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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Alphonse Daudet
Blazing like a brace of suns.Bleeding as if he had been through a thicket of troubles.Brown as a pineapple.Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.Discordant as the cries of a gull.Empty as a church on a week-day.Eyes, gleaming and sparkling like lizards’ eyes in the crevices of old walls.Flutterings as in a slumbering aviary.Gentle and placid as Socrates.Glittering as snow in the sunshine.Irritating as a hundred needles forgotten in an armchair.Lifting his feet like a knife grinder.Rattled like a pair of castanets.Rigid as embodied duty.Rigid as his starched collar.Smoking like a crater.Softly as if over a pavement of down.Thrilled in ecstasy, like an Oriental saint.Trustful as Don Juan’s famous Monsieur Dimanche.Vast as cathedrals.