| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | John Ford |
| | Ambition, like a seeled [blind] dove mounts upward,
Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds,
But tumbles headlong down with heavier ruin. | 1 |
| Bitter as Penthea’s curse. | 2 |
| Chaste as fate. | 3 |
| Courtly as the French. | 4 |
| Foul and cursed as if some holy temple had been robbed. | 5 |
| Demurely as a judge that pronounceth sentence of death. | 6 |
| Gay as Apollo’s locks. | 7 |
| Breathe as gently, as a perfumed pair of sucking bellows, in some sweet lady’s chamber. | 8 |
| Agonies as hot as flames of sulphur. | 9 |
| As humble as the child of one that sweats, to eat the dear-earn’d bread of honest thrift. | 10 |
| Loyal to her plighted faith as is the sun in Heaven. | 11 |
| Natural as to eat, sleep, and wear a nightcap. | 12 |
| Pure as unwritten papers. | 13 |
| Resolute as thunder. | 14 |
| Sweetly scented as the incense smoking on Vesta’s altars. | 15 |
| Sparkles like a lusty wine new broached. | 16 |
| Strong in silence as mysteries locked up in Jove’s own bosom. | 17 |
| Struts like a juggler. | 18 |
| Suddenly as a rain sound can pass from your ear. | 19 |
| As sweet as a violet. | 20 |
| Vagrant as the wind. | 21 | | |
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