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

Bold

Bold as a blind man.
—Anonymous

Bold as Beauchamp.
—Anonymous

Bold as Joan of Arc.
—Anonymous

Boldly … like giants conquering in a noble cause.
—Anonymous

Bold as a petty provincial attorney.
—Honoré de Balzac

Bold as a bucket.
—Joel Barlow

As boldly as a brigadier
Tricked out with marks and signs all o’er
Of rank, brigade, division, corps,
To show by every means he can
An officer is not a man.
—Ambrose Bierce

Boold as is Bayard the Blynde.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

As bold as the blast.
—Barry Cornwall

Boldly, like eagles on the wing.
—Victor Hugo

Bold as brass.
—Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)

He was bold as a hawk.
—Samuel Lover

Bold as an embodied storm.
—T. Buchanan Read

Bold as the glare of the gold.
—Richard H. Stoddard

As boldly as a sunflower faces the orb of day.
—New York Sun

Bold as a lion.
—Old Testament

Bolde as a Knight.
—The Nut-Brown Maid

Bold as day.
—William Wordsworth