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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Bret Harte
Clean as a beaver.Flat as a flail.Gone like the bubble that bursts in the sun;
Gone like the grain when the reaper is done;
Gone like the dew on the fresh morning grass;
Gone without parting farewell; and alas!
Gone with a flavor of hydrogen gas!Lost like the day of Job’s awful curse, in the third chapter, third and fourth verse.As plain as the moral law.Proud as a peer.Slipped like a shadow.Thrill like some fanciful land of romance.Appetite whets, like the world-famous bark of Peru.Yellow as saffron.