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

John Donne

Clasp like ivy.

Lank as an unthrift’s purse.

Snapping like too high-stretched treble strings.

Stay, like fairies, till the cock crow them away.

A clock so true, as might the sun control.