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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Richard Jago
 
As the fair lawn excels the rushy mead,
As firs the thorn, and flow’rs the pois’nous weed.
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  Like the tun’d string responsive to the touch.  2
  As sick as a dog.  3
  Vanished like the fleeting forms drawn in an evening cloud.  4
 
 
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