Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Cheerful

Cheerful as the birds.
—Anonymous

Cheerful as a mute at a funeral.
—Anonymous

Cheerful as the lively morn.
—John Armstrong

As cheerful … as singing lark.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cheerful as the day.
—William Cowper

Cheerful as the summer’s morn.
—John Cunningham

Cheerful as the day was long.
—Charles Dickens

Cheerful as a prince.
—Mrs.
—Gaskell

Cheered … like the bright eye of a friend.
—James Hedderwick

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
—Victor Hugo

Cheerful, as one who knows that he is redeemed.
—Charles Kingsley

Cheering as a suburban London Sunday’s promenade.
—George Meredith

Cheerful and yet profound like an October afternoon.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms of the inward man.
—John Paul Richter

Cheerful … as the green winter of the holly-tree.
—Robert Southey

Cheering as the hymn of “Hark from the Tombs.” Thomas Watson

As cheerful as a grove in Spring.
—William Wordsworth