| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
| | | Blue violet, like Pandora’s eye. | 1 |
| Bright as midnight’s brightest eyes. | 2 |
| Your clutch is like the grasping of a wave. | 3 |
| Deep as midnight’s starry treasure. | 4 |
Every heart was glad,
As if the taxes were abolished. | 5 |
| One snowy cloud hangs, like an avalanche of frozen light upon the peak of night’s cerulean Alp. | 6 |
| Hollow as is the armour of a ghost. | 7 |
| Low as zephyr, telling secrets to his rose. | 8 |
| Secret as rocks under sea. | 9 | | |
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