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

Richard Cumberland

Bare as beggary.

Cold as a turtle.

Driving like a bedlamite.

Enshrined, as in a holy altar, under guard of consecrated keepers.

Your flattery, like a rich jewel, has a value not only from its superior lustre, but from its extraordinary scarceness.

Jabbering … like two intriguing ducks.

Pale as a witch.

Quick of scent as a vulture.

Sharp-sighted as a hawk.

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.

Twine, like pole ivy round the polished bark.