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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes.
1916.
Austin Dobson
Black as beads.
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Blithe as a bird new risen from the corn.
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Blithe as the first blithe song of birds that waken.
3
Brisk as a burger over a bottle.
4
Chirp like new-fledged linnet.
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Her eyes are bright as beryl stones that in the tankard wink.
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Eyes like the morning.
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Fresh as a fresh young pear-tree blossoming.
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Gaunt as a wolf.
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Gay as a thrush.
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Light as a snowflake.
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Her lips are like the muscatel.
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Loose as a vine-branch blowing in the morn.
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Old as Time.
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Riddled like a pepper castor.
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Shabby as a sheepskin book.
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Shy
As some stray fawn that seeks its mother.
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Slumbered like Goldsmiths Madam Blaize, bedizened and brocaded.
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As soft and sleek as girlish cheek.
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As Pokers do, whose tails are
Squeaked.
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Thick as bees.
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