Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Smooth
Smooth as the surface of a pebble.
—Joseph Addison
Smooth like a china cup.
—William Allingham
Smooth as the stem of a young palm.
—Amriolkais
Smooth as a bowling green.
—Anonymous
Smooth as a bulrush.
—Anonymous
Smooth as a carpet.
—Anonymous
Smooth as a die.
—Anonymous
Smooth as a door knob.
—Anonymous
Smooth as an oil’d thunderbolt.
—Anonymous
Smooth as a perfect peach.
—Anonymous
Smooth as a poker table.
—Anonymous
Smooth as a rose leaf.
—Anonymous
Smooth as the mirrors in the Palace of Peace.
—Anonymous
Smooth as the palm of one’s hand.
—Anonymous
Smooth as wax.
—Anonymous
Smooth as a snow cloud.
—Anonymous
Smooth as a spirit’s wing.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Smothe it was as it were late shave.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Smooth as smoothest beaver hat.
—John Davies
Smooth as a new laid egg.
—Charles Dickens
Smooth as sheet of polished brass.
—Joseph Rodman Drake
Smooth as the back of a razor.
—George Du Maurier
Smooth as the dusky down on the elk.
—Ancient Erse
Smooth as fungus, daughter of the rain.
—Francis Fawkes
Smooth as the surface of well polish’d brass.
—Francis Fawkes
Smooth and shining, as a sword out of a sheath.
—Gustave Flaubert
A skin as smoth as silke.
—George Gascoigne
Smooth as glass.
—John Gay
Smooth as a billiard-table.
—Anthony Hamilton
Smooth as ice.
—Thomas Heywood
Smooth as the pond can be.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Smooth as a file.
—Leigh Hunt
Smooth as a road in Venice.
—Mary Johnston
Smooth as a billiard ball.
—Ben Jonson
Skin as smooth as any rush.
—Ben Jonson
Smooth as a silver shield.
—George Cabot Lodge
Smooth as jet.
—John Lyly
Smooth as the gliding stream.
—James Macpherson
Smooth as velvet.
—Charles Reade
Smoother than the fur of cats.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Tones as smooth as honey.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Smooth as a mirror.
—Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Smooth as oil.
—William Shakespeare
Smooth as monumental alabaster.
—William Shakespeare
Smooth as the elephant’s new polished tooth.
—Sir Edward Sherburne
Smooth as Pan.
—Sir Philip Sidney
Smooth as a billow.
—Alexander Smith
As Parian marble smooth.
—William Somerville
Smooth as the level lake, when not a breeze
Dies o’er the sleeping surface.
—Robert Southey
Smooth as the liquid passage of a bird.
—Trumbull Stickney
Smoother than butter.
—Old Testament
Smooth as the flight of a dream.
—Edith M. Thomas
Smooth as a floor.
—Mary A. Tincker
Smooth as a mole.
—John Withals (Dictionary in English and Latin)
Smooth as marble or a waveless sea.
—William Wordsworth