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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Mark Twain
Darted away like a telegram.Dodged and scrambled around like a woman who has lost her mind on account of the arrival of a bat.Shadow … like a puddle of ink.Shriveled … like the pictures of mummies you see in books.He sighed like a zephyr.Soft, like summer night.Solid as a globe of mud.Sparkling like all the stars of heaven had fallen down.Spirituality … as refined and spotless as the Jungfrau’s silvery peak.Steady as a mill.Still, like Sunday.Straight as bolt from crossbow sped.Straightened himself up like a liberty-pole.Tart and crisp … as the autumn butter that creams the sumac berry.Tumbling … like rolling empty barrels down stairs.White, like the Shah of Persia’s diamond plume.