Bret Harte Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Bret Harte


Clean as a beaver.	1
Flat as a flail.	2
Gone like the bubble that bursts in the sun; Gone like the grain when the reaper is done; Gone like the dew on the fresh morning grass; Gone without parting farewell; and alas! Gone with a flavor of hydrogen gas!	3
Lost like the day of Job’s awful curse, in the third chapter, third and fourth verse.	4
As plain as the moral law.	5
Proud as a peer.	6
Slipped like a shadow.	7
Thrill like some fanciful land of romance.	8
Appetite whets, like the world-famous bark of Peru.	9
Yellow as saffron.	10