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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Straight
 
  Straight as a candle.
            —Hans Christian Andersen		  1
  Straight as an angel’s flight.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Straight as an Indian’s hair.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Straight as a lance.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Straight as a pine.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Straight as a ramrod.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Straight as a rush.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Straight as a string.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Straight as columns of fire.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Straight, as if he had swallowed a stick.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Straight as the backbone of a herring.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Straight as a cane.
            —Arabian Nights		  12
  Straight as a temple-shaft.
            —Edwin Arnold		  13
  Straight as a shooting star.
            —William Austin		  14
  Straight as a die.
            —Alexander Barclay		  15
  Straight as a loon’s leg.
            —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms		  16
  Straight as a shingle.
            —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms		  17
  Straight as truth.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  18
  Straight as poplars.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  19
  Straight … like graves dug side by side at measured lengths.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  20
  Straight to its aim as the aim of the rifle-ball of a Tyrolese.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  21
  Straight as a rule.
            —John Bunyan		  22
  Straight as a beadle’s wand.
            —Charles Stuart Calverley		  23
  Straight as a bull’s back against the white sky.
            —Bliss Carman		  24
  Straight as line.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  25
  Straight as a lily on its stem.
            —Wilkie Collins		  26
  Straight as a tower.
            —Thomas Osborne Davis		  27
  Straight as any plummet line.
            —Charles Dickens		  28
  Straight as a crow flies.
            —Charles Dickens		  29
  As straight as a beggar can spit.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  30
  Go as straight as a schoolboy at Christmas.
            —Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)		  31
  Straight as a spear.
            —Nathaniel Lee		  32
  Straight like a sala-tree.
            —Mahabharata		  33
  Straight as Circe’s wand.
            —Christopher Marlowe		  34
  Gleams straight like the glow which a ploughing keel doth break
From the grim sea around, with light on her bow and light in her raging wake.
            —Westland Marston		  35
  Straight like vine poles.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  36
  Fly straight as the emissary eagle back to Jove.
            —George Meredith		  37
  Straight as the flight of the dove.
            —George Meredith		  38
  Straight,—like a webfoot to water.
            —George Meredith		  39
  Straight as a dart.
            —Pilpay		  40
  Straight as the palm tree.
            —Matthew Prior		  41
  Straight as a Seer’s thought into the blue of the immaculate heavens.
            —Richard Realf		  42
  Straight as thought could span.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  43
  Straight as bolt from crossbow sped.
            —Mark Twain		  44
  Straight as a wall.
            —Ivan Vazov		  45
  Straight as a Sioux chief.
            —Booker T. Washington		  46
 
 
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