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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Full
 
  Full as a goat.
            —Anonymous		  1
  As full as a toad is of poison.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Full of airs as a music box.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Full of angles as the book of Euclid.
            —Anonymous		  4
  As full of blunders as a successful career.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Full of events as a dime novel.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Full of poetry as a lily is of dew.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Full of royalty as a pack of cards.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Full of terror as a tragedy of Sophocles.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Full of maggots as a pastoral poet’s flock.
            —Samuel Butler		  10
  Full as the hyve is of honey.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  11
  Full of company as a jail.
            —Thomas Dekker		  12
  Full as a bee with thyme.
            —Robert Herrick		  13
  Full of life as a multitude.
            —Victor Hugo		  14
  Chock full of noble sentiments as a bladder is of wind.
            —Jerome K. Jerome		  15
  Full as a piper’s bag.
            —Ben Jonson		  16
  Full of noise as a mill.
            —Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)		  17
Full of life and light and sweetness
As a summer day’s completeness.
            —James Russell Lowell		  18
  Full of fragrant love as May’s musk-roses are of morning’s wine.
            —Gerald Massey		  19
  Full of folds as a sleeping boa-constrictor.
            —William Mathews		  20
  Full of passion as a tiger.
            —Brander Matthews		  21
  Full as a tick.
            —John Ray (Handbook of Proverbs, 1670)		  22
  As fu’ as a biled wulk.
            —Scottish Proverb		  23
  As fu’ as a piper.
            —Scottish Proverb		  24
  As fu’ as the Baltic.
            —Scottish Proverb		  25
  Full as a plenteous river.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  26
  As full of labour as a wise man’s art.
            —William Shakespeare		  27
  Full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.
            —William Shakespeare		  28
  Full of spirit as the month of May.
            —William Shakespeare		  29
  As full of sorrows as the seas of sands.
            —William Shakespeare		  30
  Full as a cup with the vine’s burning dew.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  31
  As full of wisdom as a cheese of mites.
            —Edmund Spenser		  32
Full as a feaster’s hand
Fills full with bloom of bland
Bright wine his cup.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  33
  Full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
            —Old Testament		  34
  Full as the summer rose.
            —James Thomson		  35
 
 
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