| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | William Hazlitt |
| | | Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body. | 1 |
| Bounding like nymphs in vales of Arcady. | 2 |
| Brisk as a bird. | 3 |
| Came out of his shell like the aurelia out of the grub. | 4 |
| Fitted into it like a brilliant into the setting of a ring. | 5 |
| Floats over the troubles of life as the froth above the idle wave. | 6 |
| Fluttering like a piece of gold leaf. | 7 |
| Gaudy as a butterfly. | 8 |
| Gay as a mote. | 9 |
| Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. | 10 |
| Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood. | 11 |
| Naturally as the bleating of a sheep. | 12 |
| Sharp like a quince. | 13 |
| Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere. | 14 | | |
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