| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Richard Cumberland |
| | | Bare as beggary. | 1 |
| Cold as a turtle. | 2 |
| Driving like a bedlamite. | 3 |
| Enshrined, as in a holy altar, under guard of consecrated keepers. | 4 |
| Your flattery, like a rich jewel, has a value not only from its superior lustre, but from its extraordinary scarceness. | 5 |
| Jabbering … like two intriguing ducks. | 6 |
| Pale as a witch. | 7 |
| Quick of scent as a vulture. | 8 |
| Sharp-sighted as a hawk. | 9 |
| Soft, his accents fill, like voices of departed friends heard in our dreams, or music in the air, when night-spirits warble their magic minstrelsy. | 10 |
| Twine, like pole ivy round the polished bark. | 11 | | |
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