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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Gustave Flaubert
Bright as live coals in the gloom.Commonplace as a street pavement.Crowding one another like a flock of black goats scurrying down the hills.Dreary as an empty house.Gasping … like a trout after water on a kitchen table.Gleamed as funeral lamps in a sepulchral chamber.Golden as the sunlight.Immaculate as Tanit.Immovable as a leopard crouching in the jungle.Immovable as a picture.Indistinct like the echo of a symphony dying away.Keen as arrows.Motionless as a king’s mummy in a catacomb.Pale as a moonbeam.Quivered like a harp of which the strings are ready to spring.Rosy as the dawn.Shaken as by a shudder.Shining as a saint on a holy pyx.Her heart beat more and more slowly, more gently and uncertainly, like a spring which is growing exhausted, like an echo which is sinking away.Smooth and shining, as a sword out of a sheath.Snug as a parson.Splendid as the sun.Sprawling … like a cowherd taking a siesta.Struggling like a captive dove which wishes to resume its flight.Swelled like a sail by the sea-breeze.Terrible as the god of war.Unmoved as a statue.Vanish as mist before the sun.Felt all her being vibrate as if a violin bow were drawn over her nerves.