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

Arrogant

An arrogant person, is like unto a goodly tall tree, that groweth and mounteth very high, but bringeth forth no fruit.
—Anthonie Fletcher (Certain Very Proper and Profitable Similes, 1595)