Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Author IndexEmma Lazarus to Thomas Shadwell
- Emma Lazarus
- Stephen Leacock
- Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)
- William H. Leatham
- John M. Leavitt
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
- Francis Ledwidge
- Agnes Lee
- Nathaniel Lee
- Eugene Lee-Hamilton
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Richard Le Gallienne
- James Matthew Legaré
- Edwin Leibfreed
- Robert Leighton
- Charles G. Leland
- Henry P. Leland
- Camille Lemonnier
- Ninon de L’Enclos
- Alain René Le Sage
- Amy Leslie
- Madame de Lespinasse
- Sir Roger L’Estrange
- Charles James Lever
- George Henry Lewes
- Alfred Henry Lewis
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
- John Leyden
- Li Hung Chang
- Abraham Lincoln
- Joseph C. Lincoln
- George Linley
- William James Linton
- Frances Little
- John Livingston
- William Livingston
- Robert Lloyd
- William J. Locke
- George Cabot Lodge
- Thomas Lodge
- John Logan
- London Chanticleers
- London Telegraph
- Jack London
- Henry W. Longfellow
- Longinus
- Charles B. Loomis
- Prosper Lorain
- Richard Lovelace
- George W. Lovell
- Samuel Lover
- Edward Lovibond
- Samuel Low
- Amy Lowell
- James Russell Lowell
- Maria Lowell
- B. Lowsley
- Lucan
- Edward Verrall Lucas
- Lucian
- Lucretius
- Fritz H. Ludlow
- Martin Luther
- Henry Luttrel
- Sir Alfred Lyall
- Lycophron
- John Lydgate
- John Lyly
- T. T. Lynch
- Edward Lysaght
- Lord Lyttelton
- Lyvy
- Maarten Maartens
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Mabinogion
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Denis Florence McCarthy
- Justin Huntley McCarthy
- Evan MacColl
- Hugh McCulloch
- George B. McCutcheon
- George MacDonald
- W. S. McFetridge
- Ernest McGaffey
- George Mac-Henry
- Lewis Machin
- Charles Mackay
- Eric Mackay
- Robert Mackay
- Compton Mackenzie
- Henry Mackenzie
- Charles Macklin
- Ewen Maclachan
- Alexander McLaughlan
- Charles M. S. McLellan
- Fiona Macleod
- Archibald MacMechan
- Angus McNeill
- James Macpherson
- Imre Madách
- Richard Robert Madden
- Samuel Madden
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Elias L. Magoon
- Mahabharata
- Francis Mahony
- Madame de Maintenon
- David Mallet
- William Hurrell Mallock
- Walter Malone
- Thomas Malory
- James Clarence Mangan
- Horace Mann
- Mary E. Mannix
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Marcellinus
- Thomas Maréchal
- Edwin Markham
- Christopher Marlowe
- Don Marquis
- Rosamund Marriott-Watson
- Captain Marryatt
- A. W. Marshall
- Thomas Riley Marshall
- John Marston
- Philip B. Marston
- Westland Marston
- Martial
- Abe Martin
- Edward S. Martin
- Andrew Marvell
- Theophilus Marzials
- John Masefield
- John M. Mason
- William Mason
- Gerald Massey
- Jean B. Massillon
- Philip Massinger
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Increase Mather
- Richard Mather
- Charles Mathews
- William Mathews
- Brander Matthews
- Guy de Maupassant
- Giuseppe Mazzini
- Robert Mead
- Thomas Francis Meagher
- Alexander Beaufort Meek
- Brian Melbancke
- Herman Melville
- Mencius
- Henry L. Mencken
- Catulle Mendès
- George Meredith
- Owen Meredith
- Henry C. Merivale
- Claude Mermet
- Alice Meynell
- Michelangelo
- Adam Mickiewicz
- William J. Mickle
- Thomas Middleton
- Lloyd Mifflin
- George H. Miles
- Alice Duer Miller
- Harriet M. Miller
- Joaquin Miller
- Thomas Miller
- Warren H. Miller
- William Miller
- Henry Hart Milman
- Richard Monckton Milnes
- John Milton
- Mimnermus
- Octave Mirbeau
- Agnes C. Mitchell
- Donald G. Mitchell
- S. Weir Mitchell
- Mary Russell Mitford
- David Macbeth Moir
- Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
- J. Fitzgerald Molloy
- Cosmo Monkhouse
- Elizabeth R. Montagu
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne
- George Edgar Montgomery
- James Montgomery
- Charles L. Moore
- Clement C. Moore
- Edward Moore
- Ella D. Moore
- George Moore
- Spenser Moore
- Thomas Moore
- Sir Thomas Moore
- Hannah More
- Sir Thomas More (Pseudo Shakespearean)
- Appleton Morgan
- Henry Morley
- Anthony P. Morris
- George P. Morris
- Lewis Morris
- Robert Morris
- William Morris
- James M. Morton
- Paul Morton
- Samuel George Morton
- Sarah W. Morton
- Thomas Morton
- William Motherwell
- Pierre A. Motteux
- Louise Chandler Moulton
- John Muir
- Rosa Mulholland
- Max Müller
- Wilhelm Müller
- Dinah Maria Mulock
- Arthur Joseph Munby
- Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen
- Sydney Munden
- R. K. Munkittrick
- Henri Murger
- Arthur Murphy
- Mary R. Murphy
- The Muses Recreation, 1656
- F. W. H. Myers
- Thomas Nabbes
- Constance C. W. Naden
- Nanakkash
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Thomas Nash
- George Jean Nathan
- John Clay Neal
- Madame Necker
- John C. Neihardt
- Enrico Nencioni
- Robert H. Newell
- John Henry Newman
- New Republic
- News from Chelsmford
- New Testament
- Isaac Newton
- New York Sun
- Meredith Nicholson
- R. B. Nicoll
- Robert Nicoll
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Nisumi
- Charles Nodier
- Robert Noel
- Roden Noel
- Max Nordau
- Bishop Norris
- John Norris
- F. P. Northall
- G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)
- Charles Eliot Norton
- Mrs. Norton
- Alfred Noyes
- The Nut-Brown Maid
- Edgar W. Nye
- Fitz-James O’Brien
- Daniel O’Connell
- William D. O’Connor
- Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
- Old English
- Old Testament
- Omar Khayyám
- John Boyle O’Reilly
- Miles O’Reilly
- Lloyd Osbourne
- Mrs. Osgood
- Osmanli Proverb
- Ossian
- James Otis
- Thomas Otway
- Ouida
- R. F. Outcault
- George Outram
- Sir Thomas Overbury
- Ovid
- Vladimir de Pachmann
- Thomas Nelson Page
- Éduard Pailleron
- Barry Pain
- Albert Bigelow Paine
- Thomas Paine
- Francis Turner Palgrave
- John Palgrave
- Condè B. Pallen
- Andrew Park
- Walter Parke
- Benjamin F. Parker
- Sir Gilbert Parker
- Theodore Parker
- Thomas Parnell
- Harriet Parr
- Blaise Pascal
- Anthony Pasquin
- Walter Pater
- Coventry Patmore
- Sir Joseph Noel Paton
- Ada Patterson
- William Pattison
- James K. Paulding
- John Payne
- John Howard Payne
- Josephine P. Peabody
- William B. O. Peabody
- Henry Peacham
- Thomas L. Peacock
- Ellen B. Peck
- Samuel Minturn Peck
- George Peele
- John Peele
- Samuel Pegge
- T. Edgar Pemberton
- William Penn
- Isaac R. Pennypacker
- Pentaur
- Hugh O. Penticost
- Edward Peple
- James G. Percival
- Richard Percival
- Scottish Ballad, Percy’s Reliques
- Bliss Perry
- Persian
- J. Petit-Senn
- Sandor Petöfi
- Petrarch
- Emily Pfeiffer
- Ambrose Philips
- H. W. Phillips
- John Phillips
- Stephen Phillips
- Wendell Phillips
- Philo
- Phocylides
- John Pierpont
- James Pilgrim
- James Pilkington
- Pilpay
- Pindar
- Pedro Pineda (Spanish Dictionary)
- Christopher Pitt
- James Robinson Planché
- August von Platen
- Plato
- Plautus
- Pliny
- Edward Hayes Plumptre
- Plutarch
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Channing Pollock
- Robert Pollok
- Mark M. (“Brick”) Pomeroy
- John Pomfret
- John Poole
- Poor Robin’s Almanack
- Alexander Pope
- Richard Porson
- William T. Porter (Tales of the Southwest)
- J. Hampden Porter
- Jane Porter
- Melville D. Post
- Mary Elizabeth Powell
- Tyrone Power
- Hiram Powers
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- Pratinas
- George D. Prentice
- William H. Prescott
- Annie E. Preston
- Margaret J. Preston
- Edward D. Price
- William Thompson Price
- W. H. Prideaux
- Helen C. Prince
- Thomas Pringle
- Matthew Prior
- Adelaide A. Procter
- Edna D. Proctor
- Propertius
- William Prynne
- Ptah-hotep
- Publius Syrus
- James Puckle
- Madeleine d’Arsont, dame de Puisieux
- Luigi Pulci
- John Pulsford
- Punch
- The Puritan
- Ruth Putnam
- Richard Pynson
- Francis Quarles
- Herbert Quick
- Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch
- James Quin
- Edgar Quinet
- Quintilian
- François Rabelais
- Jean Baptiste Racine
- Dollie Radford
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1861–1922)
- James Ralfe
- James Ralph
- Ramayana
- Allan Ramsay
- Sir George Ramsay
- John Randolph
- Thomas Randolph
- William B. Rands
- Arthur Ransome
- Ray (Collectanea)
- Anna Chapin Ray
- John Ray (Handbook of Proverbs, 1670)
- C. D. Raymer
- Opie Read
- T. Buchanan Read
- Charles Reade
- Richard Realf
- Robert Reece
- William Marion Reedy
- Lizette Woodworth Reese
- Regnier
- Agnes Repplier
- Republica: a merye Enterlude
- Frederick Reynolds
- William Barnes Rhodes
- Grantland Rice
- Hiram Rich
- Achilli Richard
- Laura E. Richards
- Frank Richardson
- Samuel Richardson
- Richelieu
- John Paul Richter
- Elizabeth Ricord
- H. Riddell
- Henry M. Rideout
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Antoine Rivarol
- Amélie Rives
- Charles G. D. Roberts
- Morgan Robertson
- Thomas William Robertson
- Edward Robins
- Clement Robinson
- Mrs. Mary Robinson
- Tracy Robinson
- François de La Rochefoucauld
- Earl of Rochester
- Edouard Rod
- Daniel Roger (Matrimoniall Honour, 1642)
- Samuel Rogers
- John Roland
- Romainville
- Romance of Antar
- Romanian
- Pierre de Ronsard
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William C. Roscoe
- Earl of Roscommon
- George Rose
- Lewis Rosenthal
- Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Edmond Rostand
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Nicholas Rowe
- Helen Rowland
- Samuel Rowlands
- William Rowley
- Friedrich Rückert
- Giovanni Ruffini
- Ruin of a Realm
- John Ruskin
- Irwin Russell
- W. Clark Russell
- Russian Proverb
- A. J. Ryan
- Thomas Rymer
- Hans Sachs
- Thomas Sackville
- Sadi
- William Sage
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- Cesar Vichard de Saint-Réal
- George Augustus Sala
- Edgar Saltus
- Francis S. Saltus
- George Sand
- Jules Sandeau
- Hayden Sands
- George Sandys
- Charles Sangster
- Margaret E. Sangster
- Sanskrit
- George Santayana
- Sappho
- Francisque Sarcey
- Epes Sargent
- Madame de Sartory
- George Herbert Sass
- Frederick Saunders
- Philip H. Savage
- Richard Savage
- John G. Saxe
- Marshal Saxe
- James Scadlock
- Herman George Scheffauer
- Joseph V. von Scheffel
- Edmond Scherer
- Friedrich von Schiller
- Edwin D. Schoonmaker
- Arthur S. Schopenhauer
- Clinton Scollard
- Scotch
- Duncan C. Scott
- John Scott
- Michael Scott
- Walter Scott
- Scottish
- Eliza Scudder
- Francis Seager
- Owen Seaman
- Laura R. Searing
- Thomas Secker
- Sir Charles Sedley
- John Selden
- José Selgas
- J. B. Selkirk
- Seneca
- Sèqur
- Serbian Ballad
- Robert W. Service
- Frank Sewall
- Richard Shacklock
- Thomas Shadwell