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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Differ
 
  Differ as a clipped hedge and forest.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Differ as an Indian and a Greek.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Differ as a Roman stylus and Mr. Waterman’s fountain pen.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Differ as a satyr to Hyperion; as a rushlight to the sun.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Differ as a Vatican fresco and a political transparency.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Differ as a whale and a tadpole.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Differ as a Whistler nocturne and the design on a chocolate box.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Differ as a zephyr and a cyclone.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Differ as flint and chalk.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Differ as grass and hay.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Differ as Hamlet and Hercules.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Differ as harp and harrow.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Differ as locks.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Differ as a mangled monkey and a well made man.
            —Anonymous		  14
  Differ as noses.
            —Anonymous		  15
  Differ as pigments and a picture.
            —Anonymous		  16
  Differ as shine and substance.
            —Anonymous		  17
  Differ as simpleton and sage.
            —Anonymous		  18
  Differ as smoke and flame.
            —Anonymous		  19
  Differs as stage money from government bonds.
            —Anonymous		  20
  Differ as sword and tooth-pick.
            —Anonymous		  21
  Differ as the Central Park Menagerie and the depths of the jungle.
            —Anonymous		  22
  Differ as the glow-worm and the eagle.
            —Anonymous		  23
  Differs as the jimson weed from the violet.
            —Anonymous		  24
  Differ as the mid-day sun and a convalescent white bean.
            —Anonymous		  25
  Differ as the Parthenon of Athens and an American court house.
            —Anonymous		  26
  Differ as the song of the lark to the voice of the crow.
            —Anonymous		  27
  Differs as the tail of a comet and the tail of a pig.
            —Anonymous		  28
  Differ as winter and summer.
            —Anonymous		  29
  Differ most, as salt and sugar.
            —Francis Bacon		  30
  Differ as a nettle and a pink.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  31
  Differ as an octave flute and a tavern gong.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  32
  The true beautiful … differs from the false as Heaven does from Vauxhall.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  33
  Differ as a breastplate and a piecrust.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  34
  Differ as a hound of blood and a mongrel.
            —Charles Macklin		  35
  Differ as a laughing brook and a cup of water.
            —Charles M. S. McLellan		  36
  Differ like human faces.
            —Nicholas Rowe		  37
  Differ as much as chalcke and chese.
            —Richard Shacklock		  38
 
 
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