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| Awkward … like jackanapes swallowing of pills. | 1 |
| Blew as if he had been to puff up a pig’s bladder. | 2 |
| Bright as the sun. | 3 |
| As much care as pilots of ships avoid the rocks of the sea. | 4 |
| Clatter like armor. | 5 |
| Confident as of your own fingers. | 6 |
| Drink like a templar knight. | 7 |
| With as much ease as the sun outshines and dims the stars with his meridian rays. | 8 |
| Easily removable as a pair of spectacles from the nose. | 9 |
| Entangled … like a mouse catched in a trap. | 10 |
| Faces did glister like the key-hole of a powdering-tub. | 11 |
| Fair, like goddesses. | 12 |
| Fast as a dog can trot. | 13 |
| Flaming like a carbuncle. | 14 |
| Flaming, like the jaws of hell. | 15 |
| Foolish as to have confidence to promise himself three years. | 16 |
| Gallantly, like an old fencer. | 17 |
| Impossible as to cut fire into steaks, or draw water with a fish-net. | 18 |
| Laugh like a swarm of flies. | 19 |
| Multiply in seed like Abraham. | 20 |
| Multiplied like grasshoppers upon the face of the land. | 21 |
| Plain as a nose in a man’s face. | 22 |
| Red as a mazer from an alder-tree. | 23 |
| Rich as Job. | 24 |
| Right as my leg. | 25 |
| Round as a dish. | 26 |
| Round as a hoop. | 27 |
| Scampering as if the Devil drove them. | 28 |
| Scrambling like a cat up a wall. | 29 |
| Small as minced meat. | 30 |
| Solemn as a monkey after committing a mischief. | 31 |
| Squat as a flounder. | 32 |
| Squat into the ground like moles. | 33 |
| Eyes staring like a dead pig’s. | 34 |
| Stretching out his hand like the wings of a bird. | 35 |
| Strong as the devil himself. | 36 |
| Strong as Sampson. | 37 |
| Tears as big as ostrich’s eggs. | 38 |
| Turned me about as did Lot’s wife. | 39 |
| Whipped like green rye. | 40 |
| White as swans. | 41 |
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