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| Aslant, like the angels in Jacob’s dream. | 1 |
| Beautiful as noon-day. | 2 |
| Black as thunder. | 3 |
| Blended like the colors in the rainbow. | 4 |
| Blind as a brickbat. | 5 |
| Bob up like the hammers in a pianoforte. | 6 |
| Brazen as alabaster. | 7 |
| Huge bulk like a sea monster among the minnows of the Thames. | 8 |
| Calm as Clapham. | 9 |
| Second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. | 10 |
| Certain to make his way there as a gimlet is to go through soft deal. | 11 |
| Cheerful as the day was long. | 12 |
| Chuckles, like the opening of a bottle of some effervescent beverage. | 13 |
| Cleared like a doubtful morning when it gives place to a bright noon. | 14 |
| Clung to the soil like Caliban. | 15 |
| Coarse in grain as the bark of an oak. | 16 |
| Collapse like the cheeks of a starved man. | 17 |
| Comfortable as the hungry pig was, when he was shut up by mistake in the grain department of a brewery. | 18 |
| Convivial as a live trout in a lime-basket. | 19 |
| Crisp as new bank notes. | 20 |
| Cross as two sticks. | 21 |
| Curled like a pastoral crook. | 22 |
| Curled up like hot paper. | 23 |
| Ever darker and darker, like the shadow of advancing death. | 24 |
| Darting skyward like a rocket. | 25 |
| Dead as Pharaoh. | 26 |
| She was a little dilapidated, like a house, with having been so long to let. | 27 |
| Disappeared, like the shadow thrown by a passing cloud. | 28 |
| Distress is forever going about like soot in the air. | 29 |
| Drag like lead. | 30 |
| Dry as a chip. | 31 |
| Dry as a lime-basket. | 32 |
| Dry as the desert. | 33 |
| Dull as laudanum. | 34 |
| Eccentric as comets. | 35 |
| So evanescent that it was like a shape made in water. | 36 |
| Excite him, as the donkeys on the green did Betsy Trotwood. | 37 |
| Flat as a juryman. | 38 |
| Fluttered like a bird with broken wings. | 39 |
| Fresh as a lark. | 40 |
| Fresh as butter. | 41 |
| Gay as a butterfly. | 42 |
| Gently as an angel’s hand. | 43 |
| Gilded as a glittering toy. | 44 |
| Glistened like the path of diamonds in the sun. | 45 |
| Gloomy as a hobgoblin. | 46 |
| Grave as a judge. | 47 |
| Grave as an organ. | 48 |
| Growled within himself like a little double-bass. | 49 |
| Makes such head as a fire does in a raging wind. | 50 |
| Heavy as the hand of death. | 51 |
| Holds as tight as a horse-leech. | 52 |
| Howl like a wolf. | 53 |
| An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. | 54 |
| Immovable as a pump or a lamp-post. | 55 |
| Impossible as it would be for a full balloon not to go up. | 56 |
| Interlocked like a couple of preposterous gladiators. | 57 |
| Jerked his head like a bird. | 58 |
| Lingering about like a bailiff. | 59 |
| Mild as any lamb that ever pastured in the fields. | 60 |
| Nodded like a plume. | 61 |
| Sharp nose like a sharp autumn evening, inclined to be frosty towards the end. | 62 |
| Oppressed like foul air. | 63 |
| Pale as a candle. | 64 |
| Pale as a muffin. | 65 |
| Time passed away as a tale which is told. | 66 |
| Passed out as quickly as a sunbeam. | 67 |
| As plain to everybody as the sun. | 68 |
| Plump as a peach. | 69 |
| Quarrelsome, like a sparrow. | 70 |
| Quiet as a sepulchre. | 71 |
| Red as beetroot. | 72 |
| Regular as military drums. | 73 |
| Rough as a Sea Porkypine. | 74 |
| In rows, like figures in a sum. | 75 |
| Saunters … like an idle river very leasurely strolling down a flat country to the sea. | 76 |
| Set, as a piece of sculpture. | 77 |
| Shine like cherub’s cheeks. | 78 |
| Sifted fine as flour. | 79 |
| Silent as a flame that fails. | 80 |
| Sleek as Mr. Pecksniff. | 81 |
| Slight … as a dew-drop. | 82 |
| Time slipping by you, as if it was an animal at rustic sports with his tail soaped. | 83 |
| It came on slowly, like a cloud when there is no wind. | 84 |
| Smart as a sixpence. | 85 |
| Smiles like clockwork. | 86 |
| Smooth as a new laid egg. | 87 |
| Walked as softly as the ghost in Hamlet. | 88 |
| Sparkling all over, like a harlequin. | 89 |
| Split like a fired shell. | 90 |
| Spurned like any reptile. | 91 |
| Stiff like a state coachman. | 92 |
| Sitting stiffly by, like a functionary presiding over an interview, previous to an execution. | 93 |
| Straight as any plummet line. | 94 |
| Straight as a crow flies. | 95 |
| Sure as sun-up. | 96 |
| Tender as a lamb. | 97 |
| Thick as scarecrows in England. | 98 |
| Tight as a gooseberry. | 99 |
| Unintelligible as any dream. | 100 |
| Vanished away, like spectres. | 101 |
| Vanish like a breath. | 102 |
| Vanished like a discontented fairy. | 103 |
| Vaprous as a witch’s cauldron. | 104 |
| Weak as a reed. | 105 |
| Weak as flesh. | 106 |
| White as ashes. | 107 |
| Withered and pale as an old pauper. | 108 |
| Within another, like the ivory balls in a Chinese carving. | 109 |
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