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