Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Beard

Long-bearded like kings of the Frankish race.
—Arsène Houssaye

His beard is cut like the spire of Grantham steeple.
—Thomas Lodge

It was scarcely a beard at all, more like a deepening of the shadows in which his whole face seemed to lie.
—John Roland

Bearded like the pard.
—William Shakespeare

A beard like an artichoke, with dry shrivelled jaws.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Beard like foam swept off the broad blown sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne