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

Naked

Naked as an Indian’s back.
—Anonymous

Naked as night.
—Anonymous

Naked as the graces.
—Anonymous

Naked as a frog.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

Naked as a flower.
—Madison Cawein

As naked … as a corowne withe out stones.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Poor and naked as a fakir.
—Joseph Conrad

Like winter-earth, naked.
—Abraham Cowley

As naked as Norfolk dumpling.
—John Day

Naked as a worm.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Naked as a peeled apple.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Naked as a nedle.
—William Langland

Naked as my nail.
—Philip Massinger

The country is naked as the sea.
—Jules Sandeau

Naked as the vulgar air.
—William Shakespeare

As naked as their mothers bore them.
—Jonathan Swift

Naked as apes.
—Voltaire

Naked as a Tower.
—William Wordsworth