| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Thomas Dekker |
| | Arguments, like children, should be like
The subject that begets them. | 1 |
| Chaste as Cynthia’s breast. | 2 |
Your cheeks of late are like bad printed books,
So dimly charactered, I scarce can spell
One line of love in them. | 3 |
| Foul, like a birding place. | 4 |
| Full of company as a jail. | 5 |
| Gape wider than an oyster-wife. | 6 |
| Longer than a lawsuit. | 7 |
| Opposite as day and darkness. | 8 |
| Pale as a new cheese. | 9 |
| Pure as fire. | 10 |
| Sagging down like a Welsh wallet. | 11 |
| Like the Jews, scattered. | 12 |
| Sour as verjuice. | 13 |
| Swift as a whirlwind. | 14 |
| Wide as the mouth of a wallet. | 15 |
| Women are like medlars, no sooner ripe than rotten. | 16 | | |
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