Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Round (Adjective)

Round as a circus ring.
—Anonymous

Round as a dish.
—Anonymous

Round as a dumpling.
—Anonymous

Round as a juggler’s box.
—Anonymous

Round as a length of stovepipe.
—Anonymous

Round as an orb.
—Anonymous

Round as a pearl.
—Anonymous

Round as a rosebud.
—Anonymous

Round as a turnip.
—Anonymous

Round as a windmill.
—Anonymous

Round as the full moon.
—Anonymous

Round as the globe.
—Anonymous

Rounde as a thymbyll.
—Ashmol MS. (15th Century)

Round like wells.
—Francis Bacon

Round and sound as a mountain apple.
—Robert Browning

Round as any Jonian jug.
—John Byrom

Round as Giotto’s O. Thomas Carlyle

Rounde as appille was his face.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

A round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea.
—Havelock Ellis

Round as the globe.
—John Gay

Round as Norval’s shield.
—Thomas Hood

Round as platter of delf.
—Thomas Hood

Round as a quoit.
—Camille Lemonnier

Round like pumpkins.
—Guy de Maupassant

Round as a tun.
—Thomas Middleton

Round as the shield of my fathers.
—Ossian

Round as a dish.
—François Rabelais

Round as a hoop.
—François Rabelais

Round and perfect as a star.
—Alexander Smith

Round as a pearl or tear.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Round and pale as a pair of suet dumplings.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

Round as a moyn.
—Towneley Mysteries and Miracle Plays

Round as a kettle.
—Samuel Wesley

Round as an Orbe.
—J. Wilkins

Round as a horn.
—Alexander Wilson