Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Rosy
Rosy-cheeked as a winter apple.
—Anonymous
Rosy as a peony.
—Anonymous
Rosy as pinks.
—Charles Stuart Calverley
Rosy as the dawn.
—Gustave Flaubert
Rosy … like ripened peaches in the morning light.
—Richard Hengist Horne
As rosy as a bride.
—Victor Hugo
Rosy as a victorious candidate.
—George Meredith
Rosy as the morn.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rosy as rifts of dawn.
—Celia Thaxter
Rosy as the candle-shade.
—Edith Wharton