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

Camille Lemonnier

Bright as living coal.

Glistened as the tears in a widow’s eyes.

Hissed like a rocket.

It is like eating vanilla cream in Paradise listening to beautiful music.

Roared like water which rushes from a lock when the gates are open.

Round as a quoit.

Sparkled like white bait in the meshes of a net.

Lamps twinkled like stars along the water’s edge.

White as the face of the dead.

An old man, wizened as a dried plaice.