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

Beautiful

Beautiful as a remembered single line of perfect poetry.
—John Albee

Beautiful as a chemical blonde.
—Anonymous

Beautiful as Adonis.
—Anonymous

Beautiful as a sunset.
—Anonymous

Beautiful as the dawn.
—Anonymous

Beautiful as the face of a young Greek god.
—Anonymous

Beautiful as the seraph’s dream.
—Anonymous

Beautiful as Zenobia.
—Anonymous

Beautiful as the bough of the myrobalan.
—Arabian Nights

Darkly beautiful as death.
—Philip James Bailey

Beautiful as a saint.
—Honoré de Balzac

Beautiful as the day.
—Honoré de Balzac

A note as beautiful as a thread of light.
—Gustavo A. Becquér

Beautiful as the curtain of Soloman.
—Saint Bernard

Beautiful as fire.
—Ambrose Bierce

Beautiful as ever looked
From white clouds in a dream.
—William Cullen Bryant

Beautiful as Absalom.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Beautiful as a feather in one’s cap.
—Thomas Carlyle

Beauteous as a summer’s morn.
—Thomas Chatterton

Beautiful as April rains.
—William Cowper

Beautiful as heaven.
—John Day

Beautiful as noon-day.
—Charles Dickens

Beautiful as a rainbow.
—John Dryden

Beautiful as a dying maid.
—Ebenezer Elliott

Beautiful as is the rose in June.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beautiful … as childhood’s dream.
—Frederick William Faber

Beautiful as one of the swinging figures on a Greek vase.
—Frank Harris

Beautiful as a fairy palace.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Beautiful as spring.
—Gerard T. Hopkins

Beautiful as a Houri borne off from the Garden of the Seventh Heaven.
—Jm

Beautiful as the vernal willow.
—Dr. Samuel Johnson

Beautiful,… like a fairy pageant floating for a pastime on the tide.
—Edward. C. Jones

Beautiful as angels.
—Jean Jules Jusserand

Beautiful as an oriole.
—John Keats

Beautiful as May.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Beautiful as morning.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Beautiful as feet of friend
Coming with welcome at our journey’s end.
—James Russell Lowell

Beautiful like the Moon.
—Mahabharata

Beautiful
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
—Christopher Marlowe

Beautiful as dawn in Heaven.
—Gerald Massey

Beautiful as Dian’s face.
—James Montgomery

As beautiful as sorceress.
—Ouida

As beautiful as ’twere a dewy flower.
—George D. Prentice

Beautiful as youth.
—Dollie Radford

Beautiful as an Olympian divinity.
—George Rose

Beautiful as a piece of chalk cliff.
—John Ruskin

Beautiful as pine bridges over Alpine streams.
—John Ruskin

Her face as beautiful as though the rays of Paradise were there.
—Sadi

Beautiful as sky and earth,
When Autumn’s sun is downward going.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Beauteous as the silver moon.
—William Wordsworth

Beautiful as heaven.
—William Wordsworth

Beauteous as the sun.
—Edward Young