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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Graceful
 
  Graceful as an Alpine sapling.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Graceful as a bird on the wing.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Graceful as a fawn.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Graceful as the arch of a rainbow.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Graceful as a fairy-tale.
            —William Archer		  5
  Graceful as a black frigate with snow white sails.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  6
  Graceful as a springborn fairy.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  7
  Graceful as Mars.
            —Homer (Pope)		  8
  Graceful as a snake of the paradise of Asia.
            —David de La Gamme		  9
  Graceful as the willow-bough o’er the streamlet weeping.
            —Samuel Lover		  10
  As warm and graceful as May.
            —Edward Lovibond		  11
  She is graceful as the greenly waving boughs in summer wind.
            —Gerald Massey		  12
  Graceful as a Naiad.
            —George Moore		  13
  Graceful as a faun.
            —Samuel Rogers		  14
  Graceful as an ivy bough born to cling and lean.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  15
  Graceful as a bow just bent.
            —John Ruskin		  16
                Graceful and free
As honeysuckles and the lilies be.
            —Douglas B. W. Sladen		  17
  Graceful as a couchant goddess.
            —Anthony Trollope		  18
  Graceful as the sapphirine tide.
            —Joseph Turnley		  19
Graceful as the shawl-designs
Of Delhi or Umritsir.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  20
 
 
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