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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
George Bernard Shaw
Collapses like a pricked bladder.Curled like the coat of a poodle.Immediately, like a repeating clock of which the spring has been touched.Nervous as a mouse.Old as the shepherds.Pitifully as a poor girl of the pavement will pretend to be a clergyman’s daughter.Popular as a film drama.Quails like a naughty child.Shivering as if a bullet had struck him.I sank under it like a baby fed on starch.Solid as bricks.Stimulating as ginger cordial.Sweep it away like a leaf before a hurricane.Tolerate as lions tolerate lice.Unimaginative as a Chicago pig-sticking.Universal as seasickness.Useless as the canal constructor without water.White as isinglass.Whitens like steel in a furnace.