Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Harsh

Harsh as blame on ear unused to aught save Angels’ tongues.
—Robert Browning

Harsh as … a grating wheel.
—John Davies

Harsh as truth.
—William Lloyd Garrison

Harsh as the bitterness of death.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Like a jagged shell’s lips, harsh.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Of harsher import than the curfew-knell
That spoke the Norman Conqueror’s stern behest.
—William Wordsworth