Robert Mowry Bell Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

Robert Mowry Bell


Women, like birds, are shy of a single spring; perplex them by a choice, their heads become giddy, they flutter, and drop into the trap.	1
Women, like conjurers’ tricks, are miracles to the ignorant.	2
Women, like loadstones, lose their attraction, when they suffer the rust of a fretful temper to eat away their brightness.	3