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

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pure as the first blush of day.

Stands at gaze
As might a wolf just fasten’d on his prey.

Substantial as the shadow of a shade.

Sure as death.

Swift almost as a human smile may chase
A frown from some conciliated face.

Stand unmoved, like a rock ’mid raging seas.

Your women
Are like new plays, which self-complacent authors
Offer at some eight hundred royals each,
But which, when once they’re tried, you purchase dear
Eight hundred for a royal.

Melted like a phantasm.

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