Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Naked
Naked as an Indian’s back.
—Anonymous
Naked as night.
—Anonymous
Naked as the graces.
—Anonymous
Naked as a frog.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Naked as a flower.
—Madison Cawein
As naked … as a corowne withe out stones.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Poor and naked as a fakir.
—Joseph Conrad
Like winter-earth, naked.
—Abraham Cowley
As naked as Norfolk dumpling.
—John Day
Naked as a worm.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Naked as a peeled apple.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Naked as a nedle.
—William Langland
Naked as my nail.
—Philip Massinger
The country is naked as the sea.
—Jules Sandeau
Naked as the vulgar air.
—William Shakespeare
As naked as their mothers bore them.
—Jonathan Swift
Naked as apes.
—Voltaire
Naked as a Tower.
—William Wordsworth