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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
J. M. Barrie
Adhering … like shipwrecked mariners on a rock.As fast as a fisher could let out line.Grinning like one bringing rare news.Incongruous as a wedding-dress at a funeral.Indistinguishable … like a celebrity in a crowd.Lingered … like innocent birds loath to be gone from the spot where their nest has been.Come out like beetles when the lights are out.Quick as a stab.As quickly as iron in the fire passes through the various stages between warmth and white heat.Began as quietly as a roaring March.As repellent as a boy’s drum.Round and round like a boiling potful.Round and round, like a dance of snow
In a dazzling drift.Shivered as if in a deadly chill.Smiling triumphantly the while like one who had discovered a cure for duty.Trembling like a man with the palsy.As unsettling to us as a change of Government to Londoners.Waggled like the hilt of a sword.