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

Andrew Lang

Dull as lead.

Eyes like the flower that was Rousseau’s delight.

Fancies flit, and wheel like butterflies on banks of thyme.

Glows like the diamond in the presence of radium.

Increased, like a spreading sore.

Obsolete as the Minotaur of Crete.

More pale than the meadows of Anjou.

Sifted, drifted, like the sun of sands in wastes Arabian.

Flies as swift as shafts the bowmen pour.

Weak as young corn withered, whereof no man may gather and make bread.