Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Natural

Natural as the breeze
That stirs amongst the forest trees.
—Sarah Flower Adams

Natural as for ivy to climb a tree.
—Anonymous

Natural as life.
—Anonymous

Natural as milk to a calf.
—Anonymous

Natural as nature.
—Anonymous

As natural as that a genius should wear queer clothes.
—Anonymous

Natural as the Marseillaise to a French riot.
—Anonymous

Natural as whooping to owls.
—Anonymous

’Tis as natural for women to pride themselves in fine clothes as ’tis for a peacock to spread his tail.
—Anonymous

Natural to die as to be born.
—Francis Bacon

Natural as grinning to a hyena.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms

Natral as the bee tow the flower.
—Josh Billings

Natural as dancing bears to a bag-piper.
—Tom Brown

Natural as to eat, sleep, and wear a nightcap.
—John Ford

Natural as the love of life in the merest dumb thing that knows nothing of ideas, of Country, realms, and policies, nothing of war.
—John Gallsworthy

Natural as bird-notes.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Natural as daylight.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Natural as primping at a looking-glass.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Natural as dunghill steam.
—George Meredith

Natural as sunlight on the sea.
—Oscar Wilde

Natural as light.
—N. P. Willis

Natural as dreams to feverish sleep.
—William Wordsworth