Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Excel

As the fair lawn excels the rushy mead,
As firs the thorn, and flow’rs the pois’nous weed.
—Richard Jago

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
—Old Testament

Excelling, as much as orient gold surmounteth brass.
—William Thomson