| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Alphonse Daudet |
| | | Blazing like a brace of suns. | 1 |
| Bleeding as if he had been through a thicket of troubles. | 2 |
| Brown as a pineapple. | 3 |
| Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them. | 4 |
| Discordant as the cries of a gull. | 5 |
| Empty as a church on a week-day. | 6 |
| Eyes, gleaming and sparkling like lizards’ eyes in the crevices of old walls. | 7 |
| Flutterings as in a slumbering aviary. | 8 |
| Gentle and placid as Socrates. | 9 |
| Glittering as snow in the sunshine. | 10 |
| Irritating as a hundred needles forgotten in an armchair. | 11 |
| Lifting his feet like a knife grinder. | 12 |
| Rattled like a pair of castanets. | 13 |
| Rigid as embodied duty. | 14 |
| Rigid as his starched collar. | 15 |
| Smoking like a crater. | 16 |
| Softly as if over a pavement of down. | 17 |
| Thrilled in ecstasy, like an Oriental saint. | 18 |
| Trustful as Don Juan’s famous Monsieur Dimanche. | 19 |
| Vast as cathedrals. | 20 | | |
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