Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Rigid

Rigid as a rock.
—Anonymous

Rigid as if chiselled from stone.
—Anonymous

Rigid as a sheet of metal.
—Honoré de Balzac

Rigid as the will of Fate.
—William Cullen Bryant

About as rigid as a concertina.
—Joseph Conrad

Rigid as embodied duty.
—Alphonse Daudet

Rigid as his starched collar.
—Alphonse Daudet

Rigid as stone.
—James B. Kenyon

Rigid as a Greek masque.
—Brander Matthews

Stood rigid, as if in a trance.
—Justin Huntley McCarthy

Rigid as a prison’s blank stone wall.
—Margaret E. Sangster