| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Charles Macklin |
| | | Differ as a hound of blood and a mongrel. | 1 |
| Jealous as a Spanish miser. | 2 |
| Low as a bushy bramble. | 3 |
| Modest as a maid a-christening. | 4 |
| Gang off like a squib or a cracker on a rejoicing night, in a noise and a stink, and are never heard of after. | 5 |
| Silent as a hound at fault. | 6 |
| Smells worse than a tallow-chandler’s shop in the dog-days. | 7 |
| Stiff as a turnpike. | 8 |
| Whose tongue, like the dart of death, spares neither sex nor age. | 9 |
| Trembling, like a man that loves to be a soldier, yet is afraid of a gun. | 10 | | |
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