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

Unlike

Unlike as a wasp is to an ant.
—Anonymous

Unlike as intellect and body.
—Anonymous

Unlike as the pearl is unlike the mother shell-fish.
—Anonymous

Unlike as birth to death.
—Anthony Brewer

As unlike as Luna is to a stage moon.
—Stephen Chalmers

Unlike as diamond is to charcoal.
—George Eliot

Unlike as an apple-dumpling and soda-cracker.
—Sewell Ford

Unlike as British beer and sparkling Burgundy.
—Arthur Hornblow