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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
François Rabelais
Awkward … like jackanapes swallowing of pills.Blew as if he had been to puff up a pig’s bladder.Bright as the sun.As much care as pilots of ships avoid the rocks of the sea.Clatter like armor.Confident as of your own fingers.Drink like a templar knight.With as much ease as the sun outshines and dims the stars with his meridian rays.Easily removable as a pair of spectacles from the nose.Entangled … like a mouse catched in a trap.Faces did glister like the key-hole of a powdering-tub.Fair, like goddesses.Fast as a dog can trot.Flaming like a carbuncle.Flaming, like the jaws of hell.Foolish as to have confidence to promise himself three years.Gallantly, like an old fencer.Impossible as to cut fire into steaks, or draw water with a fish-net.Laugh like a swarm of flies.Multiply in seed like Abraham.Multiplied like grasshoppers upon the face of the land.Plain as a nose in a man’s face.Red as a mazer from an alder-tree.Rich as Job.Right as my leg.Round as a dish.Round as a hoop.Scampering as if the Devil drove them.Scrambling like a cat up a wall.Small as minced meat.Solemn as a monkey after committing a mischief.Squat as a flounder.Squat into the ground like moles.Eyes staring like a dead pig’s.Stretching out his hand like the wings of a bird.Strong as the devil himself.Strong as Sampson.Tears as big as ostrich’s eggs.Turned me about as did Lot’s wife.Whipped like green rye.White as swans.