A Dictionary of Similes

By Frank J. Wilstach

Wilstach spent over 20 years tracing more than 16,000 similies to about 2,000 sources and categorizing them under some 3,000 subjects.

Bibliographic Record Preface

Contents

BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, & Co., 1916.
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010

Category Index
Abandon	to	Cynic
Daily	to	Future
Gabble	to	Life
Lifeless	to	Puzzled
Quail	to	Stick
Stiff	to	Zigzag
Featured Entries
Beautiful, Black, Blind, Blue, Blush, Bright, Calm, Change, Chaste, Cheek, Clear, Cling, Cold, Dark, Dead, Deep, Differ, Dull, Easy, Eye, Face, Fade, Fair, Fast, Fierce, Firm, Fixed, Fled, Fly, Free, Fresh, Full, Gay, Gleam, Glitter, Glow, Gone, Happy, Heart, Keen, Light, Lip, Loud, Love, Man, Melt, Mild, Mind, Pale, Pass, Plain, Pure, Red, Rich, Round, Sad, Scatter, Sharp, Shine, Shrink, Silent, Smile, Smooth, Soft, Sparkle, Spread, Still, Straight, Strong, Sure, Sweet, Swift, Thick, Tremble, True, Vanish, Voice, Warm, Welcome, White, Wild, Wit, Woman

Author Index
Gilbert Abbott À Beckett	to	Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson	to	Lays of Ancient India
Emma Lazarus	to	Thomas Shadwell
William Shakespeare	to	Johann Heinrich Zschokke
Featured Entries
Anonymous, Arabian Nights, Bacon, Bailey, Balzac, Beaumont and Fletcher, Billings, Blackmore, E.B. Browning, R. Browning, Bulwer-Lytton, Burton, Butler, Byron, Carlyle, Chaucer, Coleridge, Colton, Conrad, Cowper, Dickens, Dryden, Dumas, George Eliot, Emerson, Hawthorne, O. Henry, O.W. Holmes, Homer, Hood, Hugo, Keats, Kipling, Longfellow, Lyly, Massey, de Maupassant, Meredith, Montgomery, T. Moore, Old Testament, Ouida, Pope, Read, Reade, Riley, C.G. Rossetti, D.G. Rossetti, M. Scott, Shakespeare, Shelley, Southey, Spenser, Swift, Swinburne, Taylor, Tennyson, Whittier, Wordsworth