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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Clear
 
  Clear as a midsummer sky.
            —Franklin P. Adams		  1
  Clear as a cube of solid sunshine.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Clear as a die.
            —Anonymous		  3
  About as clear as a misty morning on the Thames.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Clear as daylight.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Traced as clearly as currents upon a marble chart.
            —Anonymous		  6
  A voice as clear as forest bird.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Clear as mountain stream.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Clear as paint.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Clear as the notes of a cavalry bugle.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Clear as the skin of a child.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Clear as pearls and diaphanous gems.
            —Arabian Nights		  12
  Clear as day.
            —Robert Armin		  13
  Clear at one glance, as two drops of rain in air might look into each other had they life.
            —Philip James Bailey		  14
  Clear, cold, and icy-blue, like a sea eagle’s eye.
            —Philip James Bailey		  15
Clear was her look,
Like an open book.
            —William F. Barnard		  16
  Clear as the skylark’s earliest greeting in the morning of the year.
            —Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen		  17
  Clear as heaven’s stars.
            —James Beattie		  18
  Her mind, as cleare as aire.
            —Francis Beaumont		  19
  Clear as the challenge ov a perlice officer.
            —Josh Billings		  20
  Clear as virtue.
            —Samuel Laman Blanchard		  21
  Clear, as God sees through the earth.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  22
  Clear as flint.
            —Robert Browning		  23
  Clear as noon.
            —Robert Browning		  24
  Clear as a commonplace.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  25
  His projects are clear to my eyes; clear as if he dwelt in glass.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  26
  Clear as if no dirt had been cast thereat.
            —John Bunyan		  27
  As clear and as manifest as the nose on a man’s face.
            —Robert Burton		  28
  Clear as a whistle.
            —John Byrom		  29
  Clear as a bell.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  30
  Clear as lake.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  31
  Clear as the morning.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  32
  Clear as Spring.
            —Thomas Davis		  33
  Clear as the note of doom.
            —Lord De Tabley		  34
  Cleared like a doubtful morning when it gives place to a bright noon.
            —Charles Dickens		  35
  Clear as stars in frosty night.
            —William Dunbar		  36
  His eye is as clear as the heavens.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  37
  Clear as the conscious moon.
            —James Graeme		  38
  Clear as noonday.
            —Anthony Hamilton		  39
  Clear as the pure River of Life shown to the Evangelist.
            —Thomas Hardy		  40
  Clear as the mid-day sunshine.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  41
  Clear as the water in trout pools.
            —O. Henry		  42
  Clear … as spring water in the high rocks.
            —Maurice Hewlett		  43
Loving eyes that gleam
Clear as a starlit mountain stream.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  44
  Clear as the glisten of dew on the brier.
            —Richard Hovey		  45
  As clear as rock-water.
            —James Howell		  46
  Clear as if the angels had washed it.
            —Victor Hugo		  47
  Clear like crystal beams.
            —Alexander Hume		  48
  Clear as the flame of sacrifice.
            —Jean Ingelow		  49
  Clear as infant’s eyes.
            —John Keats		  50
  Clear as summer-lightning flare.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  51
  Ran clear as the light of heaven ere autumn closed.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  52
  Clear as the finest porcelain.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  53
  Clear as running waters are.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  54
  Clear as a race course.
            —George Meredith		  55
  Clear as widowed sky.
            —George Meredith		  56
  As clear as the classics.
            —Donald G. Mitchell		  57
  Clear as the blue, sublime, o’er-arching sky.
            —James Montgomery		  58
  Clear as well water.
            —George Moore		  59
  Clear as the rosy dawn.
            —Henry Morley		  60
  The Spirit spake, clear as in Israel.
            —John Henry Newman		  61
  Thoughts as clear as limpid springs.
            —Asian		  62
  Clear as glass.
            —Ovid		  63
  Clear, like the mysteries of divine science in the bosom of the pious.
            —Pilpay		  64
  As clear as strains by sun-kissed Memnon given.
            —Mary Elizabeth Powell		  65
  Clear as a brook’s chuckle to the ear.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  66
  Clear as the Autumn atmosphere.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  67
  As clear as the twitter of birds.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  68
  Light as clear as that which fills eternity.
            —A. J. Ryan		  69
                As purely clear
As crystal drops on vernal grasses.
            —Margaret E. Sangster		  70
  Clear as a mirror.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  71
                Clear
As morning roses newly washed with dew.
            —William Shakespeare		  72
  Clear as the summer’s sun.
            —William Shakespeare		  73
                Clear
As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.
            —William Shakespeare		  74
  Countenance as clear as friendship wears at feasts.
            —William Shakespeare		  75
  Clear as founts in July.
            —William Shakespeare		  76
  As clear as when a veil of light is drawn o’er evening hills.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  77
  Cleare as the skye withouten blame or blot.
            —Edmund Spenser		  78
  Clear and fair as sunlight and the flowerful air.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  79
  Clear as a child’s own laughter.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  80
  Clear as heaven of the toils of time.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  81
  As clear as love.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  82
  Clear as mirth.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  83
  Clear as night beholds her crowning seven.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  84
  Clear as righteousness.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  85
  Soul as clear as sunlit dew.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  86
Clear as the closest seen and kindly star
That marries morn and even and winter and spring with one love’s golden ring.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  87
  Clear as the cloudless hour.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  88
  Clear as the flame from the pyres of the dead.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  89
  Clear as the plume of a bright black bird.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  90
  Clear as the tocsin from the steeple.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  91
  Clear as thy song’s words or the live sun’s light.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  92
  Clear, as ever fell from angel’s tongue.
            —Paulus Syllogus		  93
  Clear as the blast of horn.
            —Bayard Taylor		  94
  Clear as wind.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  95
  Clear as crystal.
            —New Testament		  96
  Clear as the sun.
            —Old Testament		  97
  Clear as a silver bell.
            —Vance Thompson		  98
  Clear as heaven’s unclouded brow.
            —Henry Vaughan		  99
  Singers, that troll clear as bells of gold.
            —François Villon		  100
  Clearly as two and two makes four.
            —Voltaire		  101
  Clear as the crystal brooks.
            —Izaak Walton		  102
  Words clear as the sun in its meridian brightness.
            —George Washington		  103
  Clear as diamonds.
            —Theodore Watts-Dunton		  104
  Clear as the unsoil’d mountain-rill.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  105
  Clear as the crystal flood.
            —Ella Wheeler Wilcox		  106
  Clear as the profiles of goddesses.
            —C. N. and A. M. Williamson		  107
  A mirror, clear as ’twere a door of air.
            —N. P. Willis		  108
  Clear as the crystal brooks or the pure azur’d heaven.
            —Sir Henry Wotton		  109
  Clear as daylight.
            —Israel Zangwill		  110
 
 
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