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

Théphile Gautier

A sky as blue as the enamel on the statuettes of Osiris.

A burning eye, yellow and phosphoric like the eye of a crocodile or a lion.

Fair as a young maid asleep beneath new fallen snow.

The sand … gleamed like mica dust.

Lustrous as agate.

Palpitating at the least emotion like the nostrils of an amorous tigress.

Pretty as a seraph.

Pure as consecrated water.

Voice, resounding as a brass trumpet.

A cry more shrill than Diana surprised by Actæon.

Undulating like a snake rearing on its tail.

Wandering like a plaintive shadow about the places where I dwell.