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

Paul Bourget

Charitable as a whole convent.

Clashing in a frenzy as of a resounding battle.

His vulture nature had already linked itself to this poor little soul as a spider binds a fluttering insect in its web, which the little thing tries vainly to break.

Stretch away, like the perspective of a dream.

Uprise like the islands of the Cyclades as seen from the mountains of Negroponte.