Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Numerous
Numerous as grains of silver in the bowels of the Rockies.
—Anonymous
Numerous as hailstones.
—Anonymous
Numerous as insects on the banks of the Nile.
—Anonymous
Numerous as maggots in a Cheshire cheese.
—Anonymous
Numerous as the breaths a patriarch has breathed.
—Anonymous
Numerous as the heads of Briareus.
—Anonymous
Numerous as the holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
—Anonymous
Numerous as the leaves of the forest.
—Anonymous
Numerous as the mouths of the Ganges.
—Anonymous
Numerous as the mouths of the Nile.
—Anonymous
Numerous as the pearls of morning-dew, which hang on herbs and flowers.
—Anonymous
As numerous as the stars of heaven
Are the fond hopes to mortals given.
—Richard Dabney
Numerous as sands upon the ocean shore.
—Philip Freneau
Numerous as unsold shares in an over-capitalized mining company.
—Frank Carlos Griffith
Num’rous as birds that o’er the forest play.
—Walter Harte
Numerous as the fish that sail the wide sea over.
—Italian Love Song
Numerous as shadows haunting fairily
The brain.
—John Keats
Numerous as a night of stars.
—Gerald Massey
Numerous as leaves that strew the autumnal gale.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Numerous as the hairs of his head.
—Paul Wiggins
Numerous as the writings of Ibid.
—Paul Wiggins