| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Horace Smith |
| | | Like a rope-maker’s were his ways, for still one line upon another he spun, and, like his hempen brother, kept going backwards all his days. | 1 |
| A coquette may be compared to tinder, which lays itself out to catch sparks, but does not always succeed in lighting up a match. | 2 |
With angry bottle nose,
Like a red cabbage rose. | 3 |
| As sure as any gun. | 4 |
| As sure as wax-candles have wicks. | 5 |
| Poor Mugno! there he welters, like a toast at bottom of a tankard! | 6 |
| His face grew yellow as gamboge. | 7 | | |
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