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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Humble
 
  Humble as a grateful almsman.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Humble as a worm.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Humble as Uriah Heep.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Humble as is a lamb.
            —Alexander Barclay		  4
  Humble as a Jesuit to his superior.
            —Samuel Butler		  5
  As humble as the grass.
            —Bliss Carman		  6
  As humble as the child of one that sweats, to eat the dear-earn’d bread of honest thrift.
            —John Ford		  7
  Humbly, like a praying nun.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  8
  Humble as a stone.
            —Thomas Hood		  9
  Humble as a worm.
            —Thomas Hood		  10
    Humbly as they used to creep
To holy altars.
            —William Shakespeare		  11
 
 
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