Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. Colley Cibber
Contented as a Fox when the Hounds were drawn off and gone home from him. 1 Cool down like a dish of tea. 2 That face of yours looks like the title-page of a whole volume of roguery. 3 Falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water. 4 Fly, like a yelping Cur with a Bottle at his Tail. 5 Fly as the leaves before the autumn tempest. 6 Insipid as an old acquaintance. 7 Pushed like a fencing master. 8 Silent as your shadow. 9 Theatrical Favour, like Publick Commerce, will sometimes deceive the best Judgements by an unaccountable change of its Channel; the best Commodities are not always known to meet with the best Markets. 10 The pleasure of a fine woman is like that of her own virtue—not so much in the thing, as the reputation of having it. 11
