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

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

Familiar


Familiar as a popular song. —Anonymous	1
Familiar as the sights on our streets. —Anonymous	2
Familiar as my sleep, or want of money. —Beaumont and Fletcher	3
Familiar as the simple lore That two policemen and two thieves make four. —Ambrose Bierce	4
Familiar as a cradle-song. —Robert J. Burdette	5
Familiar as a voice of home. —John Crawford	6
Familiar as an oath. —Lord De Tabley	7
Familiar, like the amulet worn on the heart. —George Eliot	8
As familiar as a fiddler. —John Fletcher	9
Familiar to me as my own face in the glass; as the speech of my own tongue. —Victor Hugo	10
Familiar as eating. —Philip Massinger	11
Familiar as his garter. —William Shakespeare	12
Familiar in his mouth as household words. —William Shakespeare	13
Familiar as the sun and moon. —Henry D. Thoreau	14
Familiar as our childhood’s stream Or pleasant memory of a dream. —John Greenleaf Whittier	15
Familiar as a book. —N. P. Willis	16