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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
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  Hid, like a thought of God, unuttered.
            —Philip James Bailey		  1
  Closely hid as Rameses in the pyramid.
            —Julia C. R. Dorr		  2
  Hide ourself as Adam at the voice of the Lord God in the garden.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  3
  Hidden … like the works of a watch beneath the hands.
            —Henry Arthur Jones		  4
  Hide like gentle nuns from human eyes.
            —Sidney Lanier		  5
  Hid like incense in a flower’s heart.
            —Gerald Massey		  6
  Hid like a buried star.
            —James Montgomery		  7
  Hid, as in a grave.
            —Nicholas Rowe		  8
                Hid
Safe from the glare of the day like an eye under its lid.
            —Frank Dempster Sherman		  9
  Hidden … like a dark well, whose unseen brink is overgrown with waving grass.
            —Vlmki		  10
 
 
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