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

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

John Ruskin


Advancing like the shadow of death.	1
Barren as death.	2
Beautiful as a piece of chalk cliff.	3
Beautiful as pine bridges over Alpine streams.	4
Blended, like the sea’s phosphor lustre.	5
Blushes bright pass o’er her cheek, But pure and pale as is the glow of sunset on a mountain peak, Robed in eternal snow.	6
Calm as … a deeply sheltered mountain lake.	7
Colorless as lead.	8
Chasms as deep and as drear as the tomb.	9
Headlong driven like clouds before the blast of heaven.	10
Ephemeral, like Michael Angelo’s snow statue.	11
Her dazzling eye; As liquid in its brilliancy as the deep blue of midnight ocean, When underneath, with trembling motion, The phosphor light floats by.	12
Fierce … as whetted scythe.	13
Graceful as a bow just bent.	14
Lay, like a smile upon the lips of sleep.	15
Light as the tinkling leaves, that wander wide When Vallombrosa mourns her pride.	16
Murmurs … like a bell that calls to prayer.	17
As pure as a mountain spring.	18
Rage, like demons in their Stygian cage.	19
Red, like a ruby.	20
Roaring like thunder borne upon the breeze.	21
Sharp as javelins.	22
Shook … like shingle at the ocean’s mercy.	23
Silent and slight as the fall of a half-checked tear on a maiden cheek.	24
Solid as a haystack.	25
Solid, like a cactus stem.	26
Stainless as the air of Heaven.	27
Stiff as a stone.	28
Support themselves as swarming bees do, hang on by each other.	29
Terrible as the sea.	30
Transient as the dew.	31
Twisted … like old olive branches.	32
Uncomfortable as the Lilliputians made Gulliver with their arrows.	33
Whiter than sawn ivory.	34

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