Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Easily
Flows as easily as California wine out of French bottles.
—Anonymous
As easily as an oak looseneth its golden leaves.
—Philip James Bailey
Easily—as you’ll go to bed.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Easily as a nurse leads a docile child.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Easily as Hocus Pocus.
—Samuel Butler
Easily as eagles cleave the air.
—Mrs. Sarah J. Hale
Pouring as easily as hour-glass sand.
—John Keats
Easily as one might wind a watch.
—Donald G. Mitchell
As easily as persuading a French aristocrat in the Revolution to get aboard the tumbril that was to land him at the guillotine.
—Lloyd Osbourne
Easily removable as a pair of spectacles from the nose.
—François Rabelais
Easily as the eagles soar.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Gluts her vengeance with his hated blood: easily as a hawk, the bird of augury, darting from a lofty rock, comes up with a dove high in the clouds, holds her in her gripe, and with crooked talons tears out her heart, while gore and plucked feathers come tumbling from the sky.
—Virgil