| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Gustave Flaubert |
| | | Bright as live coals in the gloom. | 1 |
| Commonplace as a street pavement. | 2 |
| Crowding one another like a flock of black goats scurrying down the hills. | 3 |
| Dreary as an empty house. | 4 |
| Gasping … like a trout after water on a kitchen table. | 5 |
| Gleamed as funeral lamps in a sepulchral chamber. | 6 |
| Golden as the sunlight. | 7 |
| Immaculate as Tanit. | 8 |
| Immovable as a leopard crouching in the jungle. | 9 |
| Immovable as a picture. | 10 |
| Indistinct like the echo of a symphony dying away. | 11 |
| Keen as arrows. | 12 |
| Motionless as a king’s mummy in a catacomb. | 13 |
| Pale as a moonbeam. | 14 |
| Quivered like a harp of which the strings are ready to spring. | 15 |
| Rosy as the dawn. | 16 |
| Shaken as by a shudder. | 17 |
| Shining as a saint on a holy pyx. | 18 |
| Her heart beat more and more slowly, more gently and uncertainly, like a spring which is growing exhausted, like an echo which is sinking away. | 19 |
| Smooth and shining, as a sword out of a sheath. | 20 |
| Snug as a parson. | 21 |
| Splendid as the sun. | 22 |
| Sprawling … like a cowherd taking a siesta. | 23 |
| Struggling like a captive dove which wishes to resume its flight. | 24 |
| Swelled like a sail by the sea-breeze. | 25 |
| Terrible as the god of war. | 26 |
| Unmoved as a statue. | 27 |
| Vanish as mist before the sun. | 28 |
| Felt all her being vibrate as if a violin bow were drawn over her nerves. | 29 | | |
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