Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Proud
Proud as a cock.
—Anonymous
Proud as any prince.
—Anonymous
Proud as a Government mule.
—Anonymous
Proud as a king.
—Anonymous
Proud as Lucifer.
—Anonymous
Proud as a popinjay.
—Anonymous
Proud as a Spanish Grandee.
—Anonymous
Proud as a tiger-lily.
—Anonymous
Proud as Juno.
—Anonymous
Proud as Punch.
—Anonymous
Proud as Sheba’s queen.
—Anonymous
Proud as the man who got rich manufacturing soldiers’ shoes out of pasteboard instead of leather.
—Anonymous
Proud as any queen.
—George Barlow
Proud as the Pope behind the peacock-fans.
—Robert Browning
Proud as a freeborn peasant.
—Lord Byron
Proud as a peacock.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Proud as Gascon.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Proud as all the Guzmans put together.
—Anthony Hamilton
Proud as a peer.
—Bret Harte
Proud as a young bull.
—Richard Le Gallienne
Proud as a hen with one chicken.
—B. Lowsley
Proud as the day is long.
—John Lyly
Proud as a lion when passion-stirred.
—Edwin Markham
Proud as waves that on the beach
Lay their war-crests down and die.
—Thomas Moore
Proud as an emperor.
—Dinah Maria Mulock
Proud as a lord’s bastard.
—English Proverb
As proud as a Highlander.
—Scottish Proverb
Proud as an empress on her marriage-day.
—Charles Sangster
Proud as a boy with a brand-new top.
—John G. Saxe
Proud as an enjoyer.
—William Shakespeare
Proud as a child who will what he would.
—Arthur Symons
Proud as the Bourbons.
—William Makepeace Thackeray