Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Look (Verb)
Looks as if butter would not melt in his mouth.
—Anonymous
Looked as if he would jump down your throat.
—Anonymous
Looked as if he had eaten his bed-straw.
—Anonymous
He looked like a composite picture of five thousand orphans too late to catch a picnic steamboat.
—O. Henry
Look like the far end o’ a French fiddle.
—Alexander Hislop (Proverbs of Scotland)
To look as if he were hanged already.
—Sir John Taylor
She looks like an old coach new painted, affecting an unseemly smugness, whilst she is ready to drop to pieces.
—Sir John Vanbrugh