Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Curl

The maiden whose lip like a rose leaf is curled.
—Philip James Bailey

Curl’d like a lamb’s back.
—William Blake

Curled up like some crumpled, lonely flower-petal.
—Rupert Brooke

Curled up like incense from a Mage-King’s tomb.
—Robert Browning

Curled up like a blue racer in a partridge nest.
—Irvin S. Cobb

Curling, like a wreath of smoke.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Curled and writhed like a snake stepped upon.
—Stephen Crane

Curled like a pastoral crook.
—Charles Dickens

Curled up like hot paper.
—Charles Dickens

Curled up in his heart, like a little squirrel in its nest.
—Sir William Schwenk Gilbert

Curled like the coat of a poodle.
—George Bernard Shaw

Curling like tendrils of the parasite
Around a marble column.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Curl as if a frost had stung them.
—Bayard Taylor

Curling like a kinked up ostrich feather.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Curled, as when the Sirian star
Withers the ripening corn.
—Oscar Wilde

Curls, like ivy.
—William Wordsworth