Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Kiss
Her kisses were like tire explosions.
—Anonymous
Kissing … is as a prologue to a play.
—Henry Fielding
The kisses of thy deathless lips,
Like strange star-pulses, throbbed through space.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne
Kiss as close as a scallop.
—Ben Jonson
Came kissing like rich airs from secret shores
To those who sail into the eternal dawn.
—Gerald Massey
Kisses as unctuous as oil.
—Francis S. Saltus
Kisses like sweet, sad, subtle scents of myrrh.
—Francis S. Saltus
Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.
—George Villiers