| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Sigmund Krasinski |
| | | Changeful … as are the waves before the breath of winds. | 1 |
| Fair as Aphrodite rising from the deep-blue Grecian sea. | 2 |
| Fleeting as a passing sigh. | 3 |
| Flicker like a lamp. | 4 |
| Flutter like a flickering, dying lamp. | 5 |
| Glitters like a sea of light. | 6 |
| Hiss like vipers. | 7 |
| Impatient as a boy. | 8 |
| As numberless as they that at last will throng into the valley of Jehosaphat. | 9 |
| Obstinate … like the corpse in the fable, threatening the driver of the hearse with vengeance dire at every gate of fatal charnel-house. | 10 |
| Idols are overturned like new-mown grass. | 11 |
| Pure as purest vestal virgin. | 12 |
| Rushed upon us like a lava torrent. | 13 |
| Sad as an image of despair. | 14 |
| A smouldering fire, shining like lamps through rents in sepulchres. | 15 |
| Stir like the hail of musketry in fight. | 16 |
| Swayed, like grain-fields when the wind breathes over them. | 17 |
| Transparent as pure water. | 18 |
| Wild as a fiend. | 19 | | |
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