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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
John Skelton
Angry as a waspe.Biting like the east wind.Death … was busy as on a battle field.As ferce and as cruell as the feende of hel.Fledde like a beest.Flew like the wind.Gentyll as faucounOr hauke of the towre.Glistring lyke glasse.Greedy as a cormorant.Heavy as lead.Hobbles as a goose.Impossible as a centaur or a griffin.Leap away lyke froges.Limpid as the mountain stream.Lucid as the dawn.As pacient and as styll.
And as ful of good wil
As fayre Isiphill.As right as a ram’s horn.Sharp as tenterhooks.Speak as if he would jump down your throat.Still as clapper in a mill.Is as true as black is blue.Trewe as the gospell.Valiant as Hector in every marciall nede.Wise as Waltom’s calfe.My words hang together like feathers in the wind.