Josiah Gilbert Holland Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

Josiah Gilbert Holland


A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic to life.	1
Dead as a perished delight.	2
Fluttered noiseless as a flame.	3
Glows like the old prophets.	4
Happy as the Day.	5
Hearts, like apples, are hard and sour, Till crushed by Pain’s resistless power.	6
Hearts immaculate as light.	7
Days, weeks and months lapsed like soft measures, rhyming each with each.	8
Love is like a well profound, From which two souls have right to draw, And in whose waters will be drowned, The one who takes the other’s law.	9
As patient under injury as any Christian saint of old.	10
Plunging like the sea.	11
Raved like a fiend.	12
Sleep like a jewel on the breast of faith.	13
Slid like water.	14
I started as one startles from a dream.	15
As true as God.	16
As white as the pale ashes of a wasted coal.	17
Wide as the unbridged gulf that yawns between the rich man and the beggar.	18
A wife is like an unknown sea; Least known to him who thinks he knows Where all the Shores of Promise be, Where lies the Island of Repose, And where the rocks that he must flee.	19