Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Clear
Clear as a midsummer sky.
—Franklin P. Adams
Clear as a cube of solid sunshine.
—Anonymous
Clear as a die.
—Anonymous
About as clear as a misty morning on the Thames.
—Anonymous
Clear as daylight.
—Anonymous
Traced as clearly as currents upon a marble chart.
—Anonymous
A voice as clear as forest bird.
—Anonymous
Clear as mountain stream.
—Anonymous
Clear as paint.
—Anonymous
Clear as the notes of a cavalry bugle.
—Anonymous
Clear as the skin of a child.
—Anonymous
Clear as pearls and diaphanous gems.
—Arabian Nights
Clear as day.
—Robert Armin
Clear at one glance, as two drops of rain in air might look into each other had they life.
—Philip James Bailey
Clear, cold, and icy-blue, like a sea eagle’s eye.
—Philip James Bailey
Clear was her look,
Like an open book.
—William F. Barnard
Clear as the skylark’s earliest greeting in the morning of the year.
—Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Clear as heaven’s stars.
—James Beattie
Her mind, as cleare as aire.
—Francis Beaumont
Clear as the challenge ov a perlice officer.
—Josh Billings
Clear as virtue.
—Samuel Laman Blanchard
Clear, as God sees through the earth.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Clear as flint.
—Robert Browning
Clear as noon.
—Robert Browning
Clear as a commonplace.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
His projects are clear to my eyes; clear as if he dwelt in glass.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Clear as if no dirt had been cast thereat.
—John Bunyan
As clear and as manifest as the nose on a man’s face.
—Robert Burton
Clear as a whistle.
—John Byrom
Clear as a bell.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Clear as lake.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Clear as the morning.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Clear as Spring.
—Thomas Davis
Clear as the note of doom.
—Lord De Tabley
Cleared like a doubtful morning when it gives place to a bright noon.
—Charles Dickens
Clear as stars in frosty night.
—William Dunbar
His eye is as clear as the heavens.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clear as the conscious moon.
—James Graeme
Clear as noonday.
—Anthony Hamilton
Clear as the pure River of Life shown to the Evangelist.
—Thomas Hardy
Clear as the mid-day sunshine.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Clear as the water in trout pools.
—O. Henry
Clear … as spring water in the high rocks.
—Maurice Hewlett
Loving eyes that gleam
Clear as a starlit mountain stream.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Clear as the glisten of dew on the brier.
—Richard Hovey
As clear as rock-water.
—James Howell
Clear as if the angels had washed it.
—Victor Hugo
Clear like crystal beams.
—Alexander Hume
Clear as the flame of sacrifice.
—Jean Ingelow
Clear as infant’s eyes.
—John Keats
Clear as summer-lightning flare.
—Rudyard Kipling
Ran clear as the light of heaven ere autumn closed.
—Walter Savage Landor
Clear as the finest porcelain.
—Richard Le Gallienne
Clear as running waters are.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Clear as a race course.
—George Meredith
Clear as widowed sky.
—George Meredith
As clear as the classics.
—Donald G. Mitchell
Clear as the blue, sublime, o’er-arching sky.
—James Montgomery
Clear as well water.
—George Moore
Clear as the rosy dawn.
—Henry Morley
The Spirit spake, clear as in Israel.
—John Henry Newman
Thoughts as clear as limpid springs.
—Asian
Clear as glass.
—Ovid
Clear, like the mysteries of divine science in the bosom of the pious.
—Pilpay
As clear as strains by sun-kissed Memnon given.
—Mary Elizabeth Powell
Clear as a brook’s chuckle to the ear.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Clear as the Autumn atmosphere.
—James Whitcomb Riley
As clear as the twitter of birds.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Light as clear as that which fills eternity.
—A. J. Ryan
As purely clear
As crystal drops on vernal grasses.
—Margaret E. Sangster
Clear as a mirror.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Clear
As morning roses newly washed with dew.
—William Shakespeare
Clear as the summer’s sun.
—William Shakespeare
Clear
As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.
—William Shakespeare
Countenance as clear as friendship wears at feasts.
—William Shakespeare
Clear as founts in July.
—William Shakespeare
As clear as when a veil of light is drawn o’er evening hills.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Cleare as the skye withouten blame or blot.
—Edmund Spenser
Clear and fair as sunlight and the flowerful air.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear as a child’s own laughter.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear as heaven of the toils of time.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
As clear as love.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear as mirth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear as night beholds her crowning seven.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear as righteousness.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Soul as clear as sunlit dew.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear as the closest seen and kindly star
That marries morn and even and winter and spring with one love’s golden ring.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear as the cloudless hour.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear as the flame from the pyres of the dead.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear as the plume of a bright black bird.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear as the tocsin from the steeple.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear as thy song’s words or the live sun’s light.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clear, as ever fell from angel’s tongue.
—Paulus Syllogus
Clear as the blast of horn.
—Bayard Taylor
Clear as wind.
—Alfred Tennyson
Clear as crystal.
—New Testament
Clear as the sun.
—Old Testament
Clear as a silver bell.
—Vance Thompson
Clear as heaven’s unclouded brow.
—Henry Vaughan
Singers, that troll clear as bells of gold.
—François Villon
Clearly as two and two makes four.
—Voltaire
Clear as the crystal brooks.
—Izaak Walton
Words clear as the sun in its meridian brightness.
—George Washington
Clear as diamonds.
—Theodore Watts-Dunton
Clear as the unsoil’d mountain-rill.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Clear as the crystal flood.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Clear as the profiles of goddesses.
—C. N. and A. M. Williamson
A mirror, clear as ’twere a door of air.
—N. P. Willis
Clear as the crystal brooks or the pure azur’d heaven.
—Sir Henry Wotton
Clear as daylight.
—Israel Zangwill