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

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

Face


His face is like a street before they lay the pavement. —Anonymous	1
Thy face, like dawn when it lights the dawn. —Arabian Nights	2
Sweet youthful face, fair as the moon at full. —Edwin Arnold	3
His face looks like a warrant. —Beaumont and Fletcher	4
A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot blossom which dries up in the stalk. —Henry Ward Beecher	5
His face is like the pippin, grown red ripe in frosty suns that shone. —Arthur. C. Benson	6
His face is fair as heaven. —William Blake	7
Her face was like the April moon, Clad in a wintry cloud. —Vincent Bourne	8
A sharp face, like a knife in a cleft stick. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	9
He had a face like a benediction. —Miguel de Cervantes	10
That face of yours looks like the title-page of a whole volume of roguery. —Colley Cibber	11
His face looked like a face that had refused to jell and was about to run down on his clothes. —Irvin S. Cobb	12
Face, Long as a courtier’s out of place. —George Colman, the Younger	13
Face like an ancient lemon. —Joseph Conrad	14
A face like a smoked herring. —Anatole France	15
A face like the setting sun on a summer’s day, when promise of a hot day to-morrow is read in its ruddy hue. —Frank Carlos Griffith	16
Her little face is like a walnut shell With wrinkling lines. —William Ernest Henley	17
Face like a flame. —Maurice Hewlett	18
Her face like roses blown, And in the radiance and the hush, Her thought was shown. —Jean Ingelow	19
A face that was like an open letter in a foreign tongue. —Henry James	20
His face is like a squeezed orange. —Ben Jonson	21
Her face was like the earthen pitcher of Gideon: it concealed the light. —George MacDonald	22
His face was like an April morn Clad in a wintry cloud. —David Mallet	23
A face, like nestling luxury of flowers. —Gerald Massey	24
Her fair face half hid, like a ripe peeping rose. —Owen Meredith	25
Her face is as white As her pillow by night. —Owen Meredith	26
She is hid away all but her face, and that’s hung about with toys and devices, like the signe of a taverne, to draw strangers. —Sir Thomas Overbury	27
Faces did glister like the key-hole of a powdering-tub. —François Rabelais	28
A face open as day. —Samuel Rogers	29
Thy face is like the full moon of heaven, allied to light, but far from my hopes. —Romance of Antar	30
Her own face was like a flower Of the prime, Half in sunshine, half in shower, In the year’s most tender time. —Christina Georgina Rossetti	31
Her face was like an opening rose, So bright to look upon: But now it is like fallen snows, As cold, as dead, as wan. —Christina Georgina Rossetti	32
Faces are as legible as books, with this difference in their favor, that they may be perused in much less time than printed pages, and are less liable to be misunderstood. —Frederic Saunders	33
’Tis not that she paints so ill but, when she has finished her face, she joins so badly to her neck, that she looks like a mended statue, in which the connoisseur may see at once that the head is modern, though the trunk’s antique. —Richard Brinsley Sheridan	34
Her face was like a lily hidden in holy dusks. —George Sterling	35
Her face was like the Milky Way i’ the sky, A meeting of gentle lights without a name. —Sir John Suckling	36
Thy face Was as a water’s wearied with wind. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	37
His face was as the must that lies upon a vat of new-made wine. —Oscar Wilde	38

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