like moonlight softly into darkness.	5
Gay as a guinea.	6
Gleam … like the phosphor of the foam upon the shore.	7
Good as gold.	8
Harmless and pleasant as the murmur of brook and wind.	9
Light as a faint wreath of snow That tremblest to fall in the wind.	10
Murmur like the moan of far-off seas.	11
Slow as the hand on clock’s face.	12
Slow as the white cloud in the sky.	13
White as the winding-sheet.	14