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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Thin
 
  Thin as a groat.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Thin as a rail.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Thin as a snake.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Thin as a wafer.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Thin as famished rats.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Thin as gold leaf.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Thin as wall paper.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Thin as a reed.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Thin as a spindle.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Thin as a toothpick.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Thin as the shadow of a hair.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Thin as a pair of shears.
            —Arabian Nights		  12
  His poor body is as thin as a nail.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  13
  Thin as the petal of the cotton blossom.
            —Henry A. Clapp		  14
  Thin as a lath.
            —Foundling Hospital for Wit, 1743		  15
  So thin that he was obliged to put lead in his shoes so as to not be blown away by the wind.
            —Victor Hugo		  16
  Thin as a Ritz-Carlton sandwich.
            —Stephen Leacock		  17
  Thin as a carriage painter’s arm.
            —Abe Martin		  18
  Thin as a weasel.
            —George Meredith		  19
  Thin as mist.
            —George Meredith		  20
  Thin as the shell of a sound.
            —George Meredith		  21
  Thin as a brief forgotten dream.
            —Richard Monckton Milnes		  22
A Spectre, thin as that dismal flame
That burns and beams, a moving lamp,
Where the dreary fogs of night encamp.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  23
  Her body thin and bare as any bone.
            —Thomas Sackville		  24
  Thin as a skeleton.
            —Thomas Shadwell		  25
  Thin of substance as the air.
            —William Shakespeare		  26
  Thin as Fraud.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  27
  Thinned, as the shades in a vision of spirits that sinned.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  28
  Thin as a costume worn by a Salome dancer.
            —Walter Trumbull		  29
 
 
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