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

Thomas L. Peacock

Beaming like light on chaos.

Black and glossy as the raven’s wing.

Blushing as in vintage-hours.

Blush’d like a carnation.

Her black eyes sparkled like sunbeams on a river: a clear, deep, liquid radiance, the reflection of ethereal fire.

As before the pike will fly
Dace and roach and such small fry;
As the leaf before the gale,
As the chaff beneath the flail,
As before the wolf the flocks,
As before the hounds the fox;
As before the cat the mouse,
As the rat from falling house;
As the fiend before the spell
Of holy water, book, and bell;
As the ghost from dawning day.

As motionless as death.

Perished like the pageant of a dream.

Speed, like yellow leaves before the gale
When Autumn winds are strongest.

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