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

Bret Harte

Clean as a beaver.

Flat as a flail.

Gone like the bubble that bursts in the sun;
Gone like the grain when the reaper is done;
Gone like the dew on the fresh morning grass;
Gone without parting farewell; and alas!
Gone with a flavor of hydrogen gas!

Lost like the day of Job’s awful curse, in the third chapter, third and fourth verse.

As plain as the moral law.

Proud as a peer.

Slipped like a shadow.

Thrill like some fanciful land of romance.

Appetite whets, like the world-famous bark of Peru.

Yellow as saffron.

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