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

Important

Important as a militia officer on a training day.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms

Important as life eternal and death eternal.
—Thomas Carlyle

Important as the linch-pin.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes