| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Henry Fielding |
| | | As difficult … as to preserve your purse at a gaming-table or your health at a bawdy house. | 1 |
| Dirty as earth. | 2 |
| Men of great genius as easily discover one another as freemasons can. | 3 |
| Dull as an ox. | 4 |
| As empty of ideas as an opera. | 5 |
| Fruitless as it would be to explain the most difficult problems of Sir Isaac Newton to one ignorant of vulgar arithmetic. | 6 |
| Bad habits are as infectious by example as the plague itself by contact. | 7 |
| Head as heavy as alderman’s. | 8 |
| As hollow as any trumpet in Europe. | 9 |
| Inaccessible as the best defended fortress. | 10 |
| Incapable as quicksilver of lying still. | 11 |
| Inconsistent as the seas or as the wind. | 12 |
| Kissing … is as a prologue to a play. | 13 |
| Light as air. | 14 |
| Love, like fire, when once kindled, is soon blown into a flame. | 15 |
| Lurking … like a concealed enemy. | 16 |
| Pale and meagre as a court page. | 17 |
| Red as beef. | 18 |
| Shines like a beau in a new birthday suit. | 19 |
| Sinful as sin. | 20 |
| Sober as a judge. | 21 |
| Strutting like a turkey cock. | 22 |
| Sure as the devil’s in London. | 23 |
| Ugly as the devil. | 24 |
| A voice as sweet as the evening breeze of Boreas in the pleasant month of November. | 25 |
| Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling into vice and ignorance, where is great plenty and variety of food. | 26 | | |
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