Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Differ
Differ as a clipped hedge and forest.
—Anonymous
Differ as an Indian and a Greek.
—Anonymous
Differ as a Roman stylus and Mr. Waterman’s fountain pen.
—Anonymous
Differ as a satyr to Hyperion; as a rushlight to the sun.
—Anonymous
Differ as a Vatican fresco and a political transparency.
—Anonymous
Differ as a whale and a tadpole.
—Anonymous
Differ as a Whistler nocturne and the design on a chocolate box.
—Anonymous
Differ as a zephyr and a cyclone.
—Anonymous
Differ as flint and chalk.
—Anonymous
Differ as grass and hay.
—Anonymous
Differ as Hamlet and Hercules.
—Anonymous
Differ as harp and harrow.
—Anonymous
Differ as locks.
—Anonymous
Differ as a mangled monkey and a well made man.
—Anonymous
Differ as noses.
—Anonymous
Differ as pigments and a picture.
—Anonymous
Differ as shine and substance.
—Anonymous
Differ as simpleton and sage.
—Anonymous
Differ as smoke and flame.
—Anonymous
Differs as stage money from government bonds.
—Anonymous
Differ as sword and tooth-pick.
—Anonymous
Differ as the Central Park Menagerie and the depths of the jungle.
—Anonymous
Differ as the glow-worm and the eagle.
—Anonymous
Differs as the jimson weed from the violet.
—Anonymous
Differ as the mid-day sun and a convalescent white bean.
—Anonymous
Differ as the Parthenon of Athens and an American court house.
—Anonymous
Differ as the song of the lark to the voice of the crow.
—Anonymous
Differs as the tail of a comet and the tail of a pig.
—Anonymous
Differ as winter and summer.
—Anonymous
Differ most, as salt and sugar.
—Francis Bacon
Differ as a nettle and a pink.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Differ as an octave flute and a tavern gong.
—William Cullen Bryant
The true beautiful … differs from the false as Heaven does from Vauxhall.
—Thomas Carlyle
Differ as a breastplate and a piecrust.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Differ as a hound of blood and a mongrel.
—Charles Macklin
Differ as a laughing brook and a cup of water.
—Charles M. S. McLellan
Differ like human faces.
—Nicholas Rowe
Differ as much as chalcke and chese.
—Richard Shacklock