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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Richard Cumberland
Bare as beggary.Cold as a turtle.Driving like a bedlamite.Enshrined, as in a holy altar, under guard of consecrated keepers.Your flattery, like a rich jewel, has a value not only from its superior lustre, but from its extraordinary scarceness.Jabbering … like two intriguing ducks.Pale as a witch.Quick of scent as a vulture.Sharp-sighted as a hawk.Soft, his accents fill, like voices of departed friends heard in our dreams, or music in the air, when night-spirits warble their magic minstrelsy.Twine, like pole ivy round the polished bark.