Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Fine
Fine as a Maypole on May-day.
—Anonymous
Fine as a mist of lace.
—Anonymous
Fine as five-pence.
—Anonymous
Fine as gossamer.
—Anonymous
Fine as point lace.
—Anonymous
Fine as a skein of the casuist Escobar’s worked on the bone of a lie.
—Robert Browning
Fyn as ducket in Venice.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Fine as an ape in purple.
—Clarke’s Proverbs
Fine as a silver dollar saloon.
—Elbert Hubbard
A sound so fine, there’s nothing lies ’twixt it and silence.
—James Sheridan Knowles
Fine as bronze floss.
—Amy Leslie
Fine as light.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fine as silkworm’s thread.
—Robert Southey
Fine as the gleamy gossamer that spreads its filmy web-work o’er the tangled mead.
—Robert Southey
More fine than moonbeams.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fine as ice-ferns on January panes.
—Alfred Tennyson
Fine as a hedge in May.
—Samuel Wesley