Robert Louis Stevenson Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

Robert Louis Stevenson


Blind as moonless night.	1
Brief like a signal.	2
Brief as the word strong sorrow saith.	3
Conscientious as a dog.	4
Conspicuous like a cathedral.	5
Dull as a sheep.	6
Helpless as a ship in stays.	7
Impossible as to get the whole music of the spheres into a sonata.	8
Innocent as the age of gold.	9
Innumerable as maggots.	10
He leaped like a man shot.	11
Murmur like a shell.	12
Plain as the glistening planets shine when winds have cleared the skies.	13
Pleading like a frightened child.	14
Rare as a dodo.	15
As remote in thought as … the Apostles or the Cæsars.	16
Right as ninepence.	17
Shaking … like a drunkard after a debauch.	18
Sighed like a man near fainting.	19
Smile, it was like sunshine in a shady place.	20
Smiling as smiles the fowler when flutters the bird to the gin.	21
My fancy soars like a kite and faints in the blue infinite.	22
As solid as a landed estate.	23
Swift as a passing bird.	24
Thick as a mob.	25
Thick as a snow fall.	26
Thick as driving rain.	27
Thick as the stars at night when the moon is down.	28
Thick and silent like ants.	29
I was as uncouth as a sea-fish upon the brae of a mountain.	30
Withered like stars in the morning.	31
Yellow as sulphur.	32