Edmondo de Amicis Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

Edmondo de Amicis


Emile Augier … carried his celebrity not as a mantle but as a flower in his button-hole.	1
She drooped like a blossom bent by the wind.	2
Eyes, brilliant and humid like the reflection of stars in a well.	3
Soothes the ear like the echo of distant music.	4
Stamping her feet like an Italian actor representing anger.	5
Tall and slender like an ode in quinary verses.	6
Vaguely, like certain luminous scenes of the theatre back of those thin curtains which suddenly descend on the scenic stage, transporting the spectators from the tumult of a ballroom to the silence of a private house.	7