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

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

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False as a man with a black head and a red beard. —Anonymous	1
False as Dick’s hatband. —Anonymous	2
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. —Robert Burton	3
False as suborn’d perjurers. —Samuel Butler	4
False as the father of lies. —Gilbert K. Chesterton	5
False and fair-foliaged as the manchineel. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge	6
False as a bulletin. —Napoleon	7
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them. —Thomas Otway	8
False as the wind, the waters, and the weather. —Thomas Otway	9
False as God is true. —Thomas Paine	10
False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colors spread on ev’ry place. —Alexander Pope	11
As false as Waghorn, and he was nineteen times falser than the deil. —Scottish Proverb	12
False as an obituary. —Edgar Saltus	13
False as dice. —William Shakespeare	14
False as dicers’ oaths. —William Shakespeare	15
False as hell. —William Shakespeare	16
False As stairs of sand. —William Shakespeare	17
False as water. —William Shakespeare	18
False … as wolf to heifer’s calf. —William Shakespeare	19
False as the fowler’s artful snare. —Tobias Smollett	20
False and foul as fear. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	21