Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Dangerous
Dangerous as men milliners.
—Anonymous
Dangerous as a machine gun.
—O. Henry
Dangerous as the foamy race of ocean surges.
—Victor Hugo
Dangerous as hammering dynamite.
—James Huneker
Dangerous as to check a brute.
—Charles Kingsley
More dangerous, than baits to fish.
—William Shakespeare