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

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Black as autumn’s sky.

Blue as autumn’s skies.

Changeful as a madman’s dream.

Her cheek was as white and cold as clay.

Fixed as a monument.

Pure as the summer skies.

Smile, like the sun in his glory on the bud.

His talk is like a stream which runs
With rapid change from rocks to roses;
It slipped from politics to puns;
It passed from Mahomet to Moses;
Beginning with the laws that keep
The planets in their radiant courses,
And ending with some precept deep
For dressing eels or shoeing horses.

As white … as clay.

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