Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Fruitful

Fruitful as Ceres.
—Anonymous

As fruitful as Egypt.
—Robert Burton

Fruitful as seeded earth.
—George Eliot

Fruitful as the full-grown year.
—Aaron Hill

Fruitful as the free elements.
—William Shakespeare

Fruitful as the land that feeds us.
—William Shakespeare

Fruitful as a sheltering palm.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne