| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | James Sheridan Knowles |
| | | The dreadful truth was opened like a gulf. | 1 |
| Far as poles asunder. | 2 |
| He fell as one struck dead. | 3 |
| A sound so fine, there’s nothing lies ’twixt it and silence. | 4 |
Out of reach of him,
As the sun! As the stars—a million, million times
Beyond the sun. | 5 |
| Rugged as Ailsa crag. | 6 |
| Shame sits, like a foul vulture on a corse. | 7 |
| Smoking like a boiler at the heat. | 8 |
| Her artless speech, like chrystal, shows the thing it would hide, but only covers. | 9 |
| White as an angel clad in light. | 10 | | |
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