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

J. M. Barrie

Adhering … like shipwrecked mariners on a rock.

As fast as a fisher could let out line.

Grinning like one bringing rare news.

Incongruous as a wedding-dress at a funeral.

Indistinguishable … like a celebrity in a crowd.

Lingered … like innocent birds loath to be gone from the spot where their nest has been.

Come out like beetles when the lights are out.

Quick as a stab.

As quickly as iron in the fire passes through the various stages between warmth and white heat.

Began as quietly as a roaring March.

As repellent as a boy’s drum.

Round and round like a boiling potful.

Round and round, like a dance of snow
In a dazzling drift.

Shivered as if in a deadly chill.

Smiling triumphantly the while like one who had discovered a cure for duty.

Trembling like a man with the palsy.

As unsettling to us as a change of Government to Londoners.

Waggled like the hilt of a sword.