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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Peaceful
 
  Peaceful as sleep.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  1
  Peaceful as the advance of summer.
            —Monçure D. Conway		  2
  Peaceful as stars at twilight.
            —Victor Hugo		  3
  Peaceful as two pups in a basket.
            —Alfred Henry Lewis		  4
  Peaceful as two six-shooters on the same belt.
            —Alfred Henry Lewis		  5
  Peaceful … as a virgin lake.
            —James Russell Lowell		  6
  Peaceful as summer woods.
            —George MacDonald		  7
  Peaceful as a hired hand.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  8
  Peaceful as dew-mist from an evening sky.
            —Bayard Taylor		  9
  Peaceful as falls the dew.
            —William Winter		  10
  Peaceful as the morning.
            —William Wordsworth		  11
 
 
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