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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Secret (Adjective)
 
  Secret as rocks under sea.
            —Thomas Lovell Beddoes		  1
  Secret as the grave.
            —Lord Byron		  2
  Secret as the head of Nilus.
            —William Congreve		  3
  Secret as the night.
            —William Congreve		  4
  Secret as thought.
            —Francis Fawkes		  5
  Secret as a confessor.
            —John Gay		  6
  More secret than a nest of nightingales.
            —John Keats		  7
  Secreter than the isle of Delos.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Secret as the magnet-stone.
            —George P. Lathrop		  9
  Secret as your midwife.
            —Edward Sharpham		  10
  Secret as a coach-horse.
            —Richard Brinsley Sheridan		  11
 
 
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