Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Surely
Surely as night is the shadow of the earth.
—Anonymous
Surely as oxygen eats iron.
—Anonymous
Surely as that if two men ride a horse, one must ride behind.
—Anonymous
Surely as the earth is moving in the spheres.
—Anonymous
Surely as the sea-gull loves the sea, and the sunflower loves the sun.
—Anonymous
Surely as a fallen stone must fall to its mother earth.
—Anonymous
Surely as we wish the joys of Heaven.
—Anonymous
Surely as fame belongs to earth.
—R. D. Blackmore
As surely as the internal motions of the watch are indicated on its face.
—Marie G. Brooks
Surely as the starry multitude
Is numbered by the sailors.
—Robert Browning
Surely as a blind man is pulled by his dog into the butcher’s shop.
—Maurice Hewlett
Surely as the same sunshine of heaven is on the mountain tops of east and west.
—Leigh Hunt
Surely as musical ears are pained by a discord.
—George Meredith
Surely as the heavens are mirrored in the quiet seas.
—George Meredith
Surely as there is hope in man.
—Donald G. Mitchell
Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
There are Spring violets under the snow.
—Robert H. Newell
Surely as Winter taketh all.
—T. Buchanan Read
Surely as the hours came round.
—Samuel Rogers
Surely as the day-star loves the sun.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Surely and as certainly as the hawthorn must blossom in spring and the corn burn to gold at harvest time, and the moon in her ordered wanderings change from shield to sickle, and from sickle to shield.
—Oscar Wilde