| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Richard Monckton Milnes |
| | His eyes … deep sunk beneath his lowering brows,
Like caverns by a moonlit sea. | 1 |
| Fair as flame. | 2 |
| Flee like a shamed child. | 3 |
| Fresh as April when the breezes blow. | 4 |
| Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till they are spoke to. | 5 |
| Monotonous as the sea. | 6 |
| Mournful as the dead below. | 7 |
| He shrinks, as from a viewless blow. | 8 |
| Still as an island stood our ship. | 9 |
A secret sweet as songs of dawn
That linnets sing when mists are gone. | 10 |
| Thin as a brief forgotten dream. | 11 |
| Great thoughts, great feelings come to them, like instincts, unawares. | 12 | | |
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