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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Keen
 
  Wit as keen as archer’s dart.
            —Alvey A. Adee		  1
  Keen as a bride.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Keen as the sight of an eagle.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Keen as the sun.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Keen, like the horn of the cuspèd moon.
            —Arabian Nights		  5
  As keen for profit as a Polish Jew.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  6
  Keen as the torture of impending bankruptcy.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  7
  As keen as a miser after his pay.
            —Jules Q. de Beaurepaire		  8
  Keen as Jove’s lightning wing’d athwart the sky.
            —William Broome		  9
  As keen as anguish.
            —James Cawthorn		  10
  Keen as a poniard-thrust.
            —Eliza Cook		  11
  Keen as arrows.
            —Gustave Flaubert		  12
  Keen as a razor.
            —John Gay		  13
  Keen as a hawk.
            —Thomas Hood		  14
  Keen as a sword.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  15
  Keen like a spear.
            —Sidney Lanier		  16
  Keen as a wolf.
            —James Montgomery		  17
  Keen of glance as a falcon.
            —Ouida		  18
  Keen as steel.
            —Ouida		  19
Keen as a blinded man …
Smells in the dark the cold odour of the earth.
            —Stephen Phillips		  20
  Keen as undrawn sword.
            —Frank Richardson		  21
  Keen as razor’s edge.
            —William Shakespeare		  22
            Keen as the engine
Which tortures and which kills.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  23
  Keen as a sword’s edge.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  24
  Keen as burns the passion of the rose.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  25
  Keen as death to smite.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  26
  Keen as flame.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  27
  Keen as hate.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  28
  Keen as iron in the flesh.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  29
  Keen as lightning’s life.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  30
  Eyes as keen as pain.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  31
  Keen as sleep and strife.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  32
  Keen as the fire’s own fang.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  33
  Keen as the heart of Mars.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  34
  Keen as hunger.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  35
  Keen as the heart’s desire.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  36
  Keen as the manslayer’s knife.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  37
  Keen as the sea’s thrill towards a kindling star.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  38
  Keen as desertion.
            —Sir Henry Taylor		  39
  Keen as a sabre from its sheath.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  40
  Keen and eager as a fine-nosed hound.
            —William Wordsworth		  41
His face was keen as is the wind
That cuts along the hawthorn fence.
            —William Wordsworth		  42
 
 
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