| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Andrew Lang |
| | | Dull as lead. | 1 |
| Eyes like the flower that was Rousseau’s delight. | 2 |
| Fancies flit, and wheel like butterflies on banks of thyme. | 3 |
| Glows like the diamond in the presence of radium. | 4 |
| Increased, like a spreading sore. | 5 |
| Obsolete as the Minotaur of Crete. | 6 |
| More pale than the meadows of Anjou. | 7 |
| Sifted, drifted, like the sun of sands in wastes Arabian. | 8 |
| Flies as swift as shafts the bowmen pour. | 9 |
| Weak as young corn withered, whereof no man may gather and make bread. | 10 | | |
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