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

Differ

Differ as a clipped hedge and forest.
—Anonymous

Differ as an Indian and a Greek.
—Anonymous

Differ as a Roman stylus and Mr. Waterman’s fountain pen.
—Anonymous

Differ as a satyr to Hyperion; as a rushlight to the sun.
—Anonymous

Differ as a Vatican fresco and a political transparency.
—Anonymous

Differ as a whale and a tadpole.
—Anonymous

Differ as a Whistler nocturne and the design on a chocolate box.
—Anonymous

Differ as a zephyr and a cyclone.
—Anonymous

Differ as flint and chalk.
—Anonymous

Differ as grass and hay.
—Anonymous

Differ as Hamlet and Hercules.
—Anonymous

Differ as harp and harrow.
—Anonymous

Differ as locks.
—Anonymous

Differ as a mangled monkey and a well made man.
—Anonymous

Differ as noses.
—Anonymous

Differ as pigments and a picture.
—Anonymous

Differ as shine and substance.
—Anonymous

Differ as simpleton and sage.
—Anonymous

Differ as smoke and flame.
—Anonymous

Differs as stage money from government bonds.
—Anonymous

Differ as sword and tooth-pick.
—Anonymous

Differ as the Central Park Menagerie and the depths of the jungle.
—Anonymous

Differ as the glow-worm and the eagle.
—Anonymous

Differs as the jimson weed from the violet.
—Anonymous

Differ as the mid-day sun and a convalescent white bean.
—Anonymous

Differ as the Parthenon of Athens and an American court house.
—Anonymous

Differ as the song of the lark to the voice of the crow.
—Anonymous

Differs as the tail of a comet and the tail of a pig.
—Anonymous

Differ as winter and summer.
—Anonymous

Differ most, as salt and sugar.
—Francis Bacon

Differ as a nettle and a pink.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Differ as an octave flute and a tavern gong.
—William Cullen Bryant

The true beautiful … differs from the false as Heaven does from Vauxhall.
—Thomas Carlyle

Differ as a breastplate and a piecrust.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Differ as a hound of blood and a mongrel.
—Charles Macklin

Differ as a laughing brook and a cup of water.
—Charles M. S. McLellan

Differ like human faces.
—Nicholas Rowe

Differ as much as chalcke and chese.
—Richard Shacklock