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

Charles Macklin

Differ as a hound of blood and a mongrel.

Jealous as a Spanish miser.

Low as a bushy bramble.

Modest as a maid a-christening.

Gang off like a squib or a cracker on a rejoicing night, in a noise and a stink, and are never heard of after.

Silent as a hound at fault.

Smells worse than a tallow-chandler’s shop in the dog-days.

Stiff as a turnpike.

Whose tongue, like the dart of death, spares neither sex nor age.

Trembling, like a man that loves to be a soldier, yet is afraid of a gun.