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

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

Cyril Tourneur


Like an unlighted taper, was cold and chaste.	1
As freely as a conduit spout.	2
Honesty Is like a stock of money laid to sleep, Which, ne’er so little broke, does never keep.	3
The love of a woman is like a mushroom,—it grows in one night and will serve somewhat pleasantly next morning for breakfast, but afterwards waxes fulsome and unwholesome.	4
Stick like rust.	5
As tedious as a guilty conscience.	6
Want is like the rack: it draws a man to endanger himself to the gallows rather than endure it.	7