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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
George Colman, the Younger
Amorous as an Arcadian.Black as the devil.Chilly as a bottle of port in a hard frost.Close as your jacket.Close as a pill-box.Confident as justice.Drunk as a lord.Face,
Long as a courtier’s out of place.Lovely as day.Mild as an emulsion.Muddy as a little pigeon-toed drummer after a long march.Nimble as quicksilver.Plain as a demonstration in Euclid.Rave like a man in Bedlam.Rich as Pluto.Sleek as a dray horse.