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

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

Cruel


Cruel as a rich coxcomb in a ballroom. —Anonymous	1
Cruel as winter. —Anonymous	2
As cruel as Medea. —Robert Burton	3
Cruel as the Tartar foe, To death inured, and nurst in scenes of woe. —William Collins	4
Cruel as Medusa’s sculptured face. —Lord De Tabley	5
Cruel as Herod when he surpris’d the sleeping Children of Bethlehem. —Sir William Davenant	6
Cruel as the sun. —Maurice Hewlett	7
Cruel as the pinch of a painless dentist. —Sydney Munden	8
Cruel as love or life. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	9
Cruel as a schoolboy ere he grows To pity. —Alfred Tennyson	10
Jealousy is as cruel as the grave. —Old Testament	11
Cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. —Old Testament	12
Cruel as death. —James Thomson	13