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

William Archer

Feverishly accelerated like the movements we see in a cinematograph.

Clash and clang like glaives at … Stiklastad.

Dead as Aristophanes.

Dragged out like a languishing concertina.

More evanescent than the rainbow.

Fades like an unfixed photograph.

Fill like a rush of wind and shaft of sunshine.

Graceful as a fairy-tale.

Jarred on the ear like a squeaking lead-pencil.

Motionless, like the sun over Avalon.

Ransacked like an old workbox.

Stirs the blood like trumpet-blast.

Unjust, like the Jedburgh judges of Border history, it first hangs the prisoner and then tries him.

White as bismuth.