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| All ablaze like poppies in the sun. | 1 |
| As accurately as a bugler knows the notes of the reveille. | 2 |
| Beaten like a Turco that pawns his musket. | 3 |
| As beautiful as sorceress. | 4 |
| Brilliant as stars. | 5 |
| Careless as the young flower tossing on the summer breeze. | 6 |
| Comfortless as a truss of straw. | 7 |
| Convictions will come to you in an active career, as the muscles develop in a gymnasium. | 8 |
| Crash as if rock were hurled upon rock. | 9 |
| Crumbled like a house of sand. | 10 |
| Dancing like a Bacchante. | 11 |
| Darted like a flight of hawks. | 12 |
| Dauntless as an ibis. | 13 |
| Dishonor is like the Aaron’s Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it is plucked. | 14 |
| As dissimilar as the pure, white, gleaming lily of the hothouse is unlike the wind-tossed, sand-sustained, yellow leaf downtrodden in the mud. | 15 |
| Dry as flame. | 16 |
| Eating, sharply as aqua-fortis into brass, into the metal of her vanity—and her pride. | 17 |
| Exhaustless as the ocean. | 18 |
| Eyes flashed like the sun playing on water. | 19 |
| Eyes like blue heavens in a night of frost. | 20 |
| Eyes shining like the planets. | 21 |
| Her eyes were of a deep brown hue, like the velvety brown of a stag’s throat. | 22 |
| Fearful, like a dog an old master drives away, and which fears the new one. | 23 |
| She … fell from her full height as a stone drops from a rock into the gulf below. | 24 |
| She had flirted as far and wide as the butterfly flirts with the blossoms, as it flutters on through the range of a Summer day. | 25 |
| Helpless and flurried as a fish landed on a grassy bank with a barbed hook through his gills. | 26 |
| Flew like the swift and dazzling flight of gold-winged orioles. | 27 |
| Houses are like friendship; there is hardly one in a thousand worth a long lease. | 28 |
| Gay as mischief. | 29 |
| Glancing like a sabre’s gleam. | 30 |
| Glistening like satin. | 31 |
| Glittering as steel. | 32 |
| Glorified like the illuminated figures in the painted chronicles. | 33 |
| Jewels … glowing like sunbeams. | 34 |
| Green as an arum leaf. | 35 |
| Happy as a young lamb. | 36 |
| Hard as a sheet of brass. | 37 |
| Helpless as a lame beggar. | 38 |
| Helpless and flurried as a fish landed on a grassy bank with a barbed hook through its gills. | 39 |
| Heroic as martyrdom. | 40 |
| Hot as flame. | 41 |
| Houses are like friendship; there is hardly one in a thousand worth a long lease. | 42 |
| Impenetrable as granite. | 43 |
| Impenetrable as rhinoceri. | 44 |
| Impervious as a statue to all sight and sound. | 45 |
| Inborn, as fragrance in the heart of flowers. | 46 |
| As indifferently as a boy plucks down a cranberry bough. | 47 |
| Inexhaustible as the deep sea. | 48 |
| Instinctive in her as its song to a bird, as its swiftness to a chamois. | 49 |
| Joyless as the winter days which bound the earth under bands of iron and let no living thing or creeping herb rejoice or procreate. | 50 |
| Keen of glance as a falcon. | 51 |
| Keen as steel. | 52 |
| Languidly, as voluptuously, as a water-lily at rest on the water’s breast. | 53 |
| Life is, after all, like baccarat or billiards…. It is no use winning unless there be a gallery to look on and applaud. | 54 |
| Lightly as a kite rushes through the gloom of the dawn. | 55 |
| As like him as an eagle to an eagle. | 56 |
| Lonely, as sovereigns are. | 57 |
| Lovely as adolescence. | 58 |
| It lulled like the lull in a storm. | 59 |
| Merciless as Othello. | 60 |
| Mischievous as a marmoset. | 61 |
| In morals as in metals … you cannot work gold without supporting it with alloy. | 62 |
| Obediently bent as a willow wand. | 63 |
| Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire. | 64 |
| Paled, as a candle by the sun. | 65 |
| Pirouetted like a bit of fantoccini. | 66 |
| Pitiless as the strokes of an iron hammer. | 67 |
| Poisoned his life, as a rusted nail driven through an oak-tree in its prime corrodes and kills. | 68 |
| As readily as a child takes sweetmeats at Mardi Gras. | 69 |
| Refreshed, as men in barren lands in drought are soothed by hearing the glad fall of a welcome rain. | 70 |
| Rousing as a bugle. | 71 |
| Scandals are like dandelion seeds,—they are arrow-headed and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. | 72 |
| There are less worthy offerings, than the first scruple of an unscrupulous life. It is like the first pure drops that fall from a long turbid and dust-choked fountain. | 73 |
| Shook like custards. | 74 |
| Shrink as though some cowardly sin were between them. | 75 |
| Silently as the winds of the desert sweep upward and northward over the plains. | 76 |
| As slowly, as sadly, as a hare that the greyhounds have coursed drags itself through the grasses and ferns. | 77 |
| Soilless as pearls. | 78 |
| Sorrowful as death. | 79 |
| Sparkling … like a coquette in a vaudeville. | 80 |
| Sparkled like a jewel in the light. | 81 |
| Stung like a bee in the warm core of a rose. | 82 |
| Storm like a mad thing. | 83 |
| Strenuously as ever Cavalier strove for the White Rose. | 84 |
| Strong as a young goat. | 85 |
| Supple as Damascus steel. | 86 |
| Sure-footed as a goat. | 87 |
| Sweeping the country like locust-swarm. | 88 |
| Sweet, like a silver whistle. | 89 |
| Thick as the fleeces of the winter snows. | 90 |
| Timid as a sheep. | 91 |
| Tossing like a flower’s head. | 92 |
| Trembling like a leaf in a hurricane. | 93 |
| As trippingly as a shepherdess’s feet in a pastoral. | 94 |
| Unerring as a leopard’s leap. | 95 |
| Untiring as an Indian on trail. | 96 |
| Continuous wail, like the moaning of a winter wind. | 97 |
| Wet as the slush of a quagmire. | 98 |
| Whir like the noise of an eagle’s wings. | 99 |
| A yell as of wild beasts in their famine. | 100 |
| Yellow as corn in the sun. | 101 |
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