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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Blind as moonless night.Brief like a signal.Brief as the word strong sorrow saith.Conscientious as a dog.Conspicuous like a cathedral.Dull as a sheep.Helpless as a ship in stays.Impossible as to get the whole music of the spheres into a sonata.Innocent as the age of gold.Innumerable as maggots.He leaped like a man shot.Murmur like a shell.Plain as the glistening planets shine when winds have cleared the skies.Pleading like a frightened child.Rare as a dodo.As remote in thought as … the Apostles or the Cæsars.Right as ninepence.Shaking … like a drunkard after a debauch.Sighed like a man near fainting.Smile, it was like sunshine in a shady place.Smiling as smiles the fowler when flutters the bird to the gin.My fancy soars like a kite and faints in the blue infinite.As solid as a landed estate.Swift as a passing bird.Thick as a mob.Thick as a snow fall.Thick as driving rain.Thick as the stars at night when the moon is down.Thick and silent like ants.I was as uncouth as a sea-fish upon the brae of a mountain.Withered like stars in the morning.Yellow as sulphur.