| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Tobias Smollett |
| | | Blushing like Aurora. | 1 |
| Dry as tinder. | 2 |
| False as the fowler’s artful snare. | 3 |
| Eye glistened like that of a rattlesnake. | 4 |
| Inconstant as waves. | 5 |
| Lank as a greyhound. | 6 |
| Nodded at each other like a congregation of Anabaptists. | 7 |
| Perverse as a hog. | 8 |
| As a vulture rapacious. | 9 |
| Shrivelling up his face, like an autumn leaf. | 10 |
| Skulk like the dishonor’d wretch, whose hireling steel, in secret lifted, reeks with human gore. | 11 |
| Snarl like Guthrie for the public weal. | 12 |
| Stared like the Gorgon’s head. | 13 |
| Still as the gentle calm, when the hush’d wave no longer foams before the rapid storm. | 14 |
| Stormed like a perfect hurricane. | 15 |
| Struts like a crow. | 16 |
| More sweet than the honey of the Hybla bees. | 17 |
| Unfeeling as rocks. | 18 |
| As winter’s frost unkind. | 19 |
| Vain as to count the April drops of rain. | 20 |
| One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavor to the dish; but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage. | 21 |
| Thy words, like genial showers to the parch’d earth, refresh my languid soul. | 22 | | |
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