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

Aphra Behn

Like a squirrel in a cage, always in action.

Belch … as loud as a Musket.

Chaste as angels are.

Cold … As a young nun the day she is envested.

Common as the air.

Cupids are like cooks of the camp, they can roast or boil a woman.

The fresh roses on your cheeks shall die,
Like flowers that wither in the shade.

Dropt like a rose o’er-blown.

Faithless … as the winds.

Fickle … as the winds.

Fixt—like conscious guilt.

Free as wanton winds.

Free, as a young calf, from sorrow.

Free as whispering air.

Gentle as a love-sick maid.

Marrying … ’tis like going a long voyage to sea, where after a while even the calms are distasteful, and the storms dangerous: one seldom sees a new object, ’tis still a deal of sea, sea; husband, husband, every day,—till one’s quite cloy’d with it.

Restless … as the winds.

Sad as death.

Sad as the groans of dying innocence.

Silent as the growth of flowers.

He looks as sullenly as a routed general.

Sweat like Cits in May-day Coaches.

Wits, like Physicians, never can agree,
When of a different Society.