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| Full of apathy as a territorial delegate during the chaplain’s prayer. | 1 |
| Blacker than a raven in a coal mine. | 2 |
| Blinking like a disreputable, drunken owl. | 3 |
| Boomed like a split trombone. | 4 |
| Breathing like a second-hand bicycle pump. | 5 |
| Good a chance to win as a man learning to play poker on an ocean steamer. | 6 |
| Clatter like a churn-dasher dabbling in buttermilk. | 7 |
| Clear as the water in trout pools. | 8 |
| Crying like Niobe or Niagara. | 9 |
| Dangerous as a machine gun. | 10 |
| Ambiguous … blue eyes like the china dog on the mantel piece. | 11 |
| Served as fast as you throw the five baseballs at the colored gentleman’s head. | 12 |
| Put up a fight like a welter-weight cinnamon bear. | 13 |
| Fits you like a flannel washed in hot suds. | 14 |
| Followed like a child after the Pied Piper. | 15 |
| Glaring like a lion in a trap. | 16 |
| Grand as floor-walkers. | 17 |
| Handsome as a new stake-rope on a thirty-dollar pony. | 18 |
| Helpless as a turtle on its back. | 19 |
| Immovable as a setter at the scent of quail. | 20 |
| Gave a short laugh like the closing of a padlock. | 21 |
| Lay like a bank of stage snow. | 22 |
| Lined like the rind of a cantaloupe. | 23 |
| He looked like a composite picture of five thousand orphans too late to catch a picnic steamboat. | 24 |
| Loose as the wrapper of a two-for-fiver. | 25 |
| Meditative, like a girl trying to decide which dress to wear to the party. | 26 |
| Merry as an alimony bell. | 27 |
| Musical as the holes of a flute without the flute. | 28 |
| Make a noise like an assessment. | 29 |
| Pockets … looked like a pool table’s after a fifteen-ball run. | 30 |
| Polite as wax. | 31 |
| Love should be as private a sentiment as a toothbrush. | 32 |
| Protruding, like the clue to a Lilliputian murder mystery. | 33 |
| Puffed like a leaky steam pipe. | 34 |
| Reclined like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. | 35 |
| Rising in the middle of it like a lump of self-raising dough. | 36 |
| Go round and round like Catherine wheels. | 37 |
| Shuddered like some woman’s overfat pug when a street dog bristles up at him. | 38 |
| Shun as moles shun light. | 39 |
| Slick as soap grease. | 40 |
| Softly as a burglar goes. | 41 |
| Stepping softly like a scout. | 42 |
| Soothed like the music of a tom-tom. | 43 |
| Stay … about as long as a tenderfoot would stick on an untamed bronco. | 44 |
| Still as a graveyard. | 45 |
| A good story is like a bitter pill with the sugar coating inside of it. | 46 |
| Thick as two body-snatchers. | 47 |
Steamer …
Tore its way out like a savage sawfish. | 48 |
| Tosses you about like cork crumbs in wine opened by an unfeed waiter. | 49 |
| Transparent as mica. | 50 |
| Unapproachable as a star. | 51 |
| Uncomfortable as a raw oyster served with sweet pickles. | 52 |
| Unsullied in life and deed as a holy saint. | 53 |
| Up and down like a milk punch in the shaker. | 54 |
| Voice like a coyote with bronchitis. | 55 |
| Wander like a lost soul in a Sam Lloyd puzzle. | 56 |
| Windy as a dog-day in Kansas. | 57 |
| Working like the gills of a fish. | 58 |
| Yellow as a Chinaman. | 59 |
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