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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
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  Fine as a Maypole on May-day.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Fine as a mist of lace.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Fine as five-pence.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Fine as gossamer.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Fine as point lace.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Fine as a skein of the casuist Escobar’s worked on the bone of a lie.
            —Robert Browning		  6
  Fyn as ducket in Venice.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  7
  Fine as an ape in purple.
            —Clarke’s Proverbs		  8
  Fine as a silver dollar saloon.
            —Elbert Hubbard		  9
  A sound so fine, there’s nothing lies ’twixt it and silence.
            —James Sheridan Knowles		  10
  Fine as bronze floss.
            —Amy Leslie		  11
  Fine as light.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  12
  Fine as silkworm’s thread.
            —Robert Southey		  13
  Fine as the gleamy gossamer that spreads its filmy web-work o’er the tangled mead.
            —Robert Southey		  14
  More fine than moonbeams.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  15
  Fine as ice-ferns on January panes.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  16
  Fine as a hedge in May.
            —Samuel Wesley		  17
 
 
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