| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | William Archer |
| | | Feverishly accelerated like the movements we see in a cinematograph. | 1 |
| Clash and clang like glaives at … Stiklastad. | 2 |
| Dead as Aristophanes. | 3 |
| Dragged out like a languishing concertina. | 4 |
| More evanescent than the rainbow. | 5 |
| Fades like an unfixed photograph. | 6 |
| Fill like a rush of wind and shaft of sunshine. | 7 |
| Graceful as a fairy-tale. | 8 |
| Jarred on the ear like a squeaking lead-pencil. | 9 |
| Motionless, like the sun over Avalon. | 10 |
| Ransacked like an old workbox. | 11 |
| Stirs the blood like trumpet-blast. | 12 |
| Unjust, like the Jedburgh judges of Border history, it first hangs the prisoner and then tries him. | 13 |
| White as bismuth. | 14 | | |
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