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

Joanna Baillie

Fixed like ony stane.

Woman’s grief is like a summer storm, short as it is violent.

Meek as a matron in mantle gray.

Trim as a lady of gentle degree.

As wild and as skeigh as muirland filly.