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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