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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Natural
 
            Natural as the breeze
That stirs amongst the forest trees.
            —Sarah Flower Adams		  1
  Natural as for ivy to climb a tree.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Natural as life.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Natural as milk to a calf.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Natural as nature.
            —Anonymous		  5
  As natural as that a genius should wear queer clothes.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Natural as the Marseillaise to a French riot.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Natural as whooping to owls.
            —Anonymous		  8
  ’Tis as natural for women to pride themselves in fine clothes as ’tis for a peacock to spread his tail.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Natural to die as to be born.
            —Francis Bacon		  10
  Natural as grinning to a hyena.
            —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms		  11
  Natral as the bee tow the flower.
            —Josh Billings		  12
  Natural as dancing bears to a bag-piper.
            —Tom Brown		  13
  Natural as to eat, sleep, and wear a nightcap.
            —John Ford		  14
  Natural as the love of life in the merest dumb thing that knows nothing of ideas, of Country, realms, and policies, nothing of war.
            —John Gallsworthy		  15
  Natural as bird-notes.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  16
  Natural as daylight.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  17
  Natural as primping at a looking-glass.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  18
  Natural as dunghill steam.
            —George Meredith		  19
  Natural as sunlight on the sea.
            —Oscar Wilde		  20
  Natural as light.
            —N. P. Willis		  21
  Natural as dreams to feverish sleep.
            —William Wordsworth		  22
 
 
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