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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Thick
 
  Thick as ants.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Thick as beans in a pod.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Thick as blackberries in July.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Thick as blanks in a lottery.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Thick as Charon’s ferry boat is with phantoms.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Thick as dust in vacant chambers.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Thick as gutter mud.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Thick as hair on a dog’s back.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Thick as lichens on marble slab.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Thick as molasses in December.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Thick as peas in summer weather.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Thick as pea soup.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Thick as pitch.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Thick as strings on a harp.
            —Anonymous		  14
  Thick as the bark on a tree.
            —Anonymous		  15
  Thick as the spawn of a fish.
            —Anonymous		  16
  Thick as thistles.
            —Anonymous		  17
  Thick as wax.
            —Anonymous		  18
  Stars which stand out as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
            —Philip James Bailey		  19
  Thick as burning stones that from the throat of some volcano foul the benighted sky.
            —Philip James Bailey		  20
  Stand thick as dewdrops on the bells of flowers.
            —Robert Blair		  21
  Thick as starlings in a fen.
            —William Browne		  22
  Thick like a glory round a Stagirite.
            —Robert Browning		  23
                Thick
As stars which storm the sky on Autumn nights.
            —Robert Browning		  24
  Thick as hail.
            —John Bunyan		  25
  As thikke as is a branched ook.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  26
  As thikke as motes in the sonne beem.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  27
  Thick like two hungry torrents.
            —George Chapman		  28
  Thick as spray.
            —Herbert Edward Clarke		  29
  Thick, like wool.
            —Elizabeth B. Custer		  30
  Thick as scarecrows in England.
            —Charles Dickens		  31
His Pills as thick as Hand Granadoes flew,
And where they Fell, as Certainly they slew.
            —Wentworth Dillon		  32
  Thick as bees.
            —Austin Dobson		  33
  The air was as thick as the main deck in a close-fought action.
            —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle		  34
  Thick as Egypt’s locusts.
            —John Dryden		  35
  Thick as stars above.
            —George Eliot		  36
  Thick as stars that gem the Dolphin’s brow.
            —Sanskrit Epic		  37
  As thick as the sands of the wide wilderness.
            —Frederick William Faber		  38
  Thick as two body-snatchers.
            —O. Henry		  39
  Thick as autumn leaves or driving sand.
            —Homer (Pope)		  40
Thick as in spring the flow’rs adorn the land,
Or leaves the trees; or thick as insects play.
            —Homer (Pope)		  41
  Thick as London fog.
            —Thomas Hood		  42
  Thick as a swarm of bees.
            —Jean Ingelow		  43
  Thick as butter.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  44
  Thick as swallows with the summer.
            —George W. Lovell		  45
  Thick as flakes of snow.
            —Thomas Babington Macaulay		  46
                Thick
As starry mysteries written on the night.
            —Gerald Massey		  47
  Thick as feathers.
            —George Meredith		  48
Thick as the gems on chalices
Kings keep for treasure.
            —Owen Meredith		  49
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
In Vallombrosa.
            —John Milton		  50
  Stood thick as stars.
            —John Milton		  51
  Thick as oatmeal.
            —Thomas Nash		  52
  Thick as the fleeces of the winter snows.
            —Ouida		  53
  Thick as the violets cluster round the spring.
            —John Payne		  54
  Thick as onions on a string.
            —James Robinson Planché		  55
  Thick as hops.
            —Poor Robin’s Almanack		  56
  Thick as lotus flowers in Paradise.
            —J. Hampden Porter		  57
  Thick as rain-drops.
            —William H. Prescott		  58
  As thick as thieves.
            —Old English Proverb		  59
  Thick as the daisies blown in grasses fanned by odorous midsummer breezes.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  60
  Thick as the schemes of human pride.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  61
  Thick as honeycomb.
            —William Shakespeare		  62
  Thick as Tewksbury mustard.
            —William Shakespeare		  63
  Thick as thought could make ’em.
            —William Shakespeare		  64
  Thick as the snowflakes.
            —Robert Southey		  65
  Thick as the stars that stud the wintry sky.
            —Robert Southey		  66
  Thick as corn-blades in a field.
            —Edmund Spenser		  67
Lay scattered over all the land,
As thicke as doth the seede after the sower’s hand.
            —Edmund Spenser		  68
  Thick as swallows after storms.
            —Edmund Clarence Stedman		  69
  Thick as a mob.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  70
  Thick as a snow fall.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  71
  Thick as driving rain.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  72
  Thick as the stars at night when the moon is down.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  73
  Thick and silent like ants.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  74
  Thick as buds in April.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  75
  Thick as the darkness of leaf-shadowed spring is encumbered with flowers.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  76
Lie thick as the blades of the grasses
The dead in their graves.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  77
  Thick as grave-worms.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  78
  Thick as Autumn rains.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  79
  Thick as dust in vacant chambers.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  80
  Thick as hail.
            —Thersites		  81
  Thick as sparks above the rushing train.
            —John T. Trowbridge		  82
  Thick as three rats in a little boy’s stocking.
            —John T. Trowbridge		  83
The air is thick as incense-wreaths
That waver in the candles’ gleam.
            —George Sylvester Viereck		  84
  Thick as the hail with which the storm-clouds rattle on the roof.
            —Virgil		  85
  Thick as seagulls.
            —Voltaire		  86
  Thicke, as shining lights, which we call starres.
            —Sir Thomas Wyatt		  87
  Thick as hasty pudding.
            —Yankee Doodle		  88
 
 
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