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

Charles Lamb

Drop, like mellow fruit … into the grave.

Dried like a raisin.

Eat like maggots into an estate.

Spend vows as fast as vapors, which go off
Even with the fumes.

Forgotten like an antique tale
Of Hero and Leander.

Lolling, like one indifferent, fabricates a heaven of gold.

The mind of man is like the sea, which is neither agreeable to the beholder nor the voyager, in a calm or in a storm, but is so to both when a little agitated by gentle gales; and so the mind, when moved by soft and easy passions or affections.

Renewable, as some appetites are.

Rest,
Like beauty nestling in a young man’s breast.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture,—like a schoolboy’s holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

He strove to clothe his agony in smiles,
Which he would force up in his poor pale cheeks,
Like ill-timed guests that had no proper dwelling there.

Squeak like a Bart’lemew fiddle.

White, like the apparition of a dead rainbow.

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