| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Thomas De Quincey |
| | | Ancient as the stings of death. | 1 |
| Their earthly days were bitter, like the oil-tree. | 2 |
| One central mystery, as a darkness within a darkness. | 3 |
| Like a dissolving palace of snow, it collapses. | 4 |
| Delicate and evanescent as the colored pencilings on a frosty night from the Northern Lights. | 5 |
| Frail as the clouds. | 6 |
| Go along like blazes. | 7 |
| Gorgeous as the heavens. | 8 |
| Inexorable as the grave. | 9 |
| An enigma, dark and insoluble as that of the Sphinx. | 10 |
| Memorable as the grave. | 11 |
| Sealed up, like the valley of Rasselas, against the intrusion of the world. | 12 |
| Shy as lightning. | 13 |
| His voice swelled like a sanctus rising from the choir of a cathedral. | 14 |
| Unwearied as the heavens. | 15 | | |
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