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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Pure
 
  Pure as a Madonna.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Pure as a plaster cast mummy with cement toes.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Pure as a virgin’s kiss.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Pure as crystal.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Pure as Heaven’s snowy flake.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Like infant’s slumbers, pure and light.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Pure as love’s heart is.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Pure as Memphian skies that never knew a storm.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Pure as mountain dew.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Pure as purest crystallization.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Pure as the blush of maiden modesty.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Pure as the dream of a child just descended from the heavens.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Pure as the lily.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Pure as the saints above.
            —Anonymous		  14
  Pure as the pines.
            —Anonymous		  15
  Pure as the unsullied wing of a bird.
            —Anonymous		  16
  Pure and pointed as a star.
            —Philip James Bailey		  17
  Pure as the dead.
            —Philip James Bailey		  18
  Pure as the black of the eye.
            —Philip James Bailey		  19
  As pure as the flame that burns upon an altar.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  20
  Pure as the breth of a white male infant.
            —Josh Billings		  21
  Pure az the utterances ov angells.
            —Josh Billings		  22
  Pure as the dawn of Heaven’s unclouded day.
            —Thomas Blacklock		  23
  Pure as the silver from the crucible.
            —Robert Blair		  24
  As pure and glad as he whom first God in Eden placed.
            —Robert Bridges (English)		  25
  Pure as the expanse of Heaven.
            —Henry Brooke		  26
  Pure as blossoms, which are newly blowne.
            —William Browne		  27
  Pure as the grapes in wine.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  28
  Pure as chalk.
            —Robert Browning		  29
  Pure as the Arctic fox that suits the snow.
            —Robert Browning		  30
  Pure as buds before they blow.
            —Michael Bruce		  31
  Pure as the sky.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  32
  Pure as Psyche ere she grew a wife.
            —Lord Byron		  33
Pure as the prayer which
Childhood wafts above.
            —Lord Byron		  34
  Pure as the first blush of day.
            —Pedro Calderón de la Barca		  35
  As pure as gold yfined.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  36
  Pure as the babe.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  37
  Pure as a Saint’s adoring sigh.
            —George Darley		  38
  Pure as fire.
            —Thomas Dekker		  39
  Pure … like aureole round the forehead of a saint.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  40
  Pure as the stars in yon blue sky.
            —Dr. John Doran		  41
  Pure as the breath of the fragrant pine.
            —Julia C. R. Dorr		  42
  Pure as the angel forms above.
            —Joseph Rodman Drake		  43
  Pure as winter snow.
            —Francis A. Fahy		  44
  Pure as unwritten papers.
            —John Ford		  45
  Pure as consecrated water.
            —Théphile Gautier		  46
  Pure as the summer sun of Southern heaven.
            —Sir William Schwenk Gilbert		  47
  Like Diana pure.
            —Richard Glover		  48
Pure like the heart of water,
You are pure like the core of earth.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  49
  Pure as smooth-carven marble.
            —Ian Hamilton		  50
  Pure as the virgin who first led Agrippa.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  51
  Pure as infant’s brow.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  52
Pure as the Hindoo’s votive lamp
On Ganges’ sacred tide.
            —Mary E. Hewitt		  53
  Pure as the dew that filters through the rose.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  54
  Pure as the quarry’s whitest block.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  55
  Pure as starlight shall their deeds of daring glow.
            —William Dean Howells		  56
  Pure as a burning ember.
            —Victor Hugo		  57
  Pure as spirits.
            —Victor Hugo		  58
  Pure as the thoughts of infant innocence.
            —Dr. Samuel Johnson		  59
  Pure as ice-drop that froze on the mountain.
            —John Keats		  60
  As pure from sin and stain, as his when Eden held his virgin heart.
            —John Keble		  61
  Pure as the light of day.
            —Kingsbury		  62
  Pure as purest vestal virgin.
            —Sigmund Krasinski		  63
  Pure as buds before they blow.
            —John Logan		  64
  Pure, as the charities of the skies.
            —John Logan		  65
  Pure as the kiss that waked Endymion.
            —George Mac-Henry		  66
  Pure as the white stars sweeping through the sky.
            —Mahabharata		  67
  Pure as the wild white rain.
            —Edwin Markham		  68
  Pure as the first opening of the blooms in May.
            —John Marston		  69
  She is as pure, as good, and as beautiful as an angel.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  70
  As pure as April’s snowdrops are.
            —Owen Meredith		  71
  Pure as the snow-rob’d angel that guards the holy altar.
            —William J. Mickle		  72
  Pure as sanctity’s best shrine.
            —Thomas Middleton		  73
Pure as the white clouds,
That sail around the moon.
            —Mary Russell Mitford		  74
  Pure as a wreath of snow on April flowers.
            —James Montgomery		  75
  Pure as angel thoughts.
            —Thomas Moore		  76
  Pure as the young moon’s coronet.
            —Thomas Moore		  77
  Pure as bright Aurora’s ray.
            —George P. Morris		  78
  Pure as any maid.
            —Lewis Morris		  79
  Pure as the pure in heart that shall see God.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  80
  Pure as Cato’s daughter.
            —Thomas Otway		  81
Pure as the sunbeams gild the placid deep,
When zephyrs close their wings in listless sleep.
            —Andrew Park		  82
  Pure as a bride’s blush.
            —Coventry Patmore		  83
Pure as the permeating fires
That smoulder in the opal’s veins.
            —Coventry Patmore		  84
  Pure as the wishes breathed in prayer.
            —Edgar Allan Poe		  85
  Pure as the summer skies.
            —Winthrop Mackworth Praed		  86
  Pure and chaste as the falling snow.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  87
  Pure as any gowan [daisy].
            —H. Riddell		  88
  As pure and clear as the cherry-blossoms blow in the land of Thus-and-So.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  89
  Pure as a joyous prayer.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  90
  Pure as the dove.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  91
  Pure as virgin purity.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  92
  As pure as a mountain spring.
            —John Ruskin		  93
  Pure as thoughts that thrill a saint.
            —A. J. Ryan		  94
  Pure as grace.
            —William Shakespeare		  95
  Pure as sin with baptism.
            —William Shakespeare		  96
  Pure as speechless infancy.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  97
  Pure as an infant’s thoughts.
            —Robert Southey		  98
  Pure and painless as a virgin’s dreams.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  99
  Pure as at the daydawn of the world.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  100
  Pure as faith.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  101
  Pure as Eden’s dew.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  102
  Desire pure as babe’s that nestles toward the breast.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  103
  Pure as fire or flowers or snows.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  104
  Pure as heaven.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  105
  Pure as love’s heart is.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  106
  Pure as one purged of pain that passion bore.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  107
  Pure as the dawn and the dew.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  108
  Pure as the depth of pain.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  109
  Pure as the wind and the sun.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  110
  Pure as truth.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  111
  Pure as morns of Paradise.
            —Bayard Taylor		  112
  Purer than snow.
            —Old Testament		  113
  Pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
            —Old Testament		  114
  Pure as the breath of dawn.
            —Celia Thaxter		  115
                Pure,
As is the lily or the mountain snow.
            —James Thomson		  116
Pure as the snowy leaves that fold
Over the flower’s heart of gold.
            —Henry Van Dyke		  117
  Pure as melting dew.
            —Garcilaso de la Vega		  118
  Pure as the snowflake ere it falls and takes the stain of earth.
            —Alaric A. Watts		  119
  Pure as Angel-worship.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  120
  Pure as the mountains of perpetual snow.
            —William Winter		  121
  Pure as nature is.
            —William Wordsworth		  122
 
 
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