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

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

Cheerful


Cheerful as the birds. —Anonymous	1
Cheerful as a mute at a funeral. —Anonymous	2
Cheerful as the lively morn. —John Armstrong	3
As cheerful … as singing lark. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge	4
Cheerful as the day. —William Cowper	5
Cheerful as the summer’s morn. —John Cunningham	6
Cheerful as the day was long. —Charles Dickens	7
Cheerful as a prince. —Mrs. —Gaskell	8
Cheered … like the bright eye of a friend. —James Hedderwick	9
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession. —Victor Hugo	10
Cheerful, as one who knows that he is redeemed. —Charles Kingsley	11
Cheering as a suburban London Sunday’s promenade. —George Meredith	12
Cheerful and yet profound like an October afternoon. —Friedrich Nietzsche	13
Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms of the inward man. —John Paul Richter	14
Cheerful … as the green winter of the holly-tree. —Robert Southey	15
Cheering as the hymn of “Hark from the Tombs.” Thomas Watson	16
As cheerful as a grove in Spring. —William Wordsworth	17