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

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

Yellow


Yellow as a cat’s eye. —Anonymous	1
Yellow as a corpse. —Anonymous	2
Yellow as a guinea. —Anonymous	3
Yellow as a hopeless lover. —Arabian Nights	4
She was as yellow as a quince. —Honoré de Balzac	5
Yellow as gamboge. —R. D. Blackmore	6
Yellow like to fire. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	7
Yellow, like April bees. —Charles Stuart Calverley	8
As yelowe of hewe As ony basyn scoured newe. —Geoffrey Chaucer	9
Yellow as liquid honey. —Gabriel D’Annunzio	10
Yellow as jealousy. —Anthony Hamilton	11
Yellow as saffron. —Bret Harte	12
Yellow as a Chinaman. —O. Henry	13
Yellow as cowslips. —James Hogg	14
Yellow as the amber. —Thomas Hood	15
Yellow as Nature, abetted by time. —Bettina von Hutten	16
Yellow and ill-fitting as the shuck on a dried cob. —Rudyard Kipling	17
Yellow, like a lion’s mane. —Henry Luttrel	18
Yellow as jaundice. —George Meredith	19
Yellow as corn in the sun. —Ouida	20
Yellow as wood ashes. —Henry M. Rideout	21
Yaller—like you’ve saw custard-pie with no crust. —James Whitcomb Riley	22
Yellow, like ripe corn. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti	23
His face grew yellow as gamboge. —Horace Smith	24
Yellow as sulphur. —Robert Louis Stevenson	25
Yellow as pestilence. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	26
As yellow as the blossom of the broom. —Mabinogion	27
Yellow like canned corn. —Carolyn Wells	28