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