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

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

Dear


Dear as the land to shipwrecked mariner. —Æschylus	1
Dear as her mother holds her infant’s grave. —Bogart	2
Dear as the nurtured thrill of joy. —Robert Burns	3
Dear—as his native song to Exile’s ears. —Lord Byron	4
Dear as fairy fable. —Madison Cawein	5
Dear as liberty. —Cicero	6
Dear as the soul o’er thy memory sobbing. —James G. Clark	7
Dear as freedom is. —William Cowper	8
Dear as a child’s curling fingers. —Olive Tilford Dargan	9
As dear as to the lover the smile of a gentle maid. —Bartholomew Dowling	10
Dear, as the apple to thine eye. —Timothy Dwight	11
As dear to me as my own right hand. —Sir William Schwenk Gilbert	12
Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes; Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. —Thomas Gray	13
Dear as his eyeball. —Thomas Heywood	14
Dear as these mine eyes. —Christopher Marlowe	15
Dear as light. —Hannah More	16
Dear as the vital stream that feeds my heart. —Hannah More	17
Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life. —Thomas Otway	18
Dear as my finger. —William Shakespeare	19
As dear to me as life itself. —William Shakespeare	20
Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty. —William Shakespeare	21
Dear As human heart to human heart may be. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	22
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	23
Dear as remember’d kisses after death. —Alfred Tennyson	24
Dear as the visions of the promised bride lighted by love. —C. P. Wilson	25