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

Teeth

Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of orient pearl a double row;
Which when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rosebuds filled with snow.
—Richard Alison

Teeth, as the gourd’s white seed.
—Anonymous

Teeth like string pearls in carceneto of gold.
—Arabian Nights

Teeth like the tusks of jinni who frightened poultry in henhouses.
—Arabian Nights

Teeth
Like pearls a merchant picks to make a string.
—Edwin Arnold

Her teeth were like pearls array’d in order.
—Serbian Ballad

Her teeth are like a flock of sheep,
With fleeces newly washen clean,
That slowly mount the rising steep.
—Robert Burns

Teeth like falling snow
For white, were placed in a double row.
—Abraham Cowley

A girl with teeth like the pieces of broken glass people put on their walls.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

White teeth showing like pearls dropped in a rose.
—Adams S. Hill

Thy teeth like rows of Kunda-petals.
—Jayadeva

Red like lips disclosing
Twin rows of fairy pearl.
—Lewis Morris

Teeth serve as a fence to the mouth.
—West African Proverb

Teeth like ivory mixed with pearl.
—Charles Reade

Thy teeth resemble stringed jewels; but how can I liken them to lifeless pearls?
—Romance of Antar

Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
—Old Testament

Her teeth like pomegranate grains.
—Vikram and the Vampire