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

Long

Long as a day without bread.
—Anonymous

Long as a Devonshire lane,—which has no turning.
—Anonymous

Long as an obituary.
—Anonymous

Long as the moral law.
—Anonymous

Long as a Thanksgiving sermon.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms

Long as death.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Long as an epic.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Face as long as an undertaker’s.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Longer than a lawsuit.
—Thomas Dekker

Long and slender, like a cat’s elbow.
—Thomas Fuller

Long as the spear of Aaron.
—Charles B. Loomis

Her sorrow as long
As the passage of numberless ages in slumberless song.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne