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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Gay
 
  Gay as a blackbird.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Gay as a bullfinch.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Gay as a negro funeral.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Gay as the tropic bird’s sheen is youth’s fresh frolic freeness.
            —A. H. Beesly		  4
  Gay and gladsome as the air.
            —Mary E. Blake		  5
  Gay as Colinette.
            —Robert Bridges (American)		  6
  Gay as a woman’s wish.
            —Henry Brooke		  7
  Gay … like a Swiss guard off duty.
            —Robert Browning		  8
  Gay as a guinea.
            —Robert Buchanan		  9
  Gay as the gilded summer sky.
            —Robert Burns		  10
  Gaie as all nature at the mornyng’s smile.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  11
  Gay as gold.
            —Chester Plays		  12
  Gay as the dahlia’s bloom.
            —Eliza Cook		  13
                Gay,
As the fairest and sweetest, that blow
On the beautiful bosom of May.
            —William Cowper		  14
  Gay as a butterfly.
            —Charles Dickens		  15
  Gay as a thrush.
            —Austin Dobson		  16
  Gay as a chaffinch.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  17
  Gay as larks.
            —Jean de La Fontaine		  18
  Gay as Apollo’s locks.
            —John Ford		  19
  Gay as the joy of a maiden’s look.
            —Sam Walter Foss		  20
                Gay,
Like to a light and brilliant butterfly,
Around a dusky flower.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  21
  Gay as a mote.
            —William Hazlitt		  22
  Gay as the thistledown over the lea.
            —Thomas Wentworth Higginson		  23
            Gay and fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker’s brim, and break on the lips while meeting.
            —Charles Fenno Hoffman		  24
  Gay as bridal bowers with vows of many-petalled maids.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  25
  Gay as the morning.
            —William Livingston		  26
  Gay as the hawthorn in May.
            —Evan MacColl		  27
  Gay as a rising sun.
            —Mahabharata		  28
  Gay as lover to the altar.
            —Gerald Massey		  29
  Colors as gay as those on angels’ wings.
            —Thomas Moore		  30
  Gay as the starling shoots thro’ the skies.
            —F. W. H. Myers		  31
  Gay as if his life were young.
            —Thomas Otway		  32
  Gay as mischief.
            —Ouida		  33
  Gay as the primrose-dell in May.
            —Ambrose Philips		  34
  As the feathered warblers gay.
            —William Shenstone		  35
  Gay as April ere he dreams of May.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  36
            Your voice was gay
As the voice of a bird in the dawn of a day
On a sunshiny tree.
            —Arthur Symons		  37
  Gay as the garments of gem-sprinkled gold.
            —Bayard Taylor		  38
  Too gay … like a pink ribbon on the bonnet of a Puritan woman.
            —Henry D. Thoreau		  39
  As gay as a bridegroom.
            —Sir John Vanbrugh		  40
  Gay as the dancing wind.
            —Sarah. C. Woolsey		  41
  Gaily, as one who hath no care or pain.
            —William Watson		  42
  Gay as the spring.
            —Thomas Yalden		  43
 
 
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