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

Like

About as like as an apple to an oyster.
—Anonymous

As like as the two halves of an apple.
—Anonymous

As like as two pins.
—Anonymous

As like each other as a sword and scythe.
—Philip James Bailey

As like him as flakes ov snow.
—Josh Billings

As like as hand to another hand.
—Robert Browning

Like as twins.
—Robert Browning

Is na mare like … than the nyght oule resemblis the papingay.
—Gawain Douglas

Like as chalk and coles.
—James Hurdis

As lyke as one pease is to another.
—John Lyly

As like him as an eagle to an eagle.
—Ouida

Like a leaf on a withering limb,
The fluttering life still clung to him.
—T. Buchanan Read

No more like than chalk and cheese.
—Samuel Rowland

No more like my father
Than I to Hercules.
—William Shakespeare

Alike as my fingers is to my fingers.
—William Shakespeare

As like, as rain to water, or devil to his dam.
—William Shakespeare

Like as eggs.
—William Shakespeare

As like this as a crab is like an apple.
—William Shakespeare

As like you,
As cherry is to cherry.
—William Shakespeare

Day like to day, face like to face, as waves in some calm sea.
—William Watson