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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Richard Harris Barham
His head was as bald as the palm of your hand.Blaze like a couple of lamps on a yellow post-chaise.Drank like a Merman.Flew like a cloth-yard shaft from a bended yew.Grey as a badger.Like Mahomet’s coffin, the shocking word hung half-way ’twixt the root and the tip of the tongue.Off like a shot.As picturesque,
As the figures we see in an arabesque.Right as a trivet.Smoked like a chimney.White as soap.