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

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

Thomas Heywood


Black as stormy darkness.	1
Close as night.	2
Her sweet content is like a flattering glass to make my face seem fairer to mine eye.	3
Dear as his eyeball.	4
’Scape as did Arion on the Dolphin’s back.	5
Gracious as a mediæval queen.	6
Hard to enter my belief as Dives into heaven.	7
Honest a man as ever lived by bread.	8
Lean as a lath.	9
Necessary as one’s digestion.	10
Rebellious as the sea.	11
Senseless as stones.	12
Smiling like a cherry.	13
Smooth as ice.	14
Soft as jelly.	15
Spotless as an angel.	16
Spotless as the noon.	17
Stiff as a rubbing brush.	18
Void of pity as chased bears.	19
Wet as a drowned rat.	20
As white as bear’s teeth.	21