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

White

White as a moonlit sail.
—William Alexander

White as the necks of swans.
—James Lane Allen

White as a bean.
—Anonymous

White as lime.
—Anonymous

White as a baby’s arm.
—Anonymous

White as a diamond.
—Anonymous

White as a doll.
—Anonymous

White as a dove.
—Anonymous

White as a fish.
—Anonymous

White as a flock of sheep.
—Anonymous

White as a ghost.
—Anonymous

White as a live terrier.
—Anonymous

White as a pillow.
—Anonymous

White as arsenic.
—Anonymous

White as a sheet.
—Anonymous

White as a shroud.
—Anonymous

White as a spirit.
—Anonymous

White as a statue.
—Anonymous

White as a sycamore.
—Anonymous

White as a whale’s tooth.
—Anonymous

White as chastity.
—Anonymous

White as his neck-cloth.
—Anonymous

White as salt.
—Anonymous

White as silver.
—Anonymous

White as sin forgiven.
—Anonymous

White as sunbeams.
—Anonymous

White as the breakers’ foam.
—Anonymous

White as the breast of a gull.
—Anonymous

White as the blossoms of the almond tree.
—Anonymous

White as the foam that danced on the billow’s height.
—Anonymous

White as the gown of a bride.
—Anonymous

White as the hand of Moses.
—Anonymous

White as the snowy white rose that in the moonlight sighs.
—Anonymous

White as white satin.
—Anonymous

White like the inside of a shoulder of mutton.
—Anonymous

White as the stem of a young palm.
—Arabian

White as paper of Syria.
—Arabian

White as camphor.
—Arabian Nights

Brow white as day.
—Arabian Nights

White as morning.
—Arabian Nights

White as the full moon when it mooneth on its fourteenth night.
—Arabian Nights

White like egg of the pigeon hen.
—Arabian Nights

White as bismuth.
—William Archer

White as frost on field.
—William E. Aytoun

A maid as white as ivory bone.
—English Ballad

White as snow-drops.
—Serbian Ballad

Purely white as the mountain snow.
—Welsh Ballad

White as porcelain.
—Honoré de Balzac

White as soap.
—Richard Harris Barham

White as the hawthorn’s crown.
—Mary Barry

White as a thread by hands of angels spun.
—Francis Beaumont

Whiter than mountain snow hath ever been.
—Francis Beaumont

White as swanne.
—Sir Harry Beaumont

Soul as white as heaven.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

White as innocence herself.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

White as the foaming sea.
—Park Benjamin

White as snow.
—Bion

White as an angel.
—William Blake

White as foam-drift in the moony shimmer of starlit, wave-pavilioned dells.
—Mathilde Blind

White as the sun.
—Emily Brontë

White as candles against the altar’s gold.
—Katherine H. Brown

White as foam thrown upon rocks from the old-spent wave.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

White as gulls.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

White as moonshine.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

White as wax.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

White like a cloud at fall of snow.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

White like a spirit’s hand.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

White with coming buds, like the bright side of a sorrow.
—Robert Browning

White as a curd.
—Robert Browning

White as the winding-sheet.
—Robert Buchanan

White as death.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

White, as if she lived on blanched almonds.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

White as a clout.
—John Bunyan

As white’s a daisy.
—Robert Burns

White as the thoughts of an angel.
—Mary Frances Butts

White as a white sail on a dusky sea.
—Lord Byron

White as fleece.
—Alice Cary

White as a cloth.
—Bliss Carman

White as the chaulkie clyffes of Brittaines isle.
—Thomas Chatterton

Whyte hys rade [neck] as the sommer snowe.
—Thomas Chatterton

Whit as chalk.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Whyte as floure.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Whit as is a lylie flour.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Whyte as lylye or rose in rys [twig].
—Geoffrey Chaucer

White as snowe falle newe.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

White of hewe,
As snowe on braunche snawed newe.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

White was his berd as is the dayesie.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Whit was as the flour delys (Flower-de-luce).
—Geoffrey Chaucer

White as a flock of egrets.
—Chinese

Gleaming white, like peach and plum blossoms.
—Chinese

Dressed in white—all white, like a bride or a bandaged thumb.
—Irvin S. Cobb

White as new-plucked cotton.
—Frederick S. Cozzens

White as an infant’s spirit.
—Aubrey De Vere

White as ashes.
—Charles Dickens

Hands … white, as if the blood began to chill there.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

As white as teeth of twenty-five years old.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

A sail as white as blossom upon spray.
—William Dunbar

The beautiful young lady, all in white, like a lily in the night, or the moon sweeping over a cloudless sky.
—Joseph von Eichendorff

White as the canna upon the moor.
—Ancient Erse

White as snow-wreath in the eye of spring.
—Frederick William Faber

White as molten glass.
—Phineas Fletcher

Breasts
As white as hedgeside May.
—Norman Gale

White and awful as a shroud-enfolded ghost.
—Richard Garnett

His beard was whiter than the feathers which veil the breast of the penguin.
—Oliver Goldsmith

Pure and white,
As some shy spirit in a haunted place.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne

White as the lips of passion.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne

As white as bear’s teeth.
—Thomas Heywood

As white as the pale ashes of a wasted coal.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland

White as sea-bleached shells.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

White as the sea-gull.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

White as Irish linen.
—Thomas Hood

White as parading breeches.
—Thomas Hood

White as a chicken.
—Victor Hugo

White as the gowan [daisy].
—John Imlah

White,
Like ships in heaven full-sailed.
—Jean Ingelow

White as the snowy rose of Guelderland.
—Jean Ingelow

White as flocks new-shorn.
—John Keats

Whiter than a star.
—John Keats

White as the moon.
—Omar Khayyám

White as the wonder undefiled of Eve just wakened in Paradise.
—Harriet McEwen Kimball

White as an embodied hush.
—Harriet McEwen Kimball

Thin-flanked woman, as white and as stale as a bone.
—Rudyard Kipling

White as an angel clad in light.
—James Sheridan Knowles

White, like the apparition of a dead rainbow.
—Charles Lamb

White as maiden purity.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon

White,
Like a gravestone seen in the pale moonlight.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon

White as Ketak’s snow flower.
—Lays of Ancient India

White as a nun.
—Richard Le Gallienne

White as ivory.
—Richard Le Gallienne

White as the face of the dead.
—Camille Lemonnier

Whiter than the downy spray.
—John Leyden

White as a live terror.
—George Cabot Lodge

White as a cloud that floats and fades in the air.
—Henry W. Longfellow

White as a schoolboy’s paper kite.
—Henry W. Longfellow

White as seas’ fog.
—Henry W. Longfellow

White as the gleam of a receding sail.
—Henry W. Longfellow

White as a dove.
—Samuel Lover

White as thistle-down.
—James Russell Lowell

White as alabaster.
—John Lyly

White as driven snow.
—John Lyly

White as untrod snow.
—Lewis Machin

White as the foam of streams.
—James Macpherson

White as the whitest foam of the sea
That tosses its waves under fervent skies,
Or a feather dropped from an angel’s wing
As it leant o’er the walls of Paradise.
—A. W. Marshall

White and pure as any bridal veil.
—Guy de Maupassant

Sightless white, like eyes of lifeless stone.
—William J. Mickle

White as the bloom o’ the pear.
—William Miller

White as a sinner’s shroud.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

White as virgin’s pall.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

Lilly-white as a lady’s marrying smock.
—Thomas Nash

Venerable beard
White, hoary like the foam o’ the sea.
—Enrico Nencioni

White
Like girls for a first communion dight.
—Roden Noel

White … like angels in their ascension clothes, waiting for those who prayed below.
—Fitz-James O’Brien

White as a winter home.
—John Payne

White as is the new blown bell
Of that frail flower that loves the wind.
—John Payne

As white … as clay.
—Winthrop Mackworth Praed

White as the waxen petal of the flowers.
—Helen. C. Prince

White like a young flock,
Coeval, newly shorn, from the clear brook recent, and branching on the sunny rock.
—Matthew Prior

White as swans.
—François Rabelais

White as fear.
—Opie Read

White as the living cheek opposed.
—Charles Reade

White as grit.
—James Whitcomb Riley

White as the cream-crested wave.
—James Whitcomb Riley

White as the gleam of her beckoning hand.
—James Whitcomb Riley

White a hand as lilies in the sunlight.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

White as the moon lies in the lap of night.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

White like flame.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Whiter than sawn ivory.
—John Ruskin

Wings as white as a dream of snow in love and light.
—A. J. Ryan

White as Dinlay’s spotless snoe.
—Sir Walter Scott

White as a lily.
—William Shakespeare

Soft as dove’s down and as white.
—William Shakespeare

White his shroud as the mountain snow.
—William Shakespeare

Teeth as white as whale’s bone.
—William Shakespeare

Perfect white
Show’d like an April daisy on the grass.
—William Shakespeare

White as the foam o’ the sea
That is driven o’er billows of azure agleam with sun-yellow.
—William Sharp

White as isinglass.
—George Bernard Shaw

Whitens like steel in a furnace.
—George Bernard Shaw

White with the whiteness of what is dead,
Like troops of ghosts on the dry wind past.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

White as a swan’s stray feather.
—Harry B. Smith

White … like the flying cloud at noon.
—Robert Southey

White as the swan’s breast.
—Robert Southey

White, withouten spot or pride, that seemed like silke and silver woven neare.
—Edmund Spenser

White … like a dazie in a field of grass.
—Sir John Suckling

White as a custard.
—Jonathan Swift

White as dead stark-stricken dove.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

White as faith’s and age’s hue.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

White as moonlight snows.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

White as the live heart of light.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

White as the sparkle of snow-flowers in the sun.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

White as the unfruitful thorn-flower.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

White as mountain cotton-grass.
—Irish Epic Tales

White as any flower.
—Alfred Tennyson

White as privet.
—Alfred Tennyson

White as utter truth.
—Alfred Tennyson

White as the light.
—New Testament

It was like coriander seed, white.
—Old Testament

Whiter than milk.
—Old Testament

White as a ceiling.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

I turned as white as cold boil’d veal.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

White, and ghastly, like an army of tombstones by moonlight.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

Like the mists of spring, all silvery white.
—The Hagoromo

More white than curds.
—Theocritus

Slight and white as a peeled wand.
—Vance Thompson

White as sculptured stone.
—Francis C. F. Tiernan

White as the down of an angel’s wings.
—John T. Trowbridge

White, like the Shah of Persia’s diamond plume.
—Mark Twain

White as Carrara marble.
—Theodore Watts-Dunton

White as evening clouds.
—Charles J. Wells

White as the wings of prayer.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Stainless white,
Like ivory bathed in still moonlight.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Whiter than a moony pearl.
—Oscar Wilde

White as a charnel bone.
—N. P. Willis

White as flashing icicle.
—N. P. Willis