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

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

Leigh Hunt


Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a telescope.	1
Cheeks as ripe as apples.	2
Disappeared like buttered crumpets.	3
Earnest as bees.	4
Generous as daylight.	5
Restless as butterflies.	6
Sing-song like a stiff puffet on a humdrum barrel-organ.	7
Smooth as a file.	8
Surely as the same sunshine of heaven is on the mountain tops of east and west.	9
Up and down, like a chicken drinking.	10
Void of meaning as an oak wainscot.	11
Whistling like the thrushes With voice in silver gushes.	12