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

Pleasant

Pleasant as youth with all its blossoms crown’d.
—William Cowper

Pleasant as a wave.
—Lord De Tabley

Pleasant as health.
—Gerald Griffin

As pleasant about the house as a gleam of sunshine, falling on the floor through a shadow of twinkling leaves, or as a ray of firelight that dances on the wall, while evening is drawing nigh.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pleasant as the shower which falls on the sunny field.
—James Macpherson

Pleasant as the thunder of heaven, before the showers of spring.
—James Macpherson

Pleasant as the gale of spring, that sighs on the hunter’s ear.
—Ossian

Pleasant as budding tree.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Pleasant as a scented mouth to kiss.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Pleasant as roses in the thickets blown.
—William Wordsworth