Rare Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Rare


Rare as a blue rose. —Anonymous	1
Rare as a snowbird in hell. —Anonymous	2
Rare as a sunflower in the desert. —Anonymous	3
Rare as venison in a poor man’s kitchen. —Anonymous	4
Rare as a winter swallow. —Honoré de Balzac	5
As rare almost as hedge-rows in the wild. —William Cowper	6
Rare as an Albino in Africa. —W. R. Hereford	7
As rare to see the Sunne with-out a light, as a fayre woeman with-out a lover. —John Lyly	8
As rare as wings upon a cat, or flowers of air, a rabbit’s horns, or ropes of tortoise-hair. —Asian	9
Rare as a comet. —James Ralph	10
Rare as a play that does not yawn you, or a woman that does not deceive you. —Charles Reade	11
Rarer than a phœnix. —Agnes Repplier	12
Rare to be found as black swans. —Daniel Roger (Matrimoniall Honour, 1642)	13
Rare as the stars upon a clouded night. —Louise Morgan Sill	14
Rare as a dodo. —Robert Louis Stevenson	15
Like snow at Midsummer, exceeding rare. —John Taylor	16
Rare as Homers and Miltons, rare as Platos and Newtons. —Edwin P. Whipple	17