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

James Sheridan Knowles

The dreadful truth was opened like a gulf.

Far as poles asunder.

He fell as one struck dead.

A sound so fine, there’s nothing lies ’twixt it and silence.

Out of reach of him,
As the sun! As the stars—a million, million times
Beyond the sun.

Rugged as Ailsa crag.

Shame sits, like a foul vulture on a corse.

Smoking like a boiler at the heat.

Her artless speech, like chrystal, shows the thing it would hide, but only covers.

White as an angel clad in light.