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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Innocent
 
  Innocent as a cloistered nun.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Innocent as a dove.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Innocent as a lamb.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Innocent as flowers.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Innocent as angels.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  5
  Innocent as a new-born babe.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  6
  Innocent as 2 merino lambs.
            —Josh Billings		  7
  Innocent as an infant.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  8
  Innocent as a babe.
            —Robert Browning		  9
  As innocent as a new-laid egg.
            —Sir William Schwenk Gilbert		  10
  Innocent as a child.
            —Oliver Goldsmith		  11
  Innocent as the wayside fly.
            —Cyril Harcourt		  12
  Innocent as sleep.
            —Aaron Hill		  13
  Innocent as an almanac.
            —James Huneker		  14
                Innocent
As youth before its charm is spent.
            —George Edgar Montgomery		  15
  As innocent as a devil of two years old.
            —English Proverb		  16
  Innocent as grace itself.
            —William Shakespeare		  17
  Innocent as milk.
            —Edmund Spenser		  18
  Innocent as the age of gold.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  19
  Innocent as a child unborn.
            —Samuel Wesley		  20
 
 
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