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By Frank J. WIvstacu.
All rights reserved
Published, November, 1916
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TO
FLORENCE WILSTACH
PREFACE
Tue simile is one of the most ancient forms of speech. It is the handmaid
of all early word records. It has proved itself essential to every form of human
utterance.
If our first parents had had a Boswell, many similes which are now in general
use would be known as having been current in the Garden of Eden. Undoubtedly,
on many occasions, Father Adam, when addressing Mother Eve, made use of
“Cold as ice”, “ Busy as a bee’, ‘“‘Proud as a peacock”, ‘Weak as water”,
“Angry as a wasp”, and “Bitter as gall.” With reliable data, many a simile
which is now marked Anon. would be credited to Adam.
In the absence of a Boswell, however, we have other authorities who testify
that Father Adam and Mother Eve made frequent use of similes in their Garden
conversation. As Moses, in his brief account of creation, failed to report the
talks of our first parents, we are deprived of his testimony; but what Moses
overlooked, John Milton and Elizabeth Barrett Browning have supplied.
Some of the most familiar similes in general use are to be found in the Old
Testament. Among them are: ‘‘Multiply as the stars of heaven”, “Unstable
as water’’, “Still as a stone’’, “‘ White as snow”, ‘Swifter than a weaver’s shuttle”,
“Boil like a pot’, “Firm as a stone’’, ‘Melted like wax’”’, ‘‘ Sharp as a two-edged
sword”, and “Bitter as wormwood.” The Songs of Solomon are a rich mine of
similes; including, ‘‘Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet ”’, ‘“Thy neck is like the
tower of David builded for an armoury”, “Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep
that are even shorn, which came up from the washing ’’, and “Cruel as the grave.”
From many other sources the antiquity of the simile is proved. In the time
of Rameses II of Egypt, 1292-1225 3.c., according to Breasted’s “History of
Egypt”, the Poem of Pentaur was written. The Heroic Theban poet’s work
was so highly prized that it was carved on the temple walls in hard stone. Pentaur
was not ignorant of the simile. Thus he speaks of Pharaoh:
“His heart is firm, his courage is like that of the god of war.”
“His courage is firm, like that of a bull.”
“The King is dreadful as the grim lion in the valley.”
“He appeared like the sun-god at his rising in the early morn.”
Of Seti, the father of Rameses II, an unlocked inscription says:. ‘‘He is as
a jackal which rushed prowling through the land, as a grim lion that frequents
hidden paths, as a powerful bull with sharpened horns.” Now this Rameses,
Ramses, or Ramessu, was that Pharaoh who oppressed the Israelites, the father
of the princess who found the child Moses hid among the bulrushes.
vii
Vili PREFACE
Homer, Virgil, Horace, and all the ancient writers, abound in similes; but
the first to confine his literary expression to the making of similes alone was a
Pythagorean philosopher, Demophilus, whose history is little known. His work,
“Life’s Culture and Conduct”’, is extant only in portions which are in the form of
selections called “‘Dialectic Similitudes.” The first known edition of the work was
printed in 1638. There were five editions in the seventeenth century, three in
the eighteenth, and one in the nineteenth century. There is an interesting
reference to Demophilus in ‘“‘The Phoenix”, described as “‘a collection of old and
rare fragments’’, published by William Gowans, New York, 1835:
“Demophilus appears to have enjoyed the dignity of archon at Athens,
where it was no unusual thing for the character of magistrate and philosopher
to be united in the same person. Respecting the time when he lived, it is impos-
sible to arrive at an absolute certainty. The most probable conjecture is that
he flourished about the beginning of the Christian era, and prior to the reign of
the Emperor Marcus Antoninus. Such of his writings as are extant have come
down to us in company with the philosophical works of Maximus Tyrius. Whether
they owe their preservation to the latter philosopher having, from his conviction
of their excellence, appended them to his own writings, is, though not unlikely,
impossible to determine.”
Thus the making of similes has gone on from age to age. The New Testa-
ment is not so prolific in the use of this figure of speech as the Old; but the
writers of the New had a way, not unknown to the Old, of repeating the same
similes many times. Not only that, but many that are found in the Old reappear
in the New Testament.
Since the very beginning of English literature, the simile has been a favorite
figure of speech. This is particularly true of the English writings which obtained
before the time of Elizabeth, and all of the great Elizabethans made happy use
of it.
This volume, so far as I have been able to ascertain, is the first attempt to
collect the best similes from English, as well as from all other literatures. It
was not until the present collection was finished that I found Demophilus had
several rivals. There was one collection of similes made in the sixteenth century,
and three during the seventeenth. These books are:
(1) Certaine very proper and most profitable similes, also manie very notable
virtues. Anthonie Fletcher, London, 1595.
(2) A treasurie or store-house of similies: both pleasant, delightful, and profit-
able, for all estates of men in generall. Newly collected into heades and common-
places: by Robert Cawdray, London, 1600.
(3) A century of Similes, Thomas Shelton, London, 1640.
(4) Things new and old; or a store-house of Similes, John Spencer, 1658.
Of these four books, three, namely, Anthonie Fletcher’s, Robert Cawdray’s,
and John Spencer’s, are in the Library of Congress. Only one, John Spencer’s,
which is a reprint, is in the New York Public Library. All four are to be found
in the British Museum. I have been able to examine three of the four books,
missing that compiled by Thomas Shelton. The three I have seen are not
as the titles suggest, collections of similes, but are religious dissertations. Of
the three, Robert Cawdray’s is the only one with a savor of humor. There
is, indeed, some justification for stating on his title page: ‘“‘Similes: both
pleasant, delightful, and profitable.” By turning to the index, and examining
some of the similes taken from his book, the reader will discover that while
Robert Cawdray was an uncompromising ‘‘devil-chaser ”, he was possessed, at
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times, with a pungent wit. His statement, ““Newly collected into heades”, does
not, as one might suppose, mean that he had collected the similes of the great
writers of England up to his time; but merely that they are his own original
efforts. His quotations are taken almost entirely from the scriptures. John
Spencer appears to have known nothing of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, or
Butler. In fact, his book shows that he was intimately acquainted only with
the ecclesiastical writers of his time.
Perhaps some student of literature, —a hundred years hence, — will turn to
this book to discover if I were acquainted in any degree with some writer now
unknown to fame, but whose name will then be on everybody’s lips! This, to
me at least, is an interesting speculation. Who will then be remembered ?
Will it be George Ade or Henry James; O. Henry or Mrs. Humphry Ward;
Joseph Conrad or George Meredith; Alfred Henry Lewis or Ambrose Bierce;
Maurice Hewlett or Walter Pater; John Davidson or Rudyard Kipling?
Robert Cawdray, in ignoring Shakespeare, — and indeed all the great Elizabethan
writers, — thus missed his chance for a niche in the Temple of Fame.
The first to make a collection of similes was John Ray, botanist and miscel-
laneous writer. His ‘‘A Collection of English Proverbs” was published in 1670,
and there have been many subsequent editions. It was not Ray’s purpose to
group together the proverbs and incidentally the similes to be found in English
literature, but rather those in colloquial use by the people of England. The
“Proverbial Similes” which he collected comprise but eight and a half pages of
the two hundred and eighty, of the fifth edition of his book. Many of those
gathered by Ray are of a character too gross for modern taste, while others are
of a distinctly local character. Other collectors added many which came into
general use after Ray’s time; but all avoided making use of similes to be found
in the works of the writers of preceding ages. The first to overcome this re-
luctance was Vincent Stuckey Lean, whose great work, ‘‘Lean’s Collectanea ”’,
in five volumes, was published at Bristol, England, in 1903. A part of the second
volume of this erudite compilation is given over to “‘A New Treasury of Similes.”
Lean not only embodied in his work all of the similes to be found in the various
books of proverbs, but added very many from the old English writers. It is
evident that he had a very considerable Elizabethan library to delve in; but,
oddly enough, he made use of but three modern similes, — one each from Dickens,
Tennyson, and George Eliot. Of the four simile books mentioned, Lean knew of
but one, and that by Robert Cawdray.
I began this Dictionary of Similes in 1894. It did not occur to me at once
that there might be any particular need for such a book, — nor had George Moore
yet written: ‘‘It is hard to find a simile when one is seeking for one.” One day
in the spring of that year, when in Boston, I was looking over the morning papers
and, being interested in some incident at the State House, read that “the news
spread like wildfire.” Having noted the coincidence of all the newspapers using
this simile, and having observed its frequent use in the press, I asked a journal-
istic acquaintance if there was no substitute for “‘spread like wildfire.” He
replied that he had never heard of news spreading in any other way. My curi-
osity aroused, I stepped into the bookstore of Little, Brown & Company, then
located in Washington Street, near the Globe newspaper office, and asked for a
“Dictionary of Similes.” The clerk looked in vain over the shelves; then,
having fumbled through the leaves of a huge volume, returned with the informa-
tion that such a book had never been published. As I was actively engaged
at the time, I had then no intention of supplying the apparent omission. But
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from that day I began to copy into a large blank book the similes in every book
Iread. Finding this collection of use to others, as well as to myself, it occurred
to me that as opportunity presented I would begin with Chaucer and gather all
the useful and picturesque similes from all of the important poets and prose
writers, down to the present time. It seemed an endless undertaking; but I
pursued the work with growing interest and delight. As my occupation during
the intervening years took me back and forth from New York to San Francisco
and hither and thither to all parts of the country, much of the work was done on
railroad trains, and many an evening hour was spent in the libraries of Boston,
Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, New Orleans, St. Louis, and other
cities.
Victor Hugo, in ‘‘Les Miserables”, tells of an old man who never went out
without a book, and who seldom came back without two. This has a humorous
application to myself. Year after year J have carried about with me some volume
or other on which I had set my covetous eyes, hoping during an idle moment in
a busy day to rifle it of its similes. And often, like the character in ‘‘Les Miser-
ables”, I have ventured forth with a single volume and returned with a precious
arm-load. So this work has been carried on through sheer love of the chase.
To shake all the similes, as leaves from the forest, of English Literature would
be a task beyond the possibilities of one human life. Therefore, such a collection
must necessarily be incomplete, except in so far as the great masters are con-
cerned, and to, have excluded the best from modern writers would have deprived
such a collection of very much of its interest and charm. I have not been in-
fluenced by the reputation of any contemporary writer; but have selected those
similes which seemed really worth while.
When I came to collate the similes under headings, — similes collected during
nearly a quarter of a century, and from thousands of volumes, —I discovered
that there were hundreds of duplicates. So, I credited the simile to that writer
who was the one farthest back in point of time. When any simile was used by a
group of authors of the same age, through necessity I have marked it anonymous.
In numerous instances, it will be discovered that I have given credit for many
similes to authors far back in the reaches of time which are usually attributed
to modern writers. There is no certainty, of course, that many of these similes
were really original with the authors to whom they are credited. To have ex-
amined the writings of all authors would have been an impossibility. While I
have been able to find many an apt simile as having been used hundreds of years
before any collector has so far discovered them, I have no doubt I shall find,
in time, that many similes in this Dictionary, credited to a modern writer, have
been “‘picked from the worm holes of old time.”
Although I have drag-netted the ocean, as well as the numerous narrow streams
and wide rivers of literature, for similes, many a rare and curious specimen has
doubtless escaped me. Had all been secured this collection would be of too great
a size for general use.
To discover the authorship of many curious similes has been a matter of
long quest. Here are three examples: ‘Cold as an enthusiastic New England
audience ;” “Noisy as a living skeleton having a fit on a hardwood floor;” and
“‘About as much privacy as a goldfish.” The first of these I had from the lips of
James Whitcomb Riley, in 1886. But when I lately wrote to the Hoosier poet
and asked him if he were its father, he disclaimed ever having heard of the child.
Years ago, I noted that Opie Read had been given credit for “Noisy as a living
skeleton having a fit on a hardwood floor”; but Mr. Read, some years back,
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denied the authorship. On the other hand, Irvin S. Cobb informs me that he
accepts all blame for having made merry with the privacy of the goldfish.
Much of an interesting nature might be said on the subjects chosen for similes
during different periods. This will be apparent to any reader who has curiosity
enough to examine this volume. Nature it will readily be observed, had well nigh
the sole appeal for the ancients, — for Homer and Virgil particularly. As we
come down to modern times, we find that new and novel inventions have been
seized upon as means for comparison. Byron, shortly after the introduction of
gas for illumination in the playhouse, wrote in Don Juan:
_ “Grand a sight
As is a theatre lit up by gas.”
Then came the adding machine, and Oliver Wendell Holmes made use of Mr.
Babbage’s calculating machine as a comparison for certainty; Morgan Robert-
son wrote ‘‘Faint as the voice of the telephone”, and, lately, a play was adver-
tised as ‘‘ Crackling with wit like a Marconi.” Then too, —‘‘Sly asa submarine.”
The moving picture also furnishes interesting examples. Its first form was
the magic lantern. Thomas Moore made use of it:
“But now ‘a change came o’er my dream,’
Like the magic lantern’s shifting slider.”
The next invention was the diorama, and we have George Eliot saying: “Shifts
its scenes like a diorama.” Finally, when the moving picture was perfected,
William Archer wrote: ‘‘Feverishly accelerate, like the movements we sce in the
cinematograph.”
It would be unwise to credit a dramatist with a simile used in a play, for the
reason that actors have, more especially in musical comedy, a way of introducing
some happy phrase with or without the author’s consent. It is astonishing how
quickly a simile heard in a play will come into current use. Not long ago I over-
heard two persons talking in a street car, and one said: “It was as cruel as a
barren stepmother’s slap.” I had no notion that this was an original phrase
with the person in the street car. That night I went to see a play by Lady
Gregory, and then discovered the source of the simile; the authoress, however,
had written not ‘“‘cruel”, but ‘‘Hard as a barren stepmother’s slap.”
From earliest time poets have been remarkable for their intimate acquaint-
ance with the solar system. Astronomers themselves could hardly have made
so many observations on the sun, the moon, and the stars, — the moon particu-
larly. Also, the bards, when in need of a simile, have been free in their use of
the boundless ocean, and with the rippling brook as well. The flowers of the
fields, the birds of the air, — of the latter the eagle being easily the favorite, —
have graphically served their purpose. While the moon shows signs of waning
popularity, the eagle retains an undiminished favor. Indeed, the poets have
so delighted in similes that they have written whole poems, every line a simile.
A small volume might easily be made of this species of poetistic ingenuity, —
the most curious example being the one devised by John Gay.
Thomas Hood, in his poem “The Tale of the Trumpet”, relates the adven-
tures of an ‘“‘old woman hard of hearing”’, in which he rings the changes on the
simile “deaf as a post.” By way of novelty, Sterne began the fifteenth chapter
of “Tristram Shandy” with a simile, and added,—‘“‘I don’t think the
comparison a bad one :”
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‘An eye is, for all the world, exactly like a cannon, in this respect, That it
is not so much the eye or the cannon, in themselves, as it is the carriage of the
eye, and the carriage of the cannon; by which both the one and the other are
enabled to do so much execution.”
In the use of similes, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser, Shelley and Swinburne
were the most profuse. Of these, Swinburne, easily led the others in this form of
expression. In fact there is hardly a page of his works that does not contain from
one to three similes. The poet who made the smallest use of the simile was Walt
Whitman.
I have taken the liberty, rather broadly, of including in this book, as an aid
for reference, a number of comparisons from various sources which would not
technically come under the definition of simile. There is, of course, a thin
shade of difference, but one overlooked by many grammarians.. However,
when one can, without undue license, enlarge the usefulness of a book of
reference there is no necessity of allowing research to be embarrassed by
unimportant breaches of definition. The reader will find, I trust, the few com-
parisons in this dictionary quite as welcome as the out and out similes.
To achieve anything like correctness in quotation has proved, at times, a
most perplexing matter, for the reason that the texts of many of the poets have
undergone, from editor to editor, various alterations. With Shakespeare, be-
cause of the imperfect First Folio, this was necessary. But, in tampering with
the text of the First Folio, there have been many curious revisions, or new read-
ings, well known to students of the Bard. The most singular to come under my
observation appears in the Blair edition of Shakespeare, which, according to its
editor, J. Talfourd Blair, was “Carefully edited and compared with the best
text.”” In this volume one may read:
“How sharper than a servant’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.”
In this case we may well rely upon the First Folio, which has it “serpent’s”’,
not “‘servant’s tooth.”
The ideal method would have been to select only those editions of the classics
which have acquired authority. But this has been quite impossible, for I have
had to accept whatever I have been able to lay hands on, for my purpose. In
making verifications there have been disclosed many discrepancies. Take, for
example, Thomas Campbell’s verse :
“Like angel visits, few and far between.”
The words ‘‘angel visits” are often printed as a compound word, but in
Hoyt’s “ Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations”, in one place they are printed as
two words, and in another hyphenated.
Storms have raged around Robert Burns’ best-known simile, beginning:
“But pleasures are like poppies spread.” These verses appeared first in
Francis Grose’s “ Antiquities of Scotland”, (London, 1791), volume 2, page
199-201, as follows:
‘But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white — then melts for ever;
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Or like the borealis race,
That flit ere you can point their place;
Or like the rainbow’s lovely form,
Evanishing amid the storm.”
Chambers printed the couplet :
“Or like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white — then melts for ever.”
But it will be observed that Burns had it “‘snow falls”, not “snowfall.” The
ever careful John Bartlett changed the third verse, making it read :
“Or, like the snow-fall in the river.”
Several editors have arbitrarily made the line read “Like snow falls on the
river.” But Douglas says in his edition of 1877: ‘‘We suspect that Burns
would have preferred: ‘‘Like snowflakes on the river.”
In conclusion I would quote the final passage of Thomas Fuller’s preface to
John Spencer’s ‘‘Things new and old, or a store-house of Similes”: ‘But the
reader .will catch cold, by keeping him too long in the porch of the Preface, who
now (the door being opened) may enter into the house itself.”
Frank J. WILSTACH.
New York, July, 1916.
INDEX OF
A Becxert, GILBERT ABBOTT, 123, 379 |
Asout, EpMonp, 382
ACHESON, ARTHUR, 223, 400, 417, 462
ApaM, ALEXANDER, 333
Apams, FRANKLIN P., 56, 138, 255, 332,
8358, 385, 435, 453
ApamMs, JOHN, 261
Apams, Oscar Fay, 405, 427, 429
ApaMs, SAMUEL Hopkins, 75
Apams, SARAH FLOWER, 272, 327
Apams, THomas, 5, 16, 64, 68, 89, 113,
330, 396, 405, 440
ApvIson, JosEPH, 7, 110, 157, 174, 289,
8365, 385, 434, 415, 443
Apz, Grorcsz, 18, 46, 105, 114, 166,
198, 330, 342, 378, 382, 461
ADEE, ALVEY A., 222
A.E. See RusseLt, Grorce WILLIAM
Ascuruvs, 31, 33, 52, 76, 85, 86, 116,
130, 140, 147, 154, 205, 310, 330, 386,
395, 400, 405, 435, 445, 467, 469, 475
AGEsSILAvsS, 66
Aint, Hamiuron, 352
AINGER, ALFRED, 9
AINswoRTH, WILLIAM H., 143, 180, 218,
313
Arrp, Tuomas, 411
AKENSIDE, Mark, 41, 76, 80, 126, 138,
140, 145, 151, 152, 239, 284, 410, 411,
442, 457
ALBEE, JOHN, 15
Ausizz1, Niccouo, 352
ALCIPHRON, 362
Aucott, Louisa M., 41, 69
ALpRicH, THomas Batter, 18, 84, 87,
103, 204, 207, 231, 238, 263, 269,
297, 307, 368, 385, 399, 488, 445,
462, 467, 475
ALEMBERT, JEAN Le Ronp vp’, 278
ALEXANDER, Ceci Frances, 136, 275,
315
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, 470
ALIBERT, JEAN Lous, 67
ALISON, Sir ARCHIBALD, 69, 290
Aurson, Ricnarp, 417
ALLEN, Grant, 159, 220, 257, 274
ALLEN, James Lang, 98, 116, 187, 390,
447, 470
ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM, 67, 116, 160, 365
Americanisms, Dictionary oF. See
BARTLETT, J. R.
Ames, Fisuer, 210
xV
AUTHORS
Amicis, EpMonpo pg, 45, 103, 116, 374,
384, 415, 451
AmieL, Henri F., 285
AmRIOLKais, 116, 365, 461
ANACHARSIS, 227
ANACREON, 24, 106, 160, 236, 232, 363,
368
ANCIENT Batutap oF Hinpustan, 126,
362, 429, 483
ANDERSEN, Hans CaurisTian, 14, 88,
232, 303, 392, 431, 432, 452
ANDERSEN, Mary Louisa, 61, 368
ANDERSON, D. R., 209
Anprews, Exiza F., 220
Anprews, Miuss P., 340
ANDREYEV, LEonip, 11, 315, 348, 428
ANEURIN, 82
ANTAR, ROMANCE oF, 123, 144, 417
ANTISTHENES, 112
ANnTROBUS, JOHN, 59
APPIUS AND VIRGINIA, 389
ARABIAN Nicuts, 5, 12, 14, 15, 19,
33, 50, 55, 56, 92, 122, 124, 152, 172,
173, 182,° 221, 222, 236, 266, 271,
273, 276, 310, 330, 344, 369, 385,
392, 403, 405, 417, 422, 459, 470,
476, 485, 487
Arazic, 10, 89, 206, 267, 288, 315, 406,
432, 441, 470
ARBUTHNOT, JOHN, 50
ARCHER, WILLIAM, 2, 55, 83, 100, 114,
124, 140, 185, 219, 265, 312, 391,
445, 470
Ariosto, 50, 140, 250, 284, 344
ARISTIPPUS, 1
ARISTOPHANES, 17, 55, 141, 174
ARISTOTLE, 61, 288
ARMIN, RoBert, 13, 56
Armstrone, JoHn, 52, 331
ARNOLD, Epwin, 20, 59, 73, 76, 116,
146, 147, 154, 174, 177, 184, 190,
200, 219, 236, 242, 261, 293, 335,
357, 358, 392, 406, 418
ARNOLD, GEoRGE, 406
ARNOLD, Marruew, 50, 61, 67, 73, 103,
124, 198, 218, 240, 257, 327, 373, 391,
404
ASBJORNSEN, Peter C., 357
AscHaM, Roacesr, 115
AsHBY-STERRY, JosEPH, 49, 208
AsHE, Tuomas, 18,.126, 150, 155, 176,
192, 236, 275, 438, 466, 476
xvi
Asumo.. MS. (15TH CENTURY), 328
ASSYRIAN, 263, 282, 432
.AsTypamus JuNIor, 295
ATHERSTONE, Epwin, 8, 348
ATTERBOM, D. A., 48
AUBER, HARRIET, 369
Avupoux, MARGUERITE, 363
AvuauHey, Joun H., 339
AvuaiER, EMILE, 331
AuaGusTINE, Saint, 81, 350
AvRELIvS, Marcus, 69, 141, 184, 398,
426, 434
Austin, ALFRED, 13, 33, 74, 99, 103,
150, 159, 161, 208, 236, 265, 282,
292, 310, 320, 332, 355, 386, 418,
430, 475, 478
Austin, Henry W., 26
Austin, Mary, 12
AUSTIN, WILLIAM, 392
Ayres, ALFRED, 319, 448
Ayrton, Sir Rosert, 136
AYTOUN, WiuLiaM E., 86, 195, 285, 470
Bacon, Francis, 1, 6, 8, 16, 17, 22, 40,
45, 65, 92, 96, 132, 141, 150, 156,
157, 208, 217, 224, 229, 250, 264,
271, 272, 278, 290, 301, 320, 328,
377, 386, 403, 420, 438, 458, 463
Bacon, GrorcEe Vaux, 467
Baasy, Georce W., 467
Baur, Hermann, 426
Barutey, Partie James, 15, 22, 23, 26,
33, 39, 56, 59, 80, 86, 98, 101, 109,
112, 1380, 133, 136, 140, 142, 144,
151, 156, 161, 170, 174, 182, 189,
192, 195, 199, 201, 205, 211, 213,
223, 234, 236, 242, 256, 276, 278,
285, 292, 296, 299, 304, 308, 310,
322, 331, 337, 341, 343, 344, 349,
359, 369, 379, 389, 398, 403, 404,
406, 420, 423, 441, 444, 449,
461, 484
Bar.uiz, JOANNA, 187, 256, 434, 476
Baker, Miss A. E., 333
Baxer, Sir Samuet WHITE, 99
Batrour, ALEXANDER, 480
BALLANTINE, JAMES, 367
Battovu, Hosea, 112, 155, 416
Batzac, Honors pz, 13, 15, 19, 26, 28,
41, 45, 55, 61, 67, 70, 72, 76, 77, 96,
98, 99, 101, 108, 113, 114, 116, 138,
141, 142, 158, 161, 171, 172, 174,
183, 185, 187, 189, 192, 195, 201,
211, 216, 217, 222, 228, 231, 237,
238, 250, 263, 266, 269, 277, 279,
280, 285, 289, 296, 299, 300, 301,
304, 307, 308, 312, 324, 329, 331,
335, 338, 340, 351, 355, 358, 368,
373, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 384,
387, 391, 397, 398, 399, 400, 403,
404, 406, 420, 422, 430, 437, 439,
446, 453, 455, 456, 460, 461, 470,
478, 481, 487
Bancrort, Grorce, 16
453,
INDEX.
Banim, Joan, 114, 326
Barser, J. W., 292
Barsour, JoHN, 357
Barciay, ALEXANDER, 167, 206, 220,
344, 362, 389, 392, 425, 446, 447
Baret, Joan, 401, 406
Barwam, RicHarp Harris, 12, 22, 102,
152, 186, 278, 291, 324, 353, 365, 471
Bartow, Georae, 74, 303
BaRLow, JANE, 285
Bartow, JoEu, 28, 263
BaRNARD, Lapy, 103
BaRNARD, WILLIAM F., 56
BarravuLp, A. L., 353
Barriz, J. M., 3, 134, 213, 214, 235,
280, 308, 309, 310, 319, 328, 432,
347, 447, 461
Barry, EvGene, 126, 142, 310
Barry, Jonn D., 403
Barry, Mary, 471
Bartas, SEIGNEUR DU, 116
Bartiett, J. R., 18, 41, 61, 64, 73, 139,
157, 161, 183, 188, 191, 192, 204,
207, 211, 239, 240, 249, 256, 272,
303, 307, 308, 312, 328, 335, 341,
342, 351, 354, 358, 363, 388, 392,
401, 415, 480, 450, 478, 485
Barton, BERNARD, 229, 338
Bates, ARLo, 41, 76, 99, 179, 236, 258,
262, 416
Bates, Hersert, 475
Bates, Lewis J., 76
Bares, Ropert C., 291, 296
Battle oF OTTERBOURNE, 312
BauDELAIRE, CHARLES PIERRE, 10, 232
Bracu, Rex, 41, 211, 269, 320, 334
BEACONSFIELD, Earu or, 26, 58, 110,
145, 200, 217, 289, 324, 377
Beat, SAMUEL, 326
Beattiz, GEORGE, 453
Beattiz, Jamges, 56, 126, 161
Beavucuamp, Mary A., 95, 318
BEAUMARCHAIS, PIERRE AUGUSTINB
CARON DE, 382
Beaumont, Francis, 56, 83, 130, 152,
196, 242, 246, 318, 406, 471
Braumont, Sir Harry, 471
BEAUMONT AND FLeEeTcHer, 6, 20, 23,
30, 31, 47, 48, 52, 60, 61, 72, 73, 76,
79, 97, 102, 106, 109, 113, 116, 122,
126, 132, 138, 144, 146, 152, 154,
159, 168, 179, 195, 225, 230, 236,
238, 241, 249, 256, 271, 284, 288,
293, 309, 311, 324, 341, 344, 351,
358, 366, 375, 383, 390, 392, 397,
401, 406, 427, 435, 444, 458, 459,
465, 471, 476, 483, 485
BEAUREPAIRE, JULES Q. DB, 222, 341
Brecker, CHARLOTTE, 232
Brecon, Tomas, 5
BecqumR, Gustavo A., 15, 375
Beppogs, THomas Lovett, 33, 61, 86,
116, 172, 191, 201, 247, 338
Ber, Bernarp E., 384
BrercHer, Henry Warp, 20, 27, 28,
48, 66, 122, 261, 285, 400
BrecHer, Lyman, 377
Bescuine, Henry CHarves, 223
Berersoum, Max, 3, 125, 411, 459
Beesty, A. H., 1, 24, 33, 168, 188
Bean, ApHra, 2, 17, 48, 61, 64, 78, 91,
103, 130, 138, 142, 159, 170, 254,
320, 332, 353, 400, 404, 478
Beut, Caarues D., 282
Bruui, Hitary, 170
Beuu, R. H., 391
Be.tu, Rosert Mowry, 481
Bengt, STEPHEN VINCENT, 480
BENJAMIN, Park, 471
Bennett, ARNOLD, 64, 403, 429, 442
BENNETT, WILLIAM Cox, 50, 369
BENNETT, Srz WitiiaM §., 406
Benson, ARTHUR C., 122, 200, 459, 465
Benson, Rospert Hues, 268, 406
BENTHAM, JEREMY, 4
Browutr, 33
BERANGER, PIERRE JEAN DE, 353
BERNARD, SaAInt, 15, 20
BERNARD, Sir T., 335
BERNARD, W. BAYLeE, 220
BERNARD, WILLIAM B., 292
BuaaGavaD-Gira, 139
Brsuze. See New TESTAMENT;
TESTAMENT
Brerce, AMBROSE, 15, 26, 28, 47, 90,
93, 116, 133, 141, 178, 187, 248, 292,
303, 334, 353, 367, 396, 406, 430,
464, 485
Brke.as, DEMETRIOS, 323
Bituines, Josu, 4, 6, 11, 56, 69, 71, 73,
85, 90, 109, 132, 145, 155, 169, 170,
187, 190, 192, 196, 200, 202, 216,
228, 234, 245, 242, 264, 270, 272,
280, 289, 297, 303, 304, 326, 333,
344, 389, 426, 432, 452, 486
BrineHam, JoHN A., 215
Binns, Henry B., 451
Binyon, Laurence, 90, 178, 352, 469
Birp, Rosert M., 347
Bisoop, GrorGE, 447
BjoRNSON, BIORNSTIERNE, 55, 145, 156,
OLD
330, 341
Buaxe, Mary E., 168
Buaxe, WiuuraM, 78, 122, 124, 165,
+ 192, 241, 331, 363, 411, 465, 471
Buiackig, JoHN Stuart, 53, 107
Buackuock, THomas, 142, 260, 291, 304,
320, 383, 411
Buacxmore, R. D., 10, 18, 25, 33, 39,
‘41, 59, 72, 80, 88, 144, 148, 151,
161, 165, 170, 171, 172, 174, 177,
182, 192, 195, 216, 227, 229, 232,
233, 241, 265, 268, 308, 310, 315,
325, 335, 342, 344, 355, 369, 376,
380, 381, 387, 388, 389, 895, 397,
399, 401, 402, 411, 432, 448, 449,
459, 460, 461, 463, 487
Buackxwoop, J. H., 170
Xvil
Buarr, Rosert, 80, 103, 256, 304, 399,
416, 420, 455, 458
BLaNcHARD, SAMUEL Laman, 56, 106,
158
Bupssineton, Lapy, 337, 415
BuicHer, Steen §., 101
Burnp, MarTuitpe, 53, 108, 174, 180,
182, 210, 364, 406, 471, 488
Buocr, Louris Jamzs, 48
BuoEepE, GERTRUDE, 449
BLooMFIELD, ROBERT,
447
Buiunt, Epwarp, 43
Buiunt, WILFRED &., 37, 61, 455
Boccaccio, 17, 111, 414, 443
Bocart, 85
Botrarpvo, Martreo M.,, 215
BortEavu, NicHouas, 96
Bonar, Horatius, 376
BonaAvVENTURA, Saint, 66
Boxer, Georce H., 11, 33, 103, 247,
256, 293, 396
Boxe oF Mayp Emtyn, 456
Boots, Epwin, 220
Borpz, ANDREW, 105, 249
Bossvet, Jacques BEnienn, 203
BosweE.t, James, 152
Borta, ANNE C. L., 89
Boucicautt, Dion, 1, 4, 20, 35, 388, 476
BourGeEors, EMILE, 355
Bovuraet, Paut, 48, 55, 236, 394, 449
Bourne, VINCENT, 24
Bovis, C. N., 4, 96, 248, 250, 261, 271,
287, 300, 319, 437, 464
Boyp, THomas, 257
Boyesen, Hsaumar Hyorrua,
233, 344, 459
Boyz, RoBert, 9
Boyse, SAMUEL, 134, 184, 213, 232, 282
Bow.es, CAROLINE, 116
Bow tes, 8. G., 72
BRacKENRIDGE, HueH H., 47
BRADSTREET, ANNE, 10, 483
BraitHwaite, W. &S., 63
BRANDES, GEORGE, 144
BRANN, WILLIAM CoOWPER,
394, 442
BrRaTHWAITE, ROBERT, 358
BREMER, FREDERIKA, 375
Brent, JoHn, 240
Breton, Nicnouas, 84, 261, 481
Brewer, ANTHONY, 445
Bripces, Mapruing. See Ds VERE,
Mary AINGE
Bripces, Mrs. CoLoNngu.
TER, Mrs.
Briveces, Roperr (American), 116, 155,
169, 205, 226
Briveses, Robert (English), 144, 145,
238, 304, 360
Brizux, Evaene, 485
BricHouse, Haro, 46, 71, 231
Bricot, JoHN, 154
Broapuurst, Greorce, 46, 142, 443
191, 355, 380,
56, 99,
95, 298,
See Forrrs-
XVill
Brome, ALEXANDER, 54, 138
Bronson-Howarp, Grorce, 313
Bronté, ANNE, 100, 106, 192, 196
Bronte, CHaruotre, 41, 61, 64, 77,
81, 94, 98, 111, 116, 136, 211, 219,
275, 282, 296, 298, 299, 322, 341,
344, 347, 349, 353, 360, 389, 392,
404, 480, 451, 452, 462, 463, 476,
488
Bronte, Eminy, 50, 142, 243, 246, 270,
284, 322, 337, 442, 453, 471, 485
Bronté, Patrick, 103, 194, 293, 363
BRooKkE, CHARLOTTE, 320
Brooxs, Henry, 112, 169, 182, 201,
305, 332, 455
Brooke, Lorp. See GrevibLeE, FuLKE
Brooke, Rurert, 69, 78
Brooxe, Stoprorp A., 105
Brooxs, Maria G., 33, 402
Brooxs, Puiuiips, 90
Broomn, WILLIAM, 222, 331, 443
BrRotHerton, ALIcE W., 196
Broucu, Rospert B., 435
Brovueuam, Joun, 31, 41, 149, 300, 397
Brown, ALEXANDER, 427
Brown, KATHERINE H., 471
Brown, O. M., 344
Brown, T. D., 404
Brown, Tuomas E., 111
Brown, Tom, 72, 272, 373
Browne, CHARLES Farrar.
ARTEMUS
Browne, Francis F., 404
Browne, M. A., 205
Browne, Sir Tuomas, 182, 199
Browne, WIuurAM, 246, 305, 344, 369
420, 488
Browne, Henry H., 263, 411
Browninec, EvizABETH BARRETT, 9, 12,
19, 20, 26, 33, 41, 46, 49, 56, 59, 60,
61, 69, 74, 77, 81, 86, 92, 94, 96,
98, 103, 104, 106, 110, 115, 116,
117, 122, 124, 126, 139, 145, 151,
152, 159, 171, 172, 174, 176, 182,
186, 187, 189, 195, 198, 200, 206,
207, 212, 216, 224, 227, 229, 236,
239, 246, 257, 263, 267, 268, 270,
279, 282, 284, 285, 288, 299, 302,
303, 305, 308, 315, 319, 320, 322,
324, 332, 333, 339, 340, 347, 348,
349, 351, 360, 363, 366, 369, 373,
378, 389, 392, 394, 395, 399, 424,
A427, 430, 432, 436, 488, 441, 443,
446, 453, 471, 486, 487, 488
Browninec, Ropert, 11, 19, 22, 23, 24,
25, 38, 39, 41, 49, 50, 56, 59, 60, 73,
76, 78, 79, 83, 87, 88, 100, 104, 108,
116, 125, 137, 140, 148, 145, 150,
174, 176, 180, 185, 188, 194, 199,
205, 217, 229, 233, 234, 235, 238,
241, 242, 249, 263, 277, 280, 289,
297, 308, 304, 305, 308, 309, 313,
317, 328, 334, 335, 336, 337, 339,
349, 350, 356, 361, 363, 365, 379,
See Warp,
390, 397, 402, 404,
416, 418, 420, 425, 427, 432, 436,
438, 443, 450, 463, 464, 467, 471
Bruce, MicHar., 127, 161, 246, 305
Bryant, WiLu1AM CULLEN, 7, 15, 59,
92, 127, 138, 139, 148, 149, 176,
180, 184, 196, 205, 235, 264, 285,
290, 321, 324, 328, 376, 386, 394,
404, 406, 419, 459, 461, 462, 464
BucHanan, Rosert, 13, 43, 70, 94, 124,
174, 194, 233, 268, 359, 427, 471
Buck, Cuarues N., 163, 359
Bucxineuam, DUKE oF, 224
BucxsTone, J. B., 348
Buppwa, 88, 290, 340, 349, 428, 432,
446, 447, 448
Burrum, Epwarp G., 95
BuLuEiIn, WiLuIaM, 80
Butwer-Lytron, 1, 5, 8, 14, 15, 17, 22,
23, 26, 30, 33, 38, 50, 56, 68, 65, 67,
72, 76, 77, 78, 81, 83, 84, 94, 98, 107,
109, 110, 117, 133, 141, 145, 149,
151, 156, 159, 176, 183, 192, 208,
210, 212, 219, 223, 224, 236, 229,
243, 251, 254, 260, 263, 270, 273,
276, 278, 280, 282, 288, 305, 312,
319, 320, 332, 333, 342, 344, 348,
359, 365, 367, 368, 369, 373, 375,
380, 381, 386, 387, 389, 391, 392,
395, 399, 416, 423, 426, 427, 432,
438, 440, 448, 447, 455, 457, 465,
467, 468, 471, 476
Bunner, H. C., 25, 56, 59, 81, 91, 98,
111, 141, 181, 204, 283, 234, 254,
259, 298, 324, 344, 356, 388, 392,
401, 403, 406, 418, 420, 439, 461,
471
Bunriine, Neb.
Z.
Burperte, Rosert J., 133
Burcer, Gorrrriep A., 11, 127
Burecess, GELETT, 201, 250, 238, 353
Burke, Epmunp, 140, 228, 314
Burke, W. T., 6
Burnett, Frances Hopeson, 189, 236,
443
Burns, Rosert, 13, 32, 50, 81, 85, 140,
146, 156, 161, 164, 169, 190, 233,
237, 243, 282, 295, 318, 344, 359,
oo 380, 406, 417, 424, 434, 459,
471
Burritt, Exinv, 261
Burrovueus, EuiEn, 309
Burrovueus, Joun, 12, 188, 216,
398
Burton, Henry, 6
Burton, Rosert, 10, 16, 18, 19, 54,
56, 59, 60, 76, 89, 90, 100, 109, 117,
124, 181, 139, 144, 149, 163, 164;
165, 182, 193, 213, 214, 216, 218,
227, 243, 246, 249, 251, 253, 256,
261, 273, 276, 293, 301, 311, 313,
322, 326, 329, 332, 337, 358, 369,
376, 388, 390, 394, 406, 427, 438,
381, 383, 384,
See Jupson, Epwarp
338,
INDEX.
449, 455, 466, 467, 480, 481, 485,
486
Butter, BENJAMIN F. (GENERAL), 88
Burier, Frances ANNE. Sce KemMBLg,.
Frances ANNE
Butter, SaMuEL (1612-1680), 19, 31,
88, 40, 41, 46, 54, 60, 69, 74, 76, 83,
109, 131, 185, 139, 146, 151, 165,
191, 195, 208, 206, 209, 213, 225,
230, 248, 251, 257, 272, 277, 282,
307, 329, 418, 428, 436, 437, 440,
456, 478, 480, 485
Butter, SaMuEL (1835-1902), 107, 208,
355, 423, 4387, 483
Butrier, Witu1amM ALLEN, 42, 73, 142,
156, 251
Burts, Mary Frances, 471
BuxTon, CHARLES, 231
Byrp, WituraM, 68, 86, 369, 411, 434
Brrom, JoHn, 55, 56, 95, 145, 255,
330
Byron, Henry J., 294
Byron, Lorp, 8, 20, 22, 26, 38, 39, 44,
48, 59, 69, 76, 78, 80, 81, 82, 85, 91, 93,
98, 103, 127, 134, 137, 140, 141, 151,
161, 166, 168, 174, 176, 180, 196,
198, 199, 205, 216, 233, 234, 239,
246, 248, 250, 257, 261, 266, 269,
271, 289, 291, 302, 303, 305, 322,
325, 326, 328, 338, 340, 344, 349,
350, 358, 360, 369, 373, 378, 381,
389, 403, 406, 410, 411, 418, 424,
425, 431, 436, 443, 444, 445, 451,
453, 455, 459, 460, 461, 467, 471,
487
CABALLERO, FERNAN, 192, 265, 335, 376,
430
Caine, Haut, 475
Carrp, Joun, 314
CALDERON DE LA Barca, PepRo, 257,
305, 384, 398, 401, 411, 445, 481
Catianan, J. J., 331
CALVERLEY, CHARLES Stuart, 10, 25,
31, 37, 95, 144, 146, 196, 299, 317,
327, 392, 487
Campen, Wiii1am, 201, 230, 273
Camozins, Luiz Vaz DE, 322
CampBELL, THomAs, 7, 30, 33, 42, 61,
81, 100, 124, 147, 158, 270, 332, 382,
387, 395, 399, 427, 458, 476
CaMPBELL, WILLIAM WILFRED, 237, 369,
395, 475
Cannine, Grorar, 398
Canton, Wiiiam, 5, 180
Carpucct, Grosuk, 233, 380, 432, 453
Carew, Tuomas, 308, 353, 369, 406
Carry, MarTHew, 350
CarRLeTon, WILL, 204
Cartyte, Tuomas, 2, 13, 15, 18, 20,
28, 29, 39, 46, 54, 73, 81, 82, 86, 88,
91, 92, 98, 111, 114, 117, 124, 131,
141, 142, 150, 151, 154, 178, 182,
184, 186, 188, 195, 200, 207, 210,
xix
211,
264,
322,
347,
387,
215,
274,
327,
353,
392,
420, 439, 443,
468, 469, 483
Carman, Burss, 10, 42, 58,
185, 206, 218, 220, 256, 266,
336, 351, 352, 376, 385, 389,
401, 406, 418, 456, 469, 471
CARNEGIE, Sir James, 192
Carr, WILLIAM, 223, 332, 364
CaRROLL, Lewis, 49, 181, 482, 488
CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM, 17, 321, 404
Cary, Aticr, 44, 50, 81, 101, 103, 117,
127, 171, 208, 233, 341, 345, 349,
362, 369, 386, 404, 469, 471
Cary, Poa@sez, 70, 300
CaASTELLANI, Enrico L., 117
Castr, GIovANNI Bartrista, 453
CastTLE, AGNES AND EcrErRtoN, 361
Cato, 327
CATULLUS, 298
Cavatcanti, Guipo, 189, 300, 341
Cawprayr, RoBErt, 6, 193, 278, 369
CaweEtin, Mapison, 85, 174, 247, 271,
406, 436
CAWTHORNE, JAMES, 84, 87, 88, 222,
240, 356, 369, 406, 476
Ceci, Str RicHarp, 259, 273
CENTLIVRE, Mrs. Susannag, 8, 256
Crrvantes, Micuet pz, 16, 122, 201,
248, 249, 274, 296
CHALMERS, STEPHEN, 445
CHAMBERS, Robert, 360
CuHamisso, ADELBERT VON, 95, 426
Cuane, L1 Hune. See Lit Hune CHana
CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY, 369
Cuapman, GrorGe, 78, 86, 150, 257,
293, 380, 385, 420, 474
CHARLES, 11, 183
CHARNOCK, STEPHEN, 116
Caarron, P. vz, 90
CHATEAUBRIAND, RENE DE FRANcOoIS,
196, 296, 380
CHATFIELD, Pau, 338
CuattTEerton, THomas, 15, 38, 127, 134,
139, 147, 159, 169, 315, 362, 369,
406, 410, 411, 471
Cuavucrer, GEOFFREY, 20, 28, 33, 38,
56, 61, 72, 81, 83, 106, 127, 135, 139,
140, 161, 165, 166, 223, 229, 231,
233, 237, 241, 254, 256, 268, 271,
282, 303, 305, 315, 328, 342, 345,
355, 365, 386, 389, 391, 392, 395,
406, 411, 416, 418, 420, 436, 457,
467, 468, 471, 487
Curney, JoHN Vancz, 142
CHERBULIEZ, VicTOR, 192
Cu#remon, 159
CuesterR Puays, 169
CHESTERFIELD, EARL or, 136, 224, 229,
238, 254, 261, 335, 338, 366, 458, 481
233,
310,
328,
369,
395,
240,
314,
331,
374,
396,
453,
247,
315,
332,
377,
397,
458,
251,
317,
340,
384,
398,
459,
263,
321,
342,
386,
410,
465,
113, 166,
330,
392,
XxX INDEX,
CHEsTERTON, GiuBERT K., 13, 45, 86,
92, 106, 131, 133, 165, 186, 211, 214,
232, 303, 311, 399, 400, 465
CHINESE, 141, 353, 471.
CHINESE PROVERB, 127, 192
Cuivers, THomas Houser, 37
CarRIsTMas Prince, THE, 207, 259
Curysostom, Saint, 113
CHURCHILL, CHARLES, 159, 257, 267
CHURCHYARD, THomas, 76, 345, 476
CipseER, CoLiey, 68, 69, 122, 131, 152,
217, 307, 353, 420, 458
Cicero, 7, 85
Cuiapp, Henry A., 59, 83, 255, 375, 422
Cuare, JoHN, 199, 453
CuaRK, BapGER, 347
Cuark, JaMEs G., 85
CrarK, W. G., 453
CuLaRKE, HERBERT EpwarpD, 420
CiarKE, JoHN, 183, 207
Cxiaupian, 170
Cray, Henry, 440
CLEANTHES, 96
Ciemens, SamuEL LANGHORNE. See
Twain, Marx
CLEMENT, Saint, 466
Currrorp, Hvueu, 60
Cuiovues, ArTrHuR Hueu, 442
Cuiymer, Evia D., 61
Coss, Irvin S., 20, 29, 45, 49, 63, 78,
90, 95, 114, 122, 137, 138, 145, 148,
154, 186, 217, 220, 263, 274, 276,
281, 301, 322, 333, 338, 340, 357,
366, 374, 377, 379, 380, 387, 416,
471
Coxes, Sir Epwarp, 227
CoLeRIDGE, Harter, 33, 161, 239, 286,
322, 406, 453, 455, 466, 488
CoLERIDGE, SaMuEL Taytor, 4, 14, 22,
26, 38, 42, 52, 53, 54, 56, 61, 78, 94,
99, 100, 115, 127, 131, 133, 173, 174,
188, 206, 208, 209, 233, 241, 251,
260, 285, 293, 305, 308, 313, 325,
329, 333, 349, 352, 356, 364, 369,
387, 389, 395, 406, 411, 456, 476
Coxprivasr, Sara, 414
Courier, JEREMY, 8, 113, 247
Coutins, Mortimer, 127
Couuins, WILKIE, 107, 298, 392,
444, 480
Cou.ins, WiLu1aM, 24, 76
CouiyerR, Rosert, 341
Cotman, GEORGE, THE ELDER, 60
Cotman, GEORGE, THE YOUNGER, 7, 20,
53, 60, 65, 105, 246, 260, 267, 274,
293, 313, 322, 357
Corton, C. C., 1, 18, 48, 70, 71, 74, 93,
110, 111, 112, 113, 132, 164, 213,
218, 243, 251, 264, 273, 279, 298,
300, 313, 314, 331, 357, 423, 487,
441, 442, 444, 455, 457
Comrort, WiLL Lrevineton, 159
Cons, Hewen G., 42, 43, 126, 246
Conrucius, 87, 222, 385, 458
400,
ConGREVE, WittraMm, 9, 10, 33, 42, 74,
135, 139, 198, 200, 203, 209, 219,
224, 241, 243, 299, 311, 338, 354,
375, 388, 396, 442, 448, 455, 463,
481
Conrap, JosEepH, 9, 11, 19, 20, 22, 25,
26, 32, 39, 44, 82, 83, 95, 105, 112,
116, 122, 124, 134, 140, 174, 180,
189, 190, 200, 209, 210, 212, 213,
214, 239, 241, 247, 248, 255, 258,
271, 287, 293, 296, 297, 303, 307,
310, 315, 317, 319, 324, 329, 343,
360, 361, 373, 374, 383, 387, 389,
391, 396, 404, 424, 426, 427, 429,
443, 444, 451, 455, 462, 465, 469,
480
Conrap, Rosert T., 159
ConsciENcE, Henprik, 300
ConsTaBLE, Henry, 50, 117, 237
Conway, Moncure D., 288
Cook, Euiza, 30, 32, 38, 39, 40, 50, 52,
81, 82, 101, 117, 124, 138, 152, 161,
169, 172, 197, 222, 291, 296, 314,
332, 334, 342, 345, 347, 349, 356,
358, 411, 418, 432, 438, 463, 476
Cook, JoszepH, 264
Coox, Witii1am, 443
Cooke, Grace MacGowan, 229
Cooke, Ross T., 279
Cootiper, Susan. See Saran CHAUNCEY
Woo.LsEy
Cooper, J. Fenimore, 6, 7, 41, 82, 150,
156, 168, 170, 176, 177, 191, 221,
233, 237, 270, 336, 381, 488
Cooprr, JoHN GILBERT, 48, 49, 238,
296, 345, 380, 406, 463
Corpse, Francois, 307
Corset, RicHarp, 275, 342
Corsin, JoHN, 94
Cornwatt, Barry, 4, 11, 26, 28, 32,
33, 50, 117, 127, 156, 246, 249, 259,
266, 372, 376, 411, 432
Cortissoz, Mrs. E. M. H., 94, 345,
391
Coryatr, THomas, 404
Corton, CHARLES, 14
Cotton, NaTHANIEL, 2, 127, 133, 321,
340, 390, 412, 437
CouLevain, Prerre pz, 69, 202, 271
Coventry Mysteriss, 349
Cowan, Frank, 397
Cow.ey, Aprawam, 2, 81, 142, 164,
243, 270, 271, 379, 389, 412, 417,
442, 448, 465, 479
Cowrrr, Witu1am, 15, 20, 24, 30, 33,
39, 52, 66, 85, 100, 104, 106, 107,
108, 110, 124, 133, 136, 146, 156,
161, 165, 169, 194, 214, 230, 248,
256, 295, 302, 312, 325, 341, 344,
354, 368, 369, 374, 397, 412, 431,
432, 435, 436, 446, 450, 462, 463
Cox, Sanrorp, 380, 422
Pe: Freperice §S., 180, 303, 362,
1
INDEX,
CraBBE, Greorce, 42, 101, 230, 296, 477
Craic, Isa, 364, 369
Craix,Mrs. See Mutock, Dinan MARIA
Craneg, STEPHEN, 78, 80, 102, 139, 173,
218, 337, 391, 397, 405
CrasHaw, WILLIAM, 349
CrawForp, F. Marion, 274, 359
CRAWFORD, Josn, 50, 133
Crawrorp, Rosert, 351
Criveca@ur, J. H. Sr. J. pz, 299
Crockett, Davin, 253
Crouy, GrorceE, 240, 336
Crostanp, T. W. H., 90, 180
Cross, Mary Ann Evans (LEewss).
See Exiot, GEorcE
Crowtey, ALEISTER, 54, 475
CROXALL, SAMUEL, 132
CucHULAIN, 38, 186, 312
CuMBERLAND, RicHarpD, 13, 61, 102,
112, 145, 219, 282, 308, 342, 370, 438
CunnincHaM, ALLAN, 61, 77, 82, 335
CUNNINGHAM, JOHN, 50, 52, 418, 477
Curran, JoHN P., 157
Curriz, Lapy. See Fang, VIOLET
Curtis, GEoRGE W., 115, 148, 310, 316,
401, 435
Curtis, WILLIAM E., 432
CusTER, EvizaBetH B., 420
Dasney, Ricwarp, 276
Date, ALAN, 9
D’AtemBertT. See ALEMBERT
Dain, OLoFr von, 437
Datuias, ALEXANDER R. C., 88
Dana, RicHarp Henry (1787-1879),
115, 170, 315
Dana, Ricwarp Henry (1815-1882),
47, 94, 282 ;
Dansy, FRANK, 238
DANIEL, SAMUEL, 253
Danish PrRovers, 221, 477
D’Annunzio, GABRIEL, 19, 22, 79, 117,
139, 178, 210, 235, 338, 353, 459, 487
Dante, 5, 17, 99, 108, 147, 308, 339,
360, 374, 376, 386, 431, 469
Darcan, Otive TriLForp, 85
Dar.ey, Gerorce, 50, 74, 186, 305,
351, 370, 398, 412, 463
DaRMESTETER, AGNES M. F., 260, 303,
337
Darwin, CHARLES R., 32, 280
Darwin, Erasmus, 345
Davupst, ALPHONSE, 22, 38, 52, 96, 111,
117, 151, 170, 178, 219, 232, 313, 324,
365, 372, 424, 437, 456
DaveEnNAntT, Sir Wim, 42, 76, 108,
132, 161, 221, 295, 298, 370, 406, 444
Davenport, R., 279, 333, 367
Davipson, JoHn, 24, 86, 98, 108, 115,
144, 159, 207, 248, 376, 384, 385, 406
Davies, JoHn, 152, 194, 220, 233, 365,
401
Davies, Sir Jon, 26, 250, 356, 467
Davies, THomas, 359
Davis, Fanniz Stearns, 391
Davis, JoHn, 293, 324
Davis, Ricuarp Harpine, 405, 446
Davis, THomas Ossorne, 56, 147, 392
Dawes, Rurus, 236:
Dawson, WituiAM J., 375
Day, Epwarp Parsons, 4, 28, 75, 311
Day, Joun, 15, 34, 49, 168, 246, 271,
278
Derorz, Danrst, 34, 91, 316, 387
Dz Forzst, Joun W., 257
Dexxer, THomas, 9, 49, 50, 157, 165,
168, 240, 280, 282, 305, 334, 336,
376, 412, 475, 481
Drtanp, MARGARET, 387
De ta Ramen, Louise. See Ovurpa
Devevantse, MicHak., 213
Detta. See Morr, Davin Macseta
Demopruitus, 4, 52, 97, 110, 145, 157,
164, 165, 203, 221, 251, 261, 263,
291, 299, 311
De Morgan, WittiaM, 62, 190
DemostTHENEs, 378
Dr Musset, ALFRED, 241
DenuaM, S1r Joun, 2, 6, 14, 41, 224
Denuam, M. A., 468
Dennis, Joun, 53, 63, 307, 486
Derew, CHAUNCEY M., 249
Dz Quincey, 7, 19, 45, 62, 88, 158, 182,
184, 215, 217, 258, 338, 351, 410, 448
DerRMopy, THomas, 111
Desnoyrers, Lovis, 172
Dre Tasiey, Lorp, 19, 31, 32, 34, 36,
42, 43, 58, 76, 99, 115, 125, 183,
138, 158, 161, 165, 168, 170, 180,
226, 230,.231, 271, 278, 282, 286,
290, 295, 298, 311, 317, 327, 334,
378, 379, 388, 406, 428, 437, 466,
477
De Vere, AuBREY, 20, -23, 25, 34, 40,
61, 70, 81, 99, 104, 117, 151, 192,
200, 268, 269, 305, 310, 317, 318,
326, 345, 350, 353, 386, 406, 412,
425, 430, 433, 440, 456, 459, 461,
463, 471, 476
De VERE, Mary AINGE, 125, 419
DHAMMAPADA, 424
Dispen, CHarues, JR., 147
Dickens, CHAR es, 10, 15, 20, 22, 23,
27, 31, 39, 42, 44, 46, 52, 53, 56, 59,
61, 62, 63, 69, 74, 76, 78, 81, 82, 83,
94, 95, 98, 100, 105, 106, 109, 114,
145, 151, 161, 169, 171, 172, 177,
179, 186, 189, 196, 198, 201, 205,
208, 210, 212, 217, 220, 236, 260,
274, 276, 280, 282, 286, 293, 296,
308, 309, 316, 317, 328, 329, 334,
340, 345, 351, 353, 358, 359, 361,
364, 365, 372, 376, 379, 382, 388,
392, 401, 418, 421, 426, 444, 453,
455, 466, 471, 480
Dickinson, Emity, 104
Dickinson, JONATHAN, 388
Dickinson, Marrtua G., 314
XXL
Dickson, 8. H., 376
Dipgerot, Denis, 230, 340
Ditton, Wentworty, 34, 421
Diogenes LAERTIUS, 85, 186, 228, 378
Disraru. See BEACONSFIELD, EARL OF
Drxiz, Lapy Fiorence, 236
Dospett, Sypney, 106, 127, 158, 159,
233, 241, 285, 322, 398, 475
Dogson, Austin, 20, 24, 37, 53, 117,
161, 168, 169, 237, 279, 323, 341,
351, 361, 370, 383, 421
Dover, Henry Irvine, 167, 450
Dopeson, CHarRLes LutwincE. See
Carrout, Lewis
Domett, ALFRED, 168, 412 *
Donne, Joun, 55, 226, 366, 386, 436
Donne.ty, Ignatius, 374
Doran, Dr. Jonn, 34, 105, 178, 305,
335, 376, 381, 404, 406, 426
Dorr, Jui C. R., 49, 61, 65, 70, 127,
171, 174, 199, 209, 286, 305, 361,
370, 372, 389
Dorset, Earu or, 12, 479
Dostorvsky, Fryvopor M.., 182, 201, 216
Dovetas, GAWAIN, 34, 234, 430
Dovetas, WiLtiaM, 38, 425
Dowpen, Epwarp, 136, 161, 337, 359
Downe, BARTHOLOMEW, 85, 270, 468
Downey, W. S., 52, 101, 348, 475, 481
Dowson, Ernest, 38, 370, 430
Dore, Sir ARTHUR Conan, 2, 10, 20,
40, 59, 142, 157, 174, 196, 248, 285,
304, 354, 404, 414, 420, 453
Dore, Sir Francis, 141, 239, 424, 436
Drake, JoserpH Ropman, 11, 147, 152,
176, 305, 365, 412
Draper, JoHn W., 92
Drayton, Micuaet, 50, 159, 219, 238,
259, 260, 370, 397
Drummonp, WILLIAM, 124, 194, 231, 250
Drypen, Joun, 6, 9, 15, 16, 23, 26, 30,
34, 40, 50, 94, 103, 109, 113, 132, 152,
155, 157, 159, 179, 184, 187, 188,
203, 204, 206, 209, 220, 223, 233,
248, 238, 248, 251, 261, 277, 282,
285, 296, 328, 340, 348, 349, 350,
354, 359, 373, 376, 380, 382, 385,
389, 394, 405, 421, 424, 431, 436,
438, 446, 458
Do Barras, SEIGNEUR, 116
Duperon, WiuLiaM, 194
Duer, Atice. Sce M1LLer, ALICE DUER
Durrerin, Lapy, 195
Durry, Sir Cuartes Gavan, 180, 288,
302, 423
Duxg, RicHarp, 152, 191, 241, 296, 381,
442
Dumas, Pere, 5, 20, 37, 40, 42, 50, 58,
66, 71, 81, 82, 92, 95, 103, 104, 107,
117, 137, 143, 148, 167, 169, 173,
178, 189, 197, 198, 204, 216, 217,
227, 238, 255, 264, 265, 270, 271,
278, 281, 282, 285, 286, 288, 291,
801, 303, 320, 321, 323, 338, 340,
INDEX.
341, 351, 370, 385, 388, 391, 401,
433, 443, 455, 471, 475, 480, 487
Du Maurier, Georce, 49, 212, 365,
370, 397
Dunspar, Pavut Laurence, 52,
144, 156, 345, 407, 463
Dunrar, Wii, 34, 56, 75, 161, 335,
472
Dunuap, Wiuuram, 444
Dunne, Frintey Peter, 116, 192
Duwnsany, Lorp, 379
Durrey, Tom, 24
Durr, R. C., 187
Dwient, TimotHy, 85
Dyer, Joun, 80, 126
131,
Earuz, Bisror Joun, 31, 135
Ecuracaray, Jos#, 137, 455
Eppa, Tue Exper, 13
Eppy, ARTHUR JEROME, 93
Eparen, Rosert, 93, 414, 430
Epwarps, ALBERT, 416
Epwarps, Osman, 65
Erxnoup, GEorcss, 292, 485
Ecan, Mavrice Francis, 117, 349
Eaan, Pierce, 64, 186, 241, 388
Eacieston, Epwarp, 168
Eeyptian, 213
EICHENDORFF, JOSEPH VON, 327, 472
Extot, Grorcz, 23, 45, 51, 60, 77, 81,
87, 94, 95, 97, 105, 117, 133, 136,
146, 158, 161, 165, 169, 171, 189, 195,
199, 203, 205, 215, 218, 222, 225, 231,
241, 248, 258, 262, 273, 288, 290, 293,
310, 314, 317, 318, 319, 320, 332, 337,
344, 349, 353, 354, 357, 361, 364, 366,
370, 396, 401, 412, 414, 421, 424, 431,
438, 445, 450, 453, 456, 477, 481
Exuiotr, Esenezer, 13, 15, 94, 146,
170, 180, 185, 207, 284
Euuis, GEorcr, 486
Euuis, HavetocK, 328
Euuis, JAMES, 438
Exuuison, Henry Brown, 241, 361
E.iswortu, Erastus W., 448
ELLWANceER, GrorceEe H., 195
Etyot, Srr T., 404
Emerson, Rate Watpo, 5, 9, 15, 16,
25, 31, 43, 48, 50, 56, 69, 95, 102,
110, 113, 117, 134, 146, 151, 156,
158, 159, 161, 165, 168, 199, 209,
214, 221, 227, 231, 251, 267, 277,
290, 303, 337, 345, 349, 361, 370,
375, 378, 399, 407, 419, 429, 447,
458, 459, 475, 476, 478, 486
EnewisH Bauuap, 38, 40, 50, 103, 105,
106, 116, 124, 154, 161, 236, 324, 330,
464, 470
EncuLisH PRovers, 12, 13, 17, 19, 172,
195, 216, 224, 259, 308, 421
Encuisa Sone, 254
EpicHarmus, 254
Epictetus, 157, 450
Erse, ANCIENT, 51, 117, 127, 365, 472
INDEX.
Evripwes, 11, 360, 367, 469
Evans, A. B., 26
Eve yn, Jon, 356
Ewine, MARGARET, 282
Fazer, FREDERICK Wiuiam, 15, 20,
34, 37, 107, 142, 161, 163, 175, 180,
215, 282, 310, 325, 353, 370, 374,
391, 404, 421, 427, 439, 446, 472
Fauy, Francois A., 117, 264, 305
FaLconer, WILLIAM, 127, 370, 407
Fane, Sir F., 228
Fane, VIOLET, 118, 201, 262
FARNOL, JEFFREY, 320
Farquaar, 47, 75, 76, 80, 216, 233, 294,
395, 420, 440, 474, 481
Fawcett, Epear, 49, 462
Fawkes, Francis, 34, 40, 127, 161, 180,
187, 260, 285, 291, 323, 338, 353, 360,
365, 395, 442
Fay, Turopvore §., 430
Fazit-Bey, 237
FELTHAM, Owen, 251, 488
Feuton, C. C., 225
Frnouiosa, Mary M., 82
Fenton, Evian, 147, 186, 260
Ferper, Epna, 239
Fercuson, Sir Samueu, 51, 310,
386
FERROLL, Paun, 175
Ficxs, Artruur D., 61
Fretp, Evcene, 209, 293, 301, 329, 349,
423, 481
Frevp, Kate, 217
Fretp, MicHak., 316, 341, 362
Fretp, NaTHANIEL, 83, 105
Fietp, Rosweiut M., 476
Fieitpine, Henry, 93, 95, 96, 106, 111,
165, 190, 198, 201, 212, 213, 224,
233, 248, 248, 282, 294, 316, 345,
355, 368, 396, 401, 439, 459, 479
Fieips, Jamts T., 71, 388
Ficcis, DaRRrEL, 190
Finck, Henry T., 104, 134, 189
Finn, Henry J., 273
Frirpavust, 22, 51, 82, 147, 246
Fitcu, Grorce, 237, 410
FitzGeRaLp, Epwarp, 198
Fiace, Epwarp Octavus, 102, 362, 424
Frage, James Monteomery, 199
FLaTMAN, THomas, 254
FLauBert, Gustave, 34, 64, 76, 101,
168, 175, 182, 209, 210, 214, 222, 265,
282, 310, 327, 341, 345, 361, 365, 367,
379, 380, 396, 410, 419, 445, 453, 456
Fuiscxnor, Ricwarp, 440
Fiercuer, AntTHony, 9, 208, 323, 451
Firrcuer, Giies, 51, 345, 453
Fietcuer, Joun, 26, 34, 127, 133, 274
FietcHer, Poineas, 20, 243, 267, 453,
472
Fietrcner, R., 24
Fouenco, THEOFILO, 243
Fouteer, Atice A., 127
367,
XXII
Footsz, SaMuEL, 20, 198, 204, 209, 293,
298, 339
Forsy, Rogert, 227
Forp, James L., 10
Forp, Jon, 7, 19, 49, 71, 78, 89, 169,
171, 205, 206, 247, 272, 305, 320, 337,
376, 395, 396, 399, 407, 451
Forp, S. Gertrupe, 161, 180
Forp, SrweExz, 163, 180, 293, 323, 445
Forp, Simeon, 95, 215
Forest, Joun W. vz, 99, 139
Forsster, Fanny, 289, 325, 439
Forrester, Mrs., 152, 343
Fortserre, 298
Foss, Sam Watter, 42, 169, 227
Fostrer, Joun, 339, 488
Founpuine Hosprrrau ror Wit (1743),
60, 71, 275, 422, 451
Fow.er, Exvten THORNEYCROFT,
336
Fox, Caartes Jamss, 478
Fox, Joun, 342
France, ANATOLE, 11, 105, 122, 204
FRANKLIN, Bensamin, 111, 156,
205, 267, 293, 360, 367, 384
Fraser, Ropert W., 195
Freperic, Harotp, 240
FREDERICK THE GREAT, 9, 200, 259
Freeman, H. B., 127
FReEILIGRATH, FERDINAND, 331, 376
Frencu, Francis M., 463
Frenco PRovers, 319
FRENEAU, Puriuip, 77, 167, 276, 412
Frere, Joun Hooxuam, 76, 487
Frost, THomas, 416
Frouprt, JAMes AnTHony, 84, 124, 216,
293, 299, 455, 484
Futter, THomas, 4, 228, 240, 254, 258,
277, 291, 435
Futter, THomas, M.D., 142, 464
FuLweLt, Uurian, 189
145,
194,
,
GasorrAu, Emi.e, 446
Gate, Norman, 42, 106, 118, 226, 345,
361, 468, 472
Gauge, Zona, 353
GaLswortHy, JoHN, 205, 272
GaMMER GuRTON’s NEEDLE, 202
GANNETT, WILLIAM CHANNING, 297, 360
Garsoc, ARNE, 359, 453
GaRDINER, JAMES H., 67, 391
GaRLanp, Hamuin, 26, 151, 194, 205,
239, 309, 312, 330, 366, 380, 398
Garnett, Ricuanrp, 316, 378, 472
Garrick, Davin, 51, 302, 415, 486
Garrison, THEopos1A, 359
GaRRISON, WiLuiAM Luoyp, 194, 442
GartH, SAMUEL, 97 ;
Gascorange, GrorcE, 118, 147, 172, 223,-.
279, 365, 436
GasKELL, Mrs., 52, 64
Gautier, THEOPHILE, 25, 118, 127,
175, 249, 284, 300, 305, 320, 349,
443, 462
XXIV
Gay, Joun, 17, 19, 22, 37, 38, 55, 69,
106, 155, 164, 180, 192, 222, 233,
248, 301, 325, 328, 338, 358, 365,
370, 375, 411, 445, 457, 463, 469,
477
GerpeLt, Franz EMANUEL vVoN, 372,
416
GEOGHEGAN, Mary, 179
Grorcn, Henry, 408
GrorceE, Lyman F., 397
Gracosa AND Iuuica, 127
Gipson, Epwarp; 316, 325
Grsson, WiLu1amM Hamitton, 171, 354
Grrrorp, WILuiraM, 411
GiuBert, Sir Witit1aAm ScHWENK, 23,
42, 78, 85, 159, 199, 211, 216, 291,
805, 385, 407, 424, 436, 437, 447,
468
GivperR,: RicHarp Watson, 51
GILFILLAN, GEORGE, 269
GiLmMorE, JAMES R., 130
GiILmMorE, MINNIE, 372
GIRARDIN, MADAME DE, 215
Gissine, GEorcE, 180.
GLADSTONE, WILLIAM Ewart, 250
GLAENZER, RicHARD BuTLER, 438
GuoverR, Ricwarp, 73, 81, 142, 162,
305, 407, 447
Gtynpon, Howarp. See SEARING,
Laura R.
Gosineau, JosEePH A. DE, 118, 140, 185
Gopwin, WIuLiaM, 453
GoeTHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON, 34,
47, 78, 103, 142, 159, 161, 169, 178,
180, 214, 256, 271, 282, 305, 308,
311, 326, 331, 336, 373, 374, 388,
405, 412, 431, 453
Gogot, Nrixouar V., 25, 258, 459, 476,
485
GoupBERG, R. L., 46
Go.tpsmitH, Ouiver, 1; 11, 30, 64, 75,
89, 115, 118, 164, 203, 207, 209, 215,
216, 243, 251, 253, 270, 314, 353,
388, 418, 440, 447, 472
GoncHarov, Ivan, 49, 423
Goncourt, EDMOND AND JULES DE, 99,
417
Goopwin, J. CHEEvER, 74, 248
Gorpon, Apam Linpsay, 381
Gossn, Epmunp, 118, 167, 168, 237,
287, 329, 353, 446, 448, 463, 466,
477
Gosson, Stepuen, 5, 64
Gower, Joun, 47, 330, 381
Gracian, BautTasar, 45
GRAEME, James, 56
Grar, ArTuRo, 125
GRAHAME, JAMES, 138, 158, 202
GraHaME, KENNETH, 424
GRAINGER, JAMES, 342
Grance, Joun, 105, 356
GRANGER, FRANCIS
Hitt, Heapon
Grant, Rosert, 79
Epwarp. See
INDEX,
GRANVILLE, GEorRGE, 7, 158, 193, 211}
407, 411
Graves, ALFRED PERCEVAL, 51
Gray, Cuaruss, 407
Gray, Davip, 176, 182
Gray, Tuomas, 73, 85
Grerne, Rosert, 12, 37, 51, 110, 118,
127, 179, 193, 237, 259, 260, 273, 390
GREENWELL, Dora, 159, 364
Greaory, Lapy, 193
Grecory oF Nazianzus, 320
GREVILLE, CHARLES CAVENDISH FULKE,
48, 300
Grierson, FRANCIS, 437
GrirFIn, GERALD, 124, 185, 295, 352,
370
GrirriTtH, FRANK CARLOS, 122, 276
GriswoLp, Rurus W., 213
Grose, Francis, 76, 94, 188, 274
Grove, Henry, 192
GrusB-STREET JOURNAL, 479
Gusrin, Grorces Maurice bE, 488
GUITERMAN, ARTHUR, 127, 130
Guu, Raneer, 91, 178
GuwnsauLus, FrRanK W., 124, 316
Gustavus ADoLPHUS, 435
Gursriz, J. §., 113, 118, 367
Harcxet, Ernst H., 380
Hariz, Pasua, 312
Harz, Suirazi, 299, 345, 428
Hacoromo, 474
Hake, Epwarp, 159, 434
Haxe, T. Gorpon, 168, 237, 275, 391
Hare, Mrs. Saraw J., 109, 468
HaLevi, Jupau, 308, 407, 416
Haus&vy, Lupovic, 86 :
Hauisurton, THoMAS CHANDLER. See
Stick, Sam
Hauirax, Marquis or, 259
Haut, Bisuorp Joseru, 49, 230, 315, 370,
428
Hauu, Mrs. Lourse B., 42
Hatuiam, ARTHUR HENnrRy, 44, 175, 262,
325, 424
Hauitecx, Firz-Greene, 42, 60, 94,
102, 122, 193, 376, 395, 449
HALLIweE.i-Puiuuipps, James O., 337
Hatuocx, CHarves, 135, 387
Hawpinge, CHARLES GRAHAM.
O’ReILty, Mitrs
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, 4
Hamitron, ANTHONY, 56, 167, 303, 316,
365, 448, 452, 487
Hamitton, Crayton, 16, 456
Hamitton, Ian, 305
Hamitron, Wiuuiam, 241
Hammonp, JAMEs, 34
HarBen, Wit N., 108
Harsinetron, WILLIAM, 203, 339, 341,
412
Harcourt, Crrit, 216, 423
Harpy, Tuomas, 11, 37, 56, 59, 60,
87, 94, 95, 98, 107, 141, 148, 171,
Sce
INDEX,
177,
318,
179, 198, 199, 248, 281,
376, 378, 391, 404, 425,
431, 463, 466
Hare, Juutrus CHares, 75, 96,
197, 217, 261, 296, 386, 446, 479
Harney, WILLIAM Wa.uacsg, 175, 325,
407
Harpur, CHares, 40, 174, 312, 396,
439, 463
Harrineton, Joun, 51, 118, 237
Harris, Frank, 15, 309
Harris, JoEL CHanpuerR, 291, 334, 368
HARRISON, FREDERIC, 286
Hartz, Francis Bret, 45, 182, 241,
293, 303, 359, 424, 469, 487
Harte, WALTER, 14, 24, 55, 71, 88, 127,
209, 241, 260, 261, 276, 314, 339,
362, 431, 434, 451, 479
Harte, Witi1am, 399
Hartman, Franz, 448
Harvey, Ricwarp, 449
Haskins, JAMES, 25
Hastines, Tuomas, 176
Havueuton, WIiuiiaMm, 141
HauprmMann, Geruart, 74, 147, 401
Havarp, WILu1aM, 72
Hawes, STEPHEN, 370
Hawker, Ropert STEPHEN, 55
HawTHORNE, NATHANIEL, 15, 17, 42,
56, 93, 99, 105, 107, 112, 116, 124,
158, 178, 180, 194, 198, 204, 210,
214, 215, 256, 268, 272, 295, 296,
301, 303, 305, 320, 341, 352, 361,
384, 395, 400, 405, 419, 439, 440,
445, 447, 453, 462, 463, 474, 476
Hay, Heven. See WHITNEY, HELEN Hay
Hay, Joun, 100, 221, 357, 477
Hayes, ALFRED, 485
Hayes, Epna P. C., 113
Hayes, JoHN R., 282
Hayne, Paut Hamiuton, 5, 9, 10, 44,
100, 109, 112, 139, 144, 162, 173,
176, 185, 210, 224, 305, 349, 370,
376, 391, 407, 430, 453, 472
Hazurtt, WiLtu1amM Carew, 183, 401
Hazurr, Wiuuram, 4, 30, 37, 43, 142,
149, 151, 168, 169, 170, 238, 272,
342, 457
Heap, ALFRED, 333
Hearn, Larcapio, 258, 281, 434, 467
Heats, RosBert, 26, 106, 328
Heser, BisHop REGINALD,
260, 320, 356
HeEDDERWICK, JAMES, 52
Heean, Avice CALDWELL, 320, 339
Heace, Rospert, 243
HeverMans, HERMAN, JR., 349
Heine, Heinricu, 79, 90, 118,
206, 254, 266, 454
Hextrorp, Henry, 127
Herp to Discourse, 106, 333
Hers, ARTHUR, 244
HELVEtTivs, 63
HENDERSON, CHARLES, 450, 468
312,
429,
187,
182, 205,
127,
xXV
Hentey, Wiutram Ernest, 20, 21, 53,
123, 144, 158, 167, 175, 180, 309,
323, 345, 368, 370, 381, 424, 443
Henry, Marruew, 19, 355
Henry, O., 8, 20, 23, 29, 32, 46, 56, 77,
80, 118, 134, 189, 142, 154, 174, 185,
191, 199, 210, 227, 228, 235, 240,
255, 259, 269, 275, 296, 297, 301,
302, 303, 315, 325, 329, 350, 359,
372, 374, 386, 389, 392, 421, 429,
431, 440, 441, 447, 449, 459, 462,
477, 484, 487
Hewssaw, BisHor JoHN Prentiss Kew-
LEY, 231
Hersert, Georce, 13
Hererorp, W. R., 312
Herrorp, Ouiver, 441
Heron-Auiten, Epwarp, 9
Herrick, Rosert (American), 419
Herricsx, Rogert, 1, 32, 51, 55, 69,
127, 131, 134, 137, 166, 174, 190,
285, 296, 344, 354, 376, 377, 407,
468
Hertz, Henrix, 180, 390
Hervey, D. M., 407
Hervey, Tuomas Kissie, 34, 451
Hestop, 171, 370
Hewitt, Mary Euzasetu, 99,.
305, 382, 424
Hewett, Maurice, 3, 12, 43, 56, 59,
65, 76, 80, 84, 106, 118, 122, 123,
189, 190, 219, 224, 234, 244, 249,
252, 255, 256, 265, 288, 292, 311,
316, 326, 332, 336, 350, 358, 366,
373, 388, 402, 404, 414
Heywoop, Joun, 37, 63, 101, 114, 193,
256, 258, 300, 323, 324, 329, 342,
360, 478
Heyrwoop, Tuomas, 20, 60, 68, 85, 113,
185, 194, 202, 229, 273, 314, 339,
364, 365, 370, 380, 388, 460, 468,
472
H.H. See Jackson, Heren Hunt
Hicuens, Rospert, 214, 377
Hickey, Emity H., 407, 4386
Hiceinson, THomas WENTWoRTH, 169,
381
Hitpretu, C. L., 398
Hriut, Aaron, 165, 182, 216, 238, 257,
260, 275, 277, 312, 328, 370, 407, 479
Hit, Apams §., 417, 427
Hitt, Grorce BrrKsecr, 382
Hii, G. T., 179
Hitt, Heapon, 118
HiutitHovse, James A.,
476
Hinxson, Katueritne Tynan, 407
Hipponax, 484
Histop, ALEXANDER, 240
HitopapeEsa, 28, 252, 475, 482
Hosses, THomas, 112
HoFFENSTEIN, SAMUEL, 159, 364
HorrMan, CHARLES Frenno, 147, 169,
316
154,
44, 286, 395,
XXvi
HorrMann, Ernest THEODOR AMADEUS,
469
Hoaa, James, 26, 40, 137, 244, 316,
396, 487
Housere, Lupvie, 145
Ho.ucomse, WILLIAM HARTLEY, 48
Hotucrort, THomas, 16, 100, 106, 210
Houianp, Jos1sanw GILBERT, 7, 83, 151,
180, 193, 197, 209, 226, 244, 288,
296, 313, 358, 359, 385, 436, 472,
475
Ho.uanp, Lavy, 435
Hoimes, OuIveR WENDELL, 14, 17, 19,
24, 26, 27, 32, 34, 42, 46, 57, 59, 62,
64, 65, 68, 69, 83, 98, 95, 101, 104,
105, 108, 118, 122, 124, 181, 134,
136, 188, 141, 142, 145, 146, 151,
152, 154, 158, 162, 166, 168, 169,
170, 175, 176, 177, 180, 182, 193,
198, 202, 206, 207, 210, 211, 227,
228, 230, 235, 236, 238, 239, 240,
241, 242, 247, 252, 257, 260, 271,
272, 275, 279, 281, 293, 297, 303,
304, 305, 313, 317, 318, 322, 332,
336, 337, 339, 345, 348, 350, 352,
353, 355, 360, 361, 362, 368, 370,
373, 377, 382, 383, 384, 387, 388,
394, 407, 414, 415, 416, 423, 424,
433, 486, 441, 447, 452, 456, 461,
463, 464, 467, 469, 472, 482, 486
Home, F. Wrvitie, 283
Home, Joun, 6, 43
Homer, 30, 54, 68, 100, 102, 108, 127,
139, 179, 180, 185, 189, 195, 213,
242, 252, 268, 281, 311, 317, 319,
331, 345, 382, 389, 403, 407, 412,
417, 421, 445, 452, 466
Honest Lawyer, THE (1616), 216
Hoop, Tuomas, 2, 12, 17, 20, 23, 25,
28, 30, 32, 38, 39, 41, 44, 50, 53,
55, 59, 62, 69, 76, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84,
91, 94, 95, 100, 102, 104, 106, 110,
116, 118, 127, 149, 150, 155, 156,
158, 163, 170, 180, 187, 191, 198,
206, 217, 222, 226, 231, 236, 241,
260, 262, 268, 283, 284, 285, 292,
293, 304, 321, 325, 327, 328, 329,
330, 331, 337, 340, 341, 347, 348,
353, 357, 358, 359, 360, 367, 370,
373, 377, 378, 379, 380, 382, 384,
385, 387, 391, 397, 399, 401, 403,
405, 414, 416, 421, 424, 428, 429,
433, 434, 436, 439, 444, 448, 453,
454, 459, 464, 472, 477, 486, 487
Hooxsr, Brian, 124
Hooxer, THomas, 302
Horr, AntHony, 396
Hope, Laurence, 118, 237, 283, 412
Hopkins, Gurarp T., 15
Horxins, Lemvus., 180, 411
Hopper, Nora, 203, 227, 407
Horacs, 81, 127, 164, 217, 282, 395,
452, 476
HornsBiLow, ARTHUR, 445
INDEX.
Horne, Ricwarp Henerst, 20, 112,
198, 327, 364, 380
Hornune, Ernest Witt1am, 34, 300
HorriwGe, Frank, 165, 454
Hovceuton, Lorp. See Mitnes, RicHaARD
Monckton
Housman, ALFRED EpwAgp, 97, 104, 178,
258, 279, 322, 345
Housman, Laurence, 172
Hovssayre, Arsenn, 14, 45, 53, 63,
67, 244, 283, 287, 309, 317
Hovey, Ricwarp, 11, 12, 42, 57, 69,
70, 125, 162, 165, 172, 207, 209, 217,
220, 233, 238, 331, 348, 353, 355,
370, 380, 401, 407, 424, 476, 477
How, Wiui1am W., 475
Howe, Jut1a Warp, 367
Howe.u, James, 57, 365
Howes, Witt1am Dean, 45, 127, 137,
207, 305, 340, 389, 419, 451
Hupparp, EvBEert, 46, 140, 235, 279,
304, 327
Husparp, Kin. See Martin, ABE
Hupwnauu, Epitu M., 375
Huaues, Joun, 124, 257, 329, 380, 427
Hucues, Tuomas, 359
Hueo, Victor, 2, 3, 8, 18, 19, 20, 21,
23, 25, 28, 31, 34, 37, 42, 43, 46, 49,
52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 65, 66, 72, 77, 80,
90, 91, 95, 97, 99, 100, 102, 113, 114,
118, 124, 130, 133, 135, 145, 146, 153,
156, 162, 163, 166, 173, 174, 177, 178,
180, 185, 188, 193, 195, 200, 204, 208,
210, 211, 212, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219,
230, 234, 240, 255, 257, 262, 265, 267,
270, 271, 277, 278, 279, 280, 282, 285,
286, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 298,
301, 303, 305, 317, 320, 321, 322,'323,
326, 327, 329, 332, 342, 347, 350, 359,
360, 362, 366, 370, 374, 383, 389, 392,
394, 395, 396, 398, 400, 403, 404, 407,
412, 414, 416, 420, 422, 431, 433, 434,
437, 438, 439, 443, 447, 450, 454, 456,
460, 465, 472, 482, 486
Hume, ALEXANDER, 57
Hume, Davin, 29, 170
HuNEKER, JAMES, 7, 19, 77, 80, 95,
111, 115, 192, 216, 218, 241, 293,
318, 327, 345, 356, 441, 446, 468
Hunt, Leicx, 4, 51, 95, 108, 170, 320,
356, 365, 402, 449, 460, 470
Hunter, Mrs. James, 24, 66
Hourois, James, 235
Hutcuinson, ELLEN
Cortissoz, Mrs.
Houtten, Berrina von, 78, 142, 163,
206, 214, 460, 487
Huxuey, Tuomas Henry, 2, 397
Hype, Doveuas, 38, 412
Hymn to Time, 319, 426
Mackay. See
Issen, Henrik, 142, 186, 208
ImuaH, Jonn, 10, 47, 472
IncELow, Jean, 18, 34, 42, 49, 51, 57,
INDEX.
63, 87, 101, 118, 123, 124, 125, 156,
159, 162, 185, 202, 233, 257, 265,
268, 283, 293, 311, 316, 318, 322,
347, 366, 370, 389, 418, 421, 433,
436, 462, 472
INGERSOLL, Rosrert G., 25, 43, 95,
114, 132, 288, 418, 448, 450
Incus, Mrs. RicuMonp, 62, 283, 323
IrtsH Batuap, 170
Irish Epic Tauss, 81, 474
Ironquity. See Ware, EuGene Fitce
Irvine, WasHinaTon, 2, 9, 40, 75, 82,
132, 192, 246, 258, 349, 353, 368,
400, 418
Irwin, WALLACE, 45, 235
Itat1an Love Sona, 276, 414
Itanian PRovers, 482
Jacke Drum’s ENTERTAINMENTS, 207,
223, 441, 442
JAcKMAN, Isaac, 397
Jackson, Heten Hunt, 180, 309, 407, 439
Jacogps, W. W., 459
Jaao, Ricwarp, 114, 320, 351, 454
JAMES THE First, 34
James, G. P. R., 258
James, Henry, 22, 42, 49, 107, 123,
156, 162, 233, 485
Jamuson, Mrs., 132, 217, 279, 415
Jami, 15, 187, 140, 407
JANVIER, THomas A., 419
JASMIN, JAcquxEs, 20, 77, 91, 147
JAYADEVA, 37, 38, 83, 226, 417, 433
JEFFERSON, JOSEPH, 220, 294, 340
JEFFREY, FRANCIS, 184
Jerrriss, RIcHARD, 96
Jenyns, SoameE, 39, 80
JeEPHSON, Rospert, 34, 115, 136, 141,
218, 320, 341, 378
JEROME, JEROME K., 49, 166, 220, 415
JERROLD, Douauas, 54, 69, 238, 244,
285, 319, 432, 435, 467, 479
JEwETT, SARAH ORNE, 415
JeweETrT, SopuHiz. See
ELLEN
JOHNSON, PHILANDER CuHaseE, 175, 311
JoHNSON, RosBert UNDERWOOD, 359,
433, 447
Jounson, Rossiter, 25
Jounson, SaMuEL, 8, 10, 15, 68, 77,
98, 111, 158, 164, 167, 170, 171, 204,
238, 252, 262, 278, 299, 305, 356,
362, 420, 429, 437, 475, 479
JoHnson, Vircinta W., 141
Jounston, Mary, 51, 127, 213, 257,
268, 349, 365, 387, 395, 451
Jones, EBENEZER, 257, 388
Jonses, Epwarp C., 15, 42
Jones, Henry ArtTHuR, 199, 290, 314
Jones, Sam, 307
Jongs, Sir Wriii1aMm, 14, 34, 125, 412
Jonson, Ben, 7, 28, 31, 32, 54, 64,
69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 84, 105, 106, 123,
135, 162, 166, 224, 252, 256, 261,
Burroueus,
XXVil
274, 290, 312, 338, 358, 365, 367,
370, 397, 399, 407, 411, 436, 448,
452, 469, 479
Jousert, JosepH, 73, 208, 211, 258,
483
Jupmus, PutLo, 339
Jupau HaLevi, 308, 407, 416
Jupp, SyLvEsTER, 382, 388
Jupson, Emity Cuussuck.
See Forrester, FANNY
Jupson, L. Carrouy, 132, 192
Junius, 457
JUSSERAND, J. J., 15, 186, 430
JUVENAL, 9, 85, 139, 158, 218, 348
Kauinasa, 65, 86, 310, 329
Kauinéax; Jan, 79
Kanuri Provers, 78
Karr, ALPHONSE, 97, 192, 249, 475
KaurMman, Gzorce §., 440
Keary, C. F., 349
Keats, Jonn, 7, 8, 11, 15, 17, 18, 34,
48, 53, 55, 57, 59, 62, 65, 69, 73, 74,
81, 83, 88, 97, 104, 106, 109, 112,
118, 128, 132, 149, 159, 162, 171,
181, 200, 206, 221, 225, 239, 257,
260, 265, 266, 275, 276, 283, 285,
288, 295, 305, 309, 313, 318, 335,
338, 340, 341, 345, 352, 3538, 354,
358, 361, 373, 374, 382, 386, 388,
389, 395, 399, 407, 412, 414, 424,
430, 433, 436, 444, 447, 451, 452,
456, 462, 464, 466, 472, 478, 480,
488
Kesue, Joun, 24, 112, 128,
370
Keer, E. M., 34, 42, 172
Ketuiy, Hues, 51, 353, 482
KemBLE, Frances ANNE, 42, 70, 117,
119, 147, 151, 175, 345, 377, 448,
483
Kenpau., Henry C., 175, 348, 464
Kenxo, Yourpa, 197
Kenyon, James B., 324
Kenyon, Joun, 446
Kerr, OrpHeus C. See NEWELL, Ros-
ERT H.
Kester, Paut, 58
Kester, VauGuANn, 407
Key, Francis Scott, 159, 286
KicxHaM, CHAarues JosepH, 260
KieLuanp, ALEXANDER Lanes, 61, 142
Kituierew, THomas, 20, 362, 389, 446
Kitmer, Joyce, 88, 209
Kimpaut, Harriet McEwen, 472
Kine, Grace, 329, 385
Kine, Harriet E. Hamitron, 412, 246
Kine, Henry, 252
Kine, THomas, 482
Kina, Witiiam, 114, 138, 189, 142, 162,
205, 347, 416
Kine’s HaLre-PENNY-woRTH OF WIT
IN A PENNY-WORTH OF PAPER, 259
143, 305,
XXVIII
Kinestey, Cuarues, 10, 13, 34, 52,
53, 80, 81, 101, 103, 119, 128, 139,
168, 182, 205, 210, 252, 265, 270,
284, 289, 305, 325, 326, 333, 337,
362, 384, 389, 395, 407, 451, 462,
464, 467, 474
Kreurna, Rupyarp, 2, 20, 25, 47, 53,
55, 57, 58, 59, 79, 82, 98, 103, 104,
105, 108, 125, 128, 138, 143, 144,
146, 148, 174, 198, 205, 209, 210,
220, 222, 228, 229, 235, 254, 263,
275, 288, 299, 310, 312, 314, 316,
325, 345, 348, 349, 354, 356, 359,
860, 367, 373, 874, 377, 389, 392,
401, 419, 421, 423, 427, 430, 445,
448, 469, 472, 487
Krrx, ELzanor, 4
KisraLupy, CHARLES, 486
Knack to Knowe A Knave (1584), 5,
279
KNICKERBOCKER MaGazineg, 416
Know tss,. Frepertc LAWRENCE,
370, 389
KNow.Les, JAMES SHERIDAN, 134, 137,
140, 279, 313, 329, 342, 365, 378, 472
Knox, Isa Craic. See Craia, Isa
Knox, Wiiuram, 154, 182, 262, 286, 378
Kossutu, Lovis, 454
Korzesur, A. F. F. von, 74
Kovner, BENJAMIN, 429
Krasinski, Siamunp, 47, 128, 147, 148,
151, 178, 200, 210, 276, 277, 281,
305, 319, 331, 332, 345, 404, 431,
476
159,
La Bruyere, JEAN vz, 71, 94, 134, 156,
475
LacorDAIRE, JEAN B. H., 4
Lapp, Jospreu B., 138
La Fontaine, JEAN DE, 169
La GamMeE, Davip DE, 185
Laine, ALEXANDER, 72
LALLEMAND, CLAUDE F., 244
LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE M. L.,
195, 205, 218, 225, 226, 252,
316, 336, 348, 375, 400, 414, 454
Lams, CHARLES, 104, 105, 109,
156, 239, 261, 319, 320, 356,
383, 472
Lamotre-Fovaust, FrizpEricn HEINRICH
Karu, Baron DE, 467
Lampton, WILLIAM J., 219
Lancaster, ANNIE E., 250
Lanpon, Letitia Evizaspetru, 26, 30,
34, 51, 88, 103, 114, 119, 128, 172,
174, 175, 187, 233, 239, 262, 358,
868, 377, 407, 472
Lanpor, WauttTER Savaaen, 41, 47, 59,
66, 75, 81, 82, 93, 105, 142, 174,
219, 229, 240, 259, 283, 286, 296,
297, 313, 356, 389, 424, 436, 486,
488 °
Lane, ANDREW, 106, 119, 149,
212, 213, 277, 288, 351, 412, 466°
107,
298,
135,
362,
181,
INDEX.
Lanar, Ernst, 244
Laneuorne, Joun, 244, 260, 412
LANGLAND, WILLIAM, 49, 64, 83, 229, 271,.
475
Lanier, Sipney, 14, 31, 87, 143, 200,
222, 238, 316, 325, 371, 375, 433,
478
La Rocurrovucavip, Francors. See
RocHEFOUCAULD; Duc DE
LatHrop, GEORGE Parsons,
338, 464
Latimer, Huau, 94, 284
LAVATER, JOHANN Caspar, 244, 289
Lawtess, Emity, 387
Lays or Ancient Inpia, 34, 41, 311,
407, 472
Lazarus, Emma, 177, 341, 407
Leacock, STEPHEN, 422
Lean, Vincent Stuckey, 18, 26, 28,
34, 64, 93, 141, 166, 193, 240, 330,
385, 392, 478, 484
LeatTHamM, WILLIAM H., 231
Leavitt, Joun M., 36
Lecky, WILLIAM Epwarp HarrTpo.e,
73
Lepwiper, Francis, 197, 301
Lez, AGNES, 292
Lrs-HamMIttTon, EuGENE, 25, 300, 446
Len, NATHANIEL, 254, 392
Le Fanu, JosepH SHERIDAN, 34, 171
Le Gaturenne, Ricwarp, 38, 44, 57,
89, 99, 115, 130, 141, 144, 187, 189,
218, 225, 227, 265, 270, 290, 291,
299, 303, 314, 319, 332, 333, 345,
361, 373, 391, 397, 407, 415, 430,
438, 439, 450, 472, 483
Lecarsé, JAMES MarttTHew, 188
L&EIBFREED, Epwin, 55
LeicHton, Ropert, 314
LELAND, CHARLES GopFrrey, 105, 377
Leuianp, Henry P., 399
LEMONNIER, CAMILLE, 34, 177, 200,
238, 326, 328, 377, 439, 472, 481
L’Enctos, NInon pe, 23, 184
Le Sage, Auain Rene, 68
Lzesuiz, Amy, 1, 58, 62, 65, 74, 91, 96,
101, 110, 140, 142, 166, 191, 247,
260, 264, 283, 300, 302, 309, 337,
353, 407, 414, 436, 460
LrsPinassgE, MapAME DB, 380
L’Estrance, Sir Roger, 160, 200, 380
Lever, Cartes James, 14, 21, 46
227, 307, 345, 389, 395, 439, 459
Lewes, Grorcr Henry, 265, 268, 340,
B45
Lewis, ALFRED Henry, 4, 26, 30, 64,
79, 160, 167, 176, 191, 226, 249, 278,
288, 293, 300, 335, 367, 373, 387,
433, 448, 487
Lewis, MatrtHew Grecory, 362, 466
aes JoHn, 12, 100, 257, 345, 433,
472
Lippetzt, Catuerines C. See FRasEr-
Tytizr, C. C.
26, 332,
INDEX.
Lr Hune Cuane, 32, 86, 440
Lincotn, ABRAHAM, 437
Lincotn, JosepH C., 94, 137
LInLEY, Groren, 183
Linton, Witu1AM James, 44, 171, 244,
337, 478, 485
Littie, Frances, 272
Livineston, JoHNn, 69
Lrvineston, WILLIAM, 42, 65, 169, 260
Livy, 113
Luoyp, Rogpert, 10, 29, 60, 75, 143,
175, 217, 232, 297, 308, 326, 329,
331, 360, 384, 448, 479
Locke, W1Lu1aMm J., 220, 380
LopeE, GEorGE CasoT, 21, 111, 206,
248, 283, 365, 472, 476
Loves, THomas, 14, 51, 160, 193, 266,
268, 273, 299, 339, 352, 407
Logan, Joun, 31, 246, 248, 305, 407
Lonpon CHANTICLEERS, 183, 388
Lonpon, Jack, 53
Lonpon TELEGRAPH, 212
LonereLLow, Henry W., 7, 9, 12, 15,
17, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26, 30, 36, 38, 51,
57, 60, 63, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82,
83, 84, 94, 99, 100, 101, 102, 119,
124, 1387, 144, 149, 153, 154, 175,
177, 183, 186, 2038, 206, 219, 225,
237, 240, 252, 254, 263, 265, 267,
268, 270, 274, 279, 281, 284, 286,
292, 296, 300, 309, 315, 320, 321,
325, 326, 331, 332, 336, 343, 345,
347, 351, 360, 371, 380,, 384, 385,
386, 395, 396, 399, 400, 403, 408,
412, 414, 418, 433, 440, 444, 450,
451, 454, 461, 464, 465, 469, 472,
476
Lonainvus, 202
Loomis, CHar.zs B., 240, 408
Lorain, Prosper, 378
Lore pE Vega. See Veca, Lope DE
Lovextace, Ricwarp, 26, 34, 46, 49,
62, 129, 171, 188, 223, 353, 412
Lovett, Grorce W., 287, 403, 408, 421
Lover, SAMUEL, 25, 26, 28, 34, 81,
105, 108, 119, 128, 185, 189, 197,
220, 238, 257, 273, 292, 293, 296,
332, 362, 382, 412, 472
Lovisonp, Epwarp, 88, 141, 185, 260,
303, 352, 380
Low, Samuet, 460
Lowe.u, Amy, 69, 426
Lowe.tu, James Russet, 9, 15, 24,
32, 47, 74, 80, 108, 119, 141, 153,
158, 166, 175, 182, 202, 247, 263,
268, 289, 293, 317, 339, 351, 352,
355, 385, 399, 408, 414, 434, 437,
442, 468, 472, 483
Lowett, Marta, 153, 376, 476
Lows tery, B., 303
Lucan, 401
Lucas, EpwarpD VERRALL, 44
Lucian, 13, 326, 394, 445
Lucretius, 390
xxix
Luptow, Fritz H., 480
Lutaer, Martin, 130, 197, 230, 314,
875
Lutrre.t, Henry, 487
LYALL, Sir ALFRED, 94
LycopHron, 100 :
Lypeats, Jonn, 90, 256, 288, 324, 371
Lyty, 3, 12, 16, 21, 29, 34, 41, 60, 64,
67, 76, 83, 85, 93, 95, 112, 119, 135,
141, 163, 164, 186, 189, 193, 197,
205, 235, 244, 254, 256, 262, 273,
280, 293, 301, 303, 312, 319, 345,
365, 371, 403, 408, 428, 430, 432,
457, 466, 469, 472, 484
Lyncu, T. T., 87
Lysacut, Epwarp, 408
Lytrieton, Lorp, 91, 124,
398, 479, 482, 486
Lyrron, Rosert, Earu oF.
DITH, OWEN
128, 339,
See Mure-
Maartens; Maarren, 119
Masiz, Hamitton Wrieut, 451
Masinocion, 187, 487
Macauuay, Mrs. Fannie CC. See
LitrLe, FRANCES
Macautay, THomas Basineton, 1, 31,
41, 47, 131, 137, 150, 174, 217, 268,
283, 286, 288, 294, 326, 331, 349,
353, 404, 421, 446
McCartuy, Denis FLORENCE,
37, 42, 454
McCartuy, Justin Huntury, 257, 324,
376, 427
MacCouz, Evan, 34, 91, 128, 169, 171,
233, 468
McCuttocn, Hucu, 114
McCutcHEon, GEoRGE BarRR, 229
MacDonatp, GEorGE, 39, 43, 44, 93,
123, 134, 171, 175, 204, 289, 316,
321, 362, 389, 399, 404, 423
McFerrincs, W. 8., 49
McGarrey, Ernest, 94, 233
Mac-Henry, Georce, 35, 38, 49, 128,
138, 177, 260, 275, 305, 332, 371, 464
Macsuin, Louis, 473
Mackay, CHarues, 35, 37, 160, 357
Mackay, GEorRGE Eric, 21, 160, 342,
442
Mackay, Rosert, 105
Mackenziz, Compton, 155
MacKenziz, Henry, 41, 200, 255, 321
840, 417, 419
Mackin, CHarues, 92, 219, 247, 278,
353, 362, 389, 428, 433
Mac.iacHan, Ewen, 35
McLauGHLAN, ALEXANDER, 183
1, 35,
Maciean, Letitia E. See Lawnpvon,
Letitia
McLe.uan, CHarutes M. &., 92, 162,
379
Macteop, Fiona. See SHARP, WILLIAM
MacMecuan, ARCHIBALD McKeE.uar,
212, 462
XXX
McNeriu, Ancus, 17, 334 -
Macpuerson, James, 11, 42, 81, 86,
89, 119, 131, 136, 137, 148, 146,
269, 286, 295, 321, 332, 365, 377,
395, 419, 424, 454, 473
Mapicu, Imre, 88, 104, 449
Mappen, Ricoarp RoBert, 458
Mappen, SaAMuEL, 27
MA&TERLINCK, MavRIcE,
133, 444
Maaoon, Ettas L., 67, 437
MawasHARAta, 15, 31, 112, 119, 143,
147, 156, 169, 305, 377, 392, 414,
426
Manony, Francis, 13
Mainrenon, Mapame ps, 114
Mautet, Davin, 24, 85, 123, 222, 283,
355, 371
Ma.tock, Wiuu1AM Hurrew, 265, 279
Matone, WALTER, 38, 80, 158, 177,
220, 246, 381, 408, 424
Matory, THomas, 275
Manaxkkasu, 175
Manecan, JAMES CLARENCE,
260, 454
Mann, Horace, 319
Mannix, Mary Ewen, 35
MANzoni, ALESSANDRO, 68
MARCELLINUS, 186
MargcHAL, THomas, 244
MarxuHam, Epwin, 87, 113, 119, 148,
172, 200, 303, 305, 469, 476
Mar.Lowe, CHRISTOPHER, 15, 49, 85,
105, 128, 136, 139, 153, 158, 187,
189, 204, 300, 383, 392, 394, 401,
436, 456, 480
Marquis, Don, 45, 149, 150, 177, 263,
286
Marryatt, CAPTAIN FREDERICK, 4
MarsHauu, A. W., 473
MarsHauyt, THomas, 457
Marston, Joun, 5, 203, 298, 306
Marston, Jonn WESTLAND, 40, 392
Marston, Psaiuiep BourKxe, 147, 333,
371
Marti, 67, 172, 463 :
Martin, ABE, 112, 231, 382, 422
Martin, Epwarp SaNnrorp, 6
Marveuyt, ANDREW, 35, 105, 326, 425,
439
Marziats, THtorue Juurus Henry, 162
Mas=FIELp, Joun, 206, 326, 347, 350, 377
Mason, Joan M., 11
Mason, WILu1am, 35
Masssy, GeRALD, 13, 15, 16, 37, 59,
62, 81, 123, 128, 138, 149, 151, 154,
162, 166, 169, 179, 181, 185, 189,
191, 193, 197, 200, 207, 224, 227,
231, 234, 249, 259, 266, 276, 283,
292, 309, 321, 323, 324, 333, 345,
353, 354, 362, 364, 367, 371, 382,
388, 391, 395, 408, 412, 419, 421,
425, 428, 449, 454, 465
MassILuLon, JEAN B., 196
35, 38, 62,
35, 172,
INDEX.
MassincEer, Paiup, 25, 32, 67, 101,
133, 179, 228, 237, 271, 313, 361,
384, 417, 463
Masters, Epcar Lez, 77, 157, 276, 290
Maruer, Increase, 414
Matuer, RIcHarD, 229
Matuews, CHARLES, 54
Matuews, WILLIAM, 93, 107, 166, 232
Matruews, BRANDER, 9, 37, 166, 324,
373, 449
Maupassant, Guy pg, 6, 44, 60, 67,
111, 119, 148, 167, 177, 181, 188,
193, 218, 227, 238, 256, 265, 266,
281, 285, 289, 300, 306, 315, 328,
347, 366, 371, 389, 400, 404, 429,
431, 433, 488, 473, 485, 486
Mazzin1, GIusEPPE, 222, 271
Merap, Rosert, 247
MeacuHer, THomas Francis, 279
MEEK, ALEXANDER BEAUFORT, 411
Mer pancgke, Brian, 153, 202, 205, 376,
436
MELVILLE, Herman, 13
Mencivs, 5
Mencken, Henry L., 138, 355, 404
MeEnpsEs, CATULLE, 51, 119, 237
MerepitH, Greorce, 7, 8, 13, 17, 23,
27, 42, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 62, 67, 70,
72, 73, 77, 83, 88, 93, 94, 95, 98,
102, 103, 106, 107, 108, 112, 130,
135, 141, 142, 148, 150, 153, 158,
162, 183, 184, 186, 187, 191, 198,
201, 204, 209, 215, 224, 233, 242,
253, 256, 260, 263, 272, 273, 275,
277, 279, 280, 283, 288, 294, 296,
298, 303, 307, 309, 312, 316, 318,
319, 327, 330, 331, 332, 333, 335,
336, 339, 340, 342, 348, 344, 350,
351, 353, 354, 367, 373, 376, 379,
384, 385, 386, 389, 391, 392, 393,
394, 400, 401, 402, 408, 412, 419,
421, 422, 425, 426, 429, 487, 441,
442, 446, 452, 454, 456, 458, 461,
462, 465, 487, 488
MerepiTH, Owen, 24, 35, 42 54,
123, 124, 126, 128, 139, 178, 191,
206, 263, 267, 283, 306, 311, 334,
363, 367, 386, 421, 426, 429, 451
Merivate Henry C., 219, 398
Mermet, Cuaupe, 163
MEYNELL, ALICE, 338
MICHELANGELO, 6
Mickiewicz, Apam, 21, 128
Mickie, Wiuu1AM Juuius, 12, 47, 51,
62, 139, 260, 278, 306, 311, 440, 473
MipptetTon, Tuomas, 23, 119, 136, 189,
248, 302, 306, 328, 334, 436, 467, 485
Mrirruin, Luoyp, 125
Mites, Georce H., 11
MiiuerR, ALIcE Durr, 257
Mitter, Harrier M., 269
Mitter, Joaquin, 18, 153, 206, 229,
rie 310, 323, 346, 371, 429, 437,
64
114,
INDEX.
Miuuzr, Tomas, 27, 173
MILLER, WarReEN H., 110
Miuier, WILLIAM, 438, 473
Miuman, Henry Hart, 202, 233, 350,
374, 452
Mines, Ricwarp MoncxtTon, 118, 128,
146, 162, 172, 265, 266, 350, 390, 407,
422, 440
Mitton, Joun, 1, 16, 29, 52, 77, 86, 104,
139, 212, 216, 228, 242, 260, 270,
276, 281, 301, 302, 325, 346, 353,
363, 364, 382, 400, 412, 419, 421,
467, 483
Mrrseau, Octave, 374, 400, 459
MircHeiyt, Mrs. Acnes E., 63, 126
MitcHe.t, Donatp G., 1, 8, 9, 14, 35,
44, 48, 57, 108, 109, 148, 149, 158,
177, 181, 190, 317, 318, 333, 363, 374,
383, 402, 454, 460
Mitcurtyi, 8. WerrR, 213
Mitrorp, Mary RussE1u, 23, 151, 210,
246, 306, 361, 371
Morr, Davip Macsetu, 160, 426
Mousre, Jean Baptiste PoQuvueELin,
86, 196, 367, 482
Mo..oy, FitzGERALp J., 317
MonxuHovuseE, Cosmo, 177, 441
Monracu, Evizapets R., 254
Montacu, ~Lapy Mary Wort.ey,
334
Montaiene, Micuet Eyquem pz, 110,
200, 457
Montcomery, GrorcE Epa@ar, 216, 476
Montcomery, James, 15, 30, 387, 57,
67, 70, 72, 73, 83, 96, 98, 119, 128,
132, 134, 186, 139, 144, 149, 153, 158,
160, 174, 175, 177, 181, 200, 222, 239,
246, 262, 286, 289, 290, 306, 311, 330,
346, 347, 348, 353, 364, 371, 379, 382,
408, 412, 414, 419, 435, 441, 455, 460,
476
Moore, CHartes L., 1, 8, 10, 54, 58,
97, 119, 318, 340, 344, 367
Moors, CLement C., 153, 227
Moore, Epwarp, 78, 128, 244, 354
Moorsg, Evia D., 289
Moore, Georer, 5,:57, 111, 185, 226,
288, 351, 440, 441, 442
Moors, Spenser, 399
Moore, Tuomas, 11, 14, 21, 23, 25, 31,
35, 42, 47, 49, 80, 91, 102, 107, 119,
125, 126, 135, 144, 147, 150, 151,
153, 160, 162, 169, 180, 181, 183,
193, 195, 225, 233, 236, 239, 241,
256, 257, 269, 286, 287, 289, 303,
306, 314, 318, 320, 346, 350, 352,
356, 367, 371, 408, 411, 436, 464,
476, 486
Moorz, Sir Tomas, 114
More, Hannan, 62, 85, 231, 295, 298,
387, 419
Mors, Sir THomas (Pseudo-Shakespear-
ean), 12
Morcan, APPLETON, 452
XXXi
Mortey, Henry, 57, 316
Morris, Antuony P., 12
Morris, Grorce P., 30, 156, 257, 295,
301, 306, 333, 467
Morris, Lewis, 9, 23, 47, 49, 59, 73,
84, 125, 128, 134, 152, 155, 232, 239,
244, 283, 286, 303, 306, 363, 368,
375, 378, 381, 390, 399, 417, 425,
434, 439, 470
Morris, RoBErT, 283
Morris, WitL1am, 12, 44, 94, 101, 128,
186, 308, 331, 360, 364, 385, 408
Morton, James M., 416, 438
Morton, Pauvu, 398
Morton, SAMUEL GEORGE, 228
Morton, Sarap W., 23.
Morton, Tuomas, 37, 90
MoTHERWELL, WILLIAM, 352, 450, 465
Mortrvux, Pierre A., 302
Movutton, Loutsze CHANDLER, 153
Murr, Joun, 233, 408
MULHOLLAND, Rosa, 31
Mu.ier, F. Max, 90, 318
MU.uer, WitHELM, 144
Moutock, Dinan Maria, 14, 35, 36,
40, 42, 58, 62, 70, 86, 95, 104, 119,
128, 185, 144, 167, 193, 195, 255, 257,
259, 270, 303, 306, 309, 326, 335, 338,
343, 367, 376, 385, 387, 401, 412, 454,
473
Mounsy, ARTHUR JOSEPH, 286
Muncnausen, Baron Karu F. H. von,
77, 102, 149, 179, 204, 286, 289, 309,
326, 438
Muwnpen, Sypney, 13, 29, 77, 78, 81,
84, 94, 98, 108, 145, 155, 160, 191,
194, 210, 218, 223, 247, 307, 308,
331, 342, 353, 385, 397, 423, 442,
443, 444, 447, 456, 460
Monkittricr, R. K., 265
Murcer, Henna, 45, 207, 267, 283
Murpuy, ArtHuR, 173, 408
Muses Recreation, THE (1656), 16, 56,
62, 485,
Myers, F. W. H., 169, 183, 213, 297,
355
Nasses, THomas, 346
Napen, Constance C. W., 125, 383
NapoLeon BonapaRTE, 131, 214, 252,
437
Nasu, Tuomas, 13, 37, 291, 297, 316,
355, 371, 384, 412, 421, 473
NatHan, GEORGE JEAN, 93, 411
Neat, JoHn Cuay, 25
NeEcKER, MapaME, 247, 252, 298, 308
Nerparpt, Joun G., 59, 98, 125, 134,
186, 188, 292, 488
Nesatr, 100
NeEncIon1I, Enrico, 473
Newent, Rospert H., 403
Newman, Joon Henry, 57, 181, 287,
334, 338, 350
New Rerusuic, THE, 271
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News FROM CHELSMFORD, 468
New TESTAMENT, 2, 21, 58, 89, 109,
168, 194, 198, 208, 216, 279, 300,
336, 340, 351, 410, 460, 465, 474, 478
Newton, Isaac, 488
New Yor« Sun, 28, 258, 292, 354, 364
New York Times, 47
New Yor«k Tripune, 47
NicHouson, MeReEp1tTH, 279, 488
Nicouu, Ropert, 5, 391, 488
Nicuot, R. B., 18
NIETZscHE, FREDERICH,
230, 383, 395
Nisumi, 244 :
Nopier, CHarues, 190, 456
Nort, Rosert, 39, 111, 177, 179, 307,
426
Nott, Ropen, 473
Norpau, Max, 96, 317, 330
Norris, BisHop, 176
Norris, JoHN, 125, 297, 458
NortHa.t, F. P., 21, 277, 351
NortHatu, G. F., 21, 184, 191, 193,
194, 207, 220, 221, 226, 300, 401
Norton, CHARLES ExtoT, 259, 321
Norton, Mrs., 126, 202, 321, 367, 373,
454
Noyes, ALFRED, 343, 469
Nut Brown Mai, THE, 28
Nye, Epaar W., 266, 300, 352
52, 149, 200,
O’Brien, Firz-James, 19, 38, 88, 337,
451, 473
O’ConnELL, DANIEL, 42
O’Connor, Witiiam Douauas, 228
OEHLENSCHLAGER, ADaM GOTTLOB, 188,
459
Oup Testament, 2, 4, 10, 11, 12, 19,
20, 21, 27, 28, 30, 32, 37, 39, 40, 48,
49, 51, 58, 63, 65, 67, 68, 70, 77, 79,
82, 102, 104, 113, 114, 121, 125, 129,
135, 141, 142, 146, 148, 150, 155,
156, 166, 168, 172, 182, 183, 184,
194, 198, 200, 201, 203, 205, 225,
227, 229, 230, 237, 245, 257, 266,
267, 271, 273, 281, 285, 287, 290,
299, 307, 310, 317, 319, 321,. 322,
324, 325, 326, 329, 330, 334, 336,
338, 340, 343, 348, 356, 357, 359,
360, 361, 366, 372, 377, 381, 382,
383, 390, 394, 396, 413, 417, 418,
419, 423, 428, 429, 435, 437, 444,
449, 454, 460, 466, 474, 475, 477,
478, 480, 483, 484
Omar KuaryAm, 128, 209, 316, 472
O’ReILxiy, Joun Boye, 25, 436
O’Reitity, Miues, 128, 181, 207, 316,
462
ORIENTAL Provers, 48, 57, 163,
250, 262, 283, 312, 417
OssournzE, Luoyp, 109, 199
Oscoop, Mrs., 81
O’SHAUGHNEaSY, ARTHUR, 326
O’SHaucunessy, W. E., 131
180,
INDEX.
Osmanur Provers, 3, 47, 55, 93, 96,
149, 153, 163, 165, 189, 209, 213,
235, 275, 291, 317, 323, 336, 356,
366, 390, 399, 428, 449, 452, 454,
460, 469, 484,
Ossrtan, 6, 17, 36, 42, 44, 67, 119, 128,
190, 198, 246, 260, 266, 295, 328,
331, 361, 419, 454, 459
Oris, JAmEs, 189
Otway, Tuomas, 44, 48, 67, 81, 85, 128,
131, 160, 167, 169, 194, 200, 202,
207, 226, 263, 294, 306, 328, 358,
371, 380, 392, 408, 417, 423, 425,
430, 433, 442, 465
Ovurpa, 1, 2, 14, 15, 37, 44, 69, 73, 77,
80, 82, 83, 96, 97, 105, 109, 115,
119, 136, 137, 148, 151, 153, 164,
169, 173, 177, 178, 179, 181, 187,
193, 199, 205, 210, 211, 212, 214,
215, 217, 221, 222, 226, 231, 234,
235, 239, 246, 248, 258, 263, 265,
277, 280, 284, 292, 297, 314, 317,
329, 335, 337, 347, 350, 354, 361,
373, 375, 377, 390, 392, 394, 395,
400, 402, 405, 408, 421, 426, 429,
433, 434, 443, 448, 461, 468, 469,
487
Ovutcautt, R. F., 191
Outram, GEORGE, 382, 402
OverBuRY, Sir THomas, 7, 16, 46, 90,
119, 123, 184, 197, 232, 323, 428,
449, 457
Ovip, 57, 85, 113, 343
PacHMANN, VLADIMIR DE, 75
Pacer, THomas Newson, 204, 209, 246,
397
PaILLERON, Epuarp J. H., 197
Pain, Barry, 103, 461
Paring, ALBERT BiGELow, 321
Parne, THomas, 70, 114, 122, 131, 184,
212, 213, 300, 325, 339
PauGRavE, FrRANcis TuRNER, 131
PauGRAve, JOHN, 207
Patuen, Conpn B., 114, 440
Park, ANDREW, 306, 371
Parke, Watter, 311
ParkER, BENJAMIN F., 408
Parker, Sir GILBERT, 27
Parker, THEODORE, 119
PARNELL, THomas, 35
Parr, Harriett, 14, 176
Pascau, Buaise, 267, 460
PasHa, Hariz, 312
Pasquin, ANTHONY, 250
Pater, WALTER, 29, 215, 279
Patmore, CoventrY, 16, 162, 299, 306,
347, 408
Paton, Sir Josera Nosgt, 128, 411
Patterson, Apa, 309
Pattison, WILLIAM, 381
Pauupine, James K., 193
Payne, JoHN, 91, 119, 146, 152, 258,
260, 275, 283, 256, 421, 431, 464, 473
INDLA,
Parnes, Jonn Howarp, 90
PEABODY, JOSEPHINE P., 172, 354
Preazsopy, WiuuiaMm B. O., 444
PracuaM, Henry, 355, 456
Peacock, Toomas L., 14, 21, 27, 120,
153, 378, 265, 290
Pecx, Even B., 101
Peck, SamMuEL Minturn, 149
PEELE, GEORGE, 298
Pree, Joun, 464
Peace, SAMUEL, 343
PEMBERTON, T. Epear, 281
Penn, WILLIAM, 7, 252, 287
PENNYPACKER, Isaac §., 32
Pentaur, 72, 82, 100, 197, 314
Pentecost, Hueu O., 264
PrpLe, Epwarp, 31, 125, 255
Percival, James G., 17, 27
Prercivau, RicHArRD, 5
Percy’s REiiquss, 21
Perry, Buss, 276
PeErRsIAN, 128, 215
Persian Provers, 415
Petit-Senn, J., 113, 157, 170, 197, 244,
263 F
Pretor1, SANDOR, 402
PerrarcyH, 32, 47, 62, 112, 128, 146,
158, 356
Preirrer, Emiuy, 405
Parties, AMBROSE, 30, 36, 167, 169,
260, 346, 351, 357, 408, 438, 444, 445
Puitirs, Jon, 21, 195 :
Puaiturps, H. W., 142
Puuurps, STEPHEN, 29, 35, 120,
222, 408
Pariures, WENDELL, 437
PuIto, 262
PuHocyrLipEs, 224
Prerpont, Jon, 81, 183, 390
Piterm, James, 39, 47
PILKINGTON, JAMES, 224
154,
Pitpay, 4, 32, 57, 175, 259, 298, 393,
395, 416, 484
Pinpar, Perer, 54
Pinepa, PEepRo, 390
Pitt, CHRISTOPHER, 53, 153, 168, 247,
474
Puiancus, JAMES Rosinson, 6, 260,
283, 285, 311, 421
Puaten, Aucust von, 130
Puato, 287, 366
Priavutus, 43, 183, 296, 485
Purny, 262
Piumptre, Epwarp H., 331
Prurarca, 5, 29, 96, 132, 163, 225,
301, 319, 378
Por, Epear Auuan, 30, 52, 81, 86, 89,
120, 176, 177, 213, 235, 256, 282,
306, 347, 348, 352, 414, 436, 455
Potiz, Joun, 347
Po.titock, CHanninGc, 75, 100, 264
Poutuox, Rosert, 35, 371, 412
Pomeroy, Marx M. (‘‘Brick’’), 226
Pomrret, JoHN, 49, 157, 381, 437, 457
XXxill
Poor Rosin’s ALMANACK, 12, 186, 259,
402, 421
Porz, ALEXANDER, 6, 16, 29, 30, 35,
49, 54, 97, 100, 102, 108, 115, 127,
131, 140, 189, 192, 195, 213, 221,
225, 229, 242, 252, 256, 260, 268,
273, 281, 287, 297, 299, 301, 311,
317, 319, 323, 342, 345, 378, 402,
412, 421, 442, 447, 466, 476, 478, 483
Porson, Ricwarp, 397
Porter, J. Hamppen, 40, 421
Porter, JANE, 62, 301, 318, 454, 458
Porter, Wituram T., 404
Post, Mretvitue D., 202
Powerit, Mary EvizasBetu, 57
Power, Tyrone, 52
Powers, Hrrar, 120
Pranp, WintrHrop MacKkworts,
25, 47, 51, 143, 306, 364, 415, 473
Pratinas, 408
PRENTICE, GeorceE D., 11, 15, 71, 125, 424
Prescorr, Wituuam H., 3, 112, 205,
357, 421, 454
Preston, ANNA E., 461
Preston, MarGaret JuNKIN, 87
Price, Epwarp D., 198, 225
Price, WiLL1AM THompson, 171
Pripeaux, W. H., 35
Prince, Heven C., 473
PRINGLE, THomas, 149, 378
Prior, Matruew, 47, 83, 128, 193, 244,
246, 262, 329, 354, 371, 393, 402, 473
Procter, ADELAIDE A., 77, 125, 181,
150, 171, 221, 286, 310, 336
Procter, Bryan Wauuer. See Corn-
WALL, BARRY
Proctor, Epna D., 307, 454
Propertivus, 120
Prout, FatHerR. See MAHONY, FRANCIS
PRYNNE, WILLIAM, 65
Pran-Horep, 32
Pusuius Syrvs, 167, 203
Pucks, Jamss, 3, 60, 103, 274, 289
PuistrEux, MADELEINE D’ARSONT, DAME
DE, 271
Putcr, Lurer, 130
PuLsForD, JOHN, 188
Puncy, 197, 216, 259, 335
Puritan, THe, 105, 324
Putnam, Ruta, 100, 394, 399
Pynson, RicHarpD, 125
21,
QUARLES, FRANCIs, 28
Quick, HERBERT, 432
QuILLer-Coucn, Sir ArtHuR T., 162
Quin, JAMEs, 304
QuineT, Epaar, 352
QUINTILIAN, 262
RaBeExais, Francois, 12, 22, 35, 44, 55,
65, 102, 108, 109, 112, 123, 128, 135,
143, 212, 227, 267, 294, 316, 323, 324,
328, 335, 337, 361, 373, 383, 385, 394,
395, 417, 438, 469, 473
XXX1V
Racine, JEAN Baptiste, 83, 115
Raprorp, Douui, 15
Rauixki, 21
Rareien, Sir Water (1552-1618),
90, 135, 137, 145, 181, 225, 268, 287,
346
RaveicH, Sir WALTER (1860-), 303
Rare, James, 50
Raupu, JAMES, 273, 312, 340, 384
Ramayana, 102, 200, 247, 288
Ramsay, ALLAN, 125, 173, 364
Ramsay, Srr Gsorcz, 287
Ranvpoupu, JOHN, 391, 435
Ranvoupe, THOMAS, 222
Ranps, WIitu1aM B., 100, 371
Ransome, ARTHUR, 95
Ray, ANNA CHAPIN, 48
Ray, Joun, 5, 44, 64, 72, 78, 79, 89,
142, 166, 168, 184, 246, 265, 355, 468
Raymer, C. D., 35
Reap, Opie, 21, 402, 473
Reap, T. Bucwanan, 2, 11, 14, 21, 23,
28, 35, 39, 43, 45, 59, 72, 83, 103,
114, 130, 149, 175, 181, 185, 191,
235, 249, 263, 268, 275, 284, 306,
316, 326, 331, 339, 343, 350, 352,
378, 390, 395, 396, 403, 405, 408,
412, 422, 429, 441, 454, 456, 459,
460, 461, 485
READE, CHARLES, 35, 53, 61, 62, 64, 67,
72, 84, 108, 120, 146, 158, 167, 176,
179, 181, 198, 201, 202, 205, 214,
221, 227, 240, 265, 267, 274, 275,
283, 285, 312, 322, 333, 347, 351,
360, 365, 375, 377, 389, 417, 419,
429, 439, 446, 449, 473, 486
Rear, RicHarp, 234, 393, 419, 441
Reece, RosBert, 79
Reepy, Wiut1aM Marron, 25, 249
Reese, Lizette Woopworts, 408
Reenisr, 482
ReEeppriieR, AGNES,
226, 255, 283, 313
REPUBLICA: A MERYE ENTERLUDE, 300
ReyYNOLps, FREDERICK, 295
Ruopes, WILLIAM BaRNEs, 143
Rice, Atice Heean. See Hecan, ALICE
CALDWELL
Rice, GRANTLAND, 46, 219
Ricu, Hiram, 321
RicHarp, ACHILLI, 44
Ricuarps, Laura E., 35
RicHARDSON, Frank, 3, 222
RicHarpson, SAMUEL, 49, 319, 433
RicHeviev, 458
Ricutser, JEAN Paut, 52, 53, 111, 137,
170, 196, 201, 221, 280, 244, 252,
301, 482
Ricorp, Evizapers, 259
Riwve.., H., 306
Riveout, Henry M., 487
Ritzer, James Wuitcoms, 24, 27, 35,
53, 55, 57, 87, 94, 120, 128, 133,
144, 152, 158, 171, 172, 173, 175,
68, 88, 150, 224,
INDEX.
194, 214, 220, 221, 227,
267, 270, 283, 289, 296,
311, 323, 325, 343, 346,
351, 363, 365, 367, 371, 391, 408,
421, 459, 473, 487
Rinewart, Mary Roserts, 381
Rrvarot, ANTOINE, 182, 197
Rives, AMELIE, 262, 364
Roserts, Cuarztes G. D., 77
Rosertson, Morean, 126
Rosertson, THoMAs WILLIAM, 231, 245
Rosins, Epwarp, 460
Rosinson, CLEMENT, 397
Rosinson, Mrs. Mary.
TETER, AGNES M. F.
Rosrnson, Tracy, 185
RocHEFOUCAULD, FRango!s,
2, 94, 186, 245, 458
Rocnester, Ear or, 215, 245, 436, 484
Rop, Epovarp, 413
Rocers, Danrez, 313
Rocers, SAMUEL, 123, 162, 177, 185,
191, 217, 233, 234, 360, 382, 403,
455
Rowanp, Joun, 14
RoMAINVILLE, 295
RoMANcE oF ANTAR, 123, 144, 417
RomManiaAN Provers, 265
Romanian Sone, 129
RoNSARD, PIERRE DE, 245
Rooseve.tt, THrovore, 55, 60, 108
Roscor, Witii1AM C., 419
Roscommon, Earu or, 146
Rose, Guorce B., 15
RosenTuHaL, Lewis, 75, 424
Rossetti, CuristinA Groratna, 5, 21,
32, 35, 47, 49, 60, 77, 87, 102, 107,
120, 123, 128, 130, 137, 144, 152, 162,
166, 175, 179, 180, 183, 187, 190,
197, 203, 221, 223, 226, 245, 264,
266, 268, 283, 286, 295, 296, 306,
317, 319, 327, 339, 349, 354, 356,
364, 366, 367, 381, 387, 394, 399,
419, 425, 430, 433, 486, 448, 452,
459, 469, 470, 473, 488
Rossetti, Dante Gaprren, 25, 29, 31,
32, 43, 54, 60, 62, 72, 86, 89, 103,
104, 110, 115, 120, 126, 128, 134,
142, 153, 173, 177, 181, 186, 202,
208, 241, 247, 268, 270, 283, 310,
316, 320, 341, 348, 347, 351, 359,
368, 371, 375, 379, 381, 385, 390,
395, 399, 414, 423, 428, 430, 438,
461, 465, 487, 488
Rostanp, Epmonp, 135
RovussEau, JEAN JAcQuEs, 252
Rowe, Nicuotas, 92, 107, 200,
287, 322, 400, 413, 482 ’
Rowtanp, HELEN, 149
Row.anps, SAMUEL, 84, 235
Row.ey, Wiui1am, 287, 375, 397, 457,
477
Rucxert, Friepricn, 135, 359,
426, 454
176,
244,
304,
177,
266,
306,
See DarmeEs-
Duc ps,
203,
382,
INDEX.
Rourrini, Giovannt DoMENIco, 78
Ruin or A Ream, 373
Ruskin, Joun, 3, 18, 15, 22, 27, 43,
63, 87, 102, 1138, 120, 189, 185, 228,
233, 268, 306, 311, 316, 326, 343,
347, 354, 373, 383, 389, 400, 419,
431, 4389, 441, 473
Russewy, Irwin, 348
RussEut, W. Cuark, 35, 81, 125, 190,
200, 361, 429, 433
Russian Provers, 163, 228
Ryan, A. J., 57, 120, 158, 202, 262,
306, 333, 358, 371, 380, 390, 408, 473
Rymer, THomas, 447
Sacus, Hans, 397
SACKVILLE, THomas, 21, 94, 364, 376,
422
Sani, 16, 120, 132, 283, 439
Sace, WILLIAM, 381
Saint BERNARD, 15, 20
Saint BoNavENtTuRA, 66
Saint CurRysostom, 113
SarnTE-BEvVE, CHARLES
236, 368
Sarnt-PimrRE, BERNARDIN DE, 37, 48,
91, 148, 340, 366, 431
Samnt-R&AL, Cesar VICHARD DE, 252
Sata, GrorcEe Aucustvs, 226, 232
Sa.tus, Epgar, 131, 178, 209, 321, 379,
446
Sattus, Francis 8., 25, 39, 51, 54, 66,
82, 90, 101, 120, 128, 144, 177, 178,
224, 227, 237, 333, 352, 363, 451, 468
SanpEAv, LEONARD SYLVAIN JULES, 218,
271, 446
Sanps, Haypen, 95, 129, 254
Sanpys, GrorcE, 1, 21, 32, 51, 67, 82,
90, 91, 102, 113, 141, 153, 170, 276,
237, 266, 321, 485
SancsTER, CHARLES, 114, 143, 162, 247,
248, 279, 303, 387, 402, 408, 413, 431,
459
SanasTteR, Marcaret E., 29, 57, 67,
270, 324, 340
Sanskrit, 408, 416
Sanskrit Epic, 421
Santayana, GEORGE, 368
SappHo, 152, 292
SaRcey, FRANCISQUE, 89, 340
Sarcent, Epes, 292, 348
Sartory, Mapam pz, 255
Sass, Grorce Herpert, 173
SAUNDERS, FREDERICK, 123, 301
Savace, Purp H., 234
Savace, RicHarp, 278, 336, 395, 429,
AUGUSTIN,
455, 477
SavaGEe-ARMSTRONG, GEORGE FRANCIS,
469
Savite, Grorce. See Hauirrax, Mar-
QUIS OF
Saxe, Jonn G., 21, 188, 237, 298, 303,
323, 363, 368
Saxe, ManrsHau,373
Scaptock, JAmMEs, 408
ScHEFFAUER, HERMAN GEORGE, 366
Scuerre., Josepa Victor von, 153, 384
Scuprer, Epmonp, 418
ScHiLLer, Frrepricu von, 40, 43, 57, 81,
90, 98, 109, 135, 144, 148, 152, 160,
177, 190, 195, 198, 201, 212, 214,
233, 258, 281, 283, 290, 354, 377, 403,
405, 439, 452, 470
Scnuoonmaker, Epwin D., 38
ScHOPENHAUER, ARTHUR, 8, 11, 54, 98,
196, 218, 232, 252, 258, 280, 368,
423, 487, 478, 484
ScoLiarD, CLInTon, 182, 346, 352
Scott, Duncan C., 343, 390
Scott, Joun, 43, 153, 242, 398, 455,
468
Scott, Mary McNetn:
Mary M.
Scorr, Micasru, 275, 439
Scorr, Sir Watrer, 8, 27, 47, 70, 73,
82, 102, 107, 126, 129, 133, 138, 143,
145, 148, 149, 153, 162, 170, 172,
178, 183, 199, 207, 211, 241, 247,
257, 270, 283, 289, 324, 327, 347,
348, 352, 360, 379, 384, 385, 403,
413, 421, 427, 442, 449, 454, 455,
465, 473, 474, 476, 477, 486
Scorrish Bauuap, 21, 38, 50, 106, 166,
190, 247, 344, 406
Scottish Provers, 52, 55, 81, 85, 87,
88, 131, 135, 139, 181, 187, 193, 200,
259, 296, 303, 309, 311, 448
Scupper, Euiza, 264
SreacGerR, Francis, 298
SEAMAN, Owen, 91, 233, 311, 312, 405
Srearinc, Laura R., 359
Secxer, THomas, 465
SEDLEY, Sir CHARLES, 24, 482
SeLBy, CHAR gs, 11
SELDEN, Joun, 6, 45, 66, 479
Sexes, Joss, 96, 181, 265
Severre, J. B., 172, 183 |
Seneca, 7, 258, 262, 299, 381, 427, 450
Stqur, 245
ServiAn Bauuap, 29, 358, 362, 417, 470
SERVICE, Rosert W., 188, 366
SEWALL, FRANK, 356
SHACKLOcK, RicHaRD, 92
SHADWELL, THomas, 83, 98, 229, 232,
265, 323, 367, 422, 435, 480
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 18, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24,
25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37, 38, 39,
43, 44, 45, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57,
62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72,
73, 74, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85,
86, 87, 88, 93, 97, 98, 99, 103, 104,
105, 106, 109, 111, 120, 129, 181,
133, 134, 185, 136, 141, 147, 150,
151, 153, 154, 155, 157, 160, 162,
163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170, 171,
181, 184, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190,
191, 193, 194, 195, 196, 199, 200,
See Fenouiosa,
XXXVI
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM — continued
202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 209,
214, 216, 217, 218, 219, 222,
226, 227, 228, 230, 231, 234,
236, 239, 240, 242, 245, 247,
249, 250, 258, 254, 256, 2538,
260, 262, 264, 265, 269, 271,
277, 279, 281, 283, 284, 285,
290, 291, 298, 294, 295, 298,
300, 301, 302, 303, 306, 308,
811, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316,
319, 320, 322, 323, 325, 327,
329, 330, 333, 335, 339, 341,
343, 346, 347, 348, 352, 355,
357, 358, 359, 360, 362, 364,
367, 371, 875, 376, 377, 378,
383, 384, 385, 388, 390, 394,
397, 398, 402, 403, 404, 408,
413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418,
421, 422, 423, 425, 426, 428,
433, 434, 435, 436, 438, 440,
445, 447, 449, 452, 454, 456,
461, 463, 464, 465, 466, 467,
469, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477,
480, 483, 484, 485, 487, 488
Saarp, Wiui1aM, 172, 283, 390, 473
SHARPHAM, Epwarp, 64, 116, 192, 195,
338, 350
SHaw, Greorce BERNARD, 62, 78, 209,
274, 279, 292, 298, 308, 347, 356,
373, 390, 405, 427, 444, 450, 473
Suaw, Henry W. See Bruurnecs, JosH
SHEppD, Percy W., 112
Saeit, RicHarp Lator, 157, 178, 246,
388
SHevtey, Percy Byssue, 5, 9, 11, 14,
18, 21, 23, 25, 31, 35, 40, 43, 47, 54,
57, 62, 63, 64, 70, 77, 78, 80, 82, 85,
86, 87, 89, 95, 102, 120, 122, 125,
129, 134, 136, 137, 140, 141, 143,
144, 146, 148, 149, 150, 153, 154,
160, 166, 168, 171, 175, 181, 187,
189, 192, 201, 204, 205, 214, 218,
221, 222, 224, 228, 229, 230, 232,
236, 239, 242, 245, 257, 263, 267,
268, 276, 281, 284, 286, 289, 292,
298, 299, 303, 306, 307, 310, 311,
317, 325, 326, 327, 329, 336, 343,
344, 346, 352, 354, 356, 361, 363,
371, 377, 378, 381, 382, 384, 390,
394, 403, 404, 405, 409, 411, 413,
414, 422, 425, 429, 430, 433, 439,
445, 447, 449, 451, 454, 459, 462,
466, 473, 484
SHENSTONE, WILLIAM, 40, 111, 169, 230,
245, 260, 309, 371 ;
SHepparp, Euizasers §., 413
SHERBURNE, Sir Epwarp, 253, 366, 483
SHERIDAN, CAROLINE E. 8S. See Nor-
Ton, Mrs.
SHERIDAN, RicHaRD BrinstEy, 10, 14,
27, 45, 48, 106, 112, 123, 196, 338,
350, 362, 414, 433
SHERMAN, ELLEN Burns, 449
213,
223,
235,
248,
259,
276,
288,
299,
309,
318,
328,
342,
356,
366,
382,
395,
411,
419,
431,
442,
457,
468,
479,
INDEX.
SHERMAN, FRANK Dempster, 200, 292,
409, 427
SHILLABER, BENJAMIN P. (Mrs. Parrt-
INGTON), 327
Sairuey, James, 30, 165, 296
SHOEMAKER, BLANCHE, 35
Snorter, Mrs. C. K. Sce SicErson,
Dora
Sipney, Srr Puruip, 7, 49, 129, 185, 197,
228, 260, 366, 458
Sienkiewicz, Henryx, 214, 383, 399
Sicerson, Dora, 5
SrcouRNEY, Lyp1a Huntty, 120, 170,
434
Situ, Epwarp R., 113, 154, 330
Situ, Louisz Morean, 313
SINCLAIR, CATHERINE, 302
Srracu, 163
SKELTON, JoHN, 7, 19, 41, 139, 146, 153,
171, 178, 187, 198, 201, 212, 229,
235, 248, 288, 324, 343, 377, 390,
436, 452, 478, 484
Sxresry, Josern, 188
Siapen, Dovetss B. W., 160, 185
Stick, Sam, 85, 106, 166, 200, 239, 251,
402, 441, 478, 487
SMART, CHRISTOPHER, 35, 82, 226, 313,
452
Smepitey, Meneua B., 37
SMILEs, SAMUEL, 53, 203, 272, 307
Smito, Aprcart A., 67
Smita, ALEXANDER, 13, 37, 44,
121, 173, 175, 178, 193, 227,
266, 267, 280, 290, 308, 328,
354, 363, 366, 425, 426, 454,
464, 466, 478
Smita, Epmunp, 435
Smita, Evizaseru O., 268, 358
SmirH, H. anv J., 229, 234
Smito, Harry B., 156, 286, 473
Smita, Horace, 12, 69, 276, 402, 468,
487
Smita, Horatio. See CHATFIELD, Paun
Smitu, J. Russewu, 55
Smita, JAMEs, 37, 41, 82, 229, 270,
294, 402
Smiru, Sepa, 371
Situ, StepHen, 165, 235, 237, 470
Situ, Sypney, 46, 115, 253, 334, 450
SMoLLeTT, Tostas, 27, 105, 131, 178,
213, 226, 274, 291, 312, 350, 357,
366, 385, 390, 392, 396, 409, 444,
445, 452, 480, 484
Smo.tizey, Georce W., 73
Socratses, 145
SoMERVILLE, ‘WILLIAM,
333, 366, 442
SopHocies, 147, 234
SorHesy, Wiuuiam, 346
Soutu, Rozsert, 216, 229, 314, 355
Soutuesx, Earuor. See Carnecin, SIR
WILLIAM
Sourgzy, Rogperr, 3, 18, 21, 22, 24,
30, 31, 35, 43, 47, 52, 79, 89, 95,
104,
240,
340,
462,
37, 143, 157,
INDEX.
99, 102, 113, 125, 126, 136, 137, 139,
140, 148, 144, 146, 149, 171, 175,
176, 184, 234, 240, 242, 247, 253,
268, 277, 286, 306, 316, 327, 336,
346, 347, 363, 366, 381, 387, 404,
413, 414, 416, 419, 421, 434, 443,
444, 454, 469, 474, 484, 488
SouTHEY, CAROLINE, 149, 360
SouTHWELL, Rosert, 448
SPANISH PROVERB, 279
Spears, JoHN R., 480
Spencer, Hersert, 55
Spencer, THomas, 484
Spenser, Epmunp, 19, 32, 35, 51, 52,
57, 74, 94, 97, 103, 105, 121, 125,
129, 189, 144, 153, 162, 165, 166,
168, 216, 226, 228, 229, 237, 242,
248, 273, 308, 316, 322, 330, 333, 346,
383, 390, 413, 421, 433, 462, 464, 465,
474, 480
Speranza. See WiupE, Lapy
SporrorD, Harriet P., 454
SpurGEoN, CHARLES Happon, 299
Squire oF Low Dares, 329
Squirr, SAMUEL, 258
Stacpooute, H. pE VERE, 248
STanpDBURG, CARL, 371, 459
STaNLEY, Henry M., 178
StTansBury, JOSEPH, 204
Stanton, EvizaABetTaH Capy, 273
Stanton, Fran«x L., 2387, 480
Sratius, 413
Stressens, Mary E. See Hewitt, Mary
E. M.
StepMan, EpmunpD CLARENCE, 43, 160,
409, 421
STEELE, Sir Ricwarp, 68, 73, 93, 210,
218, 225, 276, 321, 323, 382, 386,
396, 455
Stein, EvaLeen, 25
SterHen, James KenneETH, 389
Srerney, GEORGE, 103
Steriine, Grorce, 44, 111, 123, 333
STERLING, JOHN, 30, 452
Sterne, Laurence, 17, 121, 132, 189,
262, 281, 294, 327, 357, 371, 427, 464
Sterne, Stuart. See BLOEDE, GERTRUDE
Stevens, OTHEMAN, 76
Stevenson, Rospert Lovis, 23, 33, 66,
106, 199, 212, 216, 229, 269, 294,
295, 318, 318, 324, 341, 352, 363,
364, 367, 373, 413, 421, 442, 480,
487
Stickney, JoserpH TRUMBULL, 121, 214,
227, 363, 366, 487
Strruine, Earw or, 153, 213, 371
Strruinc-MaxwELu, Lapy. See Nor-
Ton, Mrs.
Stopparp, ExizaBeta B., 307
Stopparp, Ricwarp H., 28, 177, 303,
825, 454
Stoxer, Ricwarp D., 269
Story, WiLt1amM WETMORE,
257, 266
39, 245,
XXXVil
StoucutTon, Joun, 18
Stowe, Harriet E. B., 29
STREET, JULIAN, 298, 379
SrrinpBeRG, AuGusT, 277, 385
Srrone, Austin, 60
Strunskxy, Simeon, 53
SrruTuHers, JOHN, 229
Suckuine, Sir JoHn, 123, 137, 474
SuDERMANN, Hermann, 126, 217, 327,
459
Supraka, 71
Suaes, Simon, 138
Sutuivan, Timotuy Danret, 35
Sutty, JAmMEs, 106
Supré, Franz von, 245
Surtesgs, R. S., 97, 162
SUTHERLAND, Howarp V., 390
Surron, Henry S., 100
SwEDENBORG, EMANUEL, 143
SWETCHINE, MapAmeE, 130, 164
Swirt, 3, 13, 17, 29, 30, 32, 37, 50, 64,
72, 75, 147, 154, 157, 162, 167, 168,
226, 232, 246, 253, 254, 255, 259,
274, 280, 288, 290, 299, 304, 329,
334, 337, 348, 351, 354, 371, 385,
386, 415, 474, 480, 483, 486
SwINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES, 3, 5,
9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 21,°23, 24,
25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37,
38, 39, 48, 49, 55, 56, 57, 61, 62, 63,
66, 76, 77, 81, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 91,
93, 95, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104,
106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 113, 116, 121,
123, 125, 126, 129, 131, 132, 134,
135, 136, 137, 138, 189, 140, 141,
142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148,
151, 152, 154, 156, 157, 158, 160,
162, 165, 166, 168, 169, 172, 173,
178, 179, 181, 182, 185, 186, 187,
188, 189, 190, 191, 194, 195, 198,
199, 200, 201, 205, 206, 207, 209,
210, 211, 218, 221, 222, 223, 227,
228, 229, 234, 238, 239, 240, 242,
246, 247, 248, 249, 255, 260, 263,
264, 266, 269, 270, 279, 284, 285,
286, 288, 290, 292, 295, 303, 306,
307, 308, 309, 310, 312, 318, 314,
815, 316, 317, 319, 324, 325, 327,
328, 329, 330, 333, 334, 336, 341,
342, 343, 346, 348, 349, 350, 351,
354, 356, 357, 358, 360, 364, 371,
375, 377, 378, 379, 383, 387, 388,
390, 391, 393, 394, 395, 396, 398,
399, 402, 403, 405, 409, 413, 414,
416, 418, 419, 422, 425, 426, 428,
429, 431, 433, 434, 435, 436, 438,
443, 449, 452, 456, 460, 461, 462,
464, 465, 466, 474, 475, 477, 480,
481, 484, 485, 487, 488
Swine, Davip, 276
Syuiocus, Pautus, 58, 440, 466
Sytva, Carmen, 176, 469
Symineton, ANDREW J., 150
Symonps, JOHN ADDINGTON, 62, 186
XXXViil
121, 169, 181,
269, 279, 284,
Symons, Artruur, 74,
186, 210, 239, 267,
303, 336, 352, 355, 372, 409, 413,
419, 423, 441, 460, 469
Synaz, Jonn M., 100, 237
Tass, JOHN B., 62, 284
Tacore, RABINDRANATH, 396, 485
Taine, HrppotytTe ADOLPHE, 208, 211, 253
Ta.LFrourp, Sir THomas Noon, 189, 195,
301
TALLENTYRE, S. G., 102, 248, 269
Tatmace, T. DeWitt, 253
Tamit PROVERB, 93
TANNEHILL, Rospert, 173
TARKINGTON, Boot, 143, 201, 342
Tasso, Toraguato, 10, 121, 180, 139,
811, 317, 342, 357, 381, 413, 447
TaTHAM, JOHN, 139
Taytor, Bararn, 6, 14, 23, 25, 27, 30,
36, 40, 48, 58, 59, 62, 66, 70, 78, 89,
105, 107, 108, 121, 129, 139, 151,
152, 155, 158, 160, 169, 174, 176,
177, 181, 183, 194, 201, 209, 221,
237, 238, 261, 281, 287, 289, 290,
294, 296, 306, 314, 325, 326, 338,
339, 344, 346, 348, 354, 356, 358,
359, 372, 377, 383, 394, 396, 398,
410, 425, 426, 464, 469
TAYLOR, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 409
Taytor, Bert Leston, 341
Taytor, JEREMY, 90, 115, 164, 458
Taytor, Joun, 14, 171, 184, 201, 207,
240, 249, 274, 313, 328, 468
Tayrtor, Sir Henry, 84, 121, 223
Taytor, Tom, 277, 343, 365
TcuexHov, ANTON, 2, 23, 108, 200, 207,
440, 450
Traener, Esaras, 25, 121, 134, 241, 260,
372
TreLtucu Provers, 447
TEMPLE, Sir WIutiam, 1, 29, 232, 337
Tennant, PAMELA, 410
TENNANT, WILLIAM, 111, 181, 391
Tennyson, ALFRED, 7, 17, 21, 22, 23,
36, 39, 40, 53, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 73,
77, 79, 80, 85, 87, 91, 102, 111, 129,
131, 140, 142, 143, 146, 147, 149,
158, 162, 168, 171, 173, 176, 178,
185, 186, 201, 202, 207, 229, 234,
246, 247, 257, 269, 273, 284, 285,
287, 312, 317, 323, 325, 327, 332,
343, 346, 360, 364, 373, 377, 379,
389, 404, 405, 410, 415, 422, 427,
435, 441, 474, 477
TENNYSON, FREDERICK, 22,
* 346, 394, 433, 452
THACKERAY, WiLuiaM Maxeprace, 12,
25, 27, 38, 43, 56, 97, 107, 108, 122,
131, 158, 162, 168, 181, 185, 193,
197, 230, 236, 249, 250, 284, 297,
303, 304, 316, 321, 326, 328, 329,
348, 350, 354, 367, 372, 375, 385,
386, 399, 402, 416, 426, 452, 474
126, 333,
INDEX.
Tuaxtnr, Certs, 80, 103, 114, 176, 179,
188, 221, 234, 266, 307, 327, 349, 387,
398, 410, 442, 485
TuayeEr, SterpHEen Henry, 449
THayER, Wi1Lu1AM Roscoz, 354
THEMISTOCLES, 69, 253, 378
THEOBALD, Lewis, 49, 339
TuHxrocritus, 208, 229, 256, 311,
474
Tueroantis, 66, 143, 184, 210
THERSITES, 422
Taomas, Davin, 7, 368
Tuomas, Evita M., 88, 366
Tuomas, FREDERICK WILLIAM, 82
Tuomas, JAMES, 240
Tuomas, J. Penrorp, 253
Tompson, Francis, 10, 43, 100, 121,
157, 170, 190, 205, 259, 274, 279,
334, 342, 347, 394, 425 :
Tuompson, JoHN R., 87
THompson, MAvRIceE,
346, 410
THOMPSON,
457, 474
Tuomson, JamMsEs, 23, 77, 80, 95, 121,
166, 207, 307, 340, 447
THomson, WILLIAM, 21, ‘36, 51,
141, 158, 176, 309, 311, 323,
398, 410, 436, 464, 468
TuHorEAv, Henry D., 36, 41, 638, 88,
105, 113, 183, 160, 176, 169, 206,
209, 214, 217, 218, 232, 273, 303,
817, 382, 474, 478
THORNBURY, WALTER, 21, 154, 181, 346,
347, 386, 396
THORNTON, BONNELL, 2, 96, 97, 162,
204, 326, 327, 428
TicKELL, THomas, 372, 413
TicKNor, Francis O., 125
TrerRNAN, Francis C. F., 474
TiLLoTson, Bishop JOHN, 355, 457
Tritton, THEODORE, 139, 143, 310
Timrop, Henry, 43
Tincker, Mary Aanes, 366
Tosin, Joun, 179, 411, 454
Tortre, Rozert, 48
Toutstoy, Lro, 37, 139, 162, 397, 450
Tomxis, THoMAs, 357
Tommasgo, Niccoto (D. G. Rossertt),
186
Tomson, Granam R.
Rosamunp Marriorr
Tooker, L. Frank, 480
Topéiius, ZACHARIAS, 316
Torriano, GIOVANNI, 219
TourcEE, ALBION W., 269
TournerurR, Cyrrit, 49, 160, 202, 245,
888, 417, 463
Towne, CHARLES WAYLAND, 342
TowNneLEY Mysteries aND MIRACLE
Puars, 328, 343
Townsenp, Mary As#.ey, 18, 158, 374
TraiLL, Henry D., 280
Trasan, 114
372,
150, 176, 248,
Vance, 38, 58, 206, 314,
114,
372,
See WATSON,
INDEX.
TrencH, RicHarp CHENEVIX, 219, 400
TrRoLiopr, ANTHONY, 164, 185
TROLLOPE, Mrs., 111, 214, 303, 385,
429
Trousetskoy, AMELIn. See Rives,
AMELIE ,
TROWBRIDGE, JOHN T., 44, 73, 130, 152,
154, 320, 334, 350, 400, 422, 474
TRUMBULL, JOHN, 178, 456
TRUMBULL, WALTER, 155, 399, 422, 468
Tupper, 36, 44, 100, 103, 147, 188,
226, 247, 258, 274, 280, 312, 321,
335, 337, 338, 348, 364, 374, 403, 410,
480
TuRGENEV, Ivan 8., 106, 218, 245, 377,
480
TuRNER, CHARLES TENNYSON, 39, 148
TuRNLEY, JosEPH, 3, 36, 138, 178, 185,
465
TusspR, THomas, 5, 60, 436
Twain, Mark, 82, 99, 250, 341, 352,
872, 374, 377, 379, 387, 390, 393,
416, 437, 474
Tru, Joser K., 454
Trier, G. Vere, 114, 383
Tynan, KaTHERINE. Sce
KATHERINE T.
HINKSON,
Userti, Fazio DEGLI, 372
Upatut, Nicuouas, 377, 478
UxnLanp, JoHann L., 97, 171, 336, 379
UNDERWOOD, WILBUR, 410
UNTERMEYER, Louis, 405, 466
UpanisHaD, Karna, 445
Upson, ARTHUR, 192
UzaNNnE, OcTAvE, 487
Vauera, Juan VaLERaA Y ALcaLé
GaLiano, 309, 387
Vautmizr. See RAMAYANA
Vatois, MARGUERITE DE, 245, 418
VANBRUGH, Sir JoHn, 72, 116, 155, 167,
169, 211,. 240, 245, 247, 255, 263,
354, 462, 486
Vance, Louis JoseryH, 446
Van Dyxz, Henry, 13, 97, 105, 177,
307, 373, 396, 415, 433
Van Dyke, Joun C., 43, 178, 181, 201,
264, 359, 361
Van Vorst, Marie, 410, 477
VaucHan, Henry, 2, 49, 58, 130, 162,
309, 346, 351, 435
Vaux, LESLIE DE, 259
Vazov, Ivan, 266, 393
VeEppER, Davin, 24, 455
Vepic Hymn, 37
Veca, Lope pz, 248, 307
VENABLES, WILLIAM Henry, 190
VENNING, RaupH, 323
Verca, GIOVANNI, 91
VERLAINE, Paut, 97, 121
Veurtitot, Louis Francois, 164
Viereck, Grorce SyLvester, 55, 59,
87, 147, 148, 154, 284, 422
XXXIX
VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRD, 56, 122, 236,
335, 418
VILLEMARQUE, HERSART DE LA, 417
Viturrrs, Grorcr. See BuckINcHaM,
DvKE oF
Vinton, Frangors, 21, 58, 274
Virert, 20, 102, 109, 148, 176, 179, 199,
211, 266, 313, 331, 359, 382, 410, 418,
422, 447
Vitrovics, Micrity, 164, 245
VoGELWEIDE, WALTER VON DER, 146, 426
Vottarre, 7, 13, 21, 48, 46, 53, 54, 58,
80, 131, 136, 138, 208, 219, 271, 307,
321, 356, 386, 422, 462, 480
Vordsmarry, Micwant, 36, 130
WavpineTon, SaMuBL, 14
Wane, Tuomas, 182, 192, 249, 269, 290,
354, 389, 440, 447, 466
Waacer, Lewis, 150
WaGner, CHARLES, 267
WALKER, CLEMENT, 443
Wauuace, Lewis, 240
WAaLLAcrE, WILLIAM, 183
Water, Epmunp, 5, 7, 85, 179, 228, 242
Wawpotr, Horacsn, 50
WatsH, WiuuiaM 8., 43, 245
Watton, Izaak, 8, 58, 109, 160, 402
Warp, Artemus, 13, 27, 202, 316, 383,
388, 468
Warp, Evizasers S. P., 226, 264, 309,
355
Warp, Nep, 194, 238
Warp, SAMUEL, 234, 372
Warp, Tuomas, 125, 171
Warp, Witram, 160, 188, 326
Ware, Evcene Fircu, 154, 178,
367, 460
Warning ror FarreE WomeEn, 253
Warren, Joun Leicester. See Dr
Tasiey, Lorp
Warren, SAMUEL, 295
Warton, JoserH, 181
Warton, THomas, 130, 141, 170
Warwick, Artuur, 72, 302
Warwick, Rosert, 164
Wasuincton, Booxer T., 303
Wasuinaton, Grorce, 58, 137
Waters, Frank, 48, 106, 183, 255, 264,
270, 287, 313, 455
Watson, Epwarp WILLARD, 358
Watson, James W., 138, 430
Watson, RosamunD MARRIOTT,
372, 410, 441, 462
Watson, THomas, 31, 43, 52, 109, 138,
270, 460 ;
Watson, Wii1am, 33, 46, 62, 84, 89,
169, 172, 196, 204, 235, 245, 255, 438,
475, 486
Wartrrenson, Henry, 377
Warts, Auaric A., 21, 307, 311, 480
Warts-Dunton, Turopors, 10, 58, 121,
257, 316, 333, 346, 360, 390, 431, 433,
442, 474
289,
124,
xl INDEX.
Warts, Isaac, 2, 14, 43, 138, 171, 179,
248, 340, 387, 396, 413, 455
Wesgsrer, Auacusta, 121
WessTER, BENJAMIN, 425
WesstTErR, DANIEL, 34, 165, 302, 449
Wesster, Joun, 49, 64, 123, 134, 163,
179, 253, 273, 277, 321, 336, 348,
386, 432, 464, 483
Weeks, Ropert K., 9, 455
Weems, Mason L., 168, 354
We sy, Mrs. A. B., 18, 154, 424
Wetts, CHartes J., 9, 135, 352, 391,
474
WELis, CaRotyn, 488
We tts, H. G., 13, 220, 228, 273, 278, 385
WetsH Baap, 277, 376, 470
WetsH Provers, 464
WENDELL, BARRETT, 314
Wes.ey, CHARLES, 43
Wester, Joun, 58, 146, 197
Westry, Samue, 105, 140, 216, 291,
328
West AFRICAN PROVERB, 417
Westwoop, Tuomas, 144, 147, 364
Wuarton, Evirs, 30, 150, 255, 278,
327, 350, 363, 367, 440
Wuate.y, Ricwarp, 132, 374, 483
Wuiprpiez, Epwin P., 313, 350
Waster, JAMES McNEILL, 204
Wurirt, Henry Kirxe, 260, 301, 352
Wurst, RicHarp GRANT, 253
WHITEHEAD, PavuL, 143, 199, 254
WHITEHEAD, WILLIAM, 9, 89, 141, 155,
261, 427 .
WHITMAN, Sarau H., 425
WHITMAN, WALT, 43, 249, 354, 402
Wuitney, HELEN Hay, 284, 477
WuirttierR, JoHN GREENLEAP, 8, 16, 24,
27, 29, 37, 43, 48, 58, 59, 62, 64, 67,
74, 82, 103, 105, 121, 130, 133, 140,
147, 155, 156, 160, 162, 172, 173,
179, 183, 185, 190, 197, 207, 223,
234, 236, 237, 240, 246, 266, 268,
269, 275, 287, 307, 321, 325, 330,
332, 334, 336, 343, 354, 363, 372,
374, 382, 383, 390, 391, 404, 410,
413, 483, 434, 488, 448, 455, 460,
468, 474, 475
Wurrtineton, RicHarp, 17
Wayrte, James C., 483
Wauyts-MeEtvitur, Grorce Joun, 48
WIELAND, CurisTtoPpHER Martin, 162
Wieains, Pau, 276, 344, 347
Witcox, Etta WaHercer, 58, 78, 121,
146, 150, 264, 313, 382, 385, 390
Wipe, Lapy, 358, 373, 461
Wipe, Oscar, 39, 43, 51, 73, 76, 78,
101, 116, 121, 123, 149, 176, 178,
267, 272, 287, 288, 348, 403, 428,
434, 448, 461, 474, 475, 483
Wipe, Ricwarp Henry, 232
Wiwxe, A. C., 402
Witxiz, Wiiuiam, 111, 141, 228, 242,
391, 477
Wrxins, J., 328
Witirams, Francis Howarp, 44
Witurams, Joun. See PasqQuin,
THONY
Wruuiams, Raupex D., 202, 227
Winurams, Sarau, 347, 363, 425
Wituramson, C. N. anp A. M., 58
Wiuus, N. P., 36, 43, 51, 58, 60, 72,
87, 110, 133, 146, 148, 149, 154, 217,
229, 237, 246, 256, 272, 288, 311,
327, 338, 347, 351, 361, 387, 390,
396, 400, 410, 434, 441, 461, 467, 474
Witson, ALEXANDER, 328, 383
Witson, C. P., 36, 85, 172, 311, 410
WItson, FLORENCE, 221
Wixson, Harry Leon, 143, 214, 414
Wison, JAMEs C., 363
Witson, James P., 191
Witson, Joun, 125, 155, 172, 202, 248,
258, 364
Wiutson, McLAnpBuRGH, 82
Witson, Sir THomas, 274
Winter, Wiuuiam, 2, 33, 44, 48, 155,
157, 160, 202, 261, 274, 289, 307,
363, 410, 419, 452, 477
Winturop, THEODORE, 217
WIisTEeR, OWEN, 429
WirTHas, JoHN, 366
WiTHerR, Grorae, 130, 155, 223, 256,
288
Wits Recreation (1640), 253, 299, 309
Wo tcott, Dr. Joun, See PINDAR, PETER
Wotcort, Joun, 41, 186 ,
Wotr, RENNOLD, 248
WOLFE, CHARLES, 228
WotsELey, Ropert, 132, 150, 334, 442
Woman Turnep Butty, 106
WomeEn’s PETITION AGAINST COFFEE,
105
Woop, Mrs. Henry, 198
WoopBEerry, GEORGE Epwarp, 37, 147
Woops, JAMzEs C., 102
Wootsry, SaraH CHAUNCEY, 169
Wootson, ConsTANCE FENIMORE, 122,
344
Worpswortn, WILuiAM, 3, 13, 16, 24,
28, 36, 41, 43, 44, 52, 55, 67, 68, 74,
76, 78, 89, 98, 99, 100, 107, 122, 125,
130, 135, 136, 141, 1438, 146, 147, 148,
150, 156, 160, 162, 167, 171, 174, 176,
177, 187, 193, 194, 195, 197, 198,
199, 200, 207, 210, 221, 223, 226,
234, 239, 242, 247, 256, 270, 271,
272, 280, 284, 287, 289, 295, 300,
307, 309, 310, 316, 317, 319, 321,
326, 336, 340, 354, 358, 366, 367,
372, 379, 381, 385, 387, 390, 396,
402, 405, 410, 411, 414, 416, 429,
430, 431, 434, 436, 439, 448, 444,
455, 459, 460, 462, 464, 465, 466,
468, 477, 552
WORLDE AND THE CuiLpE, 171
Worron, Sir Henry, 6, 58, 75
WRaTISLAW, THEODORE, 36
AN-
INDEX. xli
Wricut, Jamrs, 294
Wricut, LEonarD, 187, 194
Wricut, THomas, 26, 398
Wou.rrir, JOHANN, 195
Wyatt, Sir THomas, 36, 422
WrycHERLEY, WILLIAM, 17, 45, 106, 157,
163, 225, 255, 263, 294, 319, 410, 435,
445, 452, 475, 483
Xarirra. See TowNsEND, Mary ASHLEY
XENOPHON, 148
Ya.pEn, THomas, 130, 169, 216, 246, 478
YanxeEE Doopiez, 422
Yea anp Nay ALMANACK (1680), 60, 63
Yeats, WiLuiAM Boutuer, 21, 36, 80,
126, 183, 186, 237, 296, 441, 465, 485
Youne, Epwarp, 9, 16, 148, 230, 279,
296, 301, 304, 318, 375, 414, 417,
452, 480
Youne, Ripa Jounson, 13
ZANGWILL, ISRAEL, 26, 31, 58, 84, 133,
148, 154, 182, 205, 235, 250, 277, 317,
444, 446
Zmno, ,11, 277
Zoua, Emi.e, 79, 323, 484, 475
ZOROASTER, 91
ZSCHOKKE, JOHANN Hetnnricy, 65, 122,
358
A DICTIONARY OF SIMILES
Abandon.
Abandoned, like the waves we leave
behind us. — Donatp G. MitTcHeE Lt.
Abate.
Abate, like a flame grown moderate.
— Rosert Herrick.
Abide.
The sweet-laden thoughts come, like
bees, to abide in his heart as a hive.
—D. F. McCarrny.
Ability.
Native ability without education is
like a tree without fruit. — ARISTIPPUS.
Natural abilities are like natural
plants, that need pruning by study. —
Bacon.
The abilities of man must fall short
on one side or the other, like too
scanty a blanket when you are abed.
— Sir Witiiam Temp _e.
Ablaze.
All ablaze like poppies in the sun.
— Oura.
Abortive.
Abortive as the first-born bloom of
spring. — Miron.
Abound.
Abound, like blades of grass which
clothe the pregnant ground. — GEORGE
Sanpys.
Abrupt.
Abruptly as string that snaps be-
neath the bow. — E. W. Hornune.
Abrupt as a sultry little thunder
shower. — AMy LESLIE.
A
1
Absence.
‘Absence, like death, sets a seal on
the image of those we have loved. —
GOLDSMITH.
Absolute.
Absolute, sure, as the sun-dial’s
gnomon, compassing all the world’s
fate. — A. H. Brrsty.
Absolute as the art which built the
Parthenon. — BuLwer-LytrTon.
Absolute as the Sultan of Turkey.
— Macau.ay.
Abstemious.
Abstemious at the banquet as a
hermit. — C. C. Cotton.
Absurd.
Absurd as an excuse. — ANON.
Absurd as to ask a man if he'll
have salt on his ice cream. — Im.
Absurd as to ask if the flowers
love the dew. — Ini.
Absurd as to expect a beauty to
search for her likeness in the back of
a looking-glass. — Isip.
How absurd you must have looked
with your legs and arms in the air,
like a shipwrecked tea-table. — Dion
Bovcicavtt.
As absurd as for an epic poet to
disdain the composition of a perfect
epigram, or a consummate musician
the melody of a faultless song. —
Butwer-Lytron.
Absurd as if you took a divorce
petition to a chemist’s. — ANTON
TCHEKHOV.
2 ABSURD. — ACTOR.
Absurd — continued.
Absurd as giving bread-pills for a
broken leg. — Kipiine.
Absurd as to imagine that the hair-
lip or carbuncled nose a man sees in
the glass, belongs to the figure in the
mirror, and not to his own face. —
BonNneELL THORNTON.
Abundant.
Abundant as air and water. — ANON.
Abundant as the light of the sun. —
CARLYLE.
As the sycamore trees are in the
vale for abundance.— Onn Testa-
MENT.
Abuse.
If abuse, like a weed, be cut down
by the scythe of neglect, it will die
of itself. — THomas Brypson.
Accelerate.
Feverishly accelerated like the move-
ments we see in a cinematograph. —
Witi1am ARCHER.
Accounted.
We are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter. — New TEsTaMENT.
Accumulate.
Accumulate . .. like acorns be-
neath the trees of a modern forest.
— Tuomas H. Huxtey.
Accurate.
Could tell the hour by his move-
ments as accurately as by a sun-dial.
— WasuincTon Irvine.
As accurately as a bugler knows the
notes of the reveille. — Ouma.
Ache.
His full heart ached with love’s sweet
pain
Like a sealed fountain, charged with
rain,
That longs to sing in the summer air,
Yet faints in the caverns of despair.
— T. Bucuanan Reap.
Acrobats.
A troupe of acrobats is like a com-
bination to a safe: both have tumblers.
— ANON.
Action.
Like a squirrel in a cage, always in
action. — ApHRA BEAN.
Actions of the last age are like al-
manacs of the last year. —Sm JoHN
DrEnHAM. '
A good action like a ring on the
finger, the relief of a man of wit, the
patronization of a clergyman. — Hugo.
Reprehensible actions are like over-
strong brandies ; you cannot swallow
them at a draught. — Is.
Our actions are like the termination
of verses, which we rhyme as we
please. — RocHEFOUCAULD.
No more action than a stalled hearse
in a snow storm. — WILLIAM WINTER.
Active.
Active as a boy climbing a. crab-
apple tree for a cargo of cramp-
| generators. — ANON.
Active as a fire department during
a conflagration. — Ism.
Active as a pea in a bladder. —Isin.
Active as a peaon a griddle. — Inn.
Active as quicksilver.— Ipm.
As active as the roe. — NATHANIE]
Cotton.
Active as some mind that turns a
sphere. — CowLeEy.
Active as an ape. — Sir A. Conan
Dove.
Active as a griffin. — Hoop.
Active as light. — Henry VAUGHAN.
Active as the sun. — Isaac Watts.
Actor.
An actor is like a cigar; the more
you puff him the smaller he gets. —
ANON.
ACTOR. — ADVENTURE. 3
Actor — continued.
Actors are like pet birds. When a
pet bird dies, there may be, to those
who knew him in his day of song and
its ruffling plumage, some poor com-
fort in the sight of its stuffed body.
For others there is only a sense of
depression. — Max BrERBOHM.
Actors are like burglars: they al-
ways change their names for business
purposes. — Frank RIcHARDSON.
Acute.
Acute like the glow of hope. —
Tuomas TURNLEY.
Addition.
Additional, like the cipher on the
left. — OsmManii PROVERB.
Adhere.
Adhere like burrs.— ANon.
Adhering . . . like shipwrecked mari-
ners on a rock. — J. M. Barris.
Adhere like ticks to a sheep’s back.
— Maovrice HEWLETT.
Adhesive.
Adhesive as a postage stamp. —
ANON.
Adhesive as fly-paper. — IB.
Admonition.
The admonition of a true friend
should be like the practice of a wise
physician, who wrappeth his sharp
pills in fine sugar; or the cunning
Chirurgeon, who lancing a wound
with an iron, immediately applieth
to it soft lint; or as mothers deal
with their children for worms, who
put their bitter seeds into sweet
raisins. If this order had been ob-
served in thy discourse, that. inter-
lacing sour taunts with sugared counsel,
bearing as well a gentle rein as using a
hard snaffle, than mightest have done
more with the whisk of a wand, that
now thou canst with a pick of the spur,
and avoid that which now thou mayest
not, extreme unkindness. But thou
art like that kind of judge which Pro-
pertius noeth, who condemning his
friend, cause him for the more ease
to be hanged with a silken twist.
And thou, like a friend, cuttest my
throat with a razor, not with a hatchet,
for my more honour. — Lyty,
Adorable.
Adorable as a dazzling and innocent
creature who walks along, holding in
her hand the key to paradise without
being conscious of it. — Huco.
Adorable as is nothing save a child.
— SWINBURNE.
Adrift.
Adrift as a pinnace in peril. —
SWINBURNE.
Adrift as a spirit in doubt that dis-
sembles
Still with itself, being sick of division
and dimmed by dismay. — Isp.
Advance.
Where like a fire to heather set,
Bauld Thomas did advance. — ANon.
Advancing, as the chorus to the
footlights. — ANon.
Advancing like the shadow of death.
— Ruskin.
Advance, like sheep before the wolf.
— SourTHEY.
Advanced, like Atalanta’s star,
But rarely seen, and seen from far.
— SwIrtT.
Adventure.
Adventurous as a paladin of ro-
mance. — Wiit1am H. Prescort.
Adventures are like leaps in hunt-
ing, — they bring you into the chase
sooner, but may chance to cost you a
fall. — James PuCKLE.
Adventurous as a bee. — Worps-
WORTH.
4 ADVERSITY. — AGE.
Adversity.
The storms of adversity, like those
of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and
excite the invention, prudence, skill
and fortitude of the voyager. — Cap-
TAIN MARRYATT.
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venom-
ous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Advertising.
Doing business without advertising
is like winking at a girl in the dark.
You know what you are doing, but
nobody else does. — ANon.
Advice.
Advice after mischief is like medicine
after death. — ANON.
Advice is like kissing: it costs
nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
— Joss Bitiies.
Advice is like snow; the softer it
falls, and the longer it dwells upon,
the deeper it sinks into the mind. —
CoLERIDGE.
To listen to the advice of a treacher-
ous friend, is like drinking poison from
a golden cup. — DEMoPHILUS.
Advice all the world over is like
wind in a cage. In the case of lovers,
like water in a sieve. — Prupay.
Affable.
Affable as a wet dog. — ALFRED
Henry Lewis.
Affairs.
Affairs, like a salt fish, ought to be
a good while a-soaking. — Anon.
Affectation.
Affectation is as necessary to the
mind as dress is to the body. —
Wituam Hazurr.
Affection.
Affection, like spring flowers, breaks
through the most frozen ground at
last, and the heart which asks but for
another heart to make it happy, will
never seek in vain. — BENTHAM.
Affection, like the nut within the
shell, wants freedom. — Dion Bovci-
CAULT.
The affections, like conscience, are
rather to be led than driven. Those
who marry where they do not love,
will be likely to love where they do
not marry. — Tuomas FULLER.
The human affections, like the solar
heat, lose their intensity as they de-
part from the centre, and become
languid in proportion to the expansion
of the circle on which they act. —
ALEXANDER HaMILTon.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies
trifles ; but the magnifying of the one
is like looking through a telescope at
heavenly objects ; that of the other,
like enlarging monsters with a tele-
scope. — LzicH Hunt.
Affinity.
No more affinity for each other
than a robin for a goldfish. — ELEANOR
Kirk. ’
Affliction.
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes
as it smites. —C. N. Bovis.
Afflictions are like lightning: you
can not tell where they will strike
until they have fallen. — LacorDaIRE.
Afraid.
Afraid as a grasshopper. — Op
TESTAMENT.
Age.
Age, like a double-faced Janus, looks
all ways, and ponders wisely on the
past. — Barry CoRNWALL.
The age of man resembles a book ;
infancy and old age are the blank pages,
youth the preface, and man the body
or most important part of life’s
volume. — E. P. Day.
AGE. — ALIVE. 5
Age — continued.
Age, like woman, requires fit sur-
roundings. — EMERSON.
Like mist upon the lea,
And like night upon the plain,
Old age comes o’er the heart.
— Roperr Nico..
Age like winter bare. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Ageless.
Ageless as the sun. — SWINBURNE.
Aghast.
Aghast, like beaten hounds that dare
not whine. — ANON.
Agile.
Agile as a cat. — ANON.
Agile as a monkey. — Dumas, PERE.
Agitated.
Agitated with delight like a waving
sea. — ARABIAN NIGHTS.
Aglow.
Aglow, like fruit when it colors. —
Witiiam Canton.
Thy lips are aglow
As a lover’s that kindle with kissing.
— SWINBURNE.
Agony.
Blind agony, like a scorpion, stung
by his own rage. — SHELLEY.
Agree.
Agree like pikes in a pond, ready to
eat up one another. — THomas ADAms.
Agree like finger and thumb. —
ANON.
Agree like the hare and the hound.
— Ism.
Agree together as harp and harrow.
— Tuomas Becon.
Agree like a bell and its clapper. —
Butwer-Lyrron.
Agrees like the note with its meas-
ure. — DANTE.
Agree like Dogges and Cattes. —
STEPHEN GossonN. _
Agree together like bells. — “A
Knacks To Knows a Knave,” 1584.
Agree as Lent and fishmongers. —
JoHN Marston.
Agreement is like the uniting of
two halves of a seal. — MEnctus.
Agree like the wax and the wick of
the candle. — RicHarp PERCIVAL.
Agree like pickpockets in a fair. —
JoHN Ray’s “Hanppook or Prov-
ERBS,” 1670.
Agree like married music in Love’s
answering air. — C. G. Rossetti.
Agree as wasp doth with bee. —
Tuomas TUSSER.
Agree as Angels do above. — Ep-
MUND WALLER.
Aimless.
Aimless as an autumn leaf
Borne in November’s idle winds afar.
—P. H. Hayne.
Alacrity.
Expressed their alacrity, like horses
full of fire and neighing for the race.
— PLuTarca.
Alarm.
Full of alarm
She stood, like a young bird quitting
its nest. — Dora SIGERSON.
Alert.
Alert as a chamois. — ANON.
Alert as a bird in the springtime. —
Grorce Moore.
Alike.
Alike as two peas.— ANON.
Alike as my fingers is to my fingers.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Alive.
Alive as a vision of life to be. —
SWINBURNE.
6 = ALLURE. — AMBITION.
Allure.
One of ‘those beautiful, brilliant
enigmas, which irresistibly allure every
one like a sphinx. — Guy DE Maupas-
SANT.
Alluring as a ripe peach. — Isr.
Allured all hearts as ocean lures the
land. — Bayarp TaYLor.
Alone.
Like to the moon am I, that cannot
shine
Alone. — MicHELANGELO.
Alone, like a leper. — ANON.
The old man proceeded alone into
the waste, like u bold vessel leaving
its haven to enter on the trackless
field of the ocean.—J. FEntmore
Cooper.
Alone, like Crusoe. — Epwarp S.
Martin.
Stands alone like a rock in a sandy
vale. — OssIANn.
Alone . . . like an owl in an ivy-
bush. —J. R. PLancué.
I go alone
Like a lonely dragon, that his fen
Makes fear’d, and talk’d of more than
seen. — SHAKESPEARE.
Alone, like one that had the pesti-
lence. — In.
Alone like some deserted world. —
Bayarp Taytor.
Stand alone like a substantive. —
Str Henry Wotton.
Alter.
‘Altering, like one who waits for
an ague fit. — Drypen.
Alteration of Religion is dangerous,
because we know not where it will
stay: ’tis like a Millstone that lies
upon the’ top of a pair of Stairs; ’tis
hard to remove it, but if once it be
thrust off the first stair, it never stays
till it comes to the bottom. — Jonn
SELDEN,
Alternate.
But hope and fear alternate sway
my soul, like light and shade upon a
waving field. — Joan Homer.
Alternate like the moon. — Pops.
Amazed.
Amazed, as one that unaware
Hath dropp’d a precious jewel in the
flood. — SHAKESPEARE.
Ambition.
Ambition is like choler, which is a
humor that maketh men _ active,
earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring,
if it be not stopped: but if it be
stopped, and cannot have its way,
it becometh a dust (hot and fiery)
and thereby malign and venomous.
— Bacon.
Ambitious as the
MONT AND FLETCHER.
devil. — Brau-
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys
no law but its appetite. — Josn Brr-’
LINGS.
To reach the height of our ambition
is like trying to reach the rainbow ;
as we advance it recedes. —W. T.
BURKE.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage
or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men
still climb and climb, with great labor
and incessant anxiety, but never reach
the top. — Henry Burton.
As a tree the higher it is, the greater
force the winde hath of it, and euerie
little blast will bee puffing at it, so
that the sooner and greater is the fall
thereof: So the Ambitious man, the
higher he climeth, the greater is his
fall.—Rosert Cawpray’s ‘A TREAS-
URIE OR STORE-HOUSE oF SIMILIES,”
1600.
Ambition is like love, impatient
both of delays and rivals. — Sir Joan
DeEnHaM.
AMBITION. —— ANGER. 7
Ambition — continued.
Ambition, like a seeled [blind] dove
mounts upward,
Higher and higher still, to perch on
clouds,
But tumbles headlong down with
heavier ruin. — JoHN Forp.
As ambitious as Lady Macbeth. —
JAMES HUNEKER.
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks
back. — Ben Jonson.
Ambition, like love, can abide no
lingering ; and ever urgeth on his
own successes, hating nothing but
what may: stop them.— Sir Parup
SIDNEY.
Ambition
Is like the sea wave, which the more
you drink
The more you thirst — yea — drink
too much, as men
Have done on rafts of wreck —it
drives you mad. — TENNYSON.
Amiable.
Amiable as the surface of parch-
ment. — GEorGE MEREDITH.
Amorous.
Amorous as a pair of love-birds.—
ANON.
Amorous as a parrakeet. — Inrp.
Amorous as an Arcadian. — GEORGE
CoLMAN, THE YOUNGER.
Ample.
Ample as the largest winding-sheet. '
— Krats.
Ample as the wants of man. —
LoNGFELLow.
Amused.
Unbending their minds, and amused
with every trifle ; like birds, which,
after the serious and important busi- ,
ness of preparing nests for their young,
fly sportfully about, free and disen-,
gaged, as if to relieve themselves.
from their toils. — C1cERo.
Amusements.
Amusements are to religion like
breezes of air to the flame, — gentle
ones will fan it, but strong ones will
put it out. — Davip Tuomas.
Ancestors. ,!
The man who has not anything to
boast of but his illustrious ancestors
is like a potato,—the only good
belonging to him is under ground. —
Sir THomas Overzury.
Ancient.
Ancient as the sun. — WILLIAM
Cuuten Bryant.
Ancient as the spot on which the
bricks of Babylon are found. — J.
Fenmore Cooper.
Ancient as the stings of death. —
Der QuINcEY.
As ancient as the world. — GzorcE
GRANVILLE.
Ancient as the stars. — VoLTAIRE.
Ancient as the sea. — WALLER.
Angel.
Like angel visits, few and far be-
tween. — CAMPBELL.
Anger.
Anger in our mirth is like poison in
a perfume. — ADDISON.
Like fragile ice, anger passes away
in time. — ANon.
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity
as a dose of arsenic to life. —J. G.
Ho ann.
Watch against anger ; neither speak
of it nor act in it; for, like drunken-
ness, it makes a man a beast, and
throws people into desperate incon-
venience. — WILLIAM PENN.
Anger is like rain which breaks it-
self whereon it falls. — SENECA.
Anger is like a full-hot horse, who
being allowed his way, self-mettle
tires him. — SHAKESPEARE.
Angry as a waspe. — JOHN SKELTON.
8 ANGLING. — ARCH.
Angling.
Our Angles are like money put to
usury ; they may thrive, though we
sit still and do nothing but talk and
enjoy one another. — Izaak WALTON.
Angling is somewhat like Poetry,
men are to be born so. — Ipm.
Angling may be said to be so like
the Mathematics that it can never
be fully learnt ; at least not so fully
but that there will still be more new
experiments left for the trial of other
men that succeed us. — Isp.
Answer.
Answer like a book.— ANon.
Answer like a parrot.— Isp.
Answered like a sail taking a breeze.
— Isp.
Antique.
Antiquity is like fame . . . her head
is muffled from our sight. — Bacon.
Antique as the statues of the Greeks.
— Butwer-LytrTon.
Antique as if I had been preserved
in the ark. — Mrs. CENTLIVRE.
Anxious.
Anxious as hind towards her hidden
fawn. — Keats.
: As anxious as a maid
To show a decent dress.
— Georce MEREpITH.
Apart.
Far apart as the earth and the arch
above. — ANON.
Far apart as the poles.— Ipmp.
Blown apart
Like a rose that ready is
For the sun’s perfecting kiss.
— Cuartes L. Moore.
Lips apart,
Like monument of Grecian art.
— Sir Wa ter Scort.
Sat apart, as one forbid. — Wurr-
TIER.
Apathy.
Full of apathy as a territorial dele-
gate during the chaplain’s prayer. —
O. Henry.
Aphorism.
Aphorism, like vinegar, should be
used with discretion, — ANON.
The aphorisms of wise and excellent
men are of great value, like the dust
of gold, or the least sparkle of dia-
monds. — Dr. JOHNSON.
Appalled.
Appall’d ;
As children discover’d bugbears.
— Byron.
Appetite.
Appetite and reason are commonly
like two buckets ; when one is at the
top, the other is at the bottom. —
JEREMY COLLIER.
Appreciate.
Poorly appreciated —like a fine
landscape in dull weather—or in
the reflection of a bad camera obscura.
— ScHOPENHAUER.
Approach.
Approaches his lighter topics as a
humming bird approaches flowers. —
Donato G. MitTcHett.
April.
April is like a child that smiles in
waking. — Huco.
Apt.
As apt as new-fall’n snow takes any
dint. — SHAKESPEARE.
Arch.
Arching, like a fish-hook. — ANON.
Arched, like a horn. — Isp.
Arched like a mule’s back in a hail
storm. — Inm.
Arch’d like the crescent moon. —
Epwin ATHERSTONE.
ARCH, — ARTIFICIAL. 9
Arch — continued.
Arches like a giant’s bow. — E. B.
BRowNING.
Arched like the leaf of a peach-tree,
— Epwarp HErRon-ALLEN.
Arched like the bow of Cupid. —
Lewis Morris.
Ardent.
Ardent as a boy. — ANON.
Ardent as the lips of love. — P. H.
HAYNE.
Ardent in the search as the Argo-
nauts of forty-nine. — BRaANDER Mat-
THEWS.:
Ardent as the sun. — C. J. WELLS.
Argument.
Argument is like an arrow from a
crossbow, which has equal force
though drawn by a child. — Rogerr
Boy1e.
Arguments, like children, should be
like
The subject that begets them.
— Tuomas DEKKER.
Arid.
Arid as the sands of Sahara, with-
out restful shade, without refreshing
water. — JOSEPH CONRAD.
Arise.
Arise like Farianata from his fiery
tomb. — LONGFELLOW.
Arise as the spring out of tempest
and snow. — SWINBURNE.
Saw the moon arise like Venus from
the sea. — Rospert K. WEEKs.
Arm.
Behold mine arm
Is like a blasted sapling, withered up.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Army.
An army, like a serpent, goes upon
its belly. — Freperick THE GREAT.
- Aromatic.
Aromatic, like the perfume of faded
leaves in a china jar. — ALFRED
AINGER.
Around.
She walked in flowers around my fields
As June herself around the sphere.
— Emerson.
Around him like a sun of a system.
— Wasuineton Irvine.
Arrogant.
An arrogant person, is like unto a
goodly tall tree, that groweth and
mounteth very high, but bringeth forth
no fruit.— ANTHONIE FLETCHER’S
“Certain Very Proper AnD PRorit-
ABLE SIMILIES”’, 1595.
Art.
Without favor, art is like a wind-mill
without wind. — JUVENAL.
Oaks, like arts, a length of years
demand. — WitLt1am WHITEHEAD.
Arteries.
Pulseless arteries
Are like the fibres of a cloud instinct
With light. — SHELLEY.
Artful.
Artful as the most dexterous cast of
the best trout-killing rod. — DonaLp
G. MrtcHELL.
Artifice.
Shallow artifice begets suspicion,
And, like a cobweb veil, but thinly
shades
The face of thy design.
— CONGREVE.
Artificial.
Artificial as clockwork. — ANoN.
Artificial as made ice. — ALAN
DALE.
Artificial as a trellis. — LOWELL.
10 ARTLESS. — AUTHORS.
Artless.
Artless, as Eve yet unbeguiled. —
C. S. CALVERLEY.
Artless as Nature’s notes in birds
untaught. — CONGREVE.
Artless . . . like a lammie. — JoHN
ImuaH.
Artless as the air. — FRANCIS
THOMPSON.
Ascend.
Ascends like the hoof of a camel.
— ARABIC.
Ascend, like angels beautiful, a
shining Jacob’s ladder of the mind.
—P. H. Hayne.
Ascended as the smoke of a furnace.
— Op TESTAMENT.
‘Ashamed.
Ashamed, like Elisha before the
entreaties of Elijah’s disciples. —
KINGSLEY.
She that maketh you ashamed is
as a rottenness in the bones. — OLD
TESTAMENT.
Ashamed, like a guilty thing. —
TuroporEe Wartts-DunToN.
Askew.
Askew, like sheep through a hurdle.
—R. D. Biackmore.
Aslant.
Aslant, like the angels in Jacob’s
dream. — DICKENS.
Asleep.
Asleep,
As Cerberus at Thracian poet’s feet.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Lay asleep like green waves on the
sea. — R. B. SHERMAN.
Aspire.
Aspire, as all the sea’s life toward the
sun. — SWINBURNE.
Aspires as a flame. — Ini.
Assault.
J advance to attack, I climb to assault,
Like a choir of young worms at a
corpse in a vault.
— CHARLES BAUDELAIRE.
Astray.
Gone astray like a lost sheep. —
Ot TESTAMENT.
Asunder.
Asunder like the arches of a bridge.
— Rosert Burton.
Attend.
Attending,
As if their lives were on his words
depending. — Tasso.
Attention.
Attracted about as much attention in
the artistic world as the advent of an-
other fly in a slaughter house. — JAMES
L. Forp.
Audacious.
Audacious as the day. — CHar.zs L.
Moore.
Austere.
Austere as a tree full of owls. —
ANON.
Austere as the dawn. — Buss Car-
MAN.
Austere as so many weather-beaten
ascetics from the desert.—Sir A.
Conan Doy.e.
Authority.
Authority without wisdom is like an
axe without an edge, fitter to bruise
than polish. — AnNg BRADSTREET.
Authors.
Authors, like privateers, are always
fair game for one another. — Dr.-
JOHNSON.
Authors, like maids at fifteen years,
Are full of wishes, full of fears.
— Ropert Luioyvp.
AUTHORS.— AWFUL. 11
Authors — continued.
A pin has as much head as some
authors and a great deal more point.
— Georce D. PRENTICE.
Authors I have named are like cer-
tain workers in metal, who try a
hundred different compounds to take
the place of gold —the only metal
which can never have any substitute.
— ScHOPENHAUER.
Automatic.
He moved automatically, like a
prisoner captured by the evil power
of a masquerading skeleton out of
the grave. — JosSEPH CoNRAD.
Rose automatically as the sap in the
twigs. —THomas Harpy.
Automobile.
Automobiles, gliding like phantoms
with burning eyes. — Lronip AN-
DREYEF.
Avarice.
Avarice is like a graveyard; it
takes all that it can get and gives
nothing back. — JosH BILLines.
Avaricious.
The avaricious man is like the
barren, sandy ground of the desert,
which sucks in all the rain and dews
with eagerness, but yields no fruitful
herbs or plants for the benefit of
others. — ZENO.
Averse.
Averse to change as flesh. — RoBERT
BRowninc.
Awake.
Awaken, like seas by a mighty tem-
pest shaken. — Barry CORNWALL.
Aware.
Aware as the air of the light that
fills full all of its girth. — Ricnarp
Hovey.
Away.
Away like a ghost at break of day.
— Rosert Brownine.
Into the night away they go
Like a bolt that’s launched from a steel
crossbow.
— Gortrriep A. BurGER.
Away like a glance of thought. —
JoserH R. Drake.
Away, like wild pigeons startled in
the wood. — EuriripEs.
Like two drops of dew
Exhaled to Phoebus’ lips, away they
are gone. — Kzats.
They fall away like the flower on
which the sun looks in his strength,
after the mildew has passed over it,
and its head is heavy with the drops
of night. — James MacrHERSON.
Away, with never a look behind
. .. like an eagle before the wind.
—Grorcr H. Mites.
Away, like mists that flee from
summer sea. — THomas Moore.
Away, like mists when winds arise.
—T. Bucuanan Reap.
Chased away as the vision of the
night. — OLp TESTAMENT.
Away as with a whirlwind. — Isp.
Awful.
Awful as the negligence of woe. —
ANON.
Awful as justice. —Grorce H.
Boxer.
Awful as the last trump that shall
proclaim to mankind the end of the
world. — ANATOLE FRANCE.
Awful as clouds that nurse the
glowing storm. — GoLDsMITH.
Awful as the thunder. —Joun M.
Mason.
Awful as a villain in a domestic
melodrama. — CHARLES SELBY.
Awful as silence. — SHELLEY.
12 AWKWARD. — BALMY.
Awkward.
Awkward as a blind dog in a meat
shop. — ANON.
Awkward as a bull in a China shop.
— Isp.
Awkward as a cow on ice.— IBip.
Babble.
Babble like one mad with wine. —
SWINBURNE. :
Bachelor.
The bachelor who passes through
life without marrying, is like a fair
mansion left by the builder unfinished ;
the half that is finished runs to decay
from neglect, or becomes at best but
a sorry tenement, wanting the addition
of that which makes the whole both
useful, comfortable, and ornamental.
—A. P. Morris.
Back.
Back . . . with the instinct of hom-
ing pigeons. — Mary AUvsTIN.
Backward as the wind sweeps flame.
—E. B. Brownie.
Backward, like a witch’s prayers.
— Ear. or Dorset.
Like the pace of a crab, backward.
— Rospert GREENE.
Backward like the long wash of a
wave. — Maurice Hew ert.
Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew
book. — LoneFELLow.
Like a rope-maker’s were his ways,
for still one line upon another he spun,
and, like his hempen brother, kept
going backwards all his days. —
Horace Smits.
Slideth back as a backsliding heifer.
— Op TESTAMENT.
Awkward as a pig in a parlor. —
Isrp.
Awkward as a man in a bag. —
JOHN BURROUGHS.
Awkward .. . like jackanapes swal-
lowing of pills. — RaBeE.ais.
Bad.
Bad as the itch. — ANON.
Bad as a blight. — Hoop.
As bad, as what is worst. — Lyty.
Bad as toothdrawing.—“‘Srr THomas
More ” (Pseudo-Shakespearean).
Bad as marrying the devil’s daughter
and living with the old folks. — ‘‘Poor
Rosin’s ALMANACK.””
Bad as the fighting bull of Stamford.
— Encusa PRoveRs.
Bad as-two kings of Brentford. —
Isip.
Bald.
Bald as a billiard ball. — Anon.
Bald as an egg. — Inn.
Bald, as ’twere a scalp, reft of its
hairs. — ARaBIAN NIGHTS.
His head was as bald as the palm
of your hand. — R. H. Barnam.
Bald as a Greek monk. — Ricwarp
Hovey.
Bald as is the winter tree. — Wi1-
~iaM Morris.
Bald as a coot. — ENGLISH PROVERB.
Bald as a cannon ball. — Tuacx-
ERAY.
Baleful.
Baleful as the tomb-fire. — Jonn
LEYDEN.
Balmy.
Balmy, as after vernal rains. —
Wiiu1am J. Mickie,
BANEFUL. — BARREN. 13
Baneful. .
Baneful as the pride of handsome
1 looks. — Luctan.
Barbarous.
Barbarous as a man who uses his
finger for a paper knife. — ANon.
Bare.
Bare as a Scotchman’s knee. — ANON.
Bare as a stone. — Ipmp.
Bare as January. — RoBert ARMIN.
Bare as the back of my hand. —
Bazac.
Bare as a naked bairn. — RoBerr
BucHANAN.
Bare as winter. — Burns.
Bare as beggary. — RicHarp Cum-
BERLAND.
As bare...
As the willow of leaves
When the bough-breaking wind
The warm day endeth.
— Tue Exper Eppa.
Bare as an Alpine precipice. —
KINGSLEY.
Bare as a pig in a sty. — FRANcIs
Mauony.
Bare as lies the mirrored moon in
silver sleeping seas. — GERALD Mas-
SEY.
Bare as hop-stakes in November’s
mists. — GroRGE MEREDITH.
Bare as my nail. — Tuomas Nass.
Bare as a bird’s tail. — ENGLISH
PRovers.
Bare as the birch at Yule. — Isp.
Bare, like a carcass picked by crows.
— Swirt.
Bare as a beggar. — SWINBURNE.
Bare as naked daylight. — Isp.
Bare as shame. — Isr.
As bare as a hornet’s cell. — Henry
Van Dyke.
Bare as an ape. — VOLTAIRE.
Bare as a goose-egg. — ARTEMUS
Warp.
Bare as a school-boy’s diary. —
H. G. Wetts.
As bare
As winter trees.
— Worpswortu.
As bare as Egypt when the locusts
got through with it. — Ripa JoHNSON
Youna.
Barred.
Barred, like one infectious. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Barren.
Barren as a New Hampshire granite
hill. — Anon.
Barren as a South African veldt. —
Isp.
Barren as winter rain. — ALFRED
AUSTIN.
Barren as a continent of Branden-
burg sand. — CaRLYLE.
Barren as routine. —G. K. CHzs-
TERTON.
Barren as the wind. — EBrnrzer
ELuott.
A life as barren . . . as is the dust
to which that life doth tend. — GEORGE
HERBERT.
Barren as a desolate moor. — GER-
ALD Massey.
Barren as a pelican-beach. — Her-
MAN MELVILLE.
Barren as a Pope’s Bull. — Sypnry
MunpDEN.
Barren as death. — Ruskin.
Brain as barren
As banks of Libya.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Barren as a rainy day. — ALEXAN-
DER SMITH.
Barren as crime. — SWINBURNE.
14
Barren — continued.
Barren as a stock-fish. — JouHn Tay-
LOR.
Barren as the sea’s bare sands. —
SAMUEL WADDINGTON.
Base.
Baseless as the fabric of a vision.
— Anon.
Base as spotted infamy. — CoLz-
RIDGE.
Bashful.
Bashful as a school-girl. — Anon.
Bashful as a maid. — BuLWER-
Lytron.
Bashful as a Lenten lover. — Sir
JOHN DENHAM.
Bashful as an egg at Easter. — Ini.
Bashful as a blooming bride. — Sir
WILLIAM JONES.
Secluded bashful, like a shrine of
love. — THomas Moore.
Bawl.
Baw] like an auctioneer. — ANON.
Bawling like sailors in a tavern. —
Iw.
Bawl like a boatswain of a man-of-
war. — LrveEr.
Beam.
Beaming like stars. — Hans Curis-
TIAN ANDERSEN.
Beamed like the splendor of an
eastern sky. — ANON.
His face beamed like a pearl with
light. — ARABIAN NIGHTS.
Like ray-collecting mirrors, beams.
— Watter Harre.
Beaming as the summer’s morn. —
O. W. Hotmes.
Slant yellow beam .. .
Like a lane into Heaven that leads
from a dream.
— Srpney Lanier.
BARREN. — BEAU.
Eyes beaming, like angel’s looks.
— Donatp G. MircHe...
Beamed like the rising sun. — Miss
Mutocx.
Beaming like light on chaos. —
Tuomas L. Peacock.
Beams like flowers. — SHELLEY.
Beard.
Long-bearded like kings of the
Frankish race. — ArsENE HoussaYE.
His beard is cut like the spire of.
Grantham steeple. — THomas Lopcasg.
It was scarcely a beard at all, more
like a deepening of the shadows in
which his whole face seemed to lie. —
JoHN Rotanp.
Bearded like the pard. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
A beard like an artichoke, with dry
shrivelled jaws. — R. B. SHERIDAN.
Beard like foam swept off the broad
blown sea. — SWINBURNE.
Beat.
/ Like the walnut tree,
ee more he is beaten, the better he’ll
be. — ANON.
Beaten as a road. — Cuartes Cor-
TON. :
My brain is beating like the heart
of Haste. — Smpnry Lanter.
Beaten like a Turco that pawns his
musket. — Ourpa.
Beats like a maniac drummer in
mid-battle. — T. Bucuanan Reap.
Each falling hoof
Beat like a flail beneath the thresher’s -
roof. — Bayarp Taytor.
Beat, like the pulse, perpetual. —
Isaac Warts.
Beau.
A beau dressed out resembles the
cinnamon tree, the bark is of greater
value than the body. — H. Parr.
BEAUTIFUL, 15
Beautiful.
Beautiful as a remembered single
line of perfect poetry. — Joun ALBEE,
Beautiful as a chemical blonde. —
ANON.
Beautiful as Adonis. — Inmp.
Beautiful as a sunset. — Ipm.
Beautiful as the dawn. — Isp.
Beautiful as the face of a young
Greek god. — Ibm.
Beautiful as the seraph’s dream. —
Isp.
Beautiful as Zenobia. — Isp.
Beautiful as the bough of the myro-
balan. — Arabian Nicuts.
Darkly beautiful as death. — P. J.
BatrLey.
Beautiful as a saint. — Bauzac.
Beautiful as the day. — Ir.
A note as beautiful as a thread of
light. — Gustavo A. Becquir.
Beautiful as the curtain of Soloman.
— Saint BERNARD.
Beautiful as _ fire. — AMBROSE
BIERCE.
Beautiful as ever looked
From white clouds in a dream.
— Bryant.
Beautiful as Absalom. — BuLWER-
Lytton: 7
Beautiful as a feather in one’s cap.
— CaRLYLE.
Beauteous as a summer’s morn. —
THOMAS CHATTERTON.
Beautiful as April rains. — CowPEr.
Beautiful as heaven. — Joun Day.
Beautiful as noon-day. — Dickens.
Beautiful as a rainbow. — DrypENn.
Beautiful as a dying maid. —
Epenezer Enwiort.
Beautiful as is the rose in June. —
Emerson.
Beautiful . . .
—F. W. Faser.
Beautiful as one of the swinging
figures on a Greek vase. — FRANK
Haris.
Beautiful as a fairy palace. — Haw-
THORNE.
as childhood’s dream.
Beautiful as spring. —Gerrarp T.
Hopkins.
Beautiful as a Houri borne off from
the Garden of the Seventh Heaven.
— JAMt.
Beautiful as the vernal willow. —
Dr. JoHNSON.
Beautiful, . . . like a fairy pageant
floating for a pastime on the tide. —
E. C. Jonss.
Beautiful as angels. —J. J. Jussz-
RAND.
Beautiful as an oridle. — Krats.
Beautiful as May. — LonereLiow.
Beautiful as morning. — Ip.
Beautiful as feet of friend
Coming with welcome at our journey’s
end. — LoweLL.
Beautiful like the Moon. — Ma-
HABHARATA,
Beautiful
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
— Mar.owe.
Beautiful as dawn in Heaven. —
GeraLtp Massey.
Beautiful as Dian’s face. — JAMES
MOonTGOMERY.
As beautiful as sorceress. — Ouma.
As beautiful as ’twere a dewy flower.
— Grorce D. PRENTICE.
Beautiful as youth. — Mrs. D. Rap-
FORD.
Beautiful as an Olympian divinity.
— Grorce Rose.
Beautiful as a piece of chalk cliff,
— Rusxin.
16 BEAUTIFUL, — BEAUTY.
Beautiful — continued.
Beautiful as pine bridges over Alpine
streams. — RUSKIN.
Her face as beautiful as though the
rays of Paradise were there. — Sant.
Beautiful as sky and earth,
When Autumn’s sun is downward
going. — WHITTIER.
Beauteous as the silver moon. —
WorpDSWORTH.
Beautiful as heaven. — Ini.
Beauteous as the sun. — Epwarp
Youne.
Beauty.
Beauty is like an almanac; if it
lasts a year, it is well. — Tuomas
ADAM.
Beauty without modesty is like a
flower broken from its stem. — ANON.
Beauty is as summer fruits, which
are easy to corrupt and that cannot
last. — Bacon.
Beauty, like truth and justice, lives
within us; like virtue and like moral
law, it is a companion of the soul. —
Grorce Bancrort.
As amber attracts a straw, so does
beauty admiration, which only lasts
while the warmth continues; but
virtue, wisdom, goodness, and real
worth, like the loadstone, never lose
their power. — Rospert Burton.
Beauty in a modest woman is like
fire or a sharp sword at a distance ;
neither doth the one burn, nor the
other wound, those that come not too
near them. — CERVANTES.
Beauty, like ice, our footing does be-
tray : ;
Who can tread sure in the smooth
slippery way ?
Pleased with the passage, we slide
swiftly on,
And see the dangers which we cannot
shun. — Dryven.
We cannot get at beauty. Its
nature is like opaline doves’-neck_
lustres, hovering and evanescent. —
EMERSON.
Thy beauty lies
Veiled like a violet nestling in the moss.
— Crayton Hamitron.
The made-up beauties we commonly
meet, like artificial flowers, are all
show, and no fragrance. — THomas
Ho.crort.
Beauty’s a slipp’ry good, which de-
creaseth Whilst it is increasing
resembling the Medler, which, in the
moment of its full Ripeness, is known
to be in a rottenness. — LyLy.
Beautie is like the blackberry, which
seemeth red, when it is not ripe, re-
sembling precious stones that are
polished with honie, which the
smoother they looke, the sooner they
breake. — Inip. |
Beauty, — like a beacon burns above
the dark of strife. — GrraLp Massey,
Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree,
Laden with blooming gold, hath need
the guard
Of dragon watch with unenchanted
eye,
To save her blossoms and defend her
fruit |
From the rash hand of bold incon-
tinence. — MILTON.
A chaste beauty is like the bellows,
whose breath is cold, yet makes others
burn. — Sir TuHomas OveRBuRY.
Her beauties were like sunlit snows,
Flush’d but not warm’d with my de-
sire. — CoventTRY PaTMoRE.
Beauties, like tyrants, old and friend-
less grown,
Yet hate repose, and dread to be alone.
— Pore.
Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure and no pace per-
ceived. — SHAKESPEARE,
BEAUTY. — BEND. 17
Beauty — continued.
Beauty, like truth, never is so
glorious as when it goes plainest. —
STERNE.
Beauty, like supreme dominion,
Is best supported by opinion.
— Swirt.
Beauty passes like a breath. —
ALFRED TENNYSON.
A beauty masked, like the sun in
eclipse, gathers together more gazers
than if it shined out. — WycHERLEY.
Bedraggled.
. Bedraggled, like the flounce of a
vulgar rich woman’s dress that trails
on the sidewalk. — O. W. Hotms.
Beg.
Beg like a dog at a fair.— ANon.
Beg like a cripple at a cross. —
Warrtineton’s ‘‘VULGARIA.”
Behavior.
Men’s behaviour should be like their
apparel, not too straight or point
device, but free for exercise or motion.
— Bacon. '
Behind.
His tail extended all the while
Behind him like a rat-tail file. .
—O. W. Hotes.
See behind, as doth the hunted hare.
— Karts.
Always behind, like a donkey’s tail.
— Enciuiso PRovers.
Belch.
Belch...
Apara Brean.
Belching like a torn balloon. —
Aneus McNEILL.
Belief.
Cherished beliefs are like those
* drinking glasses of the ancient pattern,
that serve us all so long as we keep
as loud as a Musket. —.
them in our hand, but spill all if we
attempt to set them down. —O. W.
Homes.
Bellow.
Bellows like the vagrant winds. —
ANON.
Bellow, like a burst of thunder. —
ARISTOPHANES.
Bellowing as if he was possessed of
the devil. — Boccaccro.
Bellows as the sea does in a tempest,
if by opposing winds ’tis combated.
— Dante.
Bellowed as a hunted ox. — Hoop.
Bellow like a rascal trooper strung
up for the cat. — Grorcre MEREDITH.
Bellow as bulls. — OLp TESTAMENT.
Beloved.
Beloved . . . like a plant whose
leaf and bud and blossom are all
beautiful. — Jonn Gay.
Bend.
Bends like a willow in the wind. —
Anon.
Bend on me thy tender eyes,
As stars look on the sea.
— BuLwer-LyttTon.
Bend one way, like a field of corn in
a hurricane. — WILLIAM CARTRIGHT.
Bending her form towards him, like
a torch when it indicates a gentle
draught of air. — HawTHORNE.
Bend in the blast as blade of grass.
—O. W. Hotes.
Bends and sinks like a column of sand
In the whirlwind of his great despair.
— LoNnGFELLow.
Bending like a wand of willow. —
Isp.
Bends .
— OSSIAN.
. . like a wave near a rock.
Bending like corn on the upland lea.
— James G. PERCIVAL.
18 BEND. — BIG.
Bend — continued.
Bends like an angel softly through
The blue-pavilioned skies.
— Mrs. A. B. WeELsy.
Benefits.
Benefits, like flowers, please most
when they are fresh. — ANON.
Benevolence.
That is fine benevolence, finely
executed, which, like the Nile, comes
from hidden sources. — C. C. Cotton.
Bent.
Bent down like violets after rain.
—T. B. Apric#.
Bent . . . like some rapt poet o’er
his rhyme. — Ini.
Bent like a drooping rose. — ANON.
Bent like a whip. — Inv.
Bent like an old bruised lantern.
—R. D. BLackmore.
Bent-down like corbels of a build-
ing. — CARLYLE.
Bent . . . like a soldier at the ap-
proach of an assault. — Huco.
Bent and trembled like the rushes.
— LoNGrELLow. :
Bent like some great bow unstrung.
— Joaquin Mier.
Bent, like a rainbow. — SouTHEY.
Bequeath.
Bequeath, like sunset to the skies,
The splendor of its prime.
— SHELLEY.
Bereft.
Bereft,
As trees that suddenly have dropped
their leaves. — JEAN INGELOW.
Bereft as a man whom bitter time
bereaves
Of blossom at once and hope of
garnered sheaves,
Of April at once and August.
— SWINBURNE.
: Bereft,
As when some tower doth fall,
With battlement, and wall,
And gate, and bridge, and all,
And nothing left.
— Mary A. TowNsEnp.
Besmear.
Besmeared like a gypsy or a chimney-
sweeper. — Roserr Burton.
Betray.
Thou hast betrayed thy secret as a
bird betrays her nest, by striving to
conceal it. — LonGrELLow.
Bewailing.
Bewailing and tolling within like a
funeral bell. — LonereLLow.
Bewildering.
A sweet bewildering pain,
Like flowers in the wind and rain.
— Tuomas ASHE.
Bewitching.
Bewitching like the wanton mer-
maid’s song. — SHAKESPEARE.
Bible.
Like the needle to the North Pole,
the Bible points to heaven. —R. B.
NICHOL.
The Bible among books is as a
diamond among precious stones. — J.
STOUGHTON.
Big.
Big as a church debt. —Grorcz Apz.
Big as an elephant.— ANon.
Big as a house.— Isrp.
Big as a whale.— Ini.
Big as life and twice as natural. —
Ip.
Big as all out of doors. — J. R. Barr-
LETT’s “DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN-
IsMs.”
No bigger than an unobserved star.
— Kgats.
BIG. — BITTER. 19
Big — continued.
As big a liar as Tom Pepper who got
licked out of hell for telling lies. —
Lean’s ‘“‘CoLLEcTANEA.”
As big as a parson’s barn, — always
ready for more. — Iip.
Looking as big as bull-beef. — Ene-
‘LISH PROVERB.
Another stain, as big as hell can hold,
Were there no more but it.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Bigot.
The bigot is like the pupil of the
eye; the more light you put upon it,
the more it will contract.— O. W.
Homes.
Bill.
Bill as Doves. — RoBerr Burton.
Billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.
— SamvueE.t Butier.
Bind.
Binding as a wedding ring. — ANon.
Bind like an adamant-chain. —
Arapian Nicuts.
Nothing binds so fast as souls in
pawn, and mortgage past. —SaMUEL
Burier.
Bindeth me about as the collar of
my coat. Op TESTAMENT.
Biography.
The biographies of great and good
men, like Elijah’s mantle, ought to be
gathered up and preserved by their
survivors. — Matraew Henry.
Bite.
Bite like finches when they bill and
kiss. — Ropert Brownine.
Bite like pepper. — JoHN Gay.
Biting like the east wind. —Joun
SKELTON.
Bites like fire. — SWINBURNE.
Bitter.
Bitter as the suffering of life. —
ANON.
Bitter as gall. — Ini.
Bitter as chestnut husks. — Bauzac.
Bitter as
BRrownina.
self-sacrifice. —E. B.
Bitter, like a day of mourning. —
JosEpH CONRAD.
More bitter than the sea. — Ini.
Bitter as a nausea. — D’ANNUNZIO.
Their earthly days were bitter, like
the oil-tree. — De QuiINcEY.
Love bitter as Despair. — Lorp Dz
TABLEY.
Bitter as Penthea’s curse. — JOHN
Forp.
Bitter as truth. — Hueco.
Bitter in the mouth as a page torn
out of Ecclesiastes. —James HUNEKER.
Bitter as home-brewed ale. — Lone-
FELLOW. ;
Bitter as hemlock. — Firz-JamEs
O’BRIEN.
Bitter as coloquintida. — SHakeE-
SPEARE.
Bitter to me as death. — Inn.
Bitter as fell. — SPENSER.
Bitter as a tear. — SWINBURNE.
Bitter as harsh-lipped spring. —
Ism.
Bitter as the breaking down of love.
— Isp.
Thy speech is bitterer than the sea.
—Izsm.
Bitter like blood. — In.
Her heart within
Burnt bitter like an aftertaste of sin
To one whose memory drinks and
loathes the lee
Of shame or sorrow deeper than the
sea. ' —IJpip.
20 BITTER. — BLACK.
Bitter — continued.
And I find more bitter than death
the woman, whose heart is snares and
nets, and her hands as bands. — OLD
TESTAMENT.
Bitter as wormwood. — Inp.
Bitterer than Sardinian herbage. —
VIRGIL.
Black.
Black as Alaskan sealskin. — ANON.
Black as a stack of black cats. —
Ipip.
Black as a thundercloud. — Inn.
Black as a tinker. — Isp.
Black as blindness. — Inm.
Black as Egypt’s night. — Isp.
Black as a sloe. — Ipip.
Black as snow in London. — Isp.
Black as the Duke of Hell’s black
riding boots. — Isr.
Black as the inside of a man who
drank a bottle of ink. — Ipm.
Black as the mantle that shrouds the
blind. — Inn.
Black as Uncle Tom. — Ism.
Black as the bear on Iskardoo. —
Epwin ARNOLD.
Thoughts as black as hell, as hot and
bloody. — BEaumMont anp FLETcHER.
Black as a coal pit. — Henry
Warp BEECHER.
Black as the tents of Kedar. —
Saint BERNARD.
Black as a young rook. — Dion
Bovcicavtt.
Black, like plumes at funerals. —
E. B. Brownine.
Black as death. — Byron.
Black as Gehenna and the Pit of
Hell. — Cartyte.
Black as a crow. — CHAUCER.
Blak as fende in helle. — Isr.
Black as a cave mouth. — Irvin S.
Coss.
Black as the devil. — Grorce CoL-
MAN, THE YOUNGER.
Black as Tophet. — JosepH Conrap.
Black as the mine. — CowPER.
Black as if lightning-scarred or
curst of God. — AuBREY Dr VERE.
Black as thunder. — DIcKENs.
Black as beads. — Austin Dosson.
Black as a wolf’s mouth. — Sir A.
Conan Doy.Le.
Black as ebony. — Dumas, PERE.
Black as night when the tempests
pass. — F. W. Faper.
Black as starless night. — Parngas
FLETCHER.
Black as a
Foote.
Black as the pit. — W. E. Henzey.
cassock. — SAMUEL
Blacker than a raven in a coal mine.
—O. Henry.
Black as stormy darkness. —
Tuomas Hrywoop.
Black as gunpowder. — Hoop.
Black as the fruit of the thorn. —
Isp.
Black as your hat. — In.
Blackens like a thunder cloud. —
Ini.
Black as the fleet from Aulis ’gainst
doomed Troy. — R. H. Horne.
Black as the wood of the gallows-
tree. — Hugo.
As black as any Moor. — Jacques
JASMIN.
Black as the devil in a comedy. —
Tuomas KiLuicrew.
Black as the sliding water over 3
mill-dam. — Kipuine.
BLACK. — BLAND. 21
Black — continued.
Black as the king of Ashantee. —
LEVER.
Black as sightless eyes. — GEORGE
Casot LopcE.
As blacke as deepest dark. — Lyty.
Blacke as jeat. — Ipip.
Blacke as the burnt coale. — Isp.
My Arab steed is black —
Black as the tempest cloud that flies
Across the dark and muttering skies.
— Apam MIcKIEWICcz.
Black as a [chimney] sweep. — F. P.
NortTHALL.
Black and glossy as the raven’s wing.
— Tuomas L. Pracocx.
Black as winter chimney. — JoHN
PaILuies.
Black as despair. — Ipp.
Black as autumn’s sky.— W. M.
PRAEp.
Black as a burned stump. — Orre
Reap.
As black as the steeds of night. —
T. Bucnanan Reap.
Black as fiery Africa’s slaves. —IBip.
Black as black iron. —C. G. Ros-
SETTI.
Black as pitch.—THomas Sack-
VILLE.
Black as the newly-pruned crow.
— GrorcEe SANDys.
Black as a funeral pall. — Joun G.
Saxe.
Black as mourning weed. —ScorrisH
Baap (“Percy’s RELIQUES”’).
Black as Acheron. — SHAKESPEARE.
Black
As if besmear’d in hell.
—Isn.
Black as incest. — Ipm.
Black as ink. — Inm.
Black as Vulcan in the smoke of
war. — [pip.
Black as a cormorant. — SHELLEY.
Black as Erebus and Night. —
SouTHEY.
Black as the womb of darkness. —
SWINBURNE.
Black as crushed worms that sicken
in the sense. — Ipm.
Black as thunderous night. — Ipm.
As midnight black. — Inn.
Black as flameless brand. — Inm.
Black as ashbuds in the front of
March. — TENNYSON.
Black as sackcloth of hair. — New
TESTAMENT.
Black as a raven. — Op Trsta-
MENT.
Black like an oven. — Inm.
Blacker than a coal. — In.
Black as Hell—WILL1am THOMSON.
Black as winter sky. — WALTER
THORNBURY.
Black as soot. — VOLTAIRE.
Black as a berry. — Francois Vi1-
LON. :
Black as with wrath. — Ataric A.
Warts.
Black as black. — W. B. Yrats.
Blameless.
Blameless as the snow. — Eric
Mackay.
Blanched.
Blanched like plants raised in cellars.
— Hueco.
Bland.
Bland as a Jesuit. — W. E. HEeNntey.
Bland
As ocean-breezes gathered from the
flowers
That blossom in Elysium.
— Tsomas Moore.
22 BLANK. — BLIND.
Blank.
Blank as an empty bottle. — ANon.
Hopelessly blank, like the face of a
blind man. — JoszpH ConraD.
Look as blank as a pickpocket. —
Henry JAMES.
Blank as the eyeballs of the dead.
— LONGFELLOW.
Blank as death. — TENNYSON.
Blast.
Like a mildewed ear,
Blasting his wholesome brother.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Blasts like a pestilence. — SouTHEY.
Blaze.
Blaze like the eyes of a maniac. —
ANON.
Blazed up like a beacon. — Isp.
Blaze like the fat in sacramental
flame. —P. J. Bartey.
Blaze like a couple of lamps on a
yellow post-chaise. —R. H. Barua.
Blaze like a wyvern flying round the
sun. — Ropert Brownrne.
Blazed like a sun over the startled
East. — BuLwer-LytTon.
Blaze like a box of matches. —
JOSEPH CONRAD.
Blazing like a brace of suns. —
Davpet.
Blazed as if with inward fire. —
D’ANNUNZIO.
Her heart blazed up like fire before
the wind. — Frepavs!.
Blaze like a furnace. — FREDERICK
TENNYSON.
Blazes like a mighty sword
Leaping to the fight.
—G. S. Viereck.
Bieak.
Bleak as the ocean vast. — ANON.
Bleak and bare
Like furnace-chimneys in the air.
— LONGFELLOW.
Bleat.
Bleat like a lamb. — ANON.
Bleeding.
Bleeding as if he had been through
a thicket of troubles. — DauDET.
Blend.
Blending all in one long and de-
licious tremble like a chord.—P. J.
BalLey.
Blended
Like tints in an immortal gem.
, — Byron.
Inseparably blend
Like two bright dewdrops meeting in
a flower. — COLERIDGE.
Blended like the colors in the rain-
bow. — DIckEns.
: Blent,
Like the soft aromatic gales
That meet the mariner, who sails
Through the Moluccas, and the seas
‘That wash the shores of Celebes.
— LONGFELLow.
Blended, like the sea’s phosphor
lustre. — RusKIN.
Bless.
Blesses, like the dews of Heaven.
—Joun Gay.
Blest.
Blest as the saint to his home above
flying. — E. M. KeEtty.
Blew.
Blew as if he had been to puff up a
pig’s bladder. — RaBe.ats.
Blight
Blighted and forlorn, like Autumn
waiting for the snow. — WHITTIER.
Blind.
Blind as a bank director. — ANON.
Blind as a bat. — Isp.
BLIND. — BLITHE. 23
Blind — continued.
Blind as a white cat with a blue
eye. — Ip.
Blind as Cupid. — Inn.
Blind as the blue skies after aagats
—P. J. Barry.
Blind as ignorance. — BEAUMONT
AND FLETCHER.
Blind as moles. — Isp.
Blind as the fool’s heart. — RoBert
Brownine.
Blind
Ay, as a man would be inside the sun,
Delirious with the plentitude of light.
—Isp.
Blind as fortune. — Butwer-Lyt-
TON.
Blind as the blindworm. — AuBREY
De VERE.
Blind as a brickbat. — Dickens.
Blind as the Cyclop. — DrypEn.
Blindness acts like a dam, sending
the streams of thought backward along
the already-traveled channels, and
hindering the course onward. —
Grorce Euior.
Blind as death itself. — W. S. Gu-
BERT.
His eye is blind as that of a potato.
— Hoop.
Blind as inexperience. — Hueco.
Blind as a beetle. — Ben Jonson.
Blind as a woman in love. — Ninon
DE L’ENcLos.
Blind as one that hath been found
drunk a seven-night. — THomas Mip-
DLETON.
Blind as justice. — Miss Mirrorp.
Blind as hooded falcons. —'THomas
Moore.
Blind as he who closes
His eyes to the light and will not have
it shine. — Lewis Morris.
Like fortune in her frenzy, blind.
— Saran W. Morton.
Blind as the song of birds, — T.
Bucuanan Reap.
Blind as love. — SHELLEY.
Blind as moonless night. — RoBERT
Louis STEVENSON.
Blind and stark as though the snows
made numb all sense within it. —
SWINBURNE.
Blind as a pilot beaten blind with
foam. — Ipm.
Blind as glass. — Im.
Blind as grief. — Im.
Blind as the night. — Ism.
Blind and vain
As rain-stars blurred and marred by
rain
To wanderers on a moonless main
Where night and day seem dead.
— Isp.
Blind as any noonday owl. —
TENNYSON.
Blind like tragic masks of stone. —
James THOMSON.
Blink.
Blinking like a toad in a sand heap.
— ANON.
Blink my eyes like a whacked
donkey. — Anton TcHEKHOV.
Blinking like a disreputable, drunken
owl. —O. Henry.
Blissful.
Blissful as a leap to daylight out of a
nightmare. — GrorGE MEREDITH.
Blissful, as if sin
Or more than gentlest grief had never
been. — Bayarp TayY.or.
Blithe.
Blithe as a bird on a cherry bough.
— ANON,
Blithe as a grig. — Ip.
24 BLITHE. — BLOOM.
Blithe — continued.
Danced as blithely and briskly as a
lost red maple leaf fluttering madly in a
keen October breeze. — ANON.
As blithe as the bird that rejoices.
—A. H. BrEeEsty.
Blithe as a boblink. — RoBErt
Brownine.
Blithe as our kettle’s boiling. —
Isp.
Blithe as the lark that each day
hails the dawn. — CoLLins.
Blithe as finches sing. — CowPeEr.
Blithe as shepherd at a wake. —
Isp.
Blithe as a bird new risen from the
corn. —— Austin Doxson.
Blithe as the first blithe song of
birds that waken. — Isp.
Blithe as a bird in the spring. —Tom
Durrey.
Blithe as May. — R. Fiercuer.
Blithe, as if on earth
Were no such thing as woe.
—Joun KEBLE.
Blithe as the orchards and birds
with the new coming of spring. —
LowEL..
Blithe as a blithe bird in air. —
Owrn MEREDITH.
As blithe and sunny as the summer
days. — James Wurtcoms RILey.
Blithe as swallows,
Wheeling in the summer sky at close
of day. — SouTHEY.
Blither than Spring’s when her flower-
ful tresses
Shake forth sunlight and shine with
rain, — SWINBURNE.
Blithe as the lark on sun-gilt wings
High poised, or as the wren that sings
In shady places to proclaim
Her modest gratitude.
— Worpswortu.
Bloated.
Bloated like a squeezed cat. —
ANON.
Bloodless.
Lips as bloodless as lips of the slain.
— WHITTIER.
Bloody.
Bloody as the hunter. — SHaKe-
SPEARE.
Bloom.
Blooming as health. — ANACREON.
Bloomed like a bridal-chamber. —
ANON.
Blooming as a peach. — Isp.
Blooming with promise like an apple
in the month of May. — Isp.
Her bloom was like the silver flower,
That sips the silver dew.
— Vincent Bourne.
Bloomed like smouldering lilies un-
consumed. — Joun Davmson.
Blooming as a_ bridal maid.—
Water Harte.
Blooms like a bower in the garden of
Bliss. —O. W. Homes.
Blooming as roses in the vale. —
Mrs. J. Hunter.
Her bloom was like the springing
flower,
That sips the silver dew ;
The rose was budded in her cheeks,
Just opening to the view.
— Davin MAttet.
Verses bloom like a flower. —
JAMES Wuitcoms RILEY.
Bloom’d in the winter of his days,
Like Glastonbury thorn.
— Sir Cuaries SEDLEY.
Bloomed, as new life might in a
bloodless face. — SwINBURNE.
Bloomed like a rose in a garden
green. — Davip VEDDER.
BLUSSUM, — BLUE. 25
Blossom.
Blossomed like a rose. — Hugo.
Blossomed like a wreath. —D. G.
RossErtvi.
Blown.
Blown up like a tumor. — Emerson.
Blowing like a blacksmith’s bellows.
— Hugo.
Blown like vapor on the summer
air. — Rossiter JOHNSON.
Blowing like a grampus. — Kip.ina.
Puffing and blowing like a porpoise.
— Lover.
Blown like a leaf on the blast. —
JOHN Borie O’REILLY.
Blown like leaves before the whirl-
wind’s fury fleeing. — Bayarp Tay-
LOR.
Blubbered.
Blubbering like a seal. —C. S.
CALVERLEY.
Blubbered like a child that’s nursed.
— Hoop.
Blue.
Blue as a whale. — Anon.
~ Blue as blue-bell bed. — Ism.
Blue as cobalt. — Inn.
Blue as forget-me-nots. — Isp.
Blue as indigo. — Isp.
Blue as melancholy. — Isp.
Blue as October skies. — Ismp.
Blue as the soft azure surface of
the southern sea. — In.
Blue as your nose on a cold day. —
Isp.
Blue as the sky in spring. —R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Blue as a vein o’er the Madonna’s
breast. — Ropert Browninc.
Blue as shimmering steel. — H. C.
Bonner.
Blue like the sea of a dream. —
JosePpH CONRAD.
Waters blue as violet banks. —
Ausrey Dr VERE.
A sky as blue as the enamel on the
statuettes of Osiris. — GAUTIER.
Blue like a corpse. — Nrxouar V.
GocoL. ;
Blue as lips of death. — Evcenr
Ler-Hamitron.
Blue as tint of maiden’s eye. —
James Haskins.
Blue each visage grew,
Just like a pullet’s gizzard.
— Hoop.
Sky as blue as June. — R. G. IncEr-
SOLL.
Blue were her eyes as fairy-flax. —
LoNGFELLOW.
Lips, as blue ‘as salt-water. —
MassiIncer. ,
Blue
And beautiful, like skies seen through
The sleeping wave.
— Tuomas Moore.
Blue as blazes. — J. C. NEAL.
Blue as autumn’s skies. —W. M.
PRAED.
Blue... like a patch of fallen
April sky. — Witiiam M. Reepy.
Blue as the eyes of a saint. —
~RANCIS S. SALTUS.
Blue as bilbery. — SHAKESPEARE.
Blue as the overhanging heaven. —
SHELLEY.
Blue
As are the violets that hide
Our dewy earth from view.
— EvALEEN STEIN.
Blue as plague. — SWINBURNE.
Blue as heaven’s cloudless canopy.
— Esaras TeGner.
Blue like an ancient Briton. —-
THACKERAY.
26 : BLUE, — BLUSH.
Blue — continued.
Blue as with the cold. — IsrRaEL
ZANGWILL.
Blunder.
Blundyrst as a blynde buserde. —
T. Wricat’s “ PotrticaL PorMs AND
Sones.”
Blunt.
Blunt as a hammer. — ANON.
Blunt as a meat-ax. — Ism.
Blunt as the back of a knife. —
Rosert HeEatu.
Blunt as the fencer’s foils, which hit,
but hurt not. — SHAKESPEARE.
Blur.
The masthead light . . . blurred
like a last star ready to dissolve. —
JosEPpH CONRAD.
Blurred the air like blown sand. —
HAMLIN GARLAND.
Blurred like a lamp’s that when the
night drops dead
Dies. — SWINBURNE.
Blurt.
Blurted it out like a school-boy. —
LONGFELLOW.
Blush.
Blush like an opal. — Anon.
Blush like the heart of flame. —
Henry W. Avstin.
Blushing like a wedding night. —
Bazac.
I blushed like any rose. —T. H.
Bayty.
Blushing like a Worcestershire ‘or-
chard before harvest. — BEAcons-
FIELD.
Blushing like the skies to crimson
burning,
When Aurora Borealis fires her prem-
ises by night. — AMsrose BIErce.
Blushes, like the flushes upon high
When Aurora Borealis lights her cir-
cumpolar palace. — Ini.
Blush like rose when Roland speaks,
— E. B. Brownine.
Blushing like a sea-shell. — BULWER-
Lytron.
Blush’d like the waves of hell. —
Byron.
Blushing, like a bride. — CoLErmce.
Blushes like a new-born flower. —
Barry CoRNWALL.
Blush as hot as June. — Izip.
Blush’d and smiled like a clear and
rosy eventide. — Sir Jonn Davirs.
Blusheth like the Indian ivory which
is with dip of Tyrian purple dy’d. —
Isip.
Blushes as adorn the ruddy welkin or
the purple morn. — DrypeEn.
Blushes like a red bull-calf. — A. B.
Evans’ “ Lercester Worps, Phrases .
AND PROVERBS.”
Make us blush like copper. — Joun
FLETCHER.
Her cheek of beauty blushed like
rose-bud in the rain. — James Hoae.
Blushed like blood.—O. W.
Homes.
A blush like sunrise o’er the rose.
— Miss Lanpon.
Blushes like the birds of spring. —
Isp.
Blush as of opening flowers. —
Grorer P. Lararop.
Blush like the backside of a chim-
ney. — Lzan’s “‘CoLLECTANEA.”
Blush like a
Henry Lewis.
sunset. — ALFRED
Blushes like a virgin. — RicHarp
LovELacer.
Blush as lovely as the dawn. —
Lover.
BLUSH. — BODY. 27
Blush — continued.
Blushing like the dogwood crimson
in October. — Grorcre MEREDITH.
Blushed like timid daybreak when the
dawn
Looms crimson on the night, and then
again is withdrawn.
— Tuomas MILLER.
Blushing like a summer moming.
— Baron MuncHAUSEN.
Blushed like a girl fresh from school.
—Sir GILBERT PARKER.
Blushing as in vintage-hours. —
Tuomas L. PEacocxk.
Blush’d like a carnation. — Is.
Blush like a banner bathed in
slaughter. — James G. PERCIVAL.
Blush like lads of seventeen. —
James WaitcoMB RILEY.
Blushes bright pass o’er her cheek,
But pure and pale as is the glow of
sunset on a mountain peak,
Robed in eternal snow. — Ruskin.
Blushing, like some shy maid in
convent bred. — Sir WALTER Scorr.
Blush . . . like a black dog, as the
saying is. — SHAKESPEARE.
Blushing like the perfumed morn.
—R. B. Saerwan.
Blush like my waistcoat. — Izrp.
Blushing like Aurora. — SMOLLETT.
Blushed as with bloodless passion, and
its hue
Was as the life and love of hearts on
flame. — SWINBURNE.
Blushes . . . as a young virgin
on her wedding night. — Bayarp
TayLor.
I blush as red as cochineal. —
THACKERAY.
Blushin as red as the Baldinsville
skool house when it was fust painted.
— Artemus Warp.
A faint blush melting through the
light of thy transparent cheek like a
rose-leaf bathed in dew. — WHITTIER.
Boast.
With all his tumid boasts, he’s like
the sword-fish, who only wears his
weapon in his mouth. — SamueL Map-
DEN.
Whoso boasteth himself of a false
gift is like clouds and wind without
rain. — OLp TESTAMENT.
Bobbing.
Bobbing up and down like a duck
in a mud puddle. — ANon.
‘Bob up like the hammers in a piano-
forte. — DicKEns.
Bobbing like a quill-float with a
“minnum” biting at the hook below.
—O. W. Hormes.
Body.
The body is like a piano, and happi-
ness is like music. It is needful to
have the instrument in good order. —
Henry Warp BEECHER.
Man’s Body’s like a House:
greater Bones,
Are the maine Timber; And the lesser
ones,
Are smaller Splints:
Laths, daubed ore,
Plaister’d with flesh and bloud: His
Mouth’s the Doore:
His Throat’s the narrow Entry: And
his Heart
Is the Great Chamber, full of curious
Art:
His Midreife is a large partition-Wall,
’Twixt the Great Chamber, and the
spacious Hall:
His Stomacke is the Kitchin, where the
Meate
His
His Ribs are
‘Is often but half sod, for want of
Heate:
His Spleen’s a Vessell, Nature does
allott
To take the skimme, that rises from
the Pott:
28 BODY. — BOOKS.
Body — continued.
His Lungs are like the Bellowes that
respire
In ev’ry office, quickning ev’ry Fire:
His Nose, the Chimney is, whereby are
vented
Such Fumes, as with the Bellowes are
augmented :
His Bowels are the Sinke, whose
part’s to dreine
All noysome filth,
Kitchin cleane :
His Eyes like Christian Windowes
cleare and bright
Lets in the Object and lets out the
Sight:
And as the Timber is, or great or small,
Or strong or weake; ’tis apt to stand
or fall. — FRANCIS QUARLES.
and .keep the
Boil.
He maketh the deep to boil like a
pot. — Op TESTAMENT.
Boisterous.
Boisterous as stormy sea-winds.—
R. H. Sropparp.
Bold.
Bold as a blind man. — ANON.
Bold as Beauchamp. — Isp.
Bold as Joan of Arc. — Inp.
Boldly . . . like giants conquering
in a noble cause. — Ipm.
Bold as a petty provincial attorney.
— Batzac.
Bold as a bucket. — JozrL BarLow.
As boldly as a brigadier
Tricked out with marks and signs all
o’er
Of rank, brigade, division, corps,
To show by every means he can
An officer is not a man.
— Amprose BIERCE.
Boold as is Bayard the Blynde.
— CHAUCER.
As bold as the blast. — Barry Corn-
WALL.
Boldly, like eagles on the wing. —
Hueco.
Bold as brass. — LEAN’s
LECTANEA.”
He was bold as a hawk. — Lover.
Bold as an embodied
T. Bucnanan Reap.
Bold as the glare of the gold. —
R. H. Stopparb.
As boldly as a sunflower faces the
orb of day. — New York Sun.
“CoL-
storm. —
Bold as a lion. — OLp TESTAMENT.
Bolde as a Knight. —“Tas Nur-
BROWN Mar.”
Bold as day. — WogDswoRTH.
Bones.
His bones are as strong pieces of
brass ; his bones are like bars of iron.
— Op TESTAMENT.
Bony.
Bony as an ossified shad. — ANON.
Books.
A house without books is like a room
without windows. — Henry WARD
BEECHER.
Books, like invisible scouts, per-
meate the whole habitable globe, and
Timbuctu itself is not safe from British
Literature. — CARLYLE.
A book, like a grape-vine, should have
good fruit among its leaves. — E. P.
Day.
As a thing on the eastern mountains
shineth -by the presence of the sun ;
so one of humble birth, even, may be
enlightened -by the allurements of
good books. — Hrropapgsa.
Be as careful of the books you read
as of the company you keep, for your
habits and character will be as much
influenced by the former as the latter.
— Paxton Hoop.
It is with books as with women,
— where a certain plainness of manner
BOOKS. — BOUND. 29
Books — continued.
and of dress is more engaging than the
glare of paint and airs and apparel,
which may dazzle the eye, but reach
not the affections. — Davin Hume.
Gentlemen vse bookes as Gentle-
women handle their flowers, who in
the morning stick them in their
heads, and at night strawe them at
their heeles. — Lyty.
Books are as meats and viands are :
some are good, some of evil substance.
— Mitron.
A book, like a person, has its for-
tunes with one ; is lucky or unlucky
in the precise moment of its falling
in our way, and often by some happy
accident ranks with us for something
more than its independent value. —
Wa trTer Pater.
We ought to regard books as we do
sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the
pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the
wholesomest ; not forbidding either,
but approving the latter most. —
PLUTARCH.
To buy books only because they
were published by an eminent printer,
is much as if a man should buy clothes
that did not fit him, only because
made by some famous tailor. — Pore.
Books, like men their authors, have
no more than one way of coming into
the world, but there are ten thousand
to go out of it, and return no more.
— Swirt.
Books, like proverbs, receive their
value from the stamp and esteem of
ages through which they have passed.
—Sirr Writiam Temple.
Boom.
Boomed like a split trombone. —
O. Henry.
Boom, like the advance shout of
battle. — Marcaret E, SANGSTER.
Bore.
Boring in and out... like a
stubby needle going through a tuck.
— Irvin 5. Coss.
Born.
Born like a momentary fly to flutter,
buzz around, and die. — RoBrert
Luovp.
Borrowed.
Borrowed as beautifully as the moon
The fire of ‘the sun.
— STEPHEN PHILLIPS.
Bosom.
White her bosom, like two snowy
dovelets. — SERVIAN BaLuaD.
Bosom as white as ever
The foam-wreaths rise on the leaping
river. — WBHITTIER.
Bottom.
Go to the bottom of things, like a
custom house officer. — Sypney Mun-
DEN.
Bottomless.
Bottomless as the foundation of the
Universe. — CARLYLE.
Bounce.
Bounce, like corn poppin’ in a
shovel. — Harriet E. B. Stowe.
Bound (Adjective).
Bound,
Like doomsday prisoned underground.
— D. G. Rossetti.
Fast bound and free,
As all the world is girdled with the sea.
— SWINBURNE.
Fast bound as a frost-bound water.
— Isp.
Bound as the sun to the world’s
wheel. — Isp.
Bound
Like as thralls with links of iron fast in
bonds of doom. — In.
30 BOUND. — BOW.
Bound (Verb).
My heart bounds like an imprisoned
bird against its wiry barrier. — Joun
BRouGHAM.
Bounds like deer from the hounds.
— Euiza Coox.
Bounding like nymphs in vales of
Arcady. — Witiiam Hazurt.
Like an antelope he bounded. —
LONGFELLOW.
Bounds, light as hind before the
hound. — AmBrosE PHILips.
Bounded like a madman. — Por.
Bound like a stoned horse. — JAMES
SHIRLEY. ‘
My pulses bound like a stag at
play. —JouN STERLING.
Like a greyhound when slipped
from the leash, he bounded. — Bayarp
TAYLOR.
Boundless.
Boundless as the ocean. — BULWER-
Ly?rron.
Boundless as the glory of Texas. —
Atrrep Henry Lewis.
Boundless as the sheeted sky. —
Grorce P. Morris.
Boundless as the sea. — SHaKn-
SPEARE.
Boundless as the wind. — Swirt.
Bounteous.
Bounteous as nature. — Dryprn.
Bounteous as the Nile’s dark waters.
— James MonrtTGomeEry.
Bounteous as the air which fed
Israel. — SouTHEY.
Bountiful.
Bountiful as April rains. — Cowper.
Bountiful
As mines of India.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Bountiful as the showers that fall
Into the Spring’s green bosom.
—J. SHIRLEY.
Bounty.
Our bounty, like a drop of water,
disappears when diffused too widely.
— GOLDSMITH.
Bow. :
Bow like a field of wheat before the
rising wind. — ANon.
Bows like a reed in a tempest. —
Ipip.
Like a field of standing corn, that’s
moved with a stiff gale, their heads
bow all one way. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
Bow’d like
CAMPBELL.
weeping willows. —
Arching bow’d, like color’d rainbows
o’er a show’ry moon. — HoMER (Pore).
Bowed, like a man sawing marble.
— Hoop.
Bow’d like a sleeping flower. —
Miss Lanpon.
Bowed like
SPEARE.
bondmen. — SHAKE-
A life bowed under its own wealth
as the vine is bowed under its fruit.
— SUDERMANN.
Bowed like a flowering weed when
May’s wind heaves the reed-bed the
stream kisses. — SwINBURNE.
Bowed down as briars or palms
Even at the breathless blast as of a
breeze
Fulfilled with clamour and clangour
and storms of psalms. — Isp.
I bowed down heavily, as one that
mourneth for his mother. — Otp
TESTAMENT.
Bow down his head like a bulrush.
—Ism.
Bowed to them like a tree in a storm.
— Epira Wuarron.
BRACING. — BREAST. 31
Bracing.
Bracing as an Alpine breeze. —
IsraEL ZANGWILL.
Brag.
Brag boldly, like the cock beside his
partlet. — Aiscuy.us.
Brain.
Brainless as chimpanzees. —C. S.
CALVERLEY.
Great brains, like brightest glass,
crack straight; those of stone or
wood hold out, and fear not blows.
— Bisuop Ear.e.
I suspect that there is in an English-
man’s brain a valve that can be closed
at pleasure, as an engineer shuts off
steam. — EMERSON.
My brain, methinks, is like an hour-
glass,
Wherein th’ imaginations run to
sands,
Filling up time ; but there are turn’d
and turn’d
So that I know not what to stay upon,
And less to put in act.
— Bren Jonson.
Brain like liquid lead. — Sourury.
Brave.
Brave as a Barbary lion. — Anon.
Brave as Achilles. — Inm.
Brave as a mad bull. — Isp.
Brave as Launcelot. — Isp.
Brave as a falcon and as merciless.
— Witrrip §. Buunt.
Brave as a grenadier. — Huco.
Is brave like unto the Lord of the
Celestials. — MAHABHARATA.
Brave and stern as soldier’s mother
might be. — Rosa MuLHoLLanp.
Brave as winds that brave the sea.
— SWINBURNE. °
Brave as bannered chivalry. —
Tuomas Watson.
i
Brawl.
Brawls
Like jarring steel on ruining walls.
— SwINBURNE.
Brazen.
Brazen as an image. — ANoN.
Brazen as alabaster. — Dickens.
Break.
Break him like a biscuit. — Brav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
Break like an o’er-bent bow. —
SAMUEL BUTLER.
Break as a bubble o’er-blown in a
dream. — Smnery LANIER.
Their ranks are breaking like thin
clouds before a Biscay gale. — Ma-
CAULAY.
Breaking, like rosy clouds at even-tide
Around the rich pavilion of the sun.
— Tuomas Moore.
The columns break, like shattered
foam. — Epwarp PEPLE.
Breaking his oath and resolution, like
A twist of rotten silk.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Break like a bursting heart. —
SHELLEY.
Break forth as laughter on lips
that said nought till the pulse in them
beat love’s march. — SWINBURNE.
Breast.
Breasts as the buds of May. —
Lorp Dr TaBLey.
His breast is like a gentlewoman’s
closet, which locks up every: toy or
trifle, or some bragging mountebank
that makes every stinking thing a
secret. —JouHN Earte’s “ Mrcrocos-
mocrapHy; A Piece or THE WoRLD
DISCOVERED,” 1628.
Her brest fairer than the vernal
bloom of valley-lily, op’ning in a
showr. — JoHN LoGaN.
32- BREAST. — BRIEF.
Breast — continued.
Breasts half-globed
Like folded lilies deepset in the stream.
—D. G. Rossetti.
Breasts like clusters dropping balm.
— GEORGE SANDYS.
Her brest like to a bowl of creame
uncurdded. — SPENSER.
Breasts like spring. — SWINBURNE.
Thy two breasts are like two young
roes that are twins, which feed among
the lilies. — OLp TESTAMENT.
Breath.
Her breath is like the fragrant breeze,
That gently stirs the blossom’d bean,
When Phoebus sinks beneath the seas.
— Burns.
Breath like the sweets from the
hawthorn tree. — BARRY CoRNWALL.
Her breath
Like a soft western wind, when it glides
o’er
Arabia, creating gums and spices.
— MAssINGER.
A breath,
Hot as the blasts that dried old seas.
—Isaac R. PENNYPACKER.
Breath like morn’s young breeze.
— PILpay.
Breathe.
Breathing like the Spring. — ANon.
Breathe like toads under ground. —
Isp.
Breathed out, hard and still, as a
statue might whisper. — JosePpH Con-
RAD.
The young lips breathe like a dewy rose
Fanned by the fire-fly’s wing.
— Euza Cook.
Breathing like the bellows of a
forge. — Lorp Dr Tas.ey.
Breathing like a second-hand bicycle
pump. — O. Henry.
Brethe as the
Rozert Herrick,
damask Rose. —
Breathing sweetness like a bridal
bower. —O. W. Ho.MeEs.
She breathes sweet serene as ’twere
a gentle spirit from the skies. —
PETRARCH.
Breathing like sanctified and pious
bawds,
The better to beguile.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Breathe
As March breathes back the spirit of
winter. — SWINBURNE.
Breathless as the deer
Driven hard to bay. — Isp.
Breed.
Bred like rats on a grain ship.
— Li Hune Cuane.
A breed, like a dialect of a language,
can hardly be said to have a distinct
origin. — Darwin.
Breeds like a rabbit. — SwiFt.
Brief.
Briefer than the twinkling of an
eye. — ANON.
Brief as the song
Of the wood dove.
—Lorp Dr Tas.ey.
Brief
As sunset clouds in heaven.
—O. W. Hommes.
Brief as sparkles from the flint. —
Hoop.
Brief as time. — Ben Jonson.
As brief as a dragon-fly’s repose. —
Lowe...
As brief as the wave’s poise before it
breaks in pearls. — Imp.
Brief, as the sunshine scattered
over the plains. — Mimnermus.
Brief as a dream. — PTAH-HOTEP.
As the fading of a flower,
As the falling of a leaf,
So brief its day and its hour.
—C, G, Rosser.
BRIEF. — BRIGHT. 33
Brief — continued.
Brief as the lightning in the collied
night. — SHAKESPEARE.
, Brief like a signal. — Roper? Louis
STEVENSON.
Brief as the word strong sorrow
saith. — Inn.
Brief as a broken song. — Swin-
BURNE.
Thou art brief as a glitter of sand
*twixt tide and tide. — Wituiam Wat-
SON.
Brief and tremulous as a passing
shadow. — WiLL1AM WINTER.
Bright.
Bright as fair sunshine after winter’s
storms. — AZSCHYLUS.
Bright as a blister. — ANON.
Bright as a dollar. — Ipm.
Bright as a new penny. — In.
Bright as a pewter pot. — Ism.
Bright as at Creation’s day. —
Isp.
Bright as fairies that in a sunbeam
dance. — Inrp.
Bright as Japanese bronze. — Ipip.
Bright as new silver. — Isr.
Bright as saucepans. — Ipmp.
Bright as Sharon’s rose. — Ini.
Bright as sunshine on the sea. —
Isp.
Bright as the captain’s cabin of a
man-of-war. — Insp.
Bright was her soul as Dian’s crest.
— Isp.
Bright as fullest moon in blackest
air. — ARABIAN NIGHTS.
Bright as though a moon of the
fourteenth night. — Isp.
Bright as a beach in the moonlight.
— ALFRED AUSTIN.
Bright as the great stream of stars
which flows through heaven. —P. J.
BaILey.
Bright like night with stars. — Ip.
Bright, like river gold. — Inm.
Bright as midnight’s brightest eyes.
—T. L. Beppozs.
Bright, as Moerice-Queens in June.
— A. H. BeEgsty.
Bright within
As when from the sky there shines
unclouded heaven’s candle.
— “Browvu.r.”
Bright as an iceberg. —R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Brighter than the
wheat. — Ipm.
sun through
As bright as the waves of a rill. —
Grorce H. Boxer.
Bright as the rippling ocean in sun-
shine. — Rosert Bripces (English).
a’
Bright as icicles about a laurel-tree.
— Maria G. Brooks.
Bright as Paphia’s eyes. —E. B.
BRownine. E
Bright, like a flash of sunlight. —
Butwer-LyTron.
Bright as the bow that spans the
storm. — CAMPBELL.
Bright as day. — CHAUCER.
Bright as stars in winter. — Isp.
As rody and bright as doth the yonge
sonne
That in the ram is foure degrees ronne.
—Ism.
Bright as joy. —Harriey CoLz-
RIDGE.
Bright as the moon she shone, with
silver light,
And charmed his sense with wonder
and delight. — CONGREVE.
Bright as truth. — Barry CORNWALL.
Bright as orient morn. — CowPER.
34 BRIGHT.
Bright — continued.
Bright as innocence. —JoHNn Day.
Bright as a flame. — DantEL DE-
FOE.
Bright as sunset. — Lorp Dr Tas-
LEY.
Bright as Apollo’s breastplate. —
Auprey Dr VERE.
Bright as May-day’s morn. — Inn.
Bright as the pastures of the sun.
— Ism.
Shone as bright as sea-foam spar-
kling on a moonlit night. — Ibm.
Bright as Heav’n. — WENTWORTH
DILLon.
Bright and steady as a sunbeam. —
Dr. Joun Doran.
Bricht as chrysolite. — GAWAIN
Dovuatas.
Bright as goodness. — DrypeEn.
Bright as Lucifer. — Witt1am Dun-
BAR.
Bright and barren as the sea,
Bare of sorrow, bare of glee.
—F. W. Faser.
Bright ... as all the flowers of
May. — Francis Fawkes.
Bright as Phoebus. — Isp.
Bright as live coals in the gloom. —
FLAUBERT.
Bright as the breaking east. — Joun
FLETCHER.
Bright as any star in heaven. —
GOETHE.
Bright as at creation’s day. — Inn.
Bright as before the day-star will
appear. — James Hammonp.
Bright as the visions of youth. —
T. K. Hervey.
Bright as the jewels of the seven-
starr’d crown. —O. W. Hotmes.
Bright
As the resplendent cactus of the night
That floods the gloom with fragrance
and with light. — Ip.
Bright as noon in a conservatory of
smoked glass. — E. W. Hornuna.
Bright as a beacon. — Hueco.
Bright,
Most like a fleet of stars that southing
go. —Jran INGELOw.
Brycht as gold. — JamEs THE First.
Bright as ruddy meteors through
the sky. — Rosert JEPHSON.
Bright as the lily of the vale. — Sir
WILLIAM JONES.
Bright as the bow of Iris. — Knats.
Bright as the humming-bird’s green
diadem. — Ini.
Bright as the gold-sparks that
glisten and quiver at morning or
eve, on the breast of the river. —
E. M. Ketty.
Bright as an opium-eater’s dream.
— Kincstey.
Bright as Hope’s first smile. —
Miss Lanpon.
Bright as autumn’s fleecy clouds
with golden glittering lightning decked.
— “Lays or Ancrent Inpia.”
Bright as a button. —Lean’s “Cot-
LECTANEA.”
Bright, like a fire-flash that crosses
the depth of the night. —J. S. Lz
Fanu.
Bright as living coal. — CamILLE
LEMONNIER.
Bright as the argent-horned mornes.
— Ricwarp Lovetace.
Bright as the ruby’s blaze. — Lover.
As bright as glow-worms in the night.
— Lyty.
. Bright as the sunbeam of the morn-
ing. — Evan MacCout.
BRIGHT. 35
‘Bright — continued.
Bright as musky moss-rose summer’s
sun. — GrorcE Mac-Henry.
Bright as the dimpled smiles that
spring enwreath. — Inm.
As bright as dewdrops in the sun.
— Cuartes Mackay.
Bright like the moon when the stars
are dimm’d with her blaze. —Ewen -
Mac acHan.
Bright as the sunbeam’s light. —
D. F. McCarruy.
Bright as new pottery. — Mavricr
MAETERLINCK.
Bright as the Burning Bush of
Moses. — James C. MAncaAn.
Bright as beams of Paradise. —
Mary E. Mannix.
Orange bright,
Like golden lamps in a green night.
— ANDREW MARVELL.
Bright as orb that gives the day.
— Wituiam Mason.
Rose-bright as a star dipped in sun-
set. —Owen MEREDITH.
As bright as a spot of June day sun-
shine on the grass.— Donat G.
MircHe.t.
Bright as Minerva’s yellow hair. —
Tuomas Moore.
Bright, like common things, glorified
in love’s light. — Miss Mutock.
Bright as an angel new dropt from
the sky. — Tuomas PARNELL.
Bright, as from blessed place. —
STEPHEN PHILLIPS.
Bright as the star of morn. —
Rosert Potwox.
Bright as the rising sun, in summer’s
day. — Popr.
Bright as the star that fires autumnal
skies. — Isr.
Bright, as visions of expiring maids.
— Isp.
Bright
As golden morning’s flashing light.
—W. H. Pripzavx.
Bright as the sun. — RaBr.ats.
Bright as the crimson glow when
love first sends a missive to a maiden.
C. D. Raymer.
Bright as a cloud in the sunset air.
— T. Bucwanan Reap.
Bright as an opening rose fresh with
dew. — Cuartes Reape.
Bright as the sunset’s glow. —
Laura E. Ricnarps.
Bright as the light of her glorious
eyes. — James Wurrcoms RILevy.
His smile as bright as the midst of
May when the truce-bird pipes. —
Izp.
As bright as the morning sun. —
Isp.
Bright as the golden poppy is that
the beach breeds for the surf to kiss.
—C. G. Rossertt.
Bright as a new bell. —W. C.
RUSSELL.
‘Bright as all between cloudless skies
and windless streams. — SHELLEY.
Bright as Spring. — Ini.
Bright as are the Heavens that lie
Illumed by stars at night.
— BLANCHE SHOEMAKER.
As bright ... as the vestal fire.
— CHRISTOPHER SMART.
Bright as mountain snow. —
SouTHEY.
Bright as the summer lightning when
it spreads its glory o’er the midnight
heaven. — Isr.
Bright as doth the morning starre
appeare. — SPENSER.
Bright, like twinckling starres. —
Isp.
Bright as a rose new blown. — T. D.
SULLIVAN.
36 BRIGHT. — BRILLIANT.
Bright — continued.
Bright as an angel. — Swirr.
Bright as a dew-drop engilt of the
sun on the sedge. — SWINBURNE.
Bright as all above. — Isr.
Bright as a warrior’s belt. — Isrp.
Bright as burns at sunrise, heaven’s
own. — Ini.
Song bright as heaven above the
mounting bird. — Isr.
Bright as heaven’s bare brow with
hope of gifts withholden. — Inrp.
Bright as hell-fire. — Inip.
Bright as hope. — Ini.
Bright as Maytime. — Inip.
Bright as mercy. — Ipip.
Bright as the kindling dews when the
dawn begins. — Ipip.
Bright as the night is dark on the
world. — Izrp.
Bright as though death’s dim sunrise
thrilled jt there and life re-risen took
comfort. — Iprp.
Bright like spring with flower-soft
wealth of branching tracery. — Isr.
Brighter than joy’s own tears. —
Ipip.
‘Bloom as bright as opening moon.
— Bayarp Taytor.
Bright as light. — Tennyson.
Bright and light as the crest of a
peacock. — Isrp.
Bright as the eyes of angels and as
pure. — WiLLIAM THoMSoN,
Shine bright,
As sun-showers at the break of day.
— Henry D. Toorgav.
Bright as a facet-cut diamond scat-
tering light. — Tupper.
Bright as the seraphim pointing to
eternity. — JosrepH TURNLEY.
Bright as the blessings of heaven.
— Micuari Vordsmarty.
Bright as the promise of a cloudless
day. —C. P. Witson.
Bright as a sunbeam sleeping till a
shower
Brush it away, or cloud pass over it.
— Worpswortu.
Bright as spring. — Isr.
Bright as the glimpses of eternity,
To saints according in their mortal
hour. — Inn.
Bright as the dazzling snow. — Ini.
As a rainbow bright. — THEODORE
WRATISLAW.
Bright as Phebus’
Tsomas Wyatt.
sphere. — Sir
Shining bright as a new lance. —
Wituiam B: Yeats.
Brighten
Brighten like a morning of young
spring. —Joun M. Leavitt.
Brightened as in sunshine gleam the
ripples
That the cold wind makes in rivers.
— LonGFELLow.
Brighten, like a meadow when the
sun comes out. — Miss Mutock.
Brightened, like the full moon of
heaven; when the clouds vanish
‘away, and leave her calm and broad
in the midst of the sky. — Ossran.
Brightens all my sorrow,
Like gleams of sunshine in a low’ring
sky. — Amprose Purtips.
Brightened
As a forest with birds.
— SWINBURNE.
Brightened like the moon. — Bay-
ARD TAayLor.
Brightening like a star at eve. —
N. P. Wis.
Brilliant
Brilliant as a dream. — ANon.
Brilliant as Indian summer. — Isrp.
BRILLIANT, — BROKE. 37
Brilliant — continued.
Brilliant as the colors of the rain-
bow. — Inn.
Brilliant, like chrysophrase glowing
Was my beautiful Rosalie Lee.
— Tuomas Ho.itey Cuivers.
Brilliant as a mirror. — Dumas,
PERE.
Brilliant as altar fires. — Vepic
Hymn.
Brilliant as rain-drops, when the west-
ern sun
Sees his own miniature of beams in
each. — MonrTcomery.
Brilliant as stars. — Our.
Brilliant, like transparent plates of
mother-of-pearl. — Sarnt-PIERRE.
As brilliant as a spangled dancing
girl. — ALEXANDER SMITH.
How brilliant and mirthful the light of
her eye,
Like a star glancing out from the blue
of the sky ! — WHITTIER.
Brim.
Brims with bliss, as a valley brims
with life in spring-tide hours. — GER-
ALD Massey.
Brisk.
Brisk as a flea. — ANON.
Brisk as bees that settle on a sum-
mer rose’s petal. — C. S. CALVERLEY.
Brisk as a burger over a bottle.
— Austin Doszson.
Brisk as a bottled ale.— Joun Gay.
Brisk as a cup of wine. — Ropert
GREENE.
Brisk as a bird. — WiLi1am Haziirtr.
Briskly as a revolving firework. —
Branper Marruews.
Brisk as bank stock. — THomas
Morton.
As brisk as a bailiff. — James SMITH.
Brisk as a snake in merry May. —
WILuIAM SOMERVILLE.
Brisk as a body louse. — Swirt.
Bristle.
Bristles all over like a porcupine. —
ANON.
Bristling . . . like some mad Earth-
god’s spiny hair. — THomas Harpy.
Bristle like spears in battle ranks.
— JAYADEVA.
Bristly . . . like a hedgehog. — Lzo
ToLstoy.
Brittle.
Brittle as glass that breaks with a
touch. — SWINBURNE.
Broad.
Broad as barn doors. — JoHN HeEy-
WOOD.
Broad as Heaven’s
Huco.
expanse. —
Broad as the kingdoms and empires
of old. — Cartes Mackay.
Broad as a furred stomacher. —
Tomas Nasu.
Broad and general as the casing air.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Broadens like the summer morn. —
Menetia B. SMEDLEY.
Broader than the sea. —Otp Tzs-
TAMENT.
Broadcast.
Broadcast as the light. — Grorcz E.
WoopBury.
Broke.
Broken up like baffled dreams. —
F, W. Faser.
A gleam of hope through my black
night broke,
Like a star’s bright form
Through a whistling storm,
Or the moon through a midnight oak.
—D. F. McCarruy.
Broke like a sea-bubble on the sand.
— James MonrTcomERrY.
38
Brood.
Brooding like a dove for its mate. —
ANON.
Brooded ... like a hen over a
chalk egg. — Butwer-LytTon.
Broods like an ow]. — Ernest Dow-
SON.
Brow.
Her brow... is like the young
moon. — ANON.
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threatening with piercing frowns to kill
All that approach with eye or hand
These sacred cherries to come nigh.
— Eneusa Batiap.
Her browe was like the mountain snae
Gilt by the morning beam.
—ScorrisH Baap:
His brow was like the deep when
tempest toss’d. — Byron.
Brows like cloudless day. — Exiza
Coox.
Her brow is like the snaw-drift. —
Wii1am Dovetas.
Brows — thin like the stroke of a
pen. — Douetas Hype’s ‘Love Sones
oF CoNNACHT.”
Thy brow like smooth Bandhika-
leaves. — JAYADEVA.
Brown.
Brown as forest flood. — Cacuu-
LAINN.
Browne as the fylberte droppyng
from the shelle. —THomas CuHatrer-
TON.
Browne as the nappy ale at Hock
tyde game. — Ip.
Broun as is a berye. — CHAUCER.
Brown,
As is the ribbed sea-sand.
— COLERIDGE.
Brown as a pineapple. — Davuper.
Brown as the hearth of a kitchen
fire. — Joun Gay.
BROOD. —— BULGED.
Brown as a bun. — Hoop.
Locks... as brown as mavis in
May. — Ricnarp LE GALLIENNE.
Brown as nut. — LONGFELLOw.
Brown as vesper gloamings. — Wa1-
TER MALONE.
Brown as buckeyes. —Epwin D.
SCHOONMAKER.
Brown in hue as hazel nuts. —
SHAKESPEARE.
As twilight brown. — SWINBURNE.
Brutal.
Brutal as an unclean word. — VANCE
THOMPSON.
Bubble.
Bubbled like a tea-kettle beginning
to boil. — Anon.
Bubbling and overflowing, like a
brazen cup beneath an ardent sun. —
Maurice MArrer.inck.
Bubbles.
Bubbles,
Like man’s vain glory, and his vainer
troubles. — Byron.
Budded.
Budded as a thorn to sting. —
Grorce Mac-HeEnry.
Buffoon.
A buffoon is like a mad dog, that
has a worm in his tongue, which makes
him bite at all that light in his way.
— SaMuEL BuTLER.
Build
Many a thought did I build up on
thought,
As the wild bee hangs cell on cell.
— Rosert Brownine.
Bulged.
Bulged like pudding. — Frrz-JamMEs
O'BRIEN.
Bulged out in the sun like a pump-
kin. — THACKERAY.
vo oe
BULK. — BURST. 39
Bulk.
Huge bulk like a sea monster among
the minnows of the Thames. — Dicx-
ENS.
Buoyant.
Buoyant as wings. — Byron.
Buoyant as light. — Exiza Coox.
Buoyant as_ the _ thistle-down.
— Hoop.
Merry buoyancy, as of a boat. —
Rosert NoeEt.
Buoyant as
CHARLES TURNER.
summer spray. —
Burly.
Burley as a Sunday beadle. — Jamrs
PitGRmM.
Burn.
Burn into your soul like a curse. —
ANON.
Bumed like a spilth of light
Out of the crashing of a myriad stars.
— Rosert Brownine.
Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral
urns. — CowPER.
Burnt like caustic. — Hoop.
Burns, like some absent and im-
patient youth, to join the object of his
warm desire. —SOAME JENYNS.
Burns like hate. —Grorce Mac-
Donat.
Burn within me like an evil fire. —
Ipm.
Burn like the red light of the setting
sun. —T. BucHanan Reap.
Burn like black stars below the
Orient moon. — Francis S. Satus.
Burn like mines of sulphur. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Burning like molten jewels. — W.
W. Story.
Burn and bleed
Like that pale princess-priest of
Priam’s seed. — SWINBURNE.
Burn as if all the fires of the earth and
air
Had laid strong hold upon his flesh
and stung
The soul behind it as with a serpent’s
tongue. — Ibn.
Burn as that beamless fire which fills
the skies
With troubled stars and travailing
things of flame. — Isp.
Burning her like flame
That feeds on flowers in bloom.
—Ism.
Burns like joy. — Isp.
Burns low as fire wherein no fire-
- brands glow. — Ini.
Burnt as a living fire of emeralds.
— TENNYSON.
Burneth as a flaming fire. — Otp
TESTAMENT.
Burning like the burning of a fire. —
Ipip.
Burns, like a fiery star in the upper
air. — WHITTIER.
Burned like a heated opal. — Oscar
WILDE.
Burned like the ruby fire set
In the swinging lamp of a crimson
shrine. — Iprp.
Burrow.
Burrow like a weasel.—R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Burst.
Burst like sand this brave embank-
ment of the breast. — P. J. Barter.
Bursting like a bean-pod. —R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Burst forth like the neighing of all
Tattersall’s. — CARLYLE.
Light burst on me as if a window of
my memory had been suddenly flung
open on a street in the city. — JOSEPH
ConraD.
40 BURST. — BUSY.
Burst — continued.
Burst, like a morn lighted bubble of
dew. — Exiza Cook.
Like shallow ice-films ‘neath a
courser’s hoof, burst. — AuBREY Dr
VERE.
Bursting like an overdone potato.
—Sir A. Conan Dorie.
Burst like bellowing tna. — Dryr-
DEN.
Burst into sound, like thunder with
a shower. — Francis Fawkgs.
Burst like rockets into one wide
blaze. — CHarLes Harpur.
Burst frae their bounds like fiends
of hell. — Hoae.
Burst like surf. — WEesTLAND Mar-
STON.
Burst, like an enfranchised dove.
— Miss Mutock. :
Bursts like the lightning’s flash. —
SCHILLER.
Burst like morning on dream, or
like heaven on death. — SHELLEY.
Bursts like one sound from ten thou-
sand streams
Of a tempestuous sea. — Isp.
Burst like a pimple from the vicious
tide of acid blood. — Wi1Lu14mM SHEN-
STONE.
The banners burst,
Like buds of April breezes burst.
— Bayarp Taytor.
Burst, like a thunderbolt. — Trnny-
SON.
Burst like Heavenly Hope. — In.
Burst like new bottles. — Otp Txs-
TAMENT.
Bury.
Burned, like Topeca beneath the
bucklers of Sabines. — Dumas, PERE.
Buried like a cauliflower. — WasuH-
INGTON IRVING.
Bushy.
Bushy as the fleece of the ram. --
ANON.
Business.
But certainly, some there are that
know the resorts and falls of business
that can not sink into the main of it ;
like a house that hath convenient
stairs and entries, but never a fair
room. — Bacon.
Let business, like ill watches, go
Sometimes too fast, sometimes too
slow. — SAMUEL BUTLER.
The tide of business, like the running
stream,
Is sometimes high and sometimes low,
A quiet ebb, or a tempestuous flow,
And always in extreme.
Now with a noiseless gentle course,
It keeps within the middle bed,
Anon it lifts aloft the head,
And bears down all before it with im-
petuous force. — Dryven.
Bustle.
Bustled about like so many ants
| roused by the approach of a foe. —
J. Hamppen Porter.
Busy.
Busy as a beaver. — ANON.
Busy as a beehive attacked by a
bear. — Inrp.
Busy as a boy killing snakes. —
Isr.
Busy as a good wife at an oven. —
Inp.
Busy as a hen with one chick. —
Ini.
Busy as a humming bird with two
tails. — IB.
Busy as a one-armed paperhanger
with the hives. — Inrp.
Busy as a pigeon at a shooting
match. — Isr.
Busy as squirrels in a wheel. — Ipp.
BUSY. — CALM. 41
Busy — continued.
Busy as a ticking clock. — Anon.
Busy as a hen with fifteen chickens
in a barnyard.—J. R. Bartuert’s
“ DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS.”
Busy as a cross-eyed boy at a three-
ring circus. — Rex Bracu.
Busy as a child at play. — SamurL
BurTLer.
Busy as a cow’s tail in fly time. —
J. Fenimore Cooper.
Busy as the devil in a gale of wind.
— Sir Joun Denuam.
Busy as the day is long. — Lzan’s
“COLLECTANEA.”
Busie as a bee. — Lyty.
Busy as the day. — Macautay.
Calamity.
Domestic calamity is like the minia-
ture of a friend, which we wear in our
bosoms, and keep for secret looks and
solitary enjoyment. — Henry Mac-
KENZIE.
Callous. :
Callous as Comus to moral babble. —
ANON.
Calm.
Calm as the Judge of Truth. —
AKENSIDE.
Calm as a summer sea. — LOUISA
M. Aucott.
Calm as a convent. — ANoN.
Calm as a cradled child in Dreamland
slumber. — Inm.
Calm as a June day. — Isp.
Calm as a midnight sea. — Isp.
Calm as a saint in Paradise. — Ip.
Death . . . was busy as on a battle
field. — SKELTON.
As busy as bees in a glass hive. —
JAMES SMITH.
Busy as the brooks. — Tuorzav.
Busy as horses in a field of clover.
— Joan Wotcorr.
Busy as a wren. — WoRDSWoRTH.
Busy as the lightning. — Ini.
Buzz.
Buzzing like a fly. — Anon.
Buzz in the ear like gnats. — ARLo
Bates.
Buzzed like the bees when they
swarm. — Hoop.
Buzz’d like bees
Fretting and swarming in the linden-
trees. — W. 8. Lanpor.
Calm as a soft summer eve. — Inip.
Calm as a virgin in her shroud.—Ipm.
Calm as clam shells. — Ipip.
Calm as the society column of a
newspaper. — [srp.
Calm as deep rivers.— R. D. Biack-
MORE.
Calm as
BRonté.
glass. — CHARLOTTE
Features are as calm as marble. —
JoHN BrouGHam. .
Calm, as one who, safe in heaven,
Shall tell a story of his lower life,
Unmoved by shame or anger.
—E. B. Brownine.
Like the battle camp’s fearful calm,
While the banners are spread, and the
warriors arm. — Ipp.
Calm as a babe new-born. — RoBERT
BRowNING.
42 CALM
Calm — continued.
Calm as beauty. — RoBert Brown-
ING.
A calm as out of just-quelled noise. —
Isp.
Calm as Heaven’s serenest deeps. —
* Wittiam ALLEN BUTLER.
Calm as the fields of Heaven. —
CAMPBELL.
Calm as a field of. snow. — Buss
CARMAN.
Calm, unmoved as the very noon
and centre of being. — Isin.
Calm like that when storm is done.
— Heten G. Cone.
Calm as the gliding moon. — CoLz-
RIDGE.
Calm as a discharged culverin. —
CoNGREVE.
Calm as infant-love. — CRABBE.
Calm as forgiven wits at the last
hour. — Sir WituiaAM DAVENANT.
Calm as an autumn night. — Lorp
Dr TABLEY.
Calm as Clapham. — DiIcKEns.
Calm as a mirror. — DuMAs, PERE.
Calm as a virgin who has never told
a lie. — Inn.
As calm as evening when caressed
By twilight breezes from the west.
—Sam WALTER Foss.
Calm as a statue-saint. — Norman
GALE.
Calm as a lake in heaven. —
W. S. GILBERT.
Calm as the child who, smiling, hears
The footsteps of advancing years.
— Mrs. L. B. Hatt.
Calmly, as to a night’s repose, like
flowers at set of sun. — Frrz-GREENE
HAtiecx.
Calm as ice. — HawTHOoRNE.
Calm as the patient planet’s gleam
That walks the clouded skies.
—O. W. Homes.
Calm as a Mandarin. — RicHarp
Hovey.
‘Calm as night. — Hueco.
Calm as the solitude between wide
stars. — JEAN INGELOW.
Calm — as if she were always sitting
for her portrait. — Henry JAMES.
Calm as _ brooding
E. C. Jones.
Calm as a child in its soft slumber
lying. — E. M. Ke.ty.
Calmly, like a soul at rest. —
Frances ANNE KEMBLE.
Calm as a vestal. — WILLIAM Liv-
INGSTON.
Shone calm . . . like the moon in
the midst of the night.
— D.F. McCartay.
Calm as the calm that follows duty.
— Grorcre MacDona.p.
Calm as the breast of the lake when
the loud wind is laid. — James Mac-
PHERSON.
clouds. —
Calm as a statue of Memnon in
prostrate Egypt.
— GrorcGE MEREDITH.
A calmness like the calmness of a
grave. — Owen MEREDITH.
Calm as some lonely shepherd’s song.
— Tuomas Moors.
Calm as an angel from the blessed
Jand. — Miss Mutock.
Calm as a spent day of peace ideal.
— Isp.
Calm as a summer evening before
the dark begins. — Ipm.
Calm as under ground. — Isp.
Calm as the smoothest waters. —
DaNtEL O’CONNELL.
Calm as the breast of a lake when the
loud wind is laid. — Ossian.
CALM. — CAPACIOUS. 43
Calm — continued.
He is as calm as calm weather is
wont to be. — PLautus.
Calm like the sleep of a soul that
is blest. —T. BucHanan Reap.
Calm as Force. — D. G. Rossetrt.
Calm as . . a deeply sheltered
mountain lake. — Ruskin.
Calm, as in the days when all was
right. — SCHILLER.
Calm as the clear evening after
vernal rains. — JoHN Scott.
Calm as virtue. — SHAKESPEARE.
Calm as a cradled child in dreamless
slumber bound. — SHELLEY.
Calm as a slumbering babe. — Im.
Calm as an angel in the dragon’s den.
— Isp.
Calm as death. — Inrp.
Calm, radiant, like the phantom of
the dawn. — Isr.
Calm like duty. — SouTHEy.
Calm as the blind who have not seen
the light,
The deaf who hear no precious voice.
—E. C. SrepMan.
A forehead calm as fate. — Ipm.
Calm as a Quaker. — THACKERAY.
Calm as that second summer which
precedes the first fall of the snow. —
Henry Tiron.
Calm as at Creation’s dawn. — JoHN
C. Van Dyxe.
Calm as the sky after a day of storm.
— VOLTAIRE.
Calm as Neptune on the Halcyon
seas. — Wituiam WALSH.
Calm a conscience as ever blessed an
anchorite. — Tuomas Watson.
Serenely calm as summer evenings.
—Isaac WarTTs.
Calm as the hermit in his grot. —
CuaRLES WESLEY.
Calm as dawn. — Watt WuitMan.
Calm as a child to slumber soothed,
As if an Angel’s hand had smoothed
The still, white features into rest.
— WHITTIER.
Calm as earliest morn. — Oscar
WILDE.
Calm and blessed .. . like a rich
pearl beyond the diver’s ken. —
N. P. Wiis.
Calm as a frozen lake when ruthless
winds
Blow fiercely. — Worpsworta.
Calm as the dew-drops. — Ism.
Calm as lakes that sleep.— Ii.
Calumniate.
The calumniator is like the dragon
that pursued a woman, but, not being
able to overtake her, opened his mouth
and threw a flood after her to drown
her. — Epwarp Buiunt.
Came.
He came down the road like hell
beating tanbark. — ANon.
Came and went like the lighthouse
gleam on a black night at sea. — Ros-
ERT BUCHANAN.
Came out of his shell like the aurelia
out of the grub. — Wittiam Hazuirt.
Came from all sides like conspirators
from a wood in a tragedy. — Maurice
HEWLETT.
Came, like a ray from Heaven, that
shines and disappears. — Joun Home.
Candid.
Candid as a dove is white. — Huco.
Candid as mirrors. — Rosert G.
INGERSOLL.
Candid as
THOMPSON.
the skies. — FRANCIS
Capacious.
Capacious like the storehouse of the
rains. — EMERSON.
44. CAPACIOUS. — CAROUSE.
Capacious — continued.
Capacious as the sky. James A.
HILLHOUSE.
Capacious as the mind of a boy. —
Dona G. MITCHELL.
Caper.
Caper like a dancing master. —
Tuomas Otway.
Capers like a fly in a tar-box. —
JoHN Ray’s “Hanppook or Proy-
ERBS.”
Capricious.
Capricious as the vagrant wind.
P. H. Hayne.
Capricious, like the thinkings of a
child. — Gzorcre MacDona.p.
Capricious as a zephyr. — TuprER.
Capture.
Captured the eyes as a sharp cry
secures attention. — JosepH CoNnRAD.
Care.
Care is like a husbandman who doth
guard our treasures:
And the while, all ways he can, spoils
our harmless pleasures.
Loving hearts and laughing brows,
most he seeks to plunder,
And each furrow that he ploughs turns
the roses under. — Aticr Cary.
Second-hand cares, like second-hand
clothes, come easily, off and on. —
DICKENS.
As much care as pilots of ships avoid
the rocks of the sea. — RABELAIS.
As rust eats iron, so care eats the
heart. — A. Ricarp.
Careful.
Careful as the chief eunuch is of the
Grand Seignior’s favorite Sultana. —
ANON.
Careless.
Carelessly as hurls the moth her wing
Against the light wherein she dies.
— Byron.
Careless as the Salmon with its mil-
lion young. — RicHarp Lr GALLIENNE.
Careless as the wind. — WILLIAM J.
Linton.
Careless as a man in his first state. —
E. V. Lucas.
Careless as gods for who might live
or die. — Wiit1AM Morris.
Careless as the course of a meteor. —
OssIAN.
Careless as the young flower tossing
on the summer breeze. — OvumDa,.
Carelessly as the blossoming trees.
— ALEXANDER SMITH.
Careless as are the brooks, or birds
that sing,
Of any other song of brook or bird.
—Joun T. TRowsripce.
Careless . . . as Christians of their
souls. — Francis H. WItirams.
Careless as the child at play. — Wi1-
| tram WINTER.
Careless as if nothing were. —
WoRDSWORTH.
Caress.
Caressed him like a lap dog. — ANon.
Fast caressed,
Like living things that joyed or feared.
— Artuur Henry Hatuam.
Caressing as a kiss. — Guy DE
MAuvpPASSANT.
She bent thy pallor to caress, as
snow that toucheth snow. — GEorGE
STERLING.
Carnation.
Carnation’d like a sleeping infant’s
cheek. — Byron.
Carol.
Carol like a bird in spring. — Hoop.
Carouse.
Carouse together
Like friends long lost.
— SHAKESPEARE.
CARRY. — CERTAIN. 45
Carry.
Carries it as badly as a callow youth
in wine. — ANON.
Carve.
Carved like an apple-tart
Here’s snip, and nip, and cut, and slish,
and slash,
Like a censer in a barber’s shop.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Cast.
Casting, like a sower afield. — ANon.
Cast out of thy grave like an abomi-
nable branch, and as the raiment of
those that are slain. — Ipip.
Casual.
Casually, like John Drew counting
up the house. — Irvin S. Coss.
Catch.
Catching like fire in dry grass.
— W. D. Howe tts.
Catch at us, like strumpets. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Caught.
Caught, like a bit of paper between
the blades of a pair of shears. — ANON.
Caught, like vipers, with a bit of
red cloth. — R. B. SHERIDAN.
Cautious.
Cautious as a fox. — ANON.
As cautious as a Scot. — Inn.
Cautious as a good housekeeper. —
Batzac.
Cautious as a
G. K. CHESTERTON.
cragsman. —
A vague caution, like that of a wild
beast that is fierce but feeble — or
like that of an insect whose little frag-
ment of earth has given way, and made
it pause in a palsy of distrust. —
Grorce Enor.
Cautious as a girl. — Arszne Hovs- |
SAYE,
As cautious as a burglar walking over
a tin roof in cowhide boots. — WatL-
LACE IRwIN.
Cease.
Ceased like an exquisite lyric
That dies on the breast of night.
— Don Marauis.
Ceaselessly,
Like delicate hands that are clapped in
glee. —T. Bucuanan Reap.
Celebrated.
Celebrated as the sun. — Henrt
Murcer.
Celebrity.
Emile Augier . carried his
celebrity not as a mantle but as a
flower in his button-hole. — Epmonpo
De Amicis.
Celerity.
Celerity : like the motion of a bullet
in the air, which flieth so swift as it
outruns the eye. — Bacon.
Censure.
Censure is like the lightning which
strikes the highest mountains. —
BattasaR GRACIAN.
Censorious . . . as a superannuated
sinner. — WYCHERLEY.
Central.
One central mystery, as a darkness
within a darkness. — Dr QUINCEY.
Ceremony. =
Ceremony keeps up all things:
*Tis like a Penny-Glass to a rich
Spirit, or some excellent water ; with-
out it the Water were spilt, the Spirit
lost. — JoHN SELDEN.
Certain.
As certain as that a brook must have
banks. — ANon.
As certain as that a squirrel will
climb a tree. — Isip.
As certain as that your shadow will
follow you. — Inip.
46 CERTAIN, — CHANCE.
Certain — continued.
As certain as that the leaves will fall
in autumn. — ANON.
Certain as gold. — Is.
Certain as that a crooked tree will
have a crooked shadow. — Inip.
Certain as that a person not guilty
of his own death, shortens not his own |
life. — Inrp.
Certain as that light and heat come
and go with the sun. — Izip.
Certain as that no mill no meal. —
Ipip.
Certain as that plants and animals |
grow and die. — Inip.
Certain as that sticks burn away in
the fire. — Isr.
Certain as the movements of heav-
enly bodies. — Inip.
Certain as the multiplication table.
— Isp.
Certain as that the ocean is the meet-
ing-place of all waters ; the skies, the
meeting-place of all torches ; the ton-
gue, of all tastes; the nose, of all smells ;
the mind, of all precepts. — Inip.
Certain as the rising of the morning
sun. — Isr.
Certain as that the Tweed runs from
east to west. — Iprp.
Certain as Christmas. — HAROLD
BRIGHOUSE.
Certainly, as evening empties morn-
ing into night. — E. B. Browning.
Certain as a gun. — SAMUEL BUTLER.
As certain as a tail will follow a
comet. — CARLYLE.
Certain to make his way there as a
gimlet is to go through soft deal. —
DIckENs.
A sound brain should always evolve
the same fixed product with the cer-
tainty of Babbage’s calculating ma-
chine. — O. W. Hotmzs.
As certainly as the thunder-crash
follows the lightning. — LEVER.
Certaine as wayes unto the blinde.
— Ricuarp LovELAce.
Certain as bodies moved with greater
impulse, progress more rapidly than
those moved with less. — VOLTAIRE.
Certainly as day comes after day. —
Wiiiiam Watson.
Chagrin.
His chagrin was like those newly
invented furnaces which consume their
own smoke. — Huco.
Chambermaid.
Chambermaids are like lotteries : you
may draw twenty, ere one worth any-
thing. — Sir Tuomas OverBury.
Chance.
About as much chance as a lamb in
Mr. Armour’s slaughter house. —
GEORGE ADE.
No more chance than a hen has of
hatching a codfish from a fried egg. —
ANON.
About as much chance as a man with
a wooden leg in a forest fire. — GEORGE
BROADHURST.
About as much chance as a Ham-
burg steak in front of a starving iron-
moulder. — R. L. GoLpBERG.
Good a chance to win as a man learn-
ing to play poker on an ocean steamer.
—O. Henry.
_ As much chance as a dog with tallow
legs chasing an asbestos cat in Hades.
— Ersert Hussarp.
No more chance than a one-legged
man in a football game. — Inm.
About as much chance as a fat June
bug would have in the pathway of a
road roller. — GRanTLAND RIcz.
No more chance than a thaw in
Zembla. — SypNEy SmitTu.
CHANCE, — CHANGE. 47
Chance — continued.
About as much chance as a prohibi-
tion candidate in a Democratic ward.
— New York Times.
No more chance than a motorist’s
word has against a policeman’s.
— New York TRIBUNE.
Change.
Change as woman, wind and fortune.
— ANON.
Change, like Proteus. — Inrp.
Change, like women’s thoughts and
winter weather. — Imp.
Changeable as the moons. — Im.
Changeful as the ocean bar. — Isrp.
Quickly changed as are the winds. —
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
As changeful as the lights which
flick and flash from off the facets of the
diamond. — HEATHER Bice.
Changest, as the wind upon the wave.
— Hues H. BrackEnRivce.
Changes like the moonlit cloud. —
Ricnarp H. Dana.
Changeable as a woman’s whims. —
Farquuar.
Thy song is changeful as yon starry
frame,
End and beginning evermore the same.
— GOETHE.
Change. . . like unto the Camelion
whiche upon every sondre hewe, that
he behalt, he mote newe his colour. —
JOHN GOWER.
Changeful as a child. — Joun Imuau.
Fortune changeth as the moon
To caravel and picaroon.
— Kip.ine.
Changeful ... as are the waves
before the breath of winds. — SigMUND
Krasinski.
Changeful as the neck of dove
In colour.
— WALTER SAvaGE Lanpbor.
Changeful . . . as windwaved flame.
— LowELt.
Changes color as a maid at sight of
sword and shield. — Macautay.
In affection, as light and changeful
as the gaudy fly which hastens to the
rose with eager speed, and on its dam-
ask leaves, with fond embrace, flutters
her painted wings a little while, but
lift she but her eyes, and the first
thistle flower that catches them
catches her fancy too, and thither
speeds she. — WrLu1am J. Micke.
But now a change came o’er my dream,
Like the magic lantern’s shifting
slider. — Toomas Moore.
As changeful as the spring. — Lewis
Morris.
Changed like one who knows his time
must be
But short and bitter.
Changeful as the lunar ray. — PE-
TRARCH.
— Isp.
Like April, shemay wear a changeful face
| Of storm and sunshine.
— James PILerim.
Changeful as a madman’s’ dream.
——Winturop M. Praep.
Like leaves, as chance inclin’d,
Those wills were chang’d with every
wind. — MarTuew Prior.
Changeable, like the sparrow, who
stops not on one twig. — OsMANLI
PROVERB.
Like a chameleon, he changes.— In.
Changed me like a_ glove. —
C. G. Rossetti.
Chang’d, like form in a dream. —
Sm Watrter Scott.
Changes as a guilty dream. — Isr.
Ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no objects worth its con-
stancy. — SHELLEY.
Change like the face of fortune.
— SouTHEY.
48 CHANGE, — CHASTE.
Change — continued.
Changed as a cloud in the night.—
SWINBURNE.
Changeful as the sea. — Bayarp
TAYLOR.
Change like a weathercock. — Ros-
ERT ToFTE.
Changeful as a lover’s hope. —
Frank WATERS.
Changeful as the April sky. — Wi1-
LIAM WINTER.
Changeless.
Changeless as truth. — Kats.
Changeless as a ray of light. —
Sarnt-PIERRE.
Changeless as heaven. — WHITTIER.
Character.
Characterless as a china shepherdess.
— ANON.
Character, like porcelain ware, must
be painted before it is glazed. There
can be no change after it is burned in.
— Henry Warp BrEcHer.
A character is like an acrostic or
Alexandrine stanza — read it forward,
backward, or across, it spells the same
thing. — Emrrson.
Some characters are like some bodies
in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in
themselves, yet fly off and refuse the
least conjunction with each other. —
FuLKEe GREVILLE.
Your character at present is like a per-
son in a plethora, absolutely dying from
too much health. — R. B. SHerman.
Charitable.
Charitable as a whole convent. —
Pau. Bourcet.
Charity.
Charity is like molasses, sweet and
cheap. — Anna Cuapin Ray.
Charm.
Charms
Like new-mown meadows, when the
grass exhales
Sweet fragrance to the foot that
tramples it.
—D. A. ATTERBOM.
Charm, like beauty’s goddess. —
Eneuiso Bauwap.
Sheds a charm, like to the fabled
Cytherea’s zone, binding all things with
beauty. — Byron.
Charms, as resistless as the fascinat-
ing Egyptian, for which Anthony
wisely paid the bauble of the world. —
C. C. Coron.
Charms like gleams of opening Heav’n.
— JoHN GILBERT CooPER.
Charmed like an April rose. —
W. H. Hotcomse.
Charming as a god. — Orway.
Chase.
Chase each other over the wind, as
vagrant high-sweeping clouds chase
over the sky. — Donatp G. MitcHE..
Chase him as a tempest chases flame.
— ORIENTAL PROVERB.
Chased as the chaff of the mountains
before the wind, and like a rolling thing
before the whirlwind. — Onn Testa-
MENT.
Chased away as a vision of the
night. — Izip.
Chased you, as bees do. — Iptp.
Chasing like fire. — WaytTs-MEL-
VILLE.
Chaste.
Chaste as marble. — ANon.
Chaste as Minerva. — Isp.
Chaste as the moon. — Inn.
Chaste as ice. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
Chaste as angels are. — APHRA
Benn.
Chaste as the thought of the maid
on whose sight first shines the glow of
love’s planet. — Louis James Buock.
CHASTE. — CHATTER. 49
Chaste — continued.
Chaste as Medicean Venus. —
E. B. Brownine.
As chaste as the silver-white beams
of the moon. — JoHN GILBERT COOPER.
Chaste as innocent white souls. —
Joun Day.
Chaste as Cynthia’s
Taomas DEKKER.
Chaste asa lily. — Jutia C. R. Dorr.
Chaste as nudity. —Gzorce Du
Maurier.
Chaste as though bathed in breaking
day. — Epcar Fawcett.
breast. —
Chaste as fate. — Joun Forp.
Chaste as a veiled nun. —JosEPH
HA...
Chaste . . . as an unfleshed sword. —
Hugo.
Chaste . . . as the veil of a nun. —
HENRY JAMES.
Chaste as a chyld. — LancLanp.
Chaste as th’ Arabian bird, who all
the ayr denyes.— Ricuarp Love-
LACE.
Chaste as the air. — Ipip.
Chaste as the pious rapture of the
nun. — Grorce Mac-Henry.
As chaste as was Penelope. — Mar-
LOWE.
*Chaste as snow. — THomas Moore.
Chaste as the virgin, and the cold
pure saint. — Lewis Morris.
Chaste as light. — Joan PomMFret.
Chaste as cold Cynthia’s virgin light.
— Pops.
Chaste as Diana. — SHAKESPEARE.
Chaste as ice. — IBip.
Chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.
—Ism.
Chaste as the icicle. — Inn.
Chaste as unsunned snow. — Isp.
Like faire Venus Chaste. — Sir
Pure Sipney.
Chaste as purest vestals. — THEo-
BALD.
Like an unlighted taper, was cold
and chaste. — Cyrit ToURNEUR.
Chaste . . . as April’s mildest tear.
— Henry Vaucuan.
Chaste as morning dew. — Epwarp
Youna.
Chaste as the morning. — Isr.
Chastity.
Winter, like a cold, unapproachable
beauty, retains her character until
the lawful season of thaw has arrived.
— Ivan GoncHAROV.
Chastity, like piety, is a uniform
grace. — RICHARDSON.
Chatter.
Chattering like a flock of daws. —
ANON.
Our teeth are all achatter like the
clinking castanets. — ASHBY-STERRY.
Chatters like a
BRowninc.
Chatter like
Lewis CARROLL.
Teeth chattering like a Morse
sounder. — Irvin Coss.
Chatter... Like silly school-girls
in their silliest mood. — Jean INcELow.
jay. — Rosert
bone castanets. —
Chatter like a mob of sparrows. —
J. K. Jerome.
A constant chatter, like a magpie in
the trees. — W. S. McFetrmce.
Chattering like magpies.
—C. G. Rossetti.
Chatter like sick flies. —SWINBURNE.
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I
chatter. — OL_p TESTAMENT.
Hear him chatter, like a taught star-
ling. — Jonn WEBSTER.
50 CHEAP, — CHEEK.
Cheap.
Cheap as dirt. — ANON.
Cheap as dog’s meat. — Ini.
As cheap as pearls are costly. —
Rosert BRownine.
Cheap as sunshine. — Hoop.
Cheap as the withered refuse of a
blind-alley stall. — James Ra.re.
Cheap as lies) — SHAKESPEARE.
Cheap as stinking mackerel. —Ism.
Cheap as neck-beef. — SwiFt.
Cheap as old clothes. —Horacz
WALPOLE.
Cheat.
Cheat like onie unhang’d blackguard.
— Burns.
Checked.
Checked its hand
Like Alpine cataracts frozen as they
leaped. — Emerson.
Checked like a bondman. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Cheek.
Cheeks as brown as oak leaves. —
ANON.
Cheek as the blood of the dragon
bright. — Arabian NIGuHTs.
The down on his cheeks dispread like
myrtles springing from the heart of
a bright red rose. — Isrp.
Cheeks like blood-red anemones. —
Isp.
John Bull looked ruddy and plump,
with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.
—Joun ARBUTHNOT.
Upon her tender cheek the mingled
dye is scattered, of the lily and the
rose. — ARIOSTO.
Cheeks, like men who live, and draw
the vital air. — Marraew ARNOLD.
The blood within her crystal cheekes
did such a colour drive,
As though the lillye and the rose for
mastership did strive. :
— Eneuisa Bauiap.
Her cheeks like living roses glow. —
ScottisH BaLLap.
Cheeks as soft as July peaches. —
W. C. BENNETT.
Her bright cheek, as soft and pure
in its bloom as a wild rose. — Emity
BRONTE.
Cheeks full and swollen, like a
ploughboy’s. — BuLwER-LyTTon.
Her cheek like the spray o’ th’ sea. —
Auice Cary.
Cheeks as brown as sun could kiss
them. — Inm.
Her cheeks are like the blushing
cloud that beautifies Aurora’s face. —
H. CoNnsTaBLe.
There’s a mantling flush that dwells in
his cheeks,
Like a roseleaf thrown on the snow.
— E1iza Coox.
With a cheek like a burning rose. —
Barry CORNWALL.
Like a rose set in snow was the bloom
on her cheek. —JOHN CRAWFORD. *
Her glowing cheeks like youthful
Hebe’s fair. — Joun CUNNINGHAM.
A blooming pair of vermeil cheeks,
like Hebe’s in her ruddiest hours. —
GrorGE DARLEY:
Your cheeks of late are like bad
printed books,
So dimly charactered, I scarce can
spell :
One line of love in them.
— Tuomas DEKKER.
Her cheeks were like the roses red.
— MicwareLt Drayton.
The frighted blood
Searce yet recalled to her pale cheeks,
Like the first streaks of light broke
loose from darkness,
And dawning into blushes.
DryDEN.
Cheeks pearly as those of Pallas of
Virgil. — Dumas, PERE.
CHEEK,
Cheek — continued.
A cheek like an apple-blossom. —
GrorGE Exror.
Lovely her cheeks were, like berries
red. — ANCIENT ERSE.
Her cheeks are as red as the rose’s
sheen. — Str SAMUEL FERGUSON.
His cheek is like the rose of spring.
— Firpavst.
Cheek crimsoned like the bloom of
the pomegranate. — Ism.
Her cheeks, as snowy apples sopt in
wines. — GILES FLETCHER.
Cheeks are as round and as red as'a
cherry. — Davip Garrick.
That human, humorous mouth ; those
cheeks [ Lincoln’s] that hold
Like some harsh landscape all the
summer’s gold.
— Ricnarp Watson GILDER.
Cheeks like the rose on a bed of
snow. — A. P. GRAVES.
A cheek wherein for interchange of hue
A wrangling strife ’twixt lily and the
rose. — Rosert GREENE.
Her cheeks, like rose and lily yield
forth gleams. — Isip.
Her cheeks like ripened lilies steeped
in wine,
Or fair pomegranate kernels washed in
milk,
Or snow-white threads in nests of
crimson silk,
Or gorgeous clouds upon the sun’s
decline. — Isp.
Cheeks that shamed the rose. —
JoHN: HARRINGTON.
Cheeks like creame enclairited. —
Rosert HErRRIck.
Cheeks like roses when they blow.—
Izrp.
Cheeks as ripe as apples. — LricH
Hunt.
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Her cheeks like winter apples red of
hue. — Jean INGELow.
Cheeks as pink as a seashell.— ,
Mary JouHNsTon.
Cheeks for all the world like a rose-
berry ice upon a ground of custard. —
Hueu KEtty.
Her cheek was as a rainbow, it so
changed,
As each emotion o’er its surface
ranged. — Miss Lanpon.
Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud,
That beautifies Aurora’s face;
Or like the silver crimson shroud,
That Phoebus’ smiling looks doth
grace. — Tuomas Loner.
Cheeks like the dawn of day. —
LoNGFELLOW. ;
Your cheeks are roses fair yet pink.
—CatTuLtte Menpis.
Cheek was wan as clay. — WILLIAM
J. Micke.
Her cheek was as white and cold as
clay. — Wintorop M. Praep.
Cheeks like peaches. — Francis 8.
SALTUS.
Cheeks like Punic apples are. —
GEORGE SANDYS.
The brightness of her cheek would
shame those stars, As daylight doth a
lamp. — SHAKESPEARE.
Had wet their cheeks, like trees be-
dashed with rain. — Iprp.
Her cheekes lyke apples which the
sun hath rudded. — SPENSER.
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as
sweet flowers. — OLD TESTAMENT.
His cheeks, as roses red, as lilies fair.
— Wiiuam THomson.
Her cheeks are as the fading stain
Where the peach reddens to the south.
— Oscar WILDE.
Her cheek was like the moist heart
of a rose. — N. P. WILus.
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Cheek — continued.
Cheeks were red as ruddy clover. —
Worpsworta.
Cheeky.
As cheeky as a young bantam cock.—
ScottisH PRrovers.
Cheer.
Cheered her soul like dew a dusty
flower. — Paut Laurence Dunzar.
Great cheare, like one unto a ban-
quit bid. — EpmMuNpD SPENSER.
Cheerful.
Cheerful as the birds. — ANon.
Cheerful as a mute at a funeral. —
Ipip.
Cheerful as the lively morn. — JoHN
ARMSTRONG.
As cheerful .
COLERIDGE.
Cheerful as the day. — CowPEr.
. - ag singing lark. —
Cheerful as the summer’s morn.
— JoHn CUNNINGHAM.
Cheerful as the day was long. —
DIcKENs.
Cheerful as a prince. — Mrs. Gas-
KELL.
Cheered . . . like the bright eye of a
friend. — James HeppErwiIck.
Cheerfulness is like money well
expended in charity; the more we
dispense of it, the greater our possession.
— Hueco.
Cheerful, as one who knows that he
is redeemed. — KINGSLEY.
Cheering as a suburban London
Sunday’s promenade. — GEORGE
Merepirtu.
Cheerful and yet profound like an
October afternoon. — NieTzscuE.
Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all
the blossoms of the inward man. —
J. P. Ricurer.
CHEEK. — CHILDREN.
Cheerful . . . as the green winter
-of the holly-tree. — SouTHEY.
Cheering as the hymn of “Hark
from the Tombs.” — THomas Watson.
As cheerful as a grove in Spring. —
WorDSWORTH.
Cheerless.
Cheerless as the grave. — Eviza
Coox.
Cheery.
Cheery as a June day in Georgia. —
ANON.
Cheery as a sunbeam. — Izip.
As cheery as young day. — TYRonE
Power.
Chide.
Chide as loud
As thunder. — SHAKESPEARE.
Children.
Thou art not dead ; not even though
thou didst die, for children are to the de-
ceased reputation preserving ; and like
corks they buoy up the net, upholding
the twist of the flaxen cord from the
deep. — AiscHYLUS.
Children. . .
Like bells rung backwards,
Nothing but noise and giddiness.
— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Children are like grown people ; the
experience of others is never of any use
to them. — DavupEt.
It is the case with children as with
plants, that their future character is
indicated by their early dispositions.
— DEmorHILus.
Children are like beggars ;
coming without being
W. S. Downey.
Childhood shows the man, as the
morning shows the day. — Mitton.
often
called. —
Children are never too tender to be
whipped; like tough beef-steaks, the
more you beat them the more tender
they become. — Por.
CHILDREN. — CHUCKLE,
Children — continued.
The smallest children are nearest to
God, as the smallest planets are near-
est the sun. — J. P. Ricurer.
Childhood is like a mirror, which
reflects in after life the images first
presented to it. —Samuren SMILEs.
Chill.
Chill as death. — Anon.
Chill as ice. — Matuitpe Brinn.
Chill me like dew damps of the
unwholesome night. — CoLERGE.
Chilly as a bottle of port in a
hard frost. — GEoRGE COLMAN. THE
YOUNGER.
Chilly as a tomb. — Hoop.
Chilly as a dripping well. — Keats.
Chill as the scent of a new-made
grave. — KINGSLEY.
As chill and as green as the sea. —
KipLine.
Grew chill as an arctic landscape.
— Jack Lonpon.
Chill as aconite. — Grorce MERE-
DITH.
Chill as a dull face frowning on a
song. — Ipip.
Chill as the Gryxabodill. — JamEs
Waitcoms RILeEy.
Chime.
Death and Time, they chime and
chime, like bells-at sunset falling. —
Wituiam E. HEeNtey.
We chime,
Like two soft lines when coupled into
rhyme. — CHRISTOPHER Pitt.
Chimes, like silver hammers falling
on silver anvils. — TENNYSON.
Chimerical.
Chimerical as the existence of the
Brobdingnags or the Yahoos. — ANon.
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Chimerical as
stone. — VOLTAIRE.
the philosopher’s
Chirping.
Chirping like a cricket. — ANon.
Chirping like a gay Cicala in a sunny
bower. — J. S. Buackre.
Chirp .. . like new-fledged linnet.
— Austin Doxson.
Chirping as chirp the birds beneath
the eaves. — Hugo.
Chirping, like the dry
High-elbow’d grigs that leap in sum-
mer grass. — TENNYSON.
Choleric.
Choleric as fire. — CHARLES READE.
%
He who makes use of a Chorus in
Tragedy seems to me to do like a
Physitian, who, prescribing a Dose for
the evacuation of Peccant Humors,
should afterwards order Restringents
to be taken in the midst of its kind
Operation. — Joun Dennis.
Chorus.
Christianity.
Christianity is like the neutrality of
Belgium, which is guaranteed by all
the nations and inviolate in times of
peace, but which must not be allowed
to stand in the way of the interests
of a people on the road to great things.
— SIMEON STRUNSKY.
Chubby.
Chubby as a cherub.— ANon.
Chubby as the Diana of Jordaens. —
ARsENE HovussAYE.
Chuckle.
Chuckles, like the opening of a bottle
of some effervescent beverage. —
DICKENS.
Chuckling like a setting hen. —
Hueco.
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Cigar.
A cigar is like a wife !
Put it up to your lips, and light it ;
When you’ve learned to do it right, it
Adds a certain zest to life.
Mind you keep on puffing it,
Or it’s out, and can’t be lit.
Ah, the aroma !
Ah, the glow !
Will I have one ?
Thank you, No. — ALEISTER CROWLEY.
Circle.
Circular like Plato’s year. — ALEX-
ANDER BROME.
Circle, like a bear at stake. — Sam-
UEL BUTLER.
Circling like a gin-horse. — CARLYLE.
Circled . . . like flight of doves. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Circling like an eddy. — Cuar.es L.
Moors.
Circles around it, like the clouds that
swim
Round -the high moon in a bright sea
of air. — SHELLEY.
; Circles round,
Like the soft waving wings of noonday
dreams. — Isp.
Circulate.
Circulate like oil. — BEN JONSON.
Circumstances.
Happy circumstances in life are like
certain groups of trees. Seen from
the distance they look very well; but
go up to them and among them, and
the beauty vanishes; you don’t know
where it can be; it is only trees you
see. And so it is that we often envy
the lot of others. — ScHoPENHAUER.
City.
Cities, like forests, have their dens
in which hide all their vilest and most
dangerous monsters. — Hugo.
CIGAR. —— CLAMOR.
I love the city as dearly as a brown
thrasher loves the green tree sheltering
its young. — CHARLES MATHEws.
Civilization.
Civilization is like a soldier’s stock ;
it makes you carry your head a good
‘deal higher, makes angels weep a
little more at your fantastic tricks, and
half suffocates you the while. — Vot-
TAIRE.
Clairvoyant.
Clairvoyant as the
ANON.
X-Ray. —
Clambering.
Clamb’ring, like a runaway lunatic.
—— COLERIDGE.
Clammy.
Clammy as death. —OwEn Mere-
DITH.
Clamor.
As clamorous as Hecuba. — RoBERT
Burton.
As when two vultures on the moun-
tain’s height
Stoop with resounding pinions to the
fight;
They cuff, they tear, they raise a
screaming cry;
The desert echoes, and the rocks
reply :
The warriors thus oppos’d in arms,
engage
With equal clamours, and with equal
rage. — Homer (Pore).
Clamored . . . as though a besieging
foe was in the house. — Doucias
JERROLD.
Clamouring like a brazen bell. —
GrorcE MEREDITH.
Clamorous .
— Pinpar.
. . like croaking daws.
Clamorous like mill-waters, at wild
play. — D. G. Rosser.
More clamorous than a parrot
against rain. — SHAKESPEARE.
CLAMOR. — CLEAN.
Clam or — continued.
Clamorous like as wave to wave at
sea. — SWINBURNE.
Clamorous as a horn
Re-echoed by a naked rock.
— Worpswortu.
Clang. -
Clash and clang like glaives at...
Stiklastad. — Witt1am ARCHER.
Clanging like a gong. — Hoop.
Clanging like a smithy-shop. —
Kip iine.
Clapped.
Clapped his hands like the clapping
of wings. — Hugo.
Clash.
Clashing in a frenzy as of a re-
sounding battle. — Pau. Bourcet.
Clasp.
Clasp like ivy. — Donne.
Clasp’d like a missal where swart
Paynims pray. — Kuarts.
Clasped her like a lover. — Trenny-
SON.
Clasped like some strange book of
sorcery. — G. S. VIERECK.
Classic.
A good classic is as full of ancient
myths, as that of a servant-girl of
ghost stories. — HERBERT SPENCER.
Clatter.
Clatter like a churn-dasher dabbling
in buttermilk. — O. Henry.
Clatter like armor. — RaBELAIs.
Clatter like a loose casement in the
wind, — Worpswortu.
Claw.
Clawed like a parrot. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Clean.
Clean as a die. — ANON.
Clean as a Dutch oven. — Isr.
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Clean as a new pin. — Ipip.
Clean as a pebble. — Inrp.
Clean as crystal. — Isr.
Clean as light. — Ipip.
Cleaner than our sister the water. —
Is.
Clean as virgin silver. — ARABIAN
Nicuts.
Clean as sifted corn. — ARISTOPH-
ANES.
As clean as a Flemish interior. —
Bawzac.
Clean. as a maiden’s honor.
— BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON.
Clean as a whistle. — Joun Byrom.
Clean as a [new] penny. —JoHN
Gay.
Clean as a beaver. — Bret Harte.
Clean as a maid from guile and
fleshy sin. — R. S. Hawker.
Clean,
As if o’erwashed with Hippocrene.
—Rosert Herrick.
Clean as running water in a cress-
| fringed brook. — Epwin Lerprreen.
Clean as a red-hot poker. — GEORGE
MEREDITH.
Clean as the bright from the black. —
Isp.
His work .is as clean as silver lace.
— OsMANLI PROVERB.
As clean as a leek. — ScorrisH
PROVERB.
Clean as a rose is after rain. —
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
Clean as a hound’s tooth. — THEo-
DORE ROOSEVELT.
Clean as a sound sheep’s heart.—
SHAKESPEARE.
Clean as a sponge wipes a chalk
problem from a _ blackboard. —
J. Russe.L Situ.
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Clean — continued.
Clean of cloud
As though day’s heart were proud
And heaven’s were glad.
— SWINBURNE.
Clean as blood of babes. -TENNYSON.
Clean as the carving knife chops the
carrot. — THACKERAY.
Clear.
Clear as a midsummer sky. —
Franxiin P. Apams.
Clear as a cube of solid sunshine. —
ANON.
Clear as a die. — Ini.
About as clear as a misty morning
on the Thames. — Isp.
Clear as daylight. — Inm.
Traced as clearly as currents upon
a marble chart. — Inn.
A voice as clear as forest bird. —
Ipip.
Clear as mountain stream. — Inn.
Clear as paint. — Inm.
Clear as the notes of a cavalry
bugle. — Isr.
Clear as the skin of a child. — Im.
Clear as pearls and diaphanous
gems. — ARABIAN NIGHTS.
Clear as day. — RoBert ARMIN.
Clear at one glance, as two drops of
rain in air might look into each other
had they life. — P. J. Baruey.
Clear, cold, and icy-blue, like a sea
eagle’s eye. — Inn.
Clear was her look,
Like an open book.
— Wituram F. Barnarp.
Clear as the skylark’s earliest greet-
ing in the morning of the year. —
H. H. Bovesen.
Clear as heaven’s stars. —JAMES
BEATTIE.
Her mind, as cleare as aire.—
Francis BEAUMONT.
Clear as the challenge ov a perlice
officer. — JosH BILuines.
Clear as virtue. —S. Laman Buan-
CHARD.
Clear, as God sees through the earth.
—E. B. Brownine.
Clear as flint. — RoBERT BRownING.
Clear as noon. — ini.
Clear as a commonplace. — But-
WER-LYTTON.
His projects are clear to my eyes;
clear as if he dwelt in glass. —~ Isip.
Clear as if no dirt had been cast
thereat. — BuNYAN.
As clear and as manifest as the nose
on a man’s face. — RoBERT BurTON.
Clear as a whistle. —Joun Byrom.
Clear as a bell. — CHaucer.
Clear as lake. — CoLERIDGE.
Clear as the morning. — Inn.
Clear as Spring. — Taomas Davis.
Clear as the note of doom. — Lorp
De TaBLey.
Cleared like a doubtful morning
when it gives place to a bright noon.
— DIcKENs.
Clear as stars in frosty night. —
Witu1amM Dunsar.
His eye is as clear as the heavens. —
EMERSON.
Clear as the conscious moon. —
JAMES GRAEME.
Clear as
HamMi.ton.
noonday. — ANTHONY
Clear as the pure River of Life shown
to the Evangelist. — Tuomas Harpy.
Clear as the mid-day sunshine. —
HAWTHORNE.
Clear as the water in trout pools. —
O. Henry.
CLEAR. 57
Clear — continued.
Clear . . . as spring water in the
high rocks. — Mavuricr HEWtett.
Loving eyes that gleam
Clear as a starlit mountain stream.
—O. W. Hotes.
Clear as the glisten of dew on the
brier. — Ricuarp Hovey.
As clear as rock-water. — JAMES
Howe Lt.
Clear as if an angel had washed it.
— Hugo.
Clear like crystal beams. — ALEx-
ANDER HuME.
Clear as the flame of sacrifice. —
JEAN INGELOW.
Clear as infant’s eyes. — Kzats.
Clear as summer-lightning flare. —
Kirtine.
Ran clear as the light of heaven ere
autumn closed. — W. S. Lanpor.
Clear as the finest porcelain. —
Ricwarp Le GALLIENNE.
Clear as running waters are. —
LoNnGFELLOw.
Clear as a race course. — GEORGE
MEREDITH.
Clear as widowed sky. — Isp.
As clear as the classics. — DoNALD
G. MircHELL.
Clear as the blue, sublime, o’er-
arching sky. — JamMES MonTGOMERY.
Clear
Moore.
Clear as the rosy dawn. — Henry
Mortey.
as. well water. — GEORGE
The Spirit spake, clear as in Israel. —
J. H. NEwMAN.
Thoughts as clear as limpid springs.
— ORIENTAL.
Clear as glass. — Ovip.
Clear, like the mysteries of divine
science in the bosom of the pious. —
PIbpay.
As clear as strains by sun-kissed
Memnon given.— Mary ELizaBeTu
PowELL.
Clear as a brook’s chuckle to the
ear. —JamES Wuitcoms RILEY.
Clear as the Autumn atmosphere. —
Isp.
As clear as the twitter of birds. —
Ipip.
Light as clear as that which fills
eternity. — A. J. Ryan.
As purely clear
As crystal drops on vernal grasses.
— Marcaret E. SANGSTER.
Clear as a mirror. — SCHILLER.
Clear
As morning roses newly washed with
dew. — SHAKESPEARE.
Clear as is the summer’s sun. — In.
Clear
As yonder Venus in her glimmering
sphere. — Inrp.
Countenance as clear as friendship
wears at feasts. — Inip.
Clear as founts in July. — Isp.
As clear as when a veil of light is
drawn o’er evening hills. — SHELLEY.
Cleare as the skye withouten blame
or blot. — SPENSER.
Clear and fair as sunlight and the
flowerful air. — SWINBURNE.
Clear as a child’s own laughter. —
Ip.
Clear as heaven of the toils of time.
— Isp.
As clear as love. — Ibn.
Clear as mirth. — Isp.
Clear as night beholds her crowning
seven. — Isp.
58 CLEAR. — CLIMBS.
Clear — continued.
Clear as righteousness.—S WINBURNE.
Soul as clear as sunlit dew. — Ipm.
Clear as the closest seen and kindly
star
That marries morn and even and
winter and spring with one love’s
golden ring. — Isr.
Clear as the cloudless hour. — Inip.
Clear as the flame from the pyres
of the dead. —Isrp.
Clear as the plume of a bright black }
bird. — Inm.
Clear as the tocsin from the steeple.
— Isp.
Clear as thy song’s words or the
live sun’s light. — Inn.
Clear, as ever fell from angel’s
tongue. — PauLus SyLLoeus.
Clear as the blast of horn. — Bayarp
TAYLOR.
Clear as wind. — TENNYSON.
Clear as crystal.— New Trsta-
MENT.
Clear as the sun. —Onp Testa-
MENT.
Clear as a silver bell. — Vance
THOMPSON.
Clear as heaven’s unclouded brow.
— Henry VAUGHAN.
Singers, that troll clear as bells of
gold. — Francois VILLON.
Clearly as two and two makes four.
— VOLTAIRE.
Clear as the crystal brooks. — Izaak
WALTON.
Words clear as the sun in its merid-
ian brightness. —Grorce WASsHING-
TON.
Clear as diamonds. — THroporE
Watts-DuNTON.
Clear as the unsoil’d mountain-rill.
— WHITTIER.
Clear as the crystal flood. — Etta
WHEELER WILCOX.
Clear as the profiles of goddesses. —
C. N. anp A. M. WILLIAMSON.
A mirror, clear as ’twere a door of
air. — N. P. Wizus.
Clear as the crystal brooks or the
pure azur’d heaven.—Sir Henry
Wotton.
Clear as daylight. —IsrarL Zanc-
WILL.
Cleave.
Cleave to you as a soul to its free-
dom cleaves. — Biiss CARMAN.
Cleaving it like a ploughshare. —
DuUMAS, PERE.
Cleave to me like the skin to my
flesh. —Joun WESLEY.
Clench.
His heart clenched the idea as a
diver grasps a gem. — BEACONSFIELD.
Cleft.
Cleft like a narrow harvest swath,
O’ernodded by the plumes of wheat.
— Cuaries L. Moors.
Cleft, as wax before the fire, and as
the waters that are poured down a
steep place. —OLp TESTAMENT.
Clever.
Clever as paint. — ANon.
Clever as sin. — KipLina.
Clever as Chat-Noir impromptu. —
Amy LeEsiiz.
Click.
Clicked like a spring lock. — Anon.
Climax.
Climax like a breaking wave. —
Miss Mutock.
Climbs.
She climbs her family tree like a
squirrel. — Paut Kester.
CLING. — CLOG. 59
Cling.
Cling around the soul, as the sky
clings round the mute earth forever
beautiful. — Anon. :
Clinging . . . as ivy clings about an
oak ; as tuft-hunters with buzz and
purr about a_ fellow-commoner. —
Isp.
Cling like a forlorn hope. — Inm.
Clinging like a wet towel to a nail. —
Isp.
Cling like moss to a damp wall. —
Ini.
Clung .. . like a damp dish-cloth
around a stove pipe. — Ipm.
Clung like a drowning man. — Isp.
Clings like the wicked stench of the
harlot’s room. — Joun ANTROBUS.
Clung like a beast’s hide to his flesh-
less bones. — Epwin ARNOLD.
Clung to the merry music of her
words, like a bird on a bough, high
swaying in the wind. — P. J. BarLey.
Clings fast as the clinging vine. —
E. B. BRowninc.
Clings like an octopus. — RoBERT
BROWNING.
Clinging . . . as friend with friend, or
husband with wife,
Makes hand in hand the passage of
life.
— Wituram Cutten Bryant.
Cling like
H. C. Bunner.
Cling like Ivy. — Rospert Burton.
Death’s embrace. —
Clung like a cuirass to his breast. —
Byron.
Clinging like a faint odor. — HENRY
A. CLapp.
Cling to the memory as tenaciously
as the fragrance of lavender clings to
glove or lace. — Isr.
Clung to the soil like Caliban. —
DICKENS.
Cling to the old house as barnacles to
a wrecked and stranded vessel. — Sir
A. Conan Doyte.
Clinging . . . like pigeons on a roof-
slope. — THomas Harpy.
Clung ... like ivy to a tree. —
Maurice Hew tert.
Cling ... like the spokes of a
wheel. — O. W. Hotmgs.
Clings. . . like the weed in the face
of the cliff. — Hoop.
Clings cruelly to us, like the gnawing
sloth ;
On the deer’s tender haunches.
— Krarts.
Cling like the sloth. — Kipiina.
Clings about thee close, like moss
to stones. — WALTER S. Lanpor.
Cling, like bees about a flower’s wine-
cup. — GrRaLD Massey.
; Cling
Like flies to the sheer precipice.
— Lewis Morris.
Clung like a spectral snow. — JoHN
G. N&IHARDT.
Clung . . . like magnet to steel. —
T. Bucwanan Reap.
Clung like drowning men beneath
the wave. — Bayarp TayYLor.
Clung
Like serpent eggs together.
— TENNYSON.
Her kisses burn where they close and
cling
Like pain of longing or fire of hell.
—G. S. Virereck.
Clinging like sentry to his post. —
VIRGIL.
Clings. . . like pitch. — Inrb.
_Cling, as clings the tufted moss,
To bear the winter’s lightning chills.
— WSITTIER.
Clog.
Clogged like honey. — R. D. BLack-
MORE.
60 CLOG. — CLOUD.
Clog. — continued.
Clogged like a dripping pan. —
Tuomas Harpy.
Close.
Close as clapboards on a house. —
ANON.
Close as one second is to another.
— Ism.
Close as heat to fire. — Inrp.
Close as lovers sitting upon the sofa.
—Isn.
Close as Noah in the ark. — Inrp.
Close-mouthed as a clam. — Iprp.
Close as a cockle. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
Close as wax. — Inn.
Close as brother leans to brother
When they press beneath the eyes
Of some father praying blessings
From the gifts of paradise.
—E. B. Brownie.
Fitting as close as fits the dented spine
Its flexible ivory outside-flesh.
— Ropert Brownina.
Close as an
BurTON.
oyster. — RoBErt
Close as the finger nail and the quick.
— Hue Cuirrorp.
Close as a new cut yew-hedge. —
Grorce COLMAN, THE ELDER.
Close as your jacket. — GrorcE
COLMAN, THE YOUNGER.
Close as a pill-box. — Inp.
Close as a nut. — Grorcr Enior.
Close as hand and glove. — “ Founp-
Ling Hosprrat ror Wit, 1743.” ,
Close as night.—THomas Hey-
woop.
Close as thorn is to the rose. —
Rosert Luoyn.
I will sticke as close to thee, as the
soale doth to the shoe. — Lyzy.
Hide closer than Rachel did her
father’s images. — JAMES Puck.e.
Close as oak and ivy stand.
— C. G. Rosser.
Close as the young wheat.
—D. G. Rosserm.
Stick closer than a bump on your
head. — Austin STRONG.
Close as a jail. — THomas TussEr.
Close as a lover in his hour of bliss.
—N. P. W111.
Close as a fleain a blanket. — “ Yea
AND Nay ALMANACK, ” 1680.
Closed.
Closed as a shrine. — ANON.
Then saw in death his eyelids close
Calmly, as to a night’s repose,
Like flowers at set of sun.
— Firz-Greene Haweck.
? Closed his eyes, like a priest who at ,
evening service closes the gold taber-
nacle after Benediction. — Guy DE
Maupassant...
Closed over their trail as the waves
of the ocean close in the wake of a ship.
— THEODORE RooseEvELrt.
Crept to the gate, and open’d it, and
closed,
As lightly as a sick man’s chamber-
door. — TENNYSON.
Clothes. ~
A simple fellow in gay clothes is like
a cinnamon-tree, the bark is of more
value than the body. — ANon.
He wears his Clotths like a Hide, and
shifts them no oftener than a Beast
does his Hair. —Samuret Buruer.
Cloud.
Cloudless as eternity. — ANON.
The hooded clouds, like friars,
Tell their beads in drops of rain.
— LoNGFELLOW.
CLOVE. — COLD, 61
Clove.
Clove as Ruth unto Naomi. — Anon.
Clove as a ploughshare cleaves the
field. — SwINBURNE.
Cloyed.
Cloyed like a quenched and satisfied
lust. — ANon.
Clumsy.
Clumsy as a bear. — ANON.
Clumsy as a June-bug.— Ismp.
Clumsy as the antics of a leviathan.
— Isp.
Clumsy as a vine-press. — CHARLES
READE.
Cluster.
Clustering like bees around their
commander. — ARISTOTLE. :
Clustering like bee-hives on the low
flat strand of Oxus. — Marraew
ARNOLD.
Clutch.
Your clutch is like the grasping of a
wave. — T. L. Beppors.
Clutches . .. like as a cog-wheel
seizes whatever comes too near the
machine. — ALEXANDER KIELLAND.
Coarse.
Coarse as fustian. — ANON.
Coarse as hemp. — Izin.
Coarse in grain as the bark of an
oak. — DICKENS.
Coiled.
Coiled like a snake. — W. S. Biunt.
Cold.
Cold as loveless duty done. — Mary
Louisa ANDERSON.
Cold as a dog’s nose. — ANON.
Cold as a frog. — Inrp.
Cold as a hot-water bag in the morn-
ing. — Ip.
Cold as an enthusiastic New England
audience. — Is.
Cold as a ramrod. — Ini.
Cold as a tomb. — Inm.
Cold as Greenland’s icy mountains.
— Isp.
Cold as charity. — Ini.
Cold as iron. — Inm.
Cold as the heart of a courtesan. —
Ii.
Cold as the grave. — MatTrHEw
ARNOLD.
Icy cold as a crypt. — Bauzac.
Tears as cold as the stones on which
sorrowing hearts had caused to be
carved their regrets. — Im.
Cold as the north side of a January
gravestone by moonlight.—J. R.
Bartietr’s “ Dictionary or AMERI-
CANISMS.””
As cold as cucumbers. — BEAuMoNT
AND FLETCHER.
Cold ... Asa young nun the day
she is envested. — Apura Bran.
Cold like a corpse. — CHARLOTTE
Bronte.
Cold . . . as graveyard stones from
which the lichen’s scraped. —
E. B. Brownine.
Cold as the rocks on Torneo’s hoary
brow. — CAMPBELL.
As colde as eny froste. — CHAUCER.
Colde as ston. — Ini.
Cold as the ice on northern sea. —-
Exta D. Crymer.
Cold as clay. — CoLERIDGE.
Cold as a turtle. — Ricwarp Cum-
BERLAND.
Cauld as the drifting snow. — ALLAN
CUNNINGHAM.
Cauld as the marble stone. — Ini.
Cold as the clod. — Ausruy T. DE
VERE.
Cold as one who waits for burial
mould. —Juia C. R. Dorr.
62 COLD, — COLLAPSE.
Cold. — continued.
Cold as a leaf long pillowed on a
stone. — Antuur D. Fiske.
Cold as the coiling water-snake. —
O. W. Hoimzgs.
Cold, just like a summer grate. —
Hoop.
Cold as salt. — James HuneKER.
Cold as the mountain stream. —
Mrs. Ineuis.
Cold as a bubbling well. — Keats.
Cold as a skeleton. — Amy Lzsiiz.
Cold as the breath of winds that blow
To silver shot descending snow.
— Ricwarp LoveELAce.
As cold as an earthworm. — Mau-
RICE MAETERLINCK.
Cold as the night-dews on the world.
— GeRALpD Massey.
Cold as a fireless hearth. — Inm.
Cold as a fish. — Gzrorce MERE-
DITH.
Cold as a mountain in its star-
pitched tent. — Isp.
Cold as Death’s chill hand. — Wi1-
uiaM J. MIcKLE.
Cold as the snows of Rhodope. —
Hannau More.
Cold as a- dead maid’s cheek. —
Miss Mutock.
Cold as the Cloyster’d Nun. — “Tur
Muses Recreation,” 1656.
Cold as marble. — Perrarcn.
Cold as Diana’s Crescent. — JANE
Porter.
Cold as the world’s
Cuartes Reape.
Cold as when death’s foot shall pass.
— D. G. Rossertt.
heart, —
Cold as a dead man’s nose.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Cold as a snowball. — In.
My belly is as cold as if I had swal-
lowed snowballs for pills to cool the
reins. — IBr.
Cold as dew to drooping leaves.
— SHELLEY.
Cold, like a frozen chaos. — Ipm.
Cold as blight of dew. —Swin-
BURNE.
Cold as. .
Cold as the cast-off garb that is cold
as clay. — Isr.
. dawn. — Ipip.
Grew cold as a winter wave
In the wind from a wide-mouthed
grave,
As a gulf wide open to swallow
The light that the world held dear.
; — Isp.
Cold as fears. — Inip.
Cold as rains in autumn. — Isp.
Cold as winter’s sky. —J. A. Sy-
MONDS.
Cold as the moon. — Joun B.
TABB.
As the night-mists ... cold.—
‘Bayarp TAYLOR.
Cold, like a star. — Wittiam Wart-
SON.
Cold as the rank and wasting weeds,
which lie in the pool’s dark bed. —
WHITTIER.
Collapse.
Collapsed like a house of cards.
— ANon.
Collapse, like the Apostle in the
pictures of the Conversion of St.
Paul. — Witut1am De Morean.
Like a dissolving palace of snow, it
collapses. — Dr QuincEy.
Collapse like the cheeks of a starved
man. — DIcKENs.
Collapses like a pricked bladder. —
G. B. SHaw.
COLOR. — COMMENTS. 63
Color.
Colorless as a statue. — BULWER-
LyTron.
Colorless as an etching. — Jonn
DENNIS.
Colorless as lead. — Joun Ruskin.
Coloured as the moon. — Swin-
BURNE.
Colorless as equal quantity of air. —
Henry D. Tuorzav.
Colossal.
Colossal as the face of Big Ben. —
ANON.
Come.
Where the dreams come in from the
Tush and the din
Like sheep from the rains and the
thunder.
—W. S. BRaIrHwaITeE.
As the birds come in the Spring,
We know not from where;
As the stars come at evening
From depths of the air;
As the rain comes from the cloud,
And the brook from the ground;
As suddenly, low or loud,
Out of silence a sound ;
As the grape comes to the vine,
The fruit to the tree;
As the wind comes to the pine,
And the tide to the sea;
As come the white sails of ships
O’er the ocean’s verge;
As comes the smile to the lips,
The foam to the surge;
So come to the Poet his songs,
All hitherward blown
From the misty realm, that belongs
To the vast Unknown.
— LoNGFELLOw.
. Airy tinklings come and go,
Like chimings from far off tower,
Or prattling of an April shower,
That makes the daisies grow.
— Mrs. Aenes E, MitcuHe..
Cometh forth like a flower, and is cut
down. — Otp TEsTAMENT.
Comely.
Comely as a bride. — Anon.
Comely as is a cow in a cage. —JoHN
Hrywoop.
Comely as Apollo. — ARSENE
Houvussarer.
Comfort.
Comfortable as coin. — ANON.
Comfortable as an annuity. —Ipw.
Comfortable as matrimony, — to
an old woman. — Inp.
Comfortable as an anvil. — Irvin S.
Coss.
Comfortable as the hungry pig was,
when he was shut up by mistake in the
grain department of a brewery. —
Dickens. :
Comforting as April air
After the snow. — JEAN INGELOw.
Love comforteth like sunshine after
rain. — SHAKESPEARE.
That comfort comes too late;
’Tis like a pardon after execution.
— Ini.
Comfortless.
Comfortless as a truss of straw. —
Ouma.
Comfortless
As frozen water to a starved snake.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Comfortless,
As silent lightning leaves the starless
night. — SHELLEY.
Command.
Commands like a full soldier.
— SHAKESPEARE.
-Comments.
Harsh comments have no effect:
they are like hammers which are
always repulsed by an anvil. — HEL-
VETIUS.
64 COMMIT, — COMPARE,
Commit.
Commit as many absurdities as a
clown in eating of an egg. —JonN
Ray’s “Hanpsook oF PRovERss,”
1670.
Common.
Common as the stones
streets. — THomas ADAms.
in our
Common as a convenient saying. —
ANON.
Common as backfence cats. — Isp.
Common as boiled cabbage. — Inin.
Common as coals from Newcastle.
— Isp.
Common as daisies. — Isr.
Common as lying. — Ini.
Common as pig tracks in wet
weather. — Is1p.
Common as pins. — Inip.
Common as pug noses in Pittsburgh.
— Ini.
Common as sawdust around a saw-
mill. — Isip.
Common as the town sewer. —
Ipip.
Common as the air. — ApHRA BEN.
Common as Robin Adair on a full
brass band. — ARNOLD BENNETT.
Common as rain. — Prerce Eaan.
Common as poverty. — Mrs. Gas-
KELL.
Friendship as common as a prosti-
tute’s favors. — GOLDSMITH.
Common as a barker’s chair. —
STEPHEN GOSSON.
As common as the power of moving
the ears voluntarily, which is a mod-
erately rare endowment.—O. W.
Homes.
Common as a mart. — Bren Jon-
SON.
Comune as the cart-wey to knaves
and to alle. — LANGLAND.
Common as Get-out. — LEAn’s
“COLLECTANEA.”
Common as delirium tremens in New
York. — Atrrep Henry Lewis.
Common as scolding at Billings-
gate. — Lyty.
Common as the highway. — Ray’s
“ Hanpsook or Proverss,” 1670. ,
Common as_ dirt. — CHARLES
READE.
Common as the stairs
That mount the Capitol.
, — SHAKESPEARE.
Common as any tavern door. —
EpwarD SHARPHAM.
Common as light is love, and its
familiar voice wearies not ever. —
SHELLEY.
Common as __ bribery. — JouN
WEBSTER.
Common as sickness. — Isrp.
Common as dew and: sunshine. —
WHITTIER.
Commonplace.
Commonplace as mud. — ANON.
Commonplace as a street pave-
ment. — FLAUBERT.
Companionless.
Companionless as a prisoner in his
dungeon. — CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
Companionless as the last cloud of
an expiring storm. — SHELLEY.
Company.
Bad company is like a dog that
dirts those most he loves the best.
— Swirt.
Compare.
Compares with — as the glow-worm
compares with the eagle. — ANon,
COMPASSETH. — CONFIDENT.
Compasseth.
Compasseth them about as a chain.
— Oto TESTAMENT.
Compassionate.
If he be compassionate towards the
afflictions of others, it shows that his
heart is like the noble tree that is
wounded itself when it gives the balm.
— Bacon.
Complacent.
Complacent as a cat. — Kxats.
Complex.
Complex as the Iliad. — Hugo.
Complex as a mathematician’s
schedule of the Zodiac. — Amy LESLIE.
Complexion.
Complexion like a pink rose’s. —
Mauvricrk Hewett.
Complexion clear and warm, like
rose-cordial. — O. W. Hots.
Her complexion like the jasmine. —
“VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE.”
A complexion like the red glow of
evening upon snow. — HEINRICH
ZSCHOKKE.
Compliment.
A compliment is something like a
kiss through a veil. — Huco.
Composed.
Composed as heaven. — WILLIAM
Livineston.
Concave.
Concave as a covered goblet, or a
worm-eaten nut. —- SHAKESPEARE.
Conceal.
Conceal, like cosmetics. — OSMAN
Epwarps.
Concealed,
Like some fair bud close folded in its
sheath,
Gives not to view the bloonting of its
beauty. — Ka.asa.
65
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped,
Doth burn the heart to cinders.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Conceit.
Strong conceit is a kind of mental
rudder which reason should hold for
the purpose of steering the mind into
its right courses. — ANON.
Deep conceits, like maggots, breed
in carrion. — Earu or Dorset.
Talk about conceit as much as you
like, it is to human character what
salt is to the ocean ; it keeps it sweet
and renders it endurable. Say rather
itislike natural unguent of the sea fowl’s
plumage, which enables him to shed
the rain that falls on him and the waves
in which he dips. When one has had
all his conceit taken out of him, when
he has lost all his illusions, his feathers
will soon soak through, and he will fly
no more. — O. W. Homes.
Conceit is just as natural a thing to
human minds as a centre is to a circle.
— Isp:
Concession.
Individual concessions are like polit-
ical, when you once begin, there is
no saying where you will stop. —
Butwer-LytTron.
Confident.
As confident as a bird committing.
itself to the air or a great fish to the
deep. — ANON.
Confident as justice. — GroRGE
COLMAN, THE YOUNGER.
Confident as Hercules. — WILLIAM
PRYNNE.
Confident as of your own fingers. —
RaBELAIS.
Confident, as is the falcon’s flight. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Confidence in an unfaithful man in
time of trouble is like a broken tooth,
and a foot out of joint. — Op Trsta-
MENT.
66 CONFINING. — CONSTANT,
Confining.
Confining it to such limits as paint-
ings are confined in by their frames.
— W. S. Lanpor.
Conform.
Conform your temper to that of each
friend. Be like the polypus, which
looks like the rock it has twisted its
arms around. — THEOGNIS.
Confound.
Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds
shake fair buds. — SHAKESPEARE.
Confounded, as corn blasted before
it is grown up. — OLp TESTAMENT.
Confused.
Confused as in a dream. — ANON.
Confused, like the roaring of waves.
— Isp,
Confusion of voices, like the chirping
of young birds when the brood is just
hatched under the down. — Dumas,
PERE.
Confusedly, like a flight of dark
shadows. — Hugo.
Confused as a soul heavy-laden with
trouble that will not depart. — Swin-
BURNE.
Speaks to confuse, like speech by age
o’ertaken. — Bayarp Tay.or.
Conscience.
Many men carry their conscience
like a drawn sword, cutting this way
and that, in the world, but sheath it
and keep it very soft and quiet, when it
is turned within, thinking that a sword
should not be allowed to cut its own
scabbard. — Henry Warp BeErcuer.
A fly or dust shows itself at once in
milk; so in a pure conscience, any,
the smallest stain, cannot be hid.
And, as a fly is quickly cast forth by
any one who is drinking milk, so the
busy fly of impure thought is cast
from the pure conscience. — St. Bona-
VENTURA.
He that has a sc-upulous conscience
is like a horse that is not well wayed,
he starts at every bird that flies out
of the hedge. A knowing man will do
that which a tender-conscience man
dares not do by reason of his igno-
rance, the other knows there is no hurt:
as a child is afraid to go into the dark
when a man is not because he knows
there is no danger. — SELDEN.
Conscientious.
Conscientious as a dog. — RoBrrt
Louis STEVENSON.
Consistent.
Simple and consistent as a plant. —
ANON.
Consoling.
Consoling as night. — Francis §.
SALTUS.
Conspicuous.
Conspicuous as pyramids. — ANON.
Conspicuous as the brightness of a
star. — COWPER.
Conspicuous like a cathedral. —
Rosert Louis STEVENSON.
Conspirator.
Conspirators and traitors are like
moths, which eat the cloth in which
they are bred ; like vipers, that gnaw
the bowels where they are born ; tike
worms, which consume the wood in
which they were engendered. — AGESI-
LAUS.
Constant.
Constant as a shadow in the sun. —
ANON.
Constant in motion as the spheres. —
Ixrp.
Constantly in my thoughts, like the
lost voice of his victim in those of the
murderer. — Isr.
More constant than the evening star,
Which mildly beams above. — Int.
Constant as the dove. — Mars. J.
HUNTER.
t
Constant — continued.
Constancy is like vnto the Storke,
who wheresoeuer she flye commeth into
no neast but hir owne, or the Lap-
winge,whom nothing can drive from
hir young ones, but death. — Lyzy.
Constant as the years are rolled. —
Marmiat.
Her constancy, that, like a rock,
Beats off temptation, as that mocks
the fury
Of the proud waves. — MassIncEr.
Constant in intercommunication as
are the sun and earth. — GrorGE
MEREDITH.
Constant as the day and night from
east to west. — James MontTGoMERY.
Constant as the stars that never
move. — Otway.
Constant as the sun. — CHARLES
READE.
Constant as the constant hours. —
‘ Maraaret E. SANGSTER.
But I am as constant as the northern
star
Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Constantly as the week passes. —
AsicarL A. SMITH.
Constant as a soaring lark.—
WorRDSWORTH.
Constant as the motion of the day. —
Iprp.
Consume.
Consume as snow against the sun. —
ANon.
Consumed her
MatrHew ARNOLD.
. likea flame. —
Consume, like a devouring fire. —
GEORGE SANDYS.
Consumeth, as a garment that is
moth eaten. —Otp TESTAMENT.
Consume away like a moth ; surely
every man is vanity. — Ip.
CONSTANT, — CONTENT. 67
Consumed like smoke. — Inn.
Consumed them as stubble. — Inm.
Consuming like a
WHITTIER.
vapor. —
Contagious.
Contagious as activity. — ANon.
Contagious as a yawn. — Inip.
Contagious, like the gladness of a
happy child. — Butwer-Lyrron.
Contagious as the smile of a keeper
showing you through the wards of a
madhouse. — J. H. GARDINER.
Contagious, like silliness. — ARSENE
HoussaYeE.
Contempt.
Contempt is like the hot iron that
brands criminals : its imprint is almost
always indelible. — ALIBERT.
Contemptible.
Contemptible as pebbles to an
admirer of diamonds. — Bauzac.
Contemptible as habitual contempt.
—E. L. Magoon.
As contemptible as any man who
breaks open a lock, or as any rascal on
the lookout for a house left defenseless
and without protection, or as any
adventurer looking for some easy and
profitable stroke of business. — Guy
DE MAUPASSANT.
Contend.
Contended, like gales of spring. —
OssIAN.
Content.
Content as infant smiling through its
dreams. — WILLIAM ALLINGHAM.
Content as the males of Adrianus. —
ANON.
A contented man is like a good
tennis-player, who never fatigues and
confounds himself running eternally
after the ball, but stays till it comes
to him. — Isp.
68 CONTENT. — CONVERSATION.
Content — continued.
Contented as a Fox when the Hounds
were drawn off and gone home from
him. — Conley CIBBER.
Her sweet content is like a flattering
glass to make my face seem fairer to
mine eye. —THomas Hryrwoon.
Mutual content is like a river, which
must have its banks on either side. —
Le Sace.
Contention. i
Contention is like fire; for both
burn so long as there is any exhaustible
matter to contend with. — Tuomas
ADAMS.
Contention, like a horse full of high
feeding, madly hath broke loose, and
bears down all before him. — SHakez-
SPEARE.
Contentious.
As coals are to burning coals, and
wood to fire ; so is a contentious man
to kindle strife. — Op TEsTaMENT.
Continually.
As the bees come forth continually
in fresh numbers, so fresh bands of
Greeks keep continually coming forth
from the ships and tents. — Homer.
Continue.
Continuous, like the brook. — ANon.
Continued as long as the sun. — OLD
TESTAMENT.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way.
— WorDSWORTH.
Contract.
Her face contracted like the petals
of a flower in the sultry heat that
precedes a storm. — ALESSANDRO
Manzoni.
Contract and purse thy brow together
Asif thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
Some horrible conceit.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Contrary.
As contrary as Dick’s hatband. --
ANON.
Contrary, like wind and tide meeting.
— Isp.
Contrary as light and darkness. —
Sir RicHarD STEELE.
Contrast.
Contrast like twin sparks of fire. —
Acnres REPPLIER.
Conversation.
Jeffrey, in conversation, was like
a skilful swordsman flourishing his
weapon in the air ; while Mackintosh,
with a thin sharp rapier, in the middle
of his evolutions, ran him through the
body. — Sir A. ALISON.
Our conversation with the ladies,
like whip syllabub, was very pretty,
but had nothing in it. — WiLL1AM
Byrp.
I have sometimes compared conver-
sations to the Italian game of Moral
in which one player lifts his hand with
so many fingers extended, and the
other matches or misses the number,
as the case may be, with his own. I
show my thought, another his ; if they
agree, well ; if they differ, we find the
largest common factor, if we can, but
at any rate avoid disputing about
remainders and fractions, which is
to real talk what tuning an instru-
ment is to playing on it.—O. W.
Homes.
A transition from an author’s book
to his conversation, is too often like an
entrance into a large city, after distant
prospect. Remotely, we see nothing
but spires of temples and turrets of
palaces, and imagine it the residence of
splendor, grandeur, and magnificence ;
but, when we have passed the gates, we
find it perplexed with narrow passages,
disgraced with despicable cottages,
embarrassed with obstructions and
clouded with smoke. — Dr. JoHNSON.
C= a
CONVERSATION, — CORRUPT. 69
Conversation — continued.
The conversation of a man resembles
a piece of embroidered tapestry, which,
when spread out, showed its figures,
but, when it is folded up, they are
hidden and lost. — THEMISTOCLES.
Conviction.
Convictions will come to you in an
active career, as the muscles develop
in a gymnasium. — Ouma. .
Convincing.
Convincing as the multiplication
table. — ANON.
Convivial.
Conwivial as a live trout in a lime-
basket. — DicKENs.
Coo.
Coo,
Like voices of the gods from Bolotoo.
— Byron.
Cool.
Cool as a snow bank. — Louisa M.
ALCOTT.
Cool as a November twilight. —
ANON.
Head as cool as an usurer’s. — Ini.
. Cool as a dog’s nose in a wire
muzzle. — JosH BILLinGs.
Cool as a deep river
In shadow.
— Rupert Brooke.
Cool down like a dish of tea. —
CoLLey CIBBER.
Cooled, like lust in the chill of the
grave. — EMERSON.
Cool as a cucumber. — JoHN Gay.
Cool as the silent shades of sleep. —
Rosert HERRICK.
Cool as a moonbeam on a frozen
brook. — O. W. Hoimes.
Cool as the pool that the breeze has
skimmed. — Hoop.
Cool as the call of a wind on the still
of the sea. — Ricuarp Hovey.
Cool as aspen leaves. — Knats.
Cool ... like a cutlass blade. —
Amy LowELL.
Cooperation.
We are made for codperation, like
feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the
rows of the upper and lower teeth. —
Marcus AURELIUS.
Copious.
Copious as rivers. — E. B. Brown-
ING.
Coquette.
The heart of a coquette is like a rose,
of which the lovers pluck the leaves,
leaving only the thorns for the hus-
band. — ANon.
A coquette is to a man what a toy
is to a child: as long as it pleases
him, he keeps on ; when it ceases to
please him he discards it. — Ism.
A coquette is like a recruiting ser-
geant, always on the lookout for fresh
victims. — DouGLas JERROLD.
A coquette may be compared to
tinder, which lays itself out to catch
sparks, but does not always succeed
in lighting up a match,— Horace
SMITH.
Corneille.
Corneille is to Shakespeare as a
clipped hedge is to a forest. — Dr.
JOHNSON.
Corpulent.
Corpulency of the body is like the
corpulency of some of our institutions ;
the larger they grow the more corrupt
they become. — Joun Livineston.
Correct.
Correct as a machine. — PIERRE DE
CouLEVAIN. "
Corrupt.
Zeal corrupts like standing water. —
SAMUEL BUTLER.
70 CORRUPT. — COUNTRY.
Corrupt — continued.
Corruption is like a ball of snow,
when once set a rolling, it must in-
crease. It gives momentum to the
activity of the knave, but it chills
the honest man, and makes him almost
weary of his calling: and all that
corruption attracts, it also retains; for
it is easier not to fall, than only to fall
once, and not to yield a single inch,
then having yielded, to regain it.
—C. C. Cotton.
Corrupted as the grave. — JAMES
Montcomery.
There is something in corruption
which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers
the color of itself to the object it looks
upon, and sees everything stained and
impure. — THomas PAIne.
Costly.
Costly as an election. — PIERRE DE
CoULEVAIN.
Cosy.
As cosy as down among country
lanes. — RoBerT BucHANAN.
Cosy as the nest of the bird. —
Pua@pe Cary.
Cosy as a dormouse. — RIcHARD
Hovey. ,
Cosy as a nest of wood-pigeons. —
Miss Mutocx.
Couch.
Couch’d like a lion watching for his
prey. — JamMEs MontTGoMERY.
He stooped down, he couched as a
lion, and as an old lion. — Otp Trsta-
MENT.
Coughed.
Coughed like a cow who finds feathers
mixed with hay. — Bauzac.
Counsel.
Counsel to him is as good as a
shoulder of mutton to a sick horse. —
Ben Jonson.
) deep water ;
Counsel in the heart of man is like
but a man of under-
standing will draw it out. — OLD Tzs-
TAMENT. :
Count.
Counted as sheep for the slaughter.
— Oxnp TESTAMENT.
Countenance.
Her countenance looked like the gentle
buds
Unfolding their beauty in early Spring.
— ANon.
Countenance as clear as friendship
wears at feasts. — SHAKESPEARE.
His countenance is as Lebanon,
excellent as the cedars. — Otp Trsta-
MENT.
His countenance was like lightning.
— Isp.
Countless.
Countless, as the drops that glide
In the ocean’s billowy tide.
— ANON.
Countless as locusts. — Ipip.
Countless as the stars that roof our
night. — Ausrey Dr VERE.
Countless as the wraiths of slumber.
—Juua C. R. Dorr.
Countless as the golden motes
That dance upon the sun’s earth-kiss-
ing beams.
— Frances ANNE KeEMBLE.
Countless as motes in the sunbeams.
—S$rmr Watrter Scort.
Countless. . . as leaves on autumn’s
tempest shed. — SHELLEY.
Countless as the desert sands. —
Bayarp Taylor.
Country.
He told me that he thought one’s
country like one’s wife : you were born
in the first, and married to the second,
and had to learn all about them after-
wards, — ay, and make the best of
them. — GrorGe MEREDITH.
COUPLE. — COURTLY. 71
Couple.
In couples, like the clean and un-
clean beasts in Noah’s ark. — ANon.
Fall into couples, like the birds on
Valentine’s day. — Inin.
Wheresoe’er we went, like Juno’s
swans,
Still we nee coupled, and inseparable.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Courage.
Courage is like the diamond — very
brilliant ; not changed by fire, capable
of high polish, but except for the pur-
pose of cutting hard bodies, useless.
—C. C. Cotton.
If charg’d with Courage Man should
be,
(Like Powder in Artillery
Proportion’d to the Barrel)
Can’st thou, a Blunderbuss so large,
With scarce a Pocket-Pistol’s Charge,
Presume to bounce, or quarrel ?
—“Founpune Hospirau ror Wit,”
1748.
Courage, like cowardice, is un-
doubtedly contagious, but some per-
sons are not liable to catch it. —
Grorce D. PRENTICE.
Courageous.
Courageous as the cocks of Tanagra.
— ANON.
Courageous and choleric as a hive. —
Hueco.
Courageous as a tinker. — IBmp.
Court.
Court favors lie above the common
road by modesty and humble virtue
trod; like trees on precipices, they
display fair fruit, which none can
reach but birds of prey. — WALTER
Harte.
The court is like a marble statue,
I mean, it may be finely polished
but it is very hard.—M. pe La
BRuyERE.
Courtesy.
How sweet and gracious, even in com-
mon speech,
Is that fine sense which men call
Courtesy !
Wholesome as air and genial as the
light,
Welcome in every clime as breath of
flowers. | —James T. Frexps.
Courthouse.
The courthouse looks imposing ;
it is like a sea whose waters are the
advocates deep in sagacious thought,
whose waves are messengers in constant
movement hurrying to and fro, whose
fish and screaming birds are vile in-
formers, whose serpents are attorney’s
clerks, whose banks are worn by con-
stant course of legal action. —SuDRAKA.
Courtiers.
Courtiers are, with regard to court
rumours, like old soldiers who dis-
tinguish through blasts of wind and
moaning of leaves the sound of distant
steps of an armed troop. — Dumas,
PERE.
Courting.
Courting iz like strawberries and
cream, wants tew be did slow, then you
get the flavor. — JosH BILLINGs.
Courting iz like 2 little springs ov
soft water that steal out from under a
rock at the fut ov a mountain and run
down the hill side by side singing and
dansing and spattering each uther,
eddying and frothing and kaskading,
now hiding under bank, now full ov sun
and now full ov shadder, till bimeby
tha jine and then tha go slow. — Ism.
See this ’ere slipper with the paste
buckle on to make it look pretty ?
Courting is like that, lass — all glitter
and of no use to nobody. — Haroip
BRIGHOUSE.
Courtly.
Courtly as the French. — Joun
Forp.
72 COVER. — CRACKLE.
Cover.
Covers the country as the dew. —
ANON.
They covered mountain and valley
like grasshoppers for their number. —
PENTAUR. ,
Covers it, like a stone covered in
grass. — D. G. Rossetti.
Covered as thick as a pastry-
cook’s shop on a Christmas-eve.
— SwIrt.
Covert.
Covert as the birth of thought. —
JAMES MonrTcomEry.
Stole out as covertly as starlight
from the edging of a _ cloud. —
N. P. Wiis.
Covetous.
Covetousness, like a candle ill made,
smothers the splendor of a happy
fortune in its own grease. — ANON.
Covetous persons are like sponges
which greedily drink in water, but
return very little until they are
squeezed. — G. S. Bow zs.
Covetousness, like jealousy, when it
has once taken root, never leaves a
man but with his life. — Tom Brown.
A covetous man is like a dog in a
wheel, that roasteth meat for others.
— Joun Ray’s ‘“HanpBooxk or PRov-
ERBS,”” 1670.
Coward.
Base and crafty cowards are like the
arrow that flieth in the dark. — Bacon.
A coward in the field, is like the wise
man’s fool ; his heart is at his mouth,
and he doth not know what he doth
profess: but a coward in his faith,
is like a fool in his wisdom; his mouth
is in his heart, and he dares not profess
what he does know. — ArtuuR War-.
WICK.
Cowardly.
Cowardly as a mob. — ANon.
Cowardly as a wild duck. — SHaxz-
SPEARE.
Cower.
Cower and shrink as Pariah before
Brahma. — Butwer-LytTon.
Cower and crouch like an English
housemaid when knees are calloused
with scrubbing. — Hugo.
Coxcomb.
Coxcombs keep each other company,
like two knives, to whet each other. —
VANBROUGH.
Coy.
Coy as a Croker’s mare. — ANON.
As coy and stille as doth a mayde
Were newe spoused. — CHAUCER.
Coy as ys a mayde. — Isp.
Crabbed.
Crabbed as a cuckoo. — ANON.
Her temper is as crabbed as a
thorn. — T. Buchanan Reap.
Crack.
Every hard head has a crack in it
somewhere, like a ‘safety valve, as
it were, for the steam. — Bazac.
Crack’d your skull through like a
bottle. — BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Cracks like a tortured chord of
harmony. — Havarp.
Making the floor crack as if an
image of stone were walking over it. —
Hugo.
Crackit like a gun. — ALEXANDER
Larne.
Cracked as a cocoa-nut bowled by a
monkey. — Grorce MEREDITH.
Crack and bounce like parched peas.
— Cuartes Reape.
Crackle.
Crackling as artillery. — R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Crackling, like de bay-leaf i’ de fire.
— Brn Jonson.
CRACKLE. — CREDULOUS. 73
Crackle — continued.
Crackled like charcoal at the flirt
of a fan. — Sir Ricuarp STEELE.
Crafty.
Crafty as a fox. — ANon.
Crafty as any Jesuit. —Joseru
JOUBERT.
Crafty as a snake. — Krats.
Cram.
Crammed in, like salted fish, in their
barrel. — CARLYLE.
Cranky.
Cranky as a holy friar fed with hail-
stones. — BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Crash.
Crashing like thunder nigh,
whose burst of ruin strikes the shatter’d
ear with horror. — Ricuarp GLOVER.
Crashing . . . like the ice of polar
sea. — W. H. Lecxy.
Crash as if rock were hurled upon
rock. — Oumpa.
Crash, as when the whirlwind rends
the ash. — Srr WaLrer Scort.
Crashed, like a hurricane. — TEn-
NYSON.
Crave.
Craves to see thy face as the moon-
blowing moon-flower’s swelling heart
pines for the moon. — Epwin ARNOLD.
Craved the trumpets eager note,
As the bridled earth the spring.
— Greorce MEREDITH.
Crawl.
Crawl like a snail. — ANon.
Crawl like shadows forth in Spring.
— Marraew ARNOLD.
Crawl,
Like caterpillars on a wall.
— James MontTcomery.
Crawled like a weed-clogged wave.
— Oscar WILDE. |
Crazy.
Crazy as a loon. — ANON.
Crazy as a woman’s watch. — Inrp.
Crazy as a bedbug. —J. R. Bart-
LeTr’s “Dictionary oF AMERICAN-
ISMS.””
Crazy asa June bug. — WILLIAM
ALLEN BuTLer.
Creak.
Wailing creak,
Like an almost human shriek.
—Jonn T. Trowprce.
Creaked like the implacable cicala’s
cry. — Rospert Brownine.
Creak like the chariot wheels of
Satan. — Brn Jonson.
Cream.
Cream and mantle, like a standing
pond. — SHAKESPEARE.
Creamy.
Creamy as the opening rose. —
Lewis Morris.
Crease.
Creased like dog’s ears in a folio. —
Tuomas GRAY.
Creation.
Creation, says one, lies before us,
like a glorious Rainbow ; but the Sun
that made it lies behind us, hidden
from us. — CARLYLE.
Credit.
Credit lost is like a Venice glass
broken. — ANon.
Credit is like chastity; they can
both stand temptation better than
suspicion. — JosH BILLines.
Credulous.
Credulous as a child. — GrorcE W.
SMALLEY.
Like simple noble natures, credulous.
— TENNYSON.
74 CREED. — CRITIC.
Creed.
Creeds are as thistle-down wind-tost
and blown, but deeds abide throughout
eternity. —GrorcEe Bariow.
Creep.
Creeping into her innocent heart
like a maggot into a rose. — ANON.
Crept . . . like a chill.—E. B.
Brownine.
Creep
Like the grey mists upon the mountain
side. — GrraartT HavuprMann.
Creep like torpid Hottentots. —
A. F. F. Von Kotzesus.
O’er our silence creep
Like whispers of the household gods
that keep
A gentle empire o’er fraternal souls.
' — Kzats.
Creep like shadows. — SHaKE-
SPEARE.
Creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. —Izsn.
Creeping close as snakes in hidden
weeds. — SPENSER.
Creep
Like the downy wing of sleep.
— ARTHUR SYMONS.
Softly creeping, like a breath of air,
Such as is sometimes seen, and hardly
seen,
To brush the still breast of a crystal
lake. — Worpswortu.
Crestfallen.
Crest-fallen as a dried’ pear. —
SHAKESPEARE,
Crimson.
As crimson as August heather. —
ALFRED AUSTIN.
Crimson as a comic opera climax.
— J. CHEEVER Goopwin.
Crimson, as if blood were mingled in
it. — LONGFELLOw.
Crimson, like a sea of blood
Untroubled by a wave.
— WHITTIER.
Cringe.
Cringes like a toad under a harrow.
— ANoN.
Crinkly.
Crinkly as a coon’s hair.— ANon.
Crinkly like curled maple. —
LowELL.
Crisp.
Crisp as a head of young lettuce. —
ANON.
Crisp as the unshorn desert hay. —
Grorce DaRr.ey.
Crisp as new bank notes. — DICKENs.
Crisp as wintergreen berries. —AMY
LESLIE.
Critic.
Critics are like a kind of flies, that
breed,
In wild fig-trees, and when they are
grown up feed
Upon the raw fruit of the nobler kind,
And by their nibbling in the outward
rind
Open the pores, and make way for the
sun
To ripen it sooner, than he would have
done. — SaMvEL Butter. .
Criticism is like champagne, nothing
more execrable if bad, nothing more
excellent if good ; if meagre, muddy,
vapid, and sour, both are fit only to
engender colic and wind; but if
rich, generous, and sparkling, they
communicate a genial glow to the
spirits, improve the taste, and expand
the heart. — C. C. Cotton.
Critics avaunt! for you are fish of
prey, and feed, like sharks, upon
an infant play.
Beat every monster of the deep away ;
let’s a fair trial have, and a clear
sea. — CONGREVE.
CRITIC. — CROOKED. 75
Critic — continued.
A critic is like an idler amusing him-
self with a spy-glass ; he looks at the
defects of a work through the end that
magnifies, then inverts the instrument
to discover the virtues. — E. P. Day.
The theatre is like a Turkish se-
raglio : The critics are the eunuchs. —
FarquHar.
The critics . . . like Cerberus, are
posted at all the avenues of literature,
and who settle the merits of every
performance. — GoLDsMITH.
A critic should be a pair of snuffers.
He is oftener an extinguisher; and
not seldom a thief. — Jutius C. Hare.
Critics are a kind of freebooters in
the republic of letters, who, like deer,
goats, and divers other graminivorous
animals, gain their subsistance by
gorging upon buds and leaves of the
young shrubs of the forest, thereby
robbing them of verdure, and retarding
their progress to maturity. — WasH-
INGTON IRvING.
But some will say, Criticks are a kind
of Tinkers, that make more faults than
they mend ordinarily. — Ben Jonson.
The eyes of critics, whether in com-
mending or carping, are both on one
side, like a turbot’s. — Walter S.
LANpor.
Critics, like surgeons, blest with curi-
: ous art,
Should mark each passage to the hu-
man heart ;
But not, unskillful, yet with lordly air,
Read surgeon’s lectures while they
scalp and tear.
— Rosert Lioyp.
Some critics are like chimney-
sweepers ; they put out the fire below,
and frighten the swallows from the
nests above ; they scrape a long time
in the chimney, cover themselves with
soot, and bring nothing away but a
bag of cinders, and then sing out from
the top of the house, as if they had
built it. — LonGreLLow.
A young critic is like a boy with a
gun; he often fires at every living
thing he sees; he thinks only of his
own skill, not of the pain he is giving.
— Isp.
Critics are the eunuchs of art ; they
talk about what they cannot do. —
VLADIMIR DE PAcHMANN.
A critic is a legless man who teaches
running. — CHanninG Po.tock.
Critics, like weather-cocks, are not
infallible. — Lewis RosENTHAL.
The eye of the critic is often, like a
microscope, made so very fine and
nice that it discovers the atoms, grains,
and minutest particles, without ever
comprehending the whole, comparing
the parts, or seeing at once the har-
mony. — SwIrt.
A true critic, in the perusal of a
book, is like a dog at a feast, whose
thoughts and stomach are wholly set
upon what the guests fling away, and
consequently is apt to snarl most when
there are fewest bones. — Inm.
Critics are like brushers of noble-
men’s clothes. — Sir Henry Wotton.
Croak.
Croak like raven and rook. — Wi1-
LAM DUNBAR.
Crooked.
Crooked as a snake with the colic. —
SamMuEL Hopkins Apams.
Crooked as a dog’s hind leg. —
ANON.
Crooked as a gimlet. — Inip.
Crooked as a ram’s horn. — Isr.
Crooked as Crawley brook. — Isp.
Crooked as Robin Hood’s bow. —
Iprp.
So crooked he could hide behind a
corkscrew. — Iprp.
76 CROOKED. — CRUEL.
Crooked — continued.
So crooked he could sleep in a round-
house. — ANON.
Crooked as the streets of Boston.
— Arto Bates.
Crooked runs
Like a Turk verse along a scimitar.
— Rosert BRrownine.
Crooked as the letter Z. — FRANcis
Grosr’s ‘‘CiassicaL DICTIONARY OF
THE VULGAR TONGUE.”
As crooked as a cammocke. —
Lyty.
Crooked as an auger. — OTHEMAN
STEVENS.
Cross.
Cross as a child denied a sugar plum.
— ANON.
Cross as an old bear with a sore
head. — Isp.
As cross as nine highways. — Ini.
Cross as the tongs. — Inip.
As cross as a red donkey. — Batzac.
Hang you up cross-legg’d, like a
hare at a poulterer. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
Cross as two sticks. — DicKENs.
Crossed.
Ankles crossed as holy statues sit. —
Epwin ARNOLD.
Like two doomed ships that pass in
storm
We had crossed each other’s way.
— Oscar WILDE.
Intricately crossed,
Like leafless underboughs, ’mid some
thick grove. — WorDsworTu.
Crouch.
Crouching as for refuge. — ASscuy-
LUS.
Crouch’d like a slave. — AKENSIDE.
Crouched like two bulls locked horn
in horn in fight. — Rosert Brownina.
He crouched as the panther crouches
for its deadly spring. — BuLwer-
Lytron.
Crouchest like the faunying whelpe.
— Tuomas CHURCHYARD.
Crouching about like a cat a-mous-
ing. — FarquHar.
Crouched. . . like a wild beast in his
lair. — LonGFELLOw.
Crow.
Crow like chanticleer. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Crowd.
He crouds to the Bar like a Pig
through a Hedge. —Samuet Butter.
Crowding like the waves of ocean,
one on the other. — Byron.
Crowding one another like a flock
of black goats scurrying down the hills.
— FLAUBERT.
Crowded like chickens in a cluster.
—Joun H. Frere.
Crowd, like flocking linnets. —
Hoop.
Crown.
Crowned, as day crowned the dawn-
enkindled wave. — SWINBURNE.
Cruel.
Cruel as a rich coxcomb in a ball-
room. — ANON.
Cruel as winter. — Inm.
As cruel as Medea. — Rosert Bur-
TON.
Cruel as the Tartar foe,
To death inured, and nurst in scenes
of woe. — WiLiiaAM CoL.ins.
Cruel as Medusa’s sculptured face.
—Lorp Der Tasty.
Cruel as Herod when he surpris’d the
sleeping Children of Bethlehem. — Sir
Witu1am DavENANT.
Cruel as the sun. — Mavuricz Hew-
LETT. :
CRUEL, — CUNNING.
Cruel — continued.
Cruel as the pinch of a painless
dentist. —Sypney Munpen.
Cruel as love or life. — SwINBURNE.
Cruel as a schoolboy ere he grows
To pity. — TENNYSON.
Jealousy is as cruel as the grave. —
Otp TESTAMENT.
Cruel, like the ostriches in the
wilderness. — Isip.
Cruel as death. — James THomson.
Cruelty.
Cruelty, like every other vice, re-
quires no motive outside of itself ; it
only requires opportunity. — GrorcE
Euiot.
Crumble.
Crumble like the chaff of a summer
threshing-floor. — Mitton.
Crumbled like a house of sand. —
Oura.
Crumble like a ruined tower. —
Cuaries G. D. Ropers.
Crumble as a crown,
Till Ceesar driven to lair and hounded
Pope
Reel breathless and drop heartless out
of hope. — SWINBURNE.
Crumple.
Crumpled like a leaf. — ANon.
Crumpled . . . like a creditor’s
unwelcome bill. — Butwer-Lytron.
Crumpled like a snowball in his fist.
— Hoop.
Crush.
Crushed him as a timbrel cart
crushes eggs. — BALzac.
Crushed like an egg-shell. — In.
Crushing . . . like a blind Jove feels
his way with thunder. — E. B. Brown-
ING.
Crushed as vermin. = Hugo.
Crushed as in a vise. — JACQUES
JASMIN,
77
Crushes ... as a child crushes
; grapes. — Epaar Ler Masters.
Cry (Noun).
Cry of anguish that, like a pebble
thrown over a precipice, revealed the
depths of his despair. — Batzac.
A cry as wild as any coming of mad-
ness. — GEorGE MEREDITH.
Cry (Verb).
My heart is crying like a tired child
for one fond look, one gentle, loving
word. — ANON.
Cry like babe in swathing band. —
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.
Crying like Niobe or Niagara. —
O. Henry.
Cry as an eagle freed. — Huco.
Crying, like a wretched Shangodaya.
_— LonGFrELLow.
Cry of anguish, like the last dying
wail of some dumb, hunted creature.
— ApELAIDE A, Procter.
Cry like famine. — C. G. Rossertt.
Cries like the blood of Abel from the
dust. — SHELLEY.
I ery like a travailing woman. —
Otp TESTAMENT.
Cunning.
Cunning as a fox. — ANon.
Cunning as the counterfeit of wis-
dom. — Inm.
Cunning as the serpent of old Nile. ,
—Isp.
Cunning as two Genoese. — Batzac.
Cunning as a witch. — CHARLOTTE
BRONTE.
Cunning as Satan. — Puitip
FRENEAU.
As cunning as Becky Sharp. —
James HUNEKER.
Cunning differs from wisdom as twi-
light from open day. — Dr. JoHNSON.
78 CUNNING. — CURSE,
Cunning — continued.
Cunning, like a miner, safely and
unseen. — Epwarp Moore.
Cunning as a_ weasel. — Kanuri
PROVERB.
Cunning as Captn. Drake. — JoHn
Ray’s ‘“‘HanpBook ‘oF PROVERBS,”
1670.
Cupids.
Cupids are like cooks of the camp,
they can roast or boil a woman. —
ApHRA BEHN.
Curd.
Curd, like eager droppings into milk.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Cure.
Cures are like causes in law, which
may be lengthened or shortened at the
discretion of the lawyer. — CHAPMAN.
Curious.
Curious as a fish. — GorTHE.
Curious as a magpie. — BETTINA
von Hutren.
Curiosity is like a locksmith, who
departs when the door is opened. —
Sypney Munpen.
Curl.
The maiden whose lip like a rose leaf
is curled. — P. J. Bartey.
Curl’d like a lamb’s back. — Wit-
LIAM BLAKE.
Curled up like some crumpled,
lonely flower-petal.
— Rupert Brooke.
Curled up like incense from a Mage-
King’s tomb. — Rosert Browninc.
Curled up like a blue racer in a
partridge nest. — Irvin S. Coss.
Curling, like a wreath of smoke. —
CoLERIDGE.
Curled and writhed like a snake
stepped upon. — STEPHEN CRANE.
Curled like a pastoral crook. —
DIcKENs.
Curled up like hot paper. — Inn.
Curled up in his heart, like a little
squirrel in its nest. —W. 5. Gu-
BERT.
Curled like the coat of a poodle. —
G. B. Saw.
Curling like tendrils of the parasite
Around a marble column.
— SHELLEY.
Curl as if a frost had stung them. —
Bayarp TayY.or.
Curling like a kinked up ostrich
feather. — ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Curled, as when the Sirian star
Withers the ripening corn.
— Oscar WILDE.
Curls, like ivy. — Worpswortu.
Curse.
Curse away !
And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise
proverb
The Arabs have, — ‘‘Curses are like
young chickens,
And still come home to roost.”
— Bu.wer-Lytron.
A curse is like a cloud — it passes. —
Byron.
An orphan’s curse would drag to Hell
A spirit from on high ;
But oh ! more horrible than that
Is a curse in a dead man’s eye!
— COLERIDGE.
Foul and cursed as if some holy
temple had been robbed. — Joun
Forp.
Curses are like processions; they
return to the place from. which they
came. — GIOVANNI RuFFINI.
Curst and shrewd as
Xantippe. — SHAKESPEARE.
Socrates’
Cursing like a very drab. — Ibm.
CURVE. — DANCE.
Curve.
Curved like the Spring-months’
russet moon. — Ropert BRownina.
Curved like a vault.
— D’Annunzio.
His heroic stature became curved
like a maple tree in autumn, bereft
of its leaves. — Jan KatinUAx.
Curved like a stallion’s crop. —
Kiriine.
Curved over like the edge of a water-
fall. — Isp.
Curved like the crescent moon. —
SouTHEY.
Down-curving like the falling wave.
— Ism.
Custom.
A bad custom is like a good cake,
better broken than kept. —Joun
Ray’s “HANDBOOK OF PROVERBS,”
1670.
Daily.
Calls daily like a dun. — Hoop.
Dainty.
Dainty and fair as a folded rose. —
ANON.
Dainty as a blushing violet. — Isp.
Dainty as Dresden china. — Isp.
Dainty as thistle-down. — Ism.
A dainty mouth like any crimson
rose. — Hrrnricu HEINE.
Dainty as a quail. — Zoza.
Damnatory.
Damnatory as the spot of blood on
Blue Beard’s keys. — Ropert REECE.
Damp.
Damp as a church. — ANon.
79
Old customs are as the blossoms on
the tree of a nation’s life ; and, when
they wither and fall off, death and
carnage are at the roots. — ANON.
Cut.
Cuts like hail. — Anon.
Cuts like ingratitude. — Ism.
Cuts like unkindness. — Ipip.
Cuts like a cold-chisel. —-ALFRED
Henry Lewis.
Cut down like the grass. — Op
TESTAMENT.
Cuts like a two-edged sword. —
Isp.
Cynic.
Cynical as Mephisto. — ANon.
Cynical as Sylla. — Ini.
Cynic, like that fellow Diogenes. —
Rosert GRANT.
D
Damp like a tomb. — Isp.
The air is damp, and hush’d, and
.close as a sick man’s room when he
taketh repose an hour before death.
— TENNYSON.
Dance. ‘
Dancing like a solar mote around
the atmosphere of her lips. — ANon.
Dance .. . like atoms in the sun-
shine. — Inn.
Dance like corks upon the waves.
— Isr.
Dancing like popcorn over a hot
fire. — Ipip.
Dance like a town top. — Brav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
like
Dance flame. — RoBERT
BRownine,
80 DANCE. — DARK.
Dance — continued.
Dance like a lubber in a net. —
Wiiuram BuLtein.
Dancing like dervishes, who turn as
on a pivot. — Byron.
Dance like a school of dolphins. —
Joun Dyer.
Dance up and down, like a bear
asking for supper. — Maurice Hew-
LETT.
Your dancing, like true wit, is best
express’d
By nature only to advantage dress’d ;
*Tis not a nimble bound, or a caper
high,
That can pretend to please a curious
eye.
Good judges no such tumblers’ tricks
regard ;
Or think them beautiful, because
they’re hard.
— Soame JENYNS.
Danced in his eyes, as the sunbeams
dance on the waves of the sea. —
LoNGFELLOw.
Dancing like naked fauns too glad
for shame. — LowELL.
Dance like witches in their maniac
mirth. — WaLTeR MALONE.
Danced, like wan ghosts about a
funeral pyre. — Tuomas Moore.
Dancing like a Bacchante. — Ouma.
Dance, Like
SHELLEY.
wingtd stars. —
Dance like white plumes upon a
hearse. — Inm.
Dance like a wither’d leaf. — Tenny-
SON.
Dancing like a bright and buoyant
flame. — Cetia THAXTER.
Dance,
Like the sun wading through the misty
sky. — James THomson.
Danced like the fairies, — Vottarre.
Dance like a wave of the sea. —
Wituiam B. Yzats.
Dangerous.
Dangerous as men milliners. — ANoNn.
Dangerous as a machine gun. —
O. Henry.
Dangerous as the foamy race of
ocean surges. — Huco.
Dangerous as hammering dynamite.
— James HunekER.
Dangerous as to check a brute. —
KINnGsLey.
More dangerous, than baits to fish.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Dangle.
Dangle like a broken bough. —
STEPHEN CRANE.
Dapper.
Dapper as a cock-wren. — ANON.
Dark.
Dark as the yawning grave. —
AKENSIDE.
Dark as a cellar. — ANON.
Dark as a dungeon. — IB.
Dark as a funeral scarf. — Ism.
Dark as a thief’s pocket. — Ip.
Dark as futurity. — Ip.
Dark as midnight. — Inm.
Dark as the shades of night. —
Ip.
Dark like a dead person in a coffin.
— Isp.
Dark as Death’s
BaILey.
Eye.—P. J.
Dark as a wood.—R. D. Bracx-
MORE.
Dark as was chaos, ere the infant Sun
Was rolled together, or had tried his
beams
Athwart the gloom profound.
— Rosert Buia.
DARK. 81
Dark — continued.
Dark as a Spaniard. — CHARLOTTE
BRonrté.
Darkened, as the lighthouse will that
turns upon the sea. — E. B. Browninc.
As dark as if all the negroes of
Africa had been stewed down into air.
— BuLwer-LyTron.
Dark as mire. — Bunyan.
Dark as pitch. — Isp.
Dark as misery’s woeful night. —
Burns.
Dark as a sullen cloud before the
sun. — Byron.
Dark as winter. — CAMPBELL.
Darkly, as through the foliage of
some wavering thicket. — CARLYLE.
Dark as death. — ALIcE Cary.
Darked, as it is wonte to darke by
smoked images. — CHAUCER.
Dark as a murderer’s mask of crape.
— Enza Coox.
Dark as the grave. — CowLEy.
Dark and cold, like a benighted
hemisphere. — AuBReY Dz VERE.
Dark as a fiend. — Ism.
Ever darker and darker, like the
shadow of advancing death. — Dicxk-
ENS.
Darkened, like the earth on a splen-
did day when a cloud flits across the
sun. — DUMAS, PERE.
Dark as pines that autumn never
sears. — GrorGE Exior.
Dark as Pluto’s palace. — RicHarp
GLOVER.
Dark as a cloud that journeys over-
head. — Hoop.
Dark as the grave. — Inip.
Dark as shadows be. — Isp.
Dark as the language of the Delphic
fane, —- HoRACE.
Dark as the back of a stag-beetle. —
Trish Eric Taues.
Dark as the parentage of chaos. —
Kaars.
Dark as the pillars of some Hindoo
shrine. — KINGSLEY.
Dark as Saint Bartholomew. —
W. S. Lanpor.
Darkness like the day of doom. —
LoNnGFELLOW.
Dark as a coal-hole. — Lover.
Dark as the swelling wave of ocean
before the rising winds, when it bends
its head near the coast. — JAMES
MaAcPHERSON.
Dark as it were dipped in the death-
shadow. — GERALD Massey. ©
Dark as a dead man in the ground.
— Sypnry MunpEN.
Dark as a demon’s dread thought.
— Mrs. Oscoop.
.Dark as the hush’d silence of the
grave. — OTWAY.
Dark as night’s protecting wing. —
JoHN PrERPoNtT.
Dark as the, caves wherein earth’s
thunders groan. — Por.
See him darkly as in a mirror. —
Saint AUGUSTINE.
As dark as a Yule midnight. —
ScoTtisH PROVERB.
Dark as the bottom of a well. —
W. C. RusseE..
Dark as care. — SCHILLER.
Dark as Egypt. — SHAKESPEARE.
Dark as Erebus. — Is.
Dark as hell. — Isp.
Dark as ignorance. — Ip.
Dark as a cloud that the moon turns
bright. — SwINBURNE.
Dark as fate. — Iprp.
Dark as fear. — Isp,
82 DARK. — DAUNT.
Dark — continued.
Dark in her sight
As her measureless measure of shadow-
less pleasure was bright.
— SWINBURNE.
Dark as the heart of time. — Inrp.
Galleons dark as the helmsman’s
bark of old that ferried to hell the
dead. — Ini.
Dark as the sire that begat her,
Despair. — IB.
More dark than the dead world’s
tomb. — Iprp.
Darkened as one that wastes by
sorcerous art and knows not whence
it withers. — Ip.
Dark as a land’s decline. — Ipip.
Silent dark as shame. — Inrp.
Dark as the inside of a whale.
—F. W. Tuomas.
Dark as the brooding thundercloud.
— WHITTIER.
Dark as the shroudings of a bier,
As if the blessed atmosphere,
Like his own soul, was dim.
— Isp.
Dark as the waiting tomb. —
McLanpsurGH WILSON.
Dart.
Darted like an eagle. — ANEURIN.
Darted .. . like an arrow aflame.
— JosEPH CONRAD.
Darted like a skimming bird. — Isp.
Darted away like a bird that has
been fluttering around its nest before
it takes a distant flight. —J. Fent-
MORE CoopER.
Darting skyward like a rocket. —
DIcKENS.
Darted like a serpent. — Dumas,
PERE.
Darting like glittering elves at play.
— Mary M. FeEnotiosa.
Darting like a flashing flame. —
FIRDAUSI.
The ravenous shark, darting, like a
spectre, through the blue waters. —
Wasuineron Irvine.
Dart like a rifle-bullet. — Kipiine.
Darts on like a greyhound whelp
after a leveret. — W. S. Lanpor.
Dart like swallows. — LoNGFELLow.
Darted like a flight of hawks. —
Ourpa.
Dart o’er stock and stone like hunted
hart. — Sir Water Scort.
Their influence darts
Like subtle poison through the blood-
less veins
Of desolate society. — SHELLEY.
Dart around, as light from the
meridian sun. — [xrp.
Darts, like a javelin, to his destin’d
goal. — CHRISTOPHER SMART.
Darts, like lichtnin’ flashin’. —
JAMES SMITH.
Darted away like a telegram. —
Marx Twain.
Dash.
Dashed like a Mameluke cavalry
upon a charge. — ANON.
Dashed on like a spurr’d blood-
horse in a race. — BYRON. ~
Dashes, like a fire-flood. — CaRLYLeE.
Dash along, like molten diamonds
glancing. — E1iza Cook.
He dashed down among them as a
sparrow-hawk dashes down. — PEN-
TAUR.
The waves . . . dashed like a tor-
rent of pearls. — Francis S. SALTus.
Dash them in pieces like a potter’s
vessel. —OLp TESTAMENT.
Daunt.
Daunt like a king that draws his
troops to fight. — GEorGE SANDYS.
DAUNTLESS. — DEAD, 83
Dauntless.
Dauntless as deities exempt from
fate. — ANON.
Dauntless as an ibis. — Ourma.
Dauntless as death. —Matrurw
Prior.
Dawn.
A sudden truth dawns on me, like a
light through the remainder tatters
of a dream. — Hoon.
Dazzle.
Dazzles like
JAYADEVA.
Kama’s _sceptre. —
It came to passe, that a gentleman
. chanced to glance his eyes on her,
and there were they dazzled on her
beautie, as lookes that are caught in
the sunne with the glittering of a
glasse. — Lyty.
Dazzled like the lightning in the
sky. — Racine.
Dazzle like a new-discovered star.
— T. Bucnanan Reap.
Her dazzle like the sun in his
Meridian. — THoMAS SHADWELL.
Dead.
Dead as Chelsea. — ANON.
Dead as a man after two doctors
have visited him. — Isrp.
Dead as leaves on a painted canvas.
—Izsm.
Dead as mackerel. — Ipip.
Dead as the nail in a coffin. — Ip.
Dead as the Roman Empire. — Inm.
Dead as the wholesale district on
Sunday. — Isp.
Dead as Aristophanes. — WILLIAM
ARCHER.
My sweetest child,
Which like a flow’r crush’d with a
blast, is dead. —Srz Joun Brav-
MONT.
Dead as a buried vestal whose whole
strength
Goes when the grate above shuts
heavily. — Rosert Brownine.
As dead to the life I once lived as if
the Styx rolled between it and me. —
Butwer-Lytron.
As dead to you as the dust of your
fathers. — Inn.
Dead asa herring. —Samuet Butter.
Dede as stoon. — CHAUCER.
Dead as Scrooge’s partner. — Henry
A. Capp.
Dead as Julius Cesar. — JosEpH
ConraD.
Dead as Pharaoh. — Dickens.
Dead as a salmon in a fishmonger’s
basket. — GrorcE FarquHar.
Dead as
Fier.
Dead as a perished delight. —J. G.
HOLLAND.
Dead as the bulrushes round little
Moses,
On the old banks of the Nile.
—O. W. Hotes.
Dead to sounds, as a ship out of
soundings. — Hoop.
charity. — NATHANIEL
Dead as bricks. — Izip.
More dead than Morpheus’ imagin-
ings. — Kzats.
Ded as a dore-nayle. — LANGLAND.
Ded as dore-tree. — Ipm.
Lies dead,
As a corse on the sea-shore, whose
spirit has fled. — LoncrELLow.
Dead as last year’s clothes in a fash-
ionable fine lady’s - wardrobe. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
“The Dead are like the stars by day ;
Withdrawn from mortal eye,
But not extinct, they hold their way
In glory through the sky.
— James MonTGoMERY.
84 DEAD. — DEAF.
Dead — continued.
Dead as wood. — Lewis Morris.
Dead as desire in the dead. —
Sypney MunpeEn.
Dead as
READE.
Dead as a dog that lieth in a ditch.
—SamMuEL Row anpbs.
Dead as earth. — SHAKESPEARE.
mutton. — CHARLES
Death lies on her, like an untimely
frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the
field. — Ini.
Dead as night when stars wax dim.
— SWINBURNE.
Dead as dreams of days that were
Before the new-born world lay bare
In heaven’s wide eye. — Inip.
Dead as the carver’s figured throng.
— Isp.
Dead as the dawn’s grey dew
At high midnoon of the mounting day
that mocks the might of the dawn
it slew. — Ini.
Dead as yesterday. — Inm.
As dead and sapless as last month’s
leaves. —Sir Henry Taytor.
Dead as dreams. — Wittiam Wat-
SON.
Dead as smelts. —DaniEL WEB-
STER.
Dead as the ropes of roses on St.
James street. —IsraEL ZANGWILL.
Deadly.
Deadly as nightshade. —T. B.
ALDRICH.
Deadly as the viper of Sumatra. —
Butwer-Lytron. é
Deadly as the sting of satire. —
JAMES CAWTHORN.
Deadly as the canker-worm. —
FRoupe.
Deadly as a night frost. — Maurice
HEWLETT.
The venom clamours of a jealous
woman poison more deadly than a
dog’s tooth. — SHAKESPEARE.
Deaf.
Deaf as a post. — ANON.
As deaf as a beetle. — Ini.
As deaf as a white cat. — Ipm.
Deaf as a door. — NicHoLas Bre-
TON.
Deaf as any tradesman’s dummy.
— Hoop.
Deaf as a nail —that you cannot
hammer a meaning into. — Isp.
She was deaf as a nut — for nuts, no
doubt,
Are deaf to the grub that’s hollowing
out. — Ism.
Deaf as a stone — say one of the stones
Demosthenes sucked to improve his
tones ;
And surely deafness no further could
reach
Than to be in his mouth without hear-
ing his speech. — Isp.
Deaf as bricks. — Inm.
Deaf as God and Magog. — Isp.
Deaf as Pharaoh’s mother’s mother’s
mummy. — Isp.
As deaf, alas! as the dead and for-
gotten —
(Gray has noticed the waste of breath,
In addressing the “‘dull, cold ear of
death’’). — Ipp.
Deaf as the still-born figures of Ma-
dame Tussaud,
With their eyes of glass, and their hair
of flax,
That only stare whatever you ‘‘ax,”
For their ears, you know, are nothing
but wax. — Isp.
Deafe as an adder. — Ben Jonson.
DEAF. — DEBT. 85
Deaf — continued.
Deaf as winds when seamen pray.
— LEE.
Deaf as the billows. — Ovp.
As deaf as Ailsa Craig. — ScorrisH
PROVERB.
Deaf as the sea. — SHAKESPEARE.
Deaf as a shad. — Sam Stick.
Deaf as fire. — SwINBURNE.
More deaf than trees. — WALLER.
Deafening.
Cries as deafening, as the shout that
breaks from the bribed audience, when
Fesidius speaks. — JUVENAL.
Dear.
Dear as the land to shipwrecked
mariner. — AUSCHYLUS.
Dear as her mother holds her in-
fant’s grave. — BocaRT.
Dear as the nurtured thrill of joy.
— Burns. ‘
Dear — as his native song to Exile’s
ears. — Byron. :
Dear as fairy fable. — Mapison
CawEIN.
Dear as liberty. — CicrRo.
Dear as the soul o’er thy memory
sobbing. — James G. CLARK.
Dear as freedom is. — COWPER.
Dear as a child’s curling fingers.
—Otive Titrorp Darean.
As dear as to the lover the smile of
a gentle maid. — BarTHoLoMEW Dow-
LING.
Dear as the apple to thine eye. —
Tmotray Dwiext.
As dear to me as my own right hand.
—W. S. GrLBeErt.
Dear, as the light that visits these sad
eyes ;
Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my
heart. — Gray.
Dear as his eyeball. — Tuomas Hey-
WOOD.
Dear as these mine eyes. — Mar-
LOWE.
Dear as light. — Hannan Mors.
Dear as the vital stream that feeds
my heart. — Ipip.
Dear as the vital warmth that feeds
my life. — Orway.
Dear as my finger. — SHAKESPEARE.
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart. — Ixrp.
As dear to me as life itself. — Ism.
Dearer than eye-sight, space, and
liberty. — Isr.
Dear
As human heart to human heart may
be. — SHELLEY.
Dear as remember’d kisses after
death. — TENNYSON.
Dear as the visions of the promised
bride lighted by love. — C. P. Witson.
Death.
Death is like sleep; and sleep
shuts down our lids. — Byron.
Deathless.
Deathless as love. — SWINBURNE.
Debase.
Debas’d by gross alloy :
As gold in mines lies mix’d with dirt
and clay. — Davin MALter.
Debauch.
Debauches are like figs growing on
a precipice: the fruit cannot be
gathered by men, but only by crows
and vultures. — DIOGENES.
Debt.
Debt is like a millstone about a
man’s neck, — ANON.
86 DEBT. — DEEP.
Debt — continued.
Debt is like any other trap, easy
enough to get into, but hard enough
to get out of. — JosH BiLiines.
Debts are now-a-days like children,
begot with pleasure, but brought
forth with pain. — MourERE.
Decay.
Decay like the rainbow’s hue. —
ANON.
We decay like grass of the hill ; our
strength returns no more. —JAMES
MacrHerson.
All decay, like the glories of the
Spring. — Miss Mutocx.
As soon decay’d and done
As is the morning’s silver-melting dew.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Decay
Like corpses in a charnel.
— SHELLEY.
Deceitful.
Deceitful, like crows. — ZEscHYLUS.
Deceitful like the devil. — Wittiam
Byrp.
Deceive.
The world
Deceived itself as maidens do with
dolls. —Joun Davipson.
Deceiver.
A base deceiver, like a deep well
whose mouth is covered with smiling
plants. — Kaumasa.
Decency.
Decency is like gold, the same in all
countries. — Li Hune Cuana.
Deceptive.
Deceptive as the mirage of the
desert. — ANON.
Deceptive as the costume of a
bal masque. — G. K. CuHEsterton.
Decisive.
Decisive, like a flash of lightning. —
Lupovic Hatkvy.
Decline.
Declining to change themselves,
even as sulphuric acid declines to be
sweet milk, though you vote so until
the end of the world. — CARLYLE.
Declined, like a flower surcharged
with dew. — Mitton.
Declined — like shadow in the dying
of the day. — Por.
Deeds.
His deeds inimitable, like the sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves
no tracts
Nor prints of precedent for poor men’s
facts. — CHAPMAN.
Deep.
Deep as the fountains of sleep. —
ANON.
Deep as the void above. — Inip.
Deep as evening red. — Inrp.
Deep as despair. — Izrp.
Deep as ever plummet sounded. —
Iz.
Deep as grief. — Izip.
Deep as the North Star. — Inrp.
Deep as though the globe were split
to let the waters through. — W. E.
AYTOUN.
Deep as Heaven’s own luminous
blue. — P. J. Battery.
Deep as death. — Irn.
Deep in the heart as meteor stones
in earth, dropped from some higher
sphere. — Iprp.
Deep as midnight’s starry treasure.
— T. L. Bepposs.
France kept her old affection as
deeply as the sepulchre the corse. —
E. B. Brownina.
Deep as hell from high heaven. —
CARLYLE.
Deep as Tophet, high as heaven.
— Ip.
DEEP. — DEGRADED. 87
Deep — continued.
Silence as deep as eternity. —
Ini.
Deep as life and death. — Inv.
Deep as the murmurs of the falling
floods. — James CAWTHORN.
Deep and yet soft, like notes from
some long chord responsive to thrilled
air. — GrorGe Enior.
Deep as annihilation. — THomas
Harpy.
Sighs as deep as destiny. — JEAN
INGELOw.
Deep as devils grope. — SIDNEY
LANIER.
Joy as deep as heaven’s blue. —
T. T. Lyncu.
Deep as that grave in Hell where
Cesar lies. — Epwarp MarkuamM.
As deep as Pedwell. — ScorrisH
PROVERB.
Deep and tender as the blue of a
baby’s eye.—JamEs WHITCOMB
Ritey.
Deep as the unfathomed endless sea.
—C. G. Rossetti.
Chasms as deep and as drear as the
tomb. — Joun Ruskin. '
Deep as hell. — SHAKESPEARE.
Deep as the sea. — lpm.
Deep as night and Heaven. — SHEL-
LEY.
Deep as deep in water sinks a stone.
— SWINBURNE.
Deep as music’s heart. — Ism.
Deep as the clear unsounded sea.
—Isp.
Deep as the deep dim soul of a star.
— Isp.
Deep as the depths unsought
Whence faith’s own hope may redeem
us naught. — Isp.
Deep as the pit of hell. — Isp.
Deeper than men’s dreams of hell
are deep. — Isp.
Deeper than the green sea’s grass.
— Isp.
Deep as hate. — Inr.
Deep as the grave. — Ini.
Deeper than time or space. — Int.
A grief as deep as life or thought. —
TENNYSON.
Deep as the shadow of Rome. —
JoHN R. THompson.
Deep as the bottomless pit. — G. 8.
VIERECK.
A tone as low and deep as love’s first
whisper. — N. P. WItis.
Deeper than the vanities of power,
or in vain pomp of glory. — Isr.
Deepen.
Deepening like the dawn. — T. B.
ALDRICH.
Defect.
The wise man’s defects are like the
eclipses of the sun; they come to
every one’s knowledge. — Conrucivs.
Defiant.
Defiant as a rosebud slipped from
its parent stalk. — ANON.
Defiant as the storied Greek amid
his brave Three Hundred. — Mar-
GARET J. PRESTON.
Deformed.
Deformed as guilt. — ANON.
Deformed, like the mute dwarfs
Which wait upon a naked Indian queen.
— Rozert BRownIne.
Degraded.
Degraded, like a hedge-born swain
That doth presume to boast of gentle
blood. — SHAKESPEARE.
88 DEIFY. — DEMOCRACY.
Deify.
Deify me, as if some blithe wine
Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk,
And so become immortal.
— Keats.
Dejected.
As dejected as a wet hen. — Scort-
TISH PROVERB.
Deliberate.
Deliberate as a lawyer’s brief. —
Firz-Jamrs O’BRIEN.
Deliberately.
Deliberately as Nature. — THoREAU.
Delicate.
She was delicate and fair as moon-
light. — Hans CurisTian ANDERSEN.
Delicate as a lily. — ANon.
Delicate as flowers. — Ipmp.
Delicate as the sunset on the snow-
covered summits of Mount Sfiorito. —
Isp.
Delicate as invisible needle-points.
— CARLYLE.
Delicate and evanescent as the
colored pencilings on a frosty night
from the Northern Lights. — Ds
QUINCEY.
Delicate as a white violet. — Joycr
KILMER.
Delicate as rose leaves. — AGNES
REPPLIER.
Delicate as the tension of a lyre. —
Epira M. Tuomas.
Delicately.
Delicately, as fingers play sad music.
—R. D. Biackmore.
Delicately, like the tap of a finger-
nail on a vase. — GrorGe MEREDITH.
Delicious.
Delicious as forbidden fruit. —
ANON.
Delicious as trickles of wine poured
at mass-time. — Ropert BRownine.
Delicious as a dream. — Miss Lan
DON.
Delight (Noun).
These violent delights have violent
ends,
And in their triumph die, like fire
and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
— SHAKESPEARE,
Hold delight as grape-flowers hold
their wine. — SWINBURNE.
Delight as the wind’s in the billow.
—Ism.
Delight (Verb).
Delight as a wave in the wind. —
SWINBURNE.
Delight as in freedom won. — Inn.
Delightful.
Delightful as the song of Philomel.
— Anon.
Delightful as the all-enlivening sun.
— Watrer Harte.
Delusion.
Delusions, errors, and lies are like
huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of
which are rotten and worm-eaten,
and those who embark in them are
fated to be shipwrecked. — Buppua.
Delusions, like dreams, are dispelled
by our awakening to the stern realities
of life. — A. R. C. Daas.
Dear delusions, fairy charms,
As fancy dreams in virtue’s arms.
— Epwarp Lovizonp.
Delusion —like the butterfly to
soar. — Imre Mapdécu.
Delusive.
Delusive as a midnight dream. —
JAMES CAWTHORN.
Democracy.
Democratic as a saint. — ANON.
The Democratic party is like a man
riding backwards in a carriage: It
never sees a thing until it has gone by.
— Bensamin F, Burien.
DEMOCRACY. — DESOLATE. 89
Democracy — continued.
Democracy, like an army, has a way
of persuading aristocrats to lead it. —
Ricwarp LE GALLIENNE.
Demur.
Demur like a posed lawyer, as if
delay could remove some impediments.
—Tusomas Apams.
Demure.
Demure as a cat. — ANON.
Demure as a nun. — Isr.
Demure as a Quaker. — Izm.
Demurely as a judge that pro-
nounceth sentence of death. — Joun
Forp.
As demure as if butter would not
melt in his mouth.—Jonn Ray’s
“ HANDBOOK OF PROVERBS.”
Denied.
Denied,
Like spurned beggars at a palace gate.
— Anne C. L. Borra.
Dense.
Dense as the fumes of ascending
hell. — SwINBURNE.
Dense as the walls that fence the
secret darkness of unknown time. —
Isip.
Dense as darkness. — Ipm.
Depart.
Departed, like Ichabod’s glory. —
ANON.
His fame is departed like mist,
when it flies, before the rustling wind,
along the brightening vale. — JAMES
MacpHeErson.
Departed as a shadow. — Por.
Departed like a gleam, that for a
moment in the heavy sky
Is opened when the storm is hurrying
by. — SourHEY.
Departed as a scroll when it is rolled
together. — New TEsTamMENrT.
be z Depart
Like blighted buds; or clouds that
mimicked land
Before the sailor's eye.
— Worpswortu.
Descend.
Descended like a wolf on the fold.
— ANON.
Descends like the foot of a crow. —
- ARABIC.
Dryden, descending to such game,
was like an eagle stooping to catch
flies. — GoLpsmiTH.
Would no more descend from his.
calm than a bronze statue from its
pedestal. — FRANcISQUE SARCEY.
Descending .. .
Like the spring whose breath is blend-
ing
All blasts of fragrance into one.
— SHELLEY.
The light of speech descends like a
tongue of the Pentecost. — Bayarp
TAYLOR.
Complaints of times when merit wants
reward
Descend like similes from bard to bard.
— WILLIAM WHITEHEAD.
Desire (Noun).
The passions and desires, like the
two twists of rope, mutually mix one
with the other, and twine inextricably
round the heart ; producing good, if
moderately indulged; but certain
destruction, if suffered to become in-
ordinate. — Rosert Burton.
Desire (Verb).
As flowers desire the kisses of the rain,
She his, and many a year desired in
vain. — Wituiam Watson.
Desirous.
Desirous as the nights of youth. —
D. G. Rossetti.
Desolate.
Desolate as a mausoleum. — ANON.
90 DESOLATE. —~ DEVOTION.
Desolate — continued.
Desolate as a cave
Abandoned even of the breaking wave.
— Laurence Binyon.
Desolate as a tomb. — HEInricH
HEINE.
Desolate as death.— Francis S.
SALTUS.
Despair.
Despair is like froward children,
who, when you take away one of their
playthings, throw the rest into the fire
for madness. — P. pr CHARRON.
Despicable.
Despicable . . . as the old age of a
passionate man. — ANON.
I kant consieve a more despikable
objek than a proud and arrogant man ;
he makes me think ov an old Tom
Turkey Trieing tew git mad at a red
flannel pettycoat on a clothes line. —
JosH BrLiines.
Despise.
Despised as a thing passing into
oblivion. — THomas Morron.
Despised, like the descending pearls
of a misty morning. — Jerremy Tay-
LOR.
Destitute.
Destitute of sense as the gesture of
the tree and the sound of the wind.
— Huco.
Destitute . . . like a beast naked
without refute, upon a plain to abide
all summer showers. — Joun LyDGATE.
Destitute as a stock-fish. — Joun
Howarp Payne.
Destroy.
Destroyeth like the flash of lightning.
— Max MULLER.
Destroyeth the body as ivy doth
the old tree, or a worm that engen-
dereth in the kernel of the nut. — Sir
Watrer Raeicu.
Destructive.
Destructive as the bite of the rattle-
snake. — ANON.
About as destructive as a blank
cartridge. — Inip.
Destructive as a centre-rush in a
football team. — Inn.
Destructive as hail in summer. —
Ibm.
Deteriorate.
Deteriorate like a fish in the sun.
— AmpBrose BIERcE.
Determined.
Determined aspect like the iron
jawed lady in a circus. —Irvin §.
Coss.
Detestable.
Detestable as exalted wickedness. —
RoBert Burton.
Detested.
_Detested as the gates of hell. —
SCHILLER.
Detraction.
Detraction, like a crab, rian
backwards. — ANon.
Devoid.
Devoid of feeling as a eunuch is of
manly joys. — ANON.
Devoid of imagination as a brick. —
T. W. H. Crostanp.
Devoted.
Devoted as a faithful dog.—
GEORGE SAND.
Devotion.
Devotion ‘is like the candle which
Michael Angelo used to take in his
pasteboard cap, so as not to throw
his shadow upon the work on which
he was engaged. — Puitiirs Brooks.
Devotion, like fire in froste weather,
burns hottest in affliction. — Sir
Tuomas OvEeRBuRY.
DEVOTION, — DIFFER. 91
Devotion — continued.
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
— ZOROASTER.
Devour.
Devour me as an adversary. —
BuNYAN.
Devoured it like a ravenous wolf
that had been starving a fortnight in
the snow. — DanieL DEFor.
As scorching heat the mountain snow
devours,
As thirsty earth drinks up the falling
show’rs,
Ev’n so the grave’s insatiable jaws
Those rebels swallow who infringe
His laws. — Grorcre SAnpys.
Devoutly.
Devoutly as the Dervish. — Hoop.
Dewy.
Dewy as a spring morning. — Amy
LESLIE.
Dewy as Aphrodite fresh risen from
the foam. — OwENn SEAMAN.
Die.
Die like a dog in a ditch. — ANon.
The fresh roses on your cheeks shall
die,
Like flowers that wither in the shade.
— Apura Brun.
Parting day
Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang
imbues
With a new colour as it gasps away,
The last still loveliest, till — ’tis gone,
and all is-gray. — Byron.
Dies like cookery with the day that
brought it forth. — CARLYLE.
Die like a rat in hole. — RANGER
GULL.
A remnant of beauty was’dying out
upon this face of sixteen, like the pale
sun which is extinguished by frightful
clouds at the dawn of a winter’s day.
— Hueco.
It died away
Like the pale sunbeam of a weeping
day. — Jacqurs Jasmin.
All my glories die,
Like flowers transplanted to a colder
sky. — Lorp Lytretton.
She died — as die the roses
On the ruddy clouds of dawn,
When the envious sun discloses
His flame, and morning’s gone.
— Evan MacCott.
Dies away,
Like relics of some faded strain, loved
voices, lost for many a day.
— Tuomas Moore.
Die as April’s cowslips die. — Jonn
PAYNE.
Dies away like a peal of cathedral
bells. — Sarnt-Prerre.
Dies as dreams that die with the
sleep they feed. — SwInBURNE.
As a star feels the sun and falters,
Touched to death by diviner eyes —
As on the old gods’ untended altars
The old fire of withered worship dies.
— Isp.
Die as a leaf that dies in a day. —
Izip.
Died like odor rapt in the winged wind,
Borne into alien lands and far away.
— TENNYSON.
Died away like a sigh in the shadow
of the infinite vault. — GIovANNI
VERGA. ‘
Differ.
Differ as a clipped hedge and forest.
— ANON. 7
Differ as an Indian and a Greek. —
Ism.
Differ as a Roman stylus and Mr.
Waterman’s fountain pen. —Izrp.
Differ as a satyr to Hyperion; as a
rushlight to the sun. — Ini.
Differ as a Vatican fresco and a
political transparency. — Ipmp.
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92
Differ — continued.
Differ as a whale and a tadpole. —
ANON.
Differ as a Whistler nocturne and
the design on a chocolate box. — Izm.
Differ as a zephyr and a cyclone.
— Isp.
Differ as flint and chalk. — In.
Differ as grass and hay. — Inrp.
Differ as Hamlet and Hercules. —
Isr.
Differ as harp and harrow. — Ixrp.
Differ as locks. — Ini.
Differ as a mangled monkey and a
well made man. — Isp.
Differ as noses. — IBrp.
Differ as pigments and a picture. —
Ipp.
Differ as shine and substance. —
Isr.
Differ as simpleton and sage. —
Isp.
Differ as smoke and flame. — Inip.
Differs as stage money from gov-
ernment bonds. — Isp. ;
Differ as sword and tooth-pick. —
Ini.
Differ as the Central Park Menagerie
and the depths of the jungle. — Ini.
Differ as the glow-worm and the
eagle. — Ini.
Differs as the jimson weed from the
violet. — Isr.
Differ as the mid-day sun and a
convalescent white bean. — Ini.
Differ as the Parthenon of Athens
and an American court house. — Isr.
Differ as the song of the lark to the
voice of the crow. — Inn.
Differs as the tail of a comet and the
tail of a pig. — In.
DIFFER. —- DIFFERENCE,
Differ as winter and summer. — Inin.
Differ most, as salt and sugar. —
Bacon.
Differ as a nettle and a pink. —
E. B. Brownine.
Differ as an octave flute and a
tavern gong.— Witliam CULLEN
BRYANT.
The true beautiful ... differs
from the false as Heaven does from
Vauxhall. — CARLYLE.
Differ as a breastplate and a pie-
crust. — Dumas, PERE.
Differ as a hound of blood and a
mongrel. — CHARLES MAcKLIN.
Differ as a laughing brook and a
cup of water. — C. M. S. McLetian.
Differ like human faces. — NicHoLas
Rowe.
Differ as much as chalcke and
chese. — RICHARD SHACKLOCK.
Difference.
Difference between a bent copper
farthing and a nugget of gold. — Anon.
Difference between a Greek temple
and a bird-cage, the solemn sea and a
street puddle. — Inn.
The difference between having a
woman at your side and on your side.
—Isp.
Difference between tweedle dum
and tweedle dee. — Inm.
The difference of savour ’twixt
vinegar and wine. — Arapian Nicuts.
Difference between ... the ideal
priest who is everlastingly by some
one’s bed and the real priest who is
as glad as any one else to get to his
own. — G. K. CHESTERTON.
Difference between the race-horse
and the Shetland pony, the bantam
and the Shanghai fowl, the greyhound
and the poodle dog.—Jonn W.
Drarer.
DIFFERENCE, — DIFFICULTY. 93
Difference — continued.
As much difference as between an
organ and a bagpipe. — W. S. Lanpor.
As much difference between them
as between a horse chestnut and a
chestnut horse. — Lean’s ‘“‘CoLLEc-
TANEA.”
As much difference as there is be-
tween beautie and vertue, bodies and
shadowes, colors and life —so great
odds is there between love and friend-
ship. — Ly.y.
Difference between a sonata of
Beethoven and the Battle Cry of
Freedom, between a gravestone-cutter’s
cherub and the masterpieces of
Raphael. — Wittiam MartueEws.
The. difference between a Sunday
newspaper supplement on the monkeys
in the Bronx Zoo and the Darwinian
Theory. — GrorcE Jean NaTHan.
The difference is as great as that be-
tween an elephant and a mosquito. —
Tami. PROVERB.
Difference . .. between jet and
ivory. — SHAKESPEARE.
Different.
As different as an equinoctial is from
an evangel. — ANON.
Different as dog-days and those at
Christmas. — Isp.
Different as gold and platina. —
Ip.
Different as swan is from goose. —
Tsp.
As different as paths of storm. —
AmBROsE BIERCE.
As different as our faces. —C. C.
Coton.
Different an aim as a child’s first
journey across a floor. — HAWTHORNE.
As different . . . as a sigh from the
southwest is from the northeastern
breeze. — O, W. HoLmes.
Different as the two hemispheres
in the time of Columbus. — GEORGE
MEREDITH.
Different as dark eyes from golden
hair. — SWINBURNE.
Difficult.
Difficult as a Greek puzzle. — ANon.
Difficult as to forgive the virtues of
our enemies. — Isip.
Difficult as to grasp a shadow. —
Isip.
Difficult as to hiss and yawn at the
same time. — Ip.
Difficult as to pin a medal on a
shadow. — Inmp.
Difficult as to sail the sea in an egg
shell. — Ipip.
Difficult as to remember a rhyme
made in a dream. — Isp.
Difficult as to walk a mile on stilts
upon a line of feather-beds. — Ini.
Difficult as a beginning. — Byron.
Difficult . . . as for a rattlesnake to
stir without making a noise. —C. C.
Cotton.
Difficult as it would be to hum an
air from an opera bouffe while listen-
ing to the overture of Tannhiuser,
— Arruur Jerome Eppy.
Difficult to grasp as the small end of
a hard boiled egg. — Ropert EpGREN.
As difficult . . . as to preserve your
purse at a gaming-table or your health
at a bawdy house. — FIELDING.
As difficult as for a slave girl to
please a slave-dealer. —Osmanui Prov-
ERB.
Difficult as to distinguish colors in
the darkness. — Sir RicHaRD STEELE.
Difficulty.
Difficulty adds to result, as the
ramming of powder sends the bullet
the further. — George MacDona.p.
94 DIFFICULTY. — DIMMED.
Difficulty — continued.
Difficulties, like thieves, often dis-
appear at a glance. — ROCHEFAU-
CAULD.
Diffuse.
Diffused .. . like scatt’red chaffe, the
which the wind away doth fan. —
SPENSER.
Dignified.
Dignified as the Chapels-of-Ease. —
Tuomas Harpy.
Dignified, like a boy with a stiff
neck. — JosePpH C. LINCOLN.
Dilapidated.
She was a little dilapidated, like a 1
house, with having been so long to let.
— Dickens.
Dilated.
Dilated, like a saint in ecstasy. —
E. B. Brownine.
Diligent.
Doubly diligent, like the devil’s
apothecary. — Francis Grose.
Diligent, like Jacob was unto his
master , Laban. — Hueu Latimer.
Dim.
Dim as the land of shadows. —
ANON.
As dim as dim might be. — Rozerr
BUCHANAN.
Dim ...as in a dream. — BuL-
WER-LYTTON.
Burn dim, like lamps in noisome air.
— COLERIDGE.
Dim as a ghost. — Mrs. E. M. H.
CorTISsoz.
Ghastly dim and pale, as if driven
by a beating storm at sea. — Ricnarp
Henry Dana.
Dim as the borrow’d beams of moon
or stars, — DryDENn.
Dim as the wandering stars that
burst in the blue of the Summer
heaven. — Frrz-GrEENE HALLEck.
Dim and sweet as moonlight in a
solitary street. — LONGFELLOW.
Dim wrapt in a haze like a shrouded
ghost. —Srr A. Lyau.
Dim as the dream of an idle dreamer.
— Ernest McCarrey.
Dim as the shades in the angry
shower, — GEORGE MEREDITH.
Dim .. . like the far golden lustre
of a dark god-like town. — WILLIAM
Morris.
Dim as the dream of a dream that
was dreamed. — SypNEy MunpEn.
Dim as the dusk of day. —Jamrs
Wattcoms RILey.
Dimensionless.
Dimensionless as God’s infinity. —
EBENEZER ELLIOTT.
Diminish.
Beauties diminish, like those of a
fine prospective viewed too near. —
M. ve La Brurerre.
Dimly.
Dimly traced
Like moss-grown letters on a moulder-
ing stone. — ARABIAN.
Dimly like a half-remembered dream.
—Gerorce Enror.
Dimmed.
Dimm’d . . . like a vague remnant
of some by-past scene. — CHARLOTTE
Bronte.
Dimmed and flattened, like an etch-
ing that has gone too often to the press.
— Joun Corsin.
Dimmed and torn, like the remainder
tatters of a dream. — Hoop.
Dimm’d, like to the morning mist.
— Tuomas SACKVILLE.
DIMPLED. — DISAPPEAR. 95
Dimpled.
Dimpled as a baby.—O. W.
Homes.
Dimpling.
Dimpling like a brook. — ANon.
Dimpling like a maiden’s cheek. —
Irvin S. Coss.
Din.
The inward din,
Like a hundred braziers working in
A caldron with their hammers.
— SourTHEY.
Dingy.
Dingy, like a grubby lot
Of sooty sweeps, or colliers.
— Hoop.
Dipping.
Dipping here and there, like diggers
in California “prospecting for a placer”
that will pay. — Emerson.
Dire.
Dire as the face disfeatured of a
dream. — SWINBURNE.
Dire as when friends are rankled
into foes. — JaMES THOMSON.
Direct.
Direct as a railroad. — Hoop.
Direct as antique tragedy. — JAMES
HUNEKER.
Direct as light. — Robert G. IncEr-
SOLL.
Direct as the arrow of logic. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Dirge.
Sad dirges,
Like the wind through a ruined cell,
Or the mournful surges
That ring the dead seaman’s knell.
— SHELLEY.
Dirt.
Dirt is like wickedness ; it is only
when it shows so much as to be ap-
parent to everybody that we are
ashamed of it.— Mary A. Brav-
CHAMP.
Dirty.
Dirty as a hog. — Joun Byrom.
Dirty as earth. — FIELDING.
Disagree.
Disagree like clocks. — Lyty.
Disagreeing as fire and water. —
Isr.
Disappear.
Disappear like phantoms.— ANon.
Disappearing at day break like foul
night-birds of an unclean dream. —
W. C. Brann.
Disappears like dew on a June
morning. — Epwarp G. Burrum.
Slowly disappearing, like a day
dream. — C. S. CALVERLEY.
Disappeared like a shadow. — ADEL-
BERT VON CHAMISSO.
Disappeared . . . like a man over-
taken by an avalanche. — JosepH
ConraD.
Disappeared, like the shadow thrown
by a passing cloud. — Dickens.
Disappeared, like a cloud driven by
the wind. — Dumas, PERE.
Disappeared, like. a passing gleam.
— GeorcEe Exror.
Disappear like a tale that is told.
— Smeon Forp.
Disappeared like a shape in a vision
— Tuomas Harpy.
Disappeared, as a shadow melting
into air. — Huao.
Disappeared like buttered crumpets.
—Leicu Hunt.
Disappeared like a shot. — Miss
Mutocx.
Disappeared like print held too close
to the eye. — ArTHUR RANSsOME.
Disappear,
Like dew late strewn through the
trembling grass.
— Haypen Sanps.
96 DISAPPEAR, — DISMAL,
Disappear — continied.
Appeared and disappeared like a
succession of lightning flashes. — Josz
SELGAS. :
Disappeared as if he had vanished in
the air. — Inrp.
Disappear, as if it all had vanished
through the sky. — SHELLEY.
Disappointing.
Disappointing as wet gun-powder.
— Anon.
Discipline.
Discipline, like the bridle in the
hand of a good rider, should exercise
its influence without appearing to do
so, should be ever active, both as a
support and as ua restraint, yet seem
to lie easily in hand. It must always
be ready to check or pull up, as oc-
casion may require; and only when
the horse is a runaway should the
action of the curb be perceptible. —
Junius C. Hare.
Disconnected.
Disconnected as a dream. — Max
Norpav.
Discontentment.
As for discontentments, they are in
the politic body like to humors in the
natural, which are apt to gather a
preternatural heat and to inflame ;
and let no prince measure the danger
of them by this, whether they be just
or unjust. — Bacon.
Discordant.
Discordant as the cries of a gull. —
Daubert.
Discordant as croaking frogs. —Bon-
NELL THORNTON.
Discourse.
Themistocles said that a man’s dis-
course was like to a rich Persian carpet,
the beautiful figures and patterns of
which can be shown only by spreading
and extending it out ; when it is con-
tracted and folded up, they are ob-
scured and lost. — PLUTARCH.
Discover.
Men of great genius as easily dis-
cover one another as freemasons can.
— Frevprne.
Disease.
The disease and its medicine are like
two factions in a besieged town; they
tear one another to pieces, but both
unite against their common enemy,
nature. — RIcHARD JEFFRIES.
Disguise.
Weakness ineffectually seeks to dis-
guise itself, —like a drunken man
trying to show how sober he is. —
C. N. Bove.
Disgust.
Disgust, as . . . she had touched a
snake. — E. B. BRownina.
Disgusting, like moving cheese. —
EMERSON.
With disgust ... like one who
draws out a hair from fresh butter.
— Osman PRovERB.
Dishevel.
As disheveled as any naturalist’s
wig. — Bazac.
Dishevell’d hair,
Like eagle’s plumage ruffled by the air.
—James MontTcomMEry.
Dishonest.
Dishonest as a gas meter. — ANON.
Dishonest as local elections. — AMY
LESLIE.
Dishonor.
Dishonor is like the Aaron’s Beard
in the hedgerows ; it can only poison
if it is plucked. — Ouma.
Dismal.
Dismal as a hearse. — NICOLAS
BortEav.
Dismal as death, — CLEANTHES.
DISMAL, — DISTANT. 97
Dismal — continued.
Dismal as a wet Derby day. — A. E.
Housman.
Dismal as a mute at a funeral. —
THACKERAY.
Dismal as the month in wich
Christmas is celebrated. — BoNNELL
THORNTON.
Dismissed.
Dismiss’d . . . as Jove fans off the
clouds. — Kxats.
Disordered.
His speech was like a tangled chain ;
nothing impaired, but all disordered.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Disorderly.
Disorderly,
Like to a rancke of piles that pitched
are awry. — SPENSER.
Dispel.
Dispelled, as the sun did the fog.
— ANON.
Disperse.
Disperse
Like cloud-obstruction when a bolt
escapes. — RoBert BRowNING.
Dispersed like smoke wreaths. —
Hugo.
Dispersed, as by a tempest. —
Jonann L. UHLAND.
Display.
Display is like shallow water, where
you can see the muddy bottom. —
ALPHONSE Karr.
Disposition.
The disposition is moulded in a
happy manner by instruction, as the
shapeless material assumes a beautiful
form in the hands of a skilful artist.
— DEMOPHILUs.
Disputant.
True disputants are like true sports-
men, their whole delight is in the
pursuit; and a disputant no more
cares for the truth than the sportsman
for the hare. — Popr.
Disrobed.
Disrobed, like a pure image in a
secret shrine. — CHARLES L. Moore.
Dissembling.
Dissembling as the sea, that now
wears brows as smooth as virgins’ be,
tempting the merchant to invade his
face, and in an hour calls his billows
up, and shoots ’em at the sun, destroy-
ing all he carries on him. — BrEaumont
AND FLETCHER.
Dissension.
Dissensions like small streams, at first
begun,
Searce seen they rise, but gather as
they run. — SAMUEL GARTH.
Dissimilar.
As dissimilar as the pure, white,
gleaming lily of the hothouse is unlike
the wind-tossed, sand-sustained, yellow
leaf downtrodden in the mud. —
Ourpa.
Dissimilar as a trading town and a
watering-place. — R. S. SURTEES.
Dissipated.
Dissipated like fleecy clouds across
summer skies. — ANON.
Dissolve.
Dissolved like a mimic castle of
morning frost when the sun exerts
himself. — Anon.
Dissolved like an unsubstantial pag-
eant. — Grorce Exior.
Dissolved, like a fragment of ice
that melts in the summer sea. —
Henry Van Dyke.
Dissolve like smoke. — VERLAINE.
Distant.
Distant as America from Atlantis.
— ANON.
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Distant — continued.
Keep their distances, as if they
were Montagues and Capulets. — Dry-
DEN.
At a safe distance, like mother ducks
watching their brood. — Kreiine.
Distant as the
GrorcE MEREDITH.
horizon — sail. —
Distant as a dream’s flight. — JoHN
G. NEIHARDT.
Distant as the dead. — ScHILLER.
Distinct.
Distinct as a new map. — ANON.
Distinct as thunder-peals. —P. J.
BaIey.
Distinct as vice from virtue. —
CHARLOTTE Bronté.
Distinct . . . like a gong at mid-
night. — E. B. Brownina.
Distinct and individual as a pebble.
— Dr. JoHNson.
Distinct as the billows, yet one as
the sea. — JAMES MONTGOMERY.
Distinguished.
The piece by Voltaire . . . distin-
guished itself from the surrounding
pieces like a slab of compact polished
stone in a floor rammed together out
of ruinous old bricks, and broken
bottles, and mortar dust. — CARLYLE.
Distort.
Distort one’s features like a paralytic
stroke. — BULWER-LYTTON.
Distress (Noun).
Distress is forever going about like
soot in the air. — DICKENS.
Distress (Verb).
Distressing us like some bad banquet.
— CARLYLE.
Distresses ... like old men’s
thoughts of love’s first kiss. — Joun
Davinson.
DISTANT. — DIVIDE.
Distrest
Like a poor bird — her plundered nest
Hovering around with dolorous moan.
; — Worpswortu.
Distribute.
Napoleon . . . distributed himself
about like the five loaves in the Gospel,
commanded on the battlefield all day,
and drew up his plans at night. —
Bauzac.
Disturbed.
Disturbed like a wind-shaken
anemone. — JAMES LANE ALLEN.
Disturbing.
Disturbing. . . like a tasteless or-
nament. — ANON.
Disturbing as an unopened tele-
gram. — SypNEY MuNDEN.
Dive.
Dive, like wild-fowl for salvation. —
SAMUEL BUTLER.
Dive, like ducks. — Tuomas Swap-
WELL.
Dive, like buckets, in concealed
wells. — SHAKESPEARE.
Diverge.
But with puberty divergence begins ;
and, like the radii of a circle, we go
further and further apart. — ScHorEn-
HAUER.
Diverse.
Diverse as are the soul and the
body. — Bunyan.
Divide.
Dividing like a splitting stick. —
Tuomas Harpy.
Divide me like a bribe-buck, each a
haunch. — SHAKESPEARE.
And flesh from bone divides without a
pang
As dew from flower-bell drips.
— SWINBURNE.
DIVINE, — DOWN. 99
Divine.
Divine as dreams lit by fire of ap-
peased desire which sounds the secret
of all that seems. — SwInBURNE.
Divine as evening’s death. — Lorp
De TaBLey.
Dizzy.
Dizzy as a goose. — ANON.
Dizzy like one in an ill dream. —
Inp.
Dizzy as a moth that flutters round
the flame. — BoyEsEN.
Dizzy, like a man in a dream falling
from a height and enduring the an-
guish of falling. — EpMonp AND JULES
DE GoncouRT.
Docile.
Docile as a lamb. — Bauzac.
Docile as a pet spaniel. — Haw-
THORNE.
Docile as
WorDSWORTH.
Dodge.
Dodge like the Artful Dodger. —
ANON.
Dodged and scrambled around like
a woman who has lost her mind on
a managed horse. —
account of the arrival of a bat.— |
Marx Twain.
Doleful.
Doleful as a bull-frog crossed in love.
— ANON.
Doleful as a cavern-well. — CoLz-
RIDGE.
Dolorous.
Dolorous, like some starved shape
that cowers in charnel crypt. —
AUBREY Ds VERE.
Domestic.
Domestic as the night. — ALFRED
AUSTIN.
Domesticated as marmalade. —
Ricoarp Le GALLIENNE.
Domineering.
Domineering as Beelzebub. — Joun
W. De Forest.
Dote.
Dote more on it than a fool on his
bauble. — ANon:
This sluggard dotes, it seems, on
slumber, like an ass on oats. —Huao.
Double (Adjective).
Double like Janus’ face. — ANon.
Double (Verb).
Double up like a jack knife. — ANon.
Double up like a foot rule. — Inip.
Doubled like a hare. — Sir SamuEL
Wuite Baker.
Doubt.
To my doubt I was,
As glass is to the color that invests it.
— Dante (LonGrELLow).
Doubtful.
Doubtful antecedent is as fatal to
a@ pronoun as to sausage. — ARLO
Bates.
_ Doubtful it stood ;
As two spent swimmers, that do cling
together
And choke their art.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Down.
Gone down like grass before the
scythe. — ANon.
His foot came down like the foot of
Pantagruel. — Ipip.
Went down like Mercury in a chilled
thermometer. — Iz.
The ship went down like lead. —
CoLERDDGE.
From heaven down-cast
Like red leaves he swept away.
— LOoNGFELLOw.
Down, like a plummet. — SourHeEy.
Down, like the hungry hawk. —
M. E. Srespins.
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Down — continued.
He shall come down like rain upon
the mown grass: as showers that
water the earth. — Otp TESTAMENT.
Downcast.
Downcast as a woman fearing
blame. — Worpswortu.
Downfall.
Most people’s downfalls are not
dangerous ;_ they are like children
. who have not far to fall, and can not
injure themselves. — Huco.
Down-Trodden.
Down-trodden, as the untimely fruit
Shook from the fig-tree by a sudden
storm. — COLERIDGE.
Downward.
Grew downward like old women and
cow’s tail. — Hoop.
Downward like a powerless corse.
—Joun Lrypen.
Wafted downward, like the painted
leaves of Autumn. — LoncrELLow.
Drag.
Drag along like a stage procession.
— ANON.
Dragged out like a languishing con-
certina. — Wittiam ARCHER.
Drag like lead. — Dickens.
Dragged . . . like a lamb to
a slaughter-house. — Tuomas Hot-
CROFT.
Dragged like a dove into the vul-
ture’s bed. — Lycoruron.
Like a wounded snake drags its slow
length along. — Popr.
Drama.
(See also Theatre and Play.)
The chief difference between drugs
and the drama, as habits, is the ease
with which one breaks away from the
latter. — Cuanninc PoLtocx.
DOWN. — DREADFULLY.
The drama, like the symphony, does
not teach or prove anything. — Joun
M. Synce.
Drape.
Draped round her pallid brow like
seaweed on a clam. — SWINBURNE.
Draws.
Draws as the moon draws the sea.
— ANON.
Draws tears like an onion. — Ini.
As a torch doth
Rospert Burton.
like
oil, draws. —
Draws enthusiasm. — Ruta
Putnam.
Draws ... like a loving kiss. — W. B.
Ranps.
Dread.
Dread as doom. — ANON.
Dread like the Day of Doom’s tick.
— Rosert Brownina. :
Dread as vague imaginings. — Tup-
PER.
Dreadful.
Dreadful as the parting hour. —
Anne Brontii.
Dreadful as the storm. — Camp-
BELL.
As dreadful as the Manichean god.
— CowPeEr.
Dreadful as a gathering storm. —
Joun Hay.
Dreadful as the God of war. —
Homer.
The King is dreadful as the grim
lion in the valley. — Pentaur.
Dreadful, as hermit’s dreams in
haunted shades. — Pork.
Dreadful as battle arrayed. — Fran-
cis THOMPSON.
Dreadfully.
Dreadfully, as if from realms of
mystical despairs. — P. H. Hayne.
DREAM. — DRINK.
Dream (Noun).
Dreams are like portraits; and
we find they please because they
are confessed resemblances. — GEORGE
CRABBE.
Dream (Verb).
Dreaming, like one in mood of hope by
fancy spun,
Awaiting to be wooed, and willing to
be won. —H. 8. Surron.
Dreamy.
Dreamy like the far-off chimes of
angels’ bells from out the highest
heaven. — KinesLEy.
Dreamy as music. — Francis S.
SALTUs.
Dreamy like dim skies. —Swin-
BURNE.
Dreary.
Dreary as an Asian steppe. — BaL-
ZAC.
Dreary, dull, and sad as Death. —
E1iza Cook.
Dreary as an empty house. — FLau-
BERT.
Thou goest like a dromedary, dreary
and drowsy. — Joann Hrywoop.
Dress.
As the index tells the contents of
the book, and directs to the particular
chapter, even so do the outward habit
and garments, in man or woman, give
us a taste of the spirit, and point to
the eternal quality of the soul; and
there cannot be a more evident and
gross manifestation of poor, degenerate,
dunghill blood and breeding, than a
tude, unpolished, disordered, and
slovenly outside. — MassINGERr.
Drift.
Drifting like flakes of snow. — ANON.
Drift . . . lightly as a leaf. —P. J.
BaILey.
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Drifted, light-hearted and free, and
proud, like the Bedouin. — Strxn §.
BLICHER.
Weary drifting, driving like a helm-
less bark at sea. — AticE Cary.
Drifts on the blast, like a wind-wafted
leaf, ,
O’er the gulfs of the desolate sea.
—O. W. Homes.
Drifting like a flake of fire
Rent by a whirlwind from a blazing
spire. — Isp.
Drifted like a scarlet feather
Torn from the folded wings of clouds.
— Jan INGELOW.
Drifts like April snow. — Amy Lxs-
LIE.
The snows are driven and drifted,
Like Tithonus’ beard
Streaming dishevelled and white.
— LONGFELLow.
Drift as wrecks on the tide. — Inn.
Drifted as an unsteered log. —
Witiram Morris.
Drifting,
As the sands on sea-shore shifting.
— Exten B. Peck.
Drifted
’ Like foam or sand
Past swamp and sallow.
— SWINBURNE.
Drift like satin moons. — Oscar
WILDE.
Drink (Noun).
Strong drinks are like wars, making
cripples of some men, and sending
others to the grave. — W. S. Downey.
Drink (Verb).
Drink like a funnel. — ANoN.
Drinks like a sieve. — Iw.
Drank like a Merman.—R. H.
BaRHAM.
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Drink — continued.
Drink hike a fish. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
As the drop feeds its fated flower,
As finds its Alp the snowy shower,
Child of the omnific Need,
Hurled into life to do a deed,
Man drinks the water, drinks the light.
— Emerson.
Drink . . . as wells drink in Novem-
ber, when it rains. — LoNGrELLow.
I drank as earth imbibes the shower,
Or as the rainbow drinks the dew ;
As ocean quaffs the rivers up
Or flushing sun inhales the sea.
— Tuomas Moore.
Drink like a templar knight. —
RaBELAIS.
Drip.
Dripping like a laborer in a foundry.
— STEPHEN CRANE.
Dripping like a mermaid. — Hueco.
Dripping as if drowned. — Ramay-
ANA.
Drive.
Driving like a bedlamite. — Cum-
BERLAND.
Drives him, like a lightning. —
Homer (Pore).
Drive her foes from their savage job
As a mad black Bullock would scatter
a mob. — Hoop.
Drives like rain to the roots. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Drive like chaff before the blust’ring
wind. — GEORGE SANDYS.
Drive
Like mists before the blasts of dawn.
— SWINBURNE.
Drives out opposition, as the sun
drives out the night. —S. G. Ta iren-
TYRE.
Drove like a cataract. — TENNYSON.
As smoke is driven away, so drive
them away. — OLp TEsTaMENT.
DRINK. — DRONINGLY.
The driving is like the driving of
Jehu, the son of Nimshi; for he
driveth furiously. — Inin.
Driven.
Driven as leaves in Autumn’s blast.
— Epwarp Octavus Fuaae.
Driven, like flower-seeds by the
four winds sown. — Firz-GreEne Hat-
LECK.
Driven forth like a sky-rocket. —
MUNCHAUSEN.
Headlong driven like clouds before
the blast of heaven. — Ruskin.
Driven like chaff before the wind of
heaven. — Sir WaLter Scott.
Driven, like the alternations of an
ever-changing wind over an Afolean
lyre, which move it by their motion to
ever-changing melody. — SHELLEY.
Driven .. . like leaves before the
autumnal wind. — SouTHEY.
Driven
As foam before the wind that wakes
With the all-awakening sun, and breaks
Strong ships that rue the mirth it makes
When grace to slay is given.
— SWINBURNE.
Driven like starlets down the wind.
— James C. Woops.
Droll.
Droll as Eliezer who wrote three
hundred volumes on sowing cucum-
bers. — ANON.
Drone.
Droned in sweetness like a fattened
bee. — C. G. Rossetti.
Droningly.
Droningly . . . like the sigh of the
bleak south wind through the forest,
like the crash of the troubled sea as
its waves retire from the beach, like
the roar of the surging blaze in the
closed furnace. — Vinci...
DROOP. — DROP.
Droop.
Droops like a broken lily. — ANon.
Droop, like to bees belated in the
rain. — ALFRED AUSTIN.
Shee droopeth in her minde,
As, nipt by an ungracious winde,
Dothe some faire lillye flowre.
— EneuisH Batzap.
Drooping like a falling blossom. —
Balzac.
She drooped like a lily bedewed in
the valley. — Patrick Brontii.
Droop like wreaths of snow. — E. B.
BROWNING.
Droop’d as the willow when no
winds can breathe. — Byron.
Droops like some unpitied flower
that the rain-fall washes down. —
ALIcE Cary.
She drooped like a blossom bent by
the wind. — Epmonpo Deg Amicis.
Droops, like a rose, surcharged with
morning dew. — DrypDEn.
Drooping like plumes. — Dumas,
PERE.
The maidens droop, like meadow-
grass when mown. — GOETHE.
Drooping like Hyacinthus beneath
the blow of the quoit. — KinGsLEY.
Drooped like a lily tired
That lolls upon the stalk.
— Kopiine.
Drooping like a rose rain-laden. —
Miss Lanpon. :
Drooped like a yacht with idle sails
struck by a sudden blast, that dips
them in the salt.— GrorcE MERE-
DITH.
Drooping like crystals in the gulf of
time. — Ipp.
Droops like a flower. — Barry Pain.
Droop like the trees in October. —
JAMES PucKLE.
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Droop, like unfolded wings half
spread for flight.—T. BucHanan
Reap.
Droop like a shower-beaten flower.
—D. G. Rossetti.
Droops . . . like over-ripen’d corn
Hanging the head of Ceres’ plenteous
load. — SHAKESPEARE.
Drooping like honny dew. — SPEN-
SER.
As a vine droops, when by divorce
remov’d from the embraces of the elm
she lov’d. — Grorcr STEPNEY.
Drooped
Like a flower in the frost.
— CELIA THAXTER.
Drooping like a dew-laden lily. —
TuprPER.
Adroop like a rained-on fowl. —
WHITTIER.
Drop.
Dropped, like Icarus, in mid-sky.
—T. B. Atpricn.
Drop him like a hot potato. —
ANON.
Drops like a wounded lily. — Isw.
Drops like mercury on a cold day.
— Ipip.
Dropped off like a repleted leech.
— Isp. :
Drops like a plummet. — MaTrHew
ARNOLD.
Dropt like a rose o’er-blown. —
Apura BEHN.
Dropped like a lily broke down by
the hail. — Lapy BarNarp.
Drop off like leaves in autumn. —
Rosert Buarr.
Fluttering to the ground, dropped
like a wounded bird. — MaTHILDE
Buinp.
Dropped . . . like a spent horse. —
Grorce H. Boxer.
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Drop — continued.
Dropped heavily
As century follows century
Into the deep eternity.
—E. B. Brownine.
Drop like shot. — Ropert Brown-
ING.
Dropped as dead. — Ausrey Dz
VERE. :
Dropped like flakes, they dropped
like stars, like petals from a rose. —
Emity Dickinson.
Dropped like a flower cut down by
the sickle. — Dumas, PERE.
The blood dropped out of her cheeks
as the mercury drops from a broken
barometer-tube, and she melted away
from her seat as an image of snow. —
O. W. Hoimzs.
Music drops like balm into the
drowsy ear. — Mrs. E. C. Jupson.
Drop like hours into eternity. —
Kazats.
The slow mists of the evening dropped,
Dropped as a cloth upon a dead man’s
face. — Kipuine.
He dropped like a bullock. — Inn.
Men dropped like partridges. —
Isp.
Drop, like mellow fruit... into
the grave. — CHARLES Lams.
Dropt from the zenith like a falling
star. — MILTon.
Dropped like a stone down through
the deep sea. — Miss Mutocx.
Dropped, as by a thunder-stroke. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum. — Is.
Droppeth as the gentle rain from
heaven: — Ini.
Drop as a leaf drops dead. — Swin-
BURNE,
DROP. — DRUNK.
Dropping like flies, devoured
By winter as if by fire, starved, frozen,
blind,
Maimed, mad with torment, dying in
hell. —Ipm.
Drought.
The drouth
Is like sand spread within my mouth.
—D. G. Rossert.
Drowned. °
Drowned like pigs when they at-
tempt to swim. — Hoop.
Drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
— Op TESTAMENT.
Drowsy.
Drowsy as the hum of a bag-pipe.
— ANON.
Drowsy as the clicking of a clock.
— CowPeEr.
Drowsy as. . . Andalusiah Seville.
— Henry T. Fincx.
Drowsy voice, like murmur of a
leafy sycamore. — ALEXANDER SMITH.
Drudge.
Drudge . . . like some blind tread-
mill-horse. — Imre Mapacua.
Drum.
The steady drummer ;
Drumming like a noise in dreams.
— A. E. Houseman.
Drunk.
As drunk as a beggar. — ANON.
Drunk as a boiled owl. — Isp.
Drunk as a bunghole. — Inn.
Drunk as a piper. — Ii.
Drunk as a tinker. — Isp.
Drunk as a top. — Isp.
Drunk as David’s saw. — Isp.
Drunk as blazes. — Inm.
As drunk as three in a bed. — Isp.
DRUNK. — DUG.
Drunk — continued.
Dronken . . . as a rat. — Borpr’s
“BokE oF KNOWLEDGE,” 1542.
Drunk as a lord. — Grorce CoL-
MAN, THE YOUNGER.
Drunk as a porter. — NATHANIEL
Fie1.
Drougen [drunk] as an ape. — Joun
GRANGE.
Drunk as fish. — Ben Jonson.
Drunk as Davy’s sow on a frosty
night. — Kip.ine.
Drunk like Lot. — AnpREw Mar-
VELL.
Drunk as a fiddler. — Tue Puritan.
Drunk as a wheel-barrow. — SamuEL
WESLEY.
Drunk as a beast. — WHITTIER.
Drunk as a drum.— “Women’s
Petition AGAINST COFFEE.”
Dry.
Dry as a London newspaper. —
GzorGE ADE.
Dry as a bone. — ANon.
Dry as a prohibition fight in Ver-
mont. — Ip.
Dry as a sponge. — Inip.
Dry as nuts. — Ism.
Dry as peanut shells. — Isp.
Dry as pith. —Izip.
Dry as tinder. — Isp.
Dry as soon as tears. — In.
Drye as clot of clay. —OLp Enc-
uisH BALLapD.
Dry as desert dust. —Srorrorp A.
BRooKkE.
Dry as a cinder. — JoszPH ConraD.
Dry as a chip. — Dickens.
Dry as a lime-basket. — Inp.
Dry as the desert. — Inn.
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Dry as granite. — Dr. Joun Doran.
Dry as ashes. — Grorce Exror.
Dry as an espalier vine in winter.
— ANATOLE FRANCE.
Dry as the shell on the sand. —
O. W. Hotmss.
Dried like a raisin. — CHarues
Lams.
Dry as the leaves in winter. — W. S.
Lanpor.
Dry as sand.— Cartes G. Lz-
LAND.
Dry as a pond in the Summer. —
Lover.
e
Dry as the tomb. — Ropert Mac-
KAY.
Dry as flame. — Ouma.
Dry as dust. — SHAKESPEARE.
Dry as the remainder biscuit after a
voyage. — Isr.
Dry as tinder. — SMOLLETT.
Drying up like a brook when the
woods have been cleared around. —
Bayarp TayYLor.
Dry as fossil truths. — THorEAv.
Dry and yellow as parchment. —
Henry Van Dyke.
Drizzle.
Drizling like deawy rayne. — SPEN-
SER.
Duck.
Duck as low as any barefoot friar.
— MARLOWE.
Dug.
He now dug into the poor clergy-
man’s heart, like a miner searching
for gold; or, rather, like a sexton
delving into a grave, possibly in quest
of a jewel that had been buried on the
dead man’s bosom, but likely to find
nothing save mortality and corruption.
— HawTHORNE.
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Dull.
Dull as a beetle. — ANon.
Dull as a convent. — Ini.
Dull as a Dutchman. — Isip.
As dull as a hoe. — Ini.
Dull as a post. — Ibw.
Dull as a Quaker meeting. — Inip.
Dull as cloudy skies. — Isp.
Dull as mutes at a funeral. — Izip.
Dull as ditch water. — Inrp.
As dull as the debates of Dutch
burgomasters on cheese parings and
candle ends. — Ii.
Dull as Lethe. — Ism.
Dull as a dormouse. — BEAUMONT
AND FLETCHER.
Dull as the earth. — Ini.
Dull as sin. — S. LAMAN BLANCHARD.
Dull as lead. — ANNE Bronte.
Dull as any London afternoon. —
E. B. Brownine.
Dull as an archdeacon.—G. K.
CHESTERTON.
Dull as laudanum. — Dickens.
Dull as an ox. — FIELDING.
With eyes as dull as smoky glass.
— Norman GALE.
Dull as a post. — Jon Gay.
Dull as a bachelor beaver. — Sam
SLICK.
Dull as a boiled codfish. — Ip.
Dull as
HEatu.
a whetstone. — RoBEert
Dull as a pig of lead. — ““Hetp to
Discourse.”
Dull as
Hewett.
a mud-flat.— Maurice
Dull as an alderman at church, or a
fat lap-dog after dinner. — Tuomas
Hotcrort.
DULL. —- DUMB.
Dull as a donkey. — Hoop.
Dull as lead. — ANpREw Lane.
Dull as a tract. —GrorceE Mere-
DITH.
Dull as night. — SHAKESPEARE.
Duller than a great thaw. — Isp.
Qull as catalogues. — R. B. Suxni-
DAN. °
Dull as a sheep. — Rosert Louis
STEVENSON.
Sound as dull as unstrung drum. —
JAMES SULLY.
Dull as the dead fume of a fallen
fire. — SWINBURNE.
Dark and dull like the mould upon a
skull. — Frank WATERS.
Dull as a platonic lover. — ‘Woman
Turnep Butty.”
Dull as a country squire. — WiLLIAM
WYcHERLEY.
Dumb.
Dumb as Philomel. — ANAcREON.
Dumb as an oyster. — ANON.
Dombe as any stoon. — CHAUCER.
Doumb as a tree. — IBmp.
Dumb as a senator. — CowPER.
Dumb as death. — Sypnry DoBELL.
Dumb as a fish. — Bren Jonson.
Dumb as the grave. — Krarts.
Dumb as_ pillar-posts. — GEORGE
MEREDITH.
Dumb as a mouse. — ENGLISH Prov-
ERB.
As dumb as a dead cuddy. — Scor-
TISH PRovERB.
Dumb as a dream. — SWINBURNE.
Dumb and mighty, as a tree grows
on a fruitful soil. — Ivan TuRGENEV.
DUMPS. —— EARNEST.
Dumps.
Her dismal dumps, like doleful
Dido. — Nicpotas Rowe.
Duped.
Duped, like a monkey cheated out
of an empty nutshell. — Dumas, PERE.
Durable.
Durable as the black of the negro.
— ANON.
More durable than steel. — Inn.
Durable as yonder spheres. — Cow-
PER.
Durable as eternity. — Hawrnorne.
Durable as bronze. — Henry JAMEs.
Durable as manhood. — LAMARTINE.
Durable as the firmament. — W11-
tiamM MATHEWs.
Eager.
Eager as a bridegroom. — ANON.
Eager . . . like a mettlesome hound,
Into the fray with a plunge and a
bound. — Joun S. Buackig.
Eager as men, when haply they have
heard
Of some new songster, some gay-
feathered bird,
That hath o’er blue seas strayed in
hope to find
In our thin foliage here a summer
home,
Fain would they catch the Pen
things in their mind,
And cage them into sonnets as hes
come. —F. W. Faser. ~
Eager as a cry for life. — GrorcE
MEREDITH.
Eager for it as a hound. — Ism.
Eager as greyhound on his game. —
Sir WALTER Scort.
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Dusk.
Dusk as dying stars. — Bayarp
TAYLor.
Dwarfed.
Dwarfed . .. like starved plants
under Greenland skies. — GrorcE.
MERrepITH.
Dwell.
Love’s secret may dwell,
Like Zephyr asleep in
Some rosy sea-shell. .
— Tuomas Moore.
Dwindle.
Dwindling away like echoes down a
valley of rocks. —THomas Harpy.
She dwindled, as the fair full moon
doth turn
To swift decay and burn
Her fire away. —C. G. Rosserrt.
Eager as hunters in pursuing their
prey. — Isp.
Eager as a ghoul for blood. —
THACKERAY.
Eager as a fine-nosed Hound. —
Worpswortu.
Ear.
The public ear is like a common ;
there is not much to be got off it,
but that little is for the most part
grazed down by geese and donkeys.’
—Samuewt Butter (1835-1902).
Her little ears were like rosy shells,
—they had a pearl dangling from
each of them. — WILKIEz CoLLINs.
Flapping ears like water-flags. —
SWINBURNE.
Earnest.
Earnest ... as sober Lanesbro’
dancing with the gout. — ANON.
Earnest as a seer who invokes the
dead. — Butwer-LyTTon.
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Earnest — continued.
Earnest as bees. — LeigH Hunt.
In earnest as a mouse in a trap. —
Grorcr MEREDITH.
Earnest as life and hope. — Donatp
G. MrtcHet..
As a guardian Muse thou art earnest.
— Bayarp Taytor.
Earrings.
Earrings like chandeliers. — THack-
ERAY.
Earth.
The earth, like a fallen woman sitting
in her dark chamber and trying to for-
get the past, seemed tormented with
remembrances of the spring and sum-
mer, and waited in apathy the inex-
orable winter. — ANTON TCHEKHOoV.
Ease.
Like a coy maiden, Ease, when courted
most,
Furtherest retires — an idol, at whose
shrine
Who oft’nest sacrifice are favour’d
least. — CowPeEr.
He taught them love of toyle;
toyle, which does keep obstructions
from the minde, and quench the
blood ; ease does belong to us like
sleep, like opium in our medicine, not
our food. — Sir Wittiam DaveENant.
As much at ease as a farmer on
his own acres. — THEODORE RooseE-
VELT.
At ease
As a flower of the springtime of corn.
— SWINBURNE.
Easy.
Easy as for a blackbird to whistle. —
ANON.
Easy as a conjurer swallowing a
poker. — Isp.
Easy as breathing. — Inm.
Easy as counting the blossoms on a
century plant. — Inn.
EARNEST. — EASY.
As easy as finding reasons why
other people should be patient. — Inm,
Easy as for a dog to lick a dish. —
Isp.
Easy as getting money in a letter.
— Isp.
Easy as peeling a hard boiled egg.
— Isp.
Easy as pie. — Ip.
Easy as ‘robbing a child’s bank. —
Isp.
Easy as to say “Jack Robinson.”
—Isp.
Easy as winking. — Isp.
Easy as an old shoe. — RoBert
BROWNING.
Shall be as easy as going down the
river in a boat. — DANTE.
As easy as for you to take a drink.
—Joun Davison.
Easy, as blinding a chicken on the
roost with a torch. — W. N. Harsen.
Easy as forgetting oaths. —O. W.
Holmes. :
Easy as swan could bear the snowy
fleece. — Homer (Pore).
As aisy as winter shakes leaves from
the trees. — Lover.
As easy as a man dyin’ wi’ due
warnin’. — Kip.ine.
Easy as for-the grass to be green.
— Lowe .
Easy as kissing. — Ip.
Easy as loving. — Isr.
About as easy as to gather a bag of
feathers thrown to the four winds. —
Sypney Munpen.
With as much ease as the sun out-
shines and dims the stars with his
meridian rays. — RABELAIs.
Easy as shelling peas, — CHARLES
READE.
EASY. — ECHO,
Easy — continued.
Easy as a down-bed. — Suakr-
SPEARE.
Easy as lying. — Inp.
Easy as to set dogs on sheep. —
Isp.
Easy as thanks. — Inn.
For it is easier for a camel to go
through a needle’s eye, than for a rich
man to enter into the kingdom of
God. — New TEsTaMENT.
With as much ease as whirlwinds
move feathers. — Izaak WALTON.
Easy as fitting a new harness to an
old horse. — Tuomas Watson.
Easily.
Flows as easily as California wine
out of French bottles. — Anon.
As easily as an oak looseneth its
golden leaves. — P. J. BarLey.
Easily —as you'll go to bed. —
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Easily as a nurse leads a docile
child. — Butwer-Lytron.
Easily as Hocus Pocus. — SaMUEL
Burter.
Easily as eagles cleave the air. —
Mrs. Saran Hate.
Pouring as easily as hour-glass sand.
— Keats.
Easily as one might wind a watch.
— Donatp G. MitcHeE...
As easily as persuading a French
aristocrat in the Revolution to get
aboard the tumbril that was to land
him at the guillotine. —Lioyp Os-
BOURNE.
Easily removable as a pair of spec-
tacles from the nose. — RaBELAIS.
Easily as the eagles soar. — Scutt-
LER.
Gluts her vengeance with his hated
blood : easily as a hawk, the bird of
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augury, darting from a lofty rock,
comes up with a dove high in the
clouds, holds her in her gripe, and
with crooked talons tears out her
heart, while gore and plucked feathers
come tumbling from the sky.— VirGIL.
Eat.
Eat like a hog. — ANon.
Eat like a horse. — Ipm.
Eats like rust. — Ipip.
Eat like wolves. — Ini.
Eat like maggots into an estate. —
Cartes Lams.
Eating, sharply as aqua-fortis into
brass, into the metal of her vanity —
and her pride. — Ourpa.
Eat up like fire the ashen autumn
days. — SWINBURNE.
Eat as doth a canker. — New Tzs-
TAMENT.
Eat your flesh as it were fire. —
Isp.
Eating.
As a lamp is choked with a multi-
tude of oil, or a little fire with overmuch
wood quite extinguished ; so is the
natural heat with immoderate eating
strangled in the body. — Roperr
Burton.
Ebb.
Ebb like the tides of a living heart.
—P. H. Hayne.
Ebb like hopes that wither. —
SWINBURNE.
Eccentric.
Eccentric as comets. — DICKENS.
Moves eccentric, like a wandering star,
Whose motion’s just, though ’tis not
regular. — Dryven.
Echo.
An echo is like a woman, always
determined to have the last word. —
JosH BILLines.
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Echoless.
Echoless, as ripe fruit on the ground
unshaken. — E. B. Brownina.
Ecstacy.
With ecstacy . . . like fathers that
behold their infants crawl. — Hoop.
Ecstatic.
Eestatic and inviolate as the red
glad mouth of morn. — SWINBURNE.
Education.
A human soul without education,
like marble in the quarry, which
shows none of its inherent beauties,
till the skill of the polisher fetches out
the colors. — ADDISON.
Education is, to its possessor, like a
golden crown, in which honour is
united with intrinsic worth. — DEmo-
PHILUS.
Eerie.
Eerie as a witch’s ballad. — Amy
LESLIE.
Effect.
Produced as little effect as a flake
falling on the glaciers of the high
Alps. — BEACONSFIELD.
Effective.
As effective as Gibraltar under a
fusillade of grapeshot. — ANON.
Effervescent.
Effervescent as a sulphur springs
geyser. — ANON.
Effervescent as young wine. — Amy
Les.iz.
Efficient.
Efficient as a bear trap. — WARREN
H. Miter.
Effortless.
Effortless as stars awakening and
melting out, at eve, and morning’s
breaking. — N. P. Witus.
Egotism.
There’s nothing like egotism. It
preserves a man as ice preserves meat.
— ANON.
ECHOLESS. —- ELOQUENT.
Elastic.
Elastic as a caterpillar. — ANON.
Elastic as all flesh. — BuLwer-
Lytron.
Elastic as the gas of gunpowder. —
Emerson.
Elasticity.
Capable of elasticity as a washed
glove. — ANoN.
Elate.
Elate as Heaven. — SWINBURNE.
Elegant.
Elegant as a Chesterfield. — ANon.
Elegant as a Tuscan. — Ibn.
Elegant as simplicity. — CowPEr.
Eloquence.
Unprofitable eloquence is like the
cypress ; great and tall but bears no
fruit. — ANoN.
Fierce bursts of eloquence like the
wail of a clarion thrilling beneath the
blasts of a storm. — Ipm.
False eloquence, big empty sound,
Like showers that rush upon the
ground,
Little beneath the surface goes,
All streams along and muddy flows.
— Marrurw Green.
Eloquence is an engine invented to
manage and wield at will the fierce
democracy, and, like medicine to the
sick, is only employed in the paroxysms
of a disordered state. — MonraicNe.
Eloquent.
Eloquent as a rattlesnake’s tail. —
ANON.
Eloquent as Cicero. — Inp.
Eloquent as angels. — C. C. CouTon.
With her mouth she was eloquent,
As if to her ear an angel bent,
Whispering her that she might say
The word which wipes all tears away.
— D. G. Rossertt.
ELUDE. — ENDURING.
Elude.
Elude us like the echo of falling
waters in a dream. — ANON.
Elude the grasp like an essence. —
CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
Elusive.
As elusive as the pestilence that
walketh in darkness. — ANon.
Elusive as quicksilver. — Inm.
Elusive as sheet lightning playing
among June clouds. — James Hune-
KER.
Elusive as the sea-line far, and all
the secret of the wind. — GrorcEe
STERLING.
Embrace.
In close embrace,
Like friends that, having liv’d far
apart,
Meet and relieve in tears the joy-
o’erburdened heart.
— Wituiam TENNANT.
Emotion.
All loving emotions, like plants,
shoot up most rapidly in the tempes-
tuous atmosphere of life. — RicuTer.
Emphatic.
Emphatic as an oath. — GrorcE
Moore.
Empire.
A great empire, like a great cake, is
most easily diminished at the edges.
— FRANKLIN.
Emptier.
Emptier than a reed. — Boccaccio.
Empty.
Empty as a bird’s nest in December.
— ANon.
Empty as a politician’s address to the
people. — Ini.
Empty as a quill. — Isp.
Empty of expression as a squeezed
sponge of water. — Inn.
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Empty as Vanity Fair. — Inm.
Empty .. . like a shell dishabited.
—T. E. Brown.
Empty of religion, as the white of
an egg is of savor. — Bunyan.
Empty as shade. — C. C. Cotton.
Empty as a church on a week-day.
— Davpert.
Empty as a cobbler’s curse. —
Tuomas Dermopy.
As empty of ideas as an opera. —
FIeLpine.
Empty as an -idiot’s mind. —
Grorce Capotr Lopes.
Empty as space. — Guy pe Mav-
PASSANT.
Empty as air-pumps drain’d of air.
— WiLLIAM SHENSTONE...
Empty as a skull. — Tennyson.
Empty as wind. — Mrs. Tro.uorr.
Enchanting.
Enchanting as beauty weeping in
her weeds. — W1LLIAM WILKIE.
Enchased.
Walls enchased like chalices. —
Rosert Noet.
Encircled.
Encircled him as a belt. — Anon.
Encumber.
Encumbering . . . like a cireumam-
bient Bedlam. — CARLYLE.
Encumbrance.
The encumbrances of his fortune
were shaken from his mind, as dew
drops from a lion’s mane. — Dr.
JOHNSON.
Ends.
I was of late as petty to his ends,
As is the morn-dew on the myrtle leaf
To his grand sea. — SHAKESPEARE.
Enduring.
Enduring as marble. — ANon.
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Enduring — continued.
Enduring as the stars. — ANon.
Enduring as
Conrab.
eternity. — JosEPH
As enduring as a camel. — Kzats.
Energy.
Energy, even like the biblical grain
of mustard-seed, will remove moun-
tains. — Hosza Ba.tov.
In energy . . . like unto the Sun.
— MAHABHARATA.
Enfold.
Enfolds . . . like mist. — JOHN
KEBLE.
Enlisting.
Enlisting in the United States navy
to see the world is like going to the
workhouse to learn broom-making. —
Ape Martin.
Enlivening.
Enlivening as a sneeze. — HENRY
BROOKE.
Enraged.
Enraged as the wild winds to reason
deaf. — R. H. Horne.
Enshrined.
Enshrined, as in a holy altar, under
guard of consecrated keepers. —
RICHARD CUMBERLAND.
Enslaved.
Enslaved as a spell. — PeTrarca.
Entangled.
Entangled like vines. — ANon.
Entangled in words as a bird in
lime-twigs. The more he struggles
the more belimed. — THomas Hospgs.
In her faire lookes were his thoughts
intangled, like birds of canarie, that
have fallen into a silken net. — Lyty.
Entangled . . . like a mouse catched
in a trap. — RaBELAIs.
ENDURING. — ENVY.
Enthrall.
A nameless charm enthralling, like
the ghost of music melting on arain-
bow spray of sound. — P. H. Hayne.
Enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm, like a bottle rid of the
cork. — GEorRGE MEREDITH.
Enthusiast.
The enthusiast has been compared
to aman walking in a fog ; every thing
immediately round him, or in contact
with him, appears sufficiently clear
and luminous ; but beyond the little
circle, of which he himself is the
centre, all is mist, error, and confusion.
—C. C. Cotron.
Enticing.
Enticing as a riddle. — P. W. SHepp.
Entrance.
Entrancing as the gardens in a fairy
romance. — ANON.
Entrances like a siren. — Inn.
Entrance as young conquerors fresh
from spoil. — P. J. Barter.
Enveloped.
Enveloped, like a martyr’s robe of
flames. — Prescott.
Envious.
Envious people are disarmed by
their own dispositions, as iron by rust.
— ANTISTHENES.
Envious as a pretty woman is of
another woman, as a banker is of
another banker, as a political adversary
is of a rival. — HawTHORNE.
Envious as an old maid verging on
the desperation of six and thirty. —
R. B. SHerman.
Envy.
As rust corrupts iron, so envy cor-
rupts man. — ANTISTHENES.
Envy, like merit, doth its shade
pursue. — Isp.
ENVY. — ETERNAL.
Envy — continued.
Envy lurks at the bottom of the
human heart, like a viper in its hole.
— Batzac.
Envy, like the worm, never runs
but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning
bloodhound, it singles out the fattest
deer in the flock. — Francis Brav-
MONT.
A rustinesse consumeth iron: So
envie consumeth the envious man.
— ANTHONIE FLETCHER’sS ‘ CERTAIN
Very PRoPER AND PROFITABLE SIM-
ILIES,” 1595.
As a moth. gnaws a garment, so
doth envy consume a man. — SAINT
CHRYSOSTOM.
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs
and stupefies; and, conscious of its
own impatience, folds its arms in
despair. — JEREMY COLLIER.
Pity and envy, like oil and vinegar,
assimilate not. —C. C. CoLron.
Envy excels in exciting jealousy, as
a rat draws the crocodile from its hole.
— Hugo.
Envy, like a flame soars upward.
— Lyvy.
Envy, like flame, blackens that
which is above it, and which it cannot
reach. — J. PETIT-SENN.
Ephemeral.
Ephemeral as dew. — Buiss Car-
MAN.
Ephemeral, like Michael Angelo’s
snow statue. — RusKIN.
Epigram.
Like a bee or an epigram, all his
sting is in his tail. —Tuomas Apams.
Equal.
Equal as flowers in the field. —
Epwin Markuam.
Erect.
Erect as an Indian. — ANON.
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Erect as a sunbeam, upspringeth
the palm. — Emerson.
Erect as a live hydra. — Huao.
Erect as alders. — Ovi.
Grow erect as the great pine grows.
—E. R. Sr.
Erect, like pillars of the temple. —
SOUTHEY.
Erratic.
Erratic as electrical phenomena, —
Bawzac.
Erratic
As the strong star smiles that lets no
mourner mourn.
—— SWINBURNE.
Error.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface
flow;
He who would search for pearls must
dive below. — DrypDENn.
Escape.
*Scape as did Arion on the Dolphin’s
back. — THomas Hrywoop.
My soul escaped as a bird out of the
snare of the fowlers: the snare is
broken, and we are escaped. — OLD
TESTAMENT.
Essential.
Essential as the dew. — Epna P. C.
HayEs.
As essential to the river as a fish.
— Henry D. TuHoreav.
Established.
Established for ever as the moon.
— Op TESTAMENT.
Esteemed.
Esteemed as a minstrel at a feast.
— GEORGE SANDYS.
Eternal.
Eternal as life. — ANON.
Eternal as the eternal God. — J. C.
GUTHRIE.
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Eternal — continued.
Eternal as is Sion. — Huo.
Eternal as the peace of God. —
Hues McCuutocu.
Ethereal.
Ethereal as the air. — CHARLES
SANGSTER.
Ethereal, like a lovely ghost
Soft looming in the hazy distance
dreaming. —Criia THAXTER.
Ethereal as the sensuous pallor of
waxen candles. —G. Vere TYLER.
Evanescent.
More evanescent than the rainbow.
— Wituiam ARCHER.
So evanescent that it was like a shape
made in water. — DIcKENS.
Evanescent as the crimson flush that
tints the daybreak. — Miss Lanpon.
Events.
Events, like the pendulum of a
clock, have swung forward and back-
ward, but after all, man, like the hands,
has gone steadily on. — R. G. IncErR-
SOLL.
Everlasting.
Everlasting as the sun. — WILLIAM
Kine.
Everlasting as the voiceless hills. —
Conn’ B. PALLEN.
Evident.
Evident as Euclid’s axioms. — ANon.
Evident,
As is the universal light of day.
—Joun Bani.
Evident as the sun at noon. —
CARLYLE.
Evident as light in dark. — GrorcE
MEREDITH.
Evil (Adjective).
Evil report, like the Italian stiletto, is
an assassin’s weapon, worthy only of
the bravo. — MapaMeE DE MaInTENoN.
ETERNAL. ——- EXCRESCENCE.
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Evil as treason. —Sir THomas Mors.
As the fishes that are taken in an evil
net, and as the birds that are caught
in the snare ;so are the sons of men
snared in an evil time, when it falleth
suddenly upon themn.—Otp Testa-
MENT.
Evil (Noun).
Evils, like poisons, have their uses,
and there are diseases which no other
remedy can reach. — THomas Paine.
Exact.
Exact as clock-work. — CARLYLE.
Exacting.
Exacting as a senior clerk. — Batzac.
Exasperated.
Exasperated. . . like the huntsman’s
first distant halloo to a stag. — Bauzac.
Exceed.
As far exceed . . . as doth the flower
the weed. — Jonn Heywoop.
Excel.
As the fair lawn excels the rushy mead,
As firs the thorn, and flow’rs the pois’-
nous weed. — Ricwarp Jaco.
Then I saw that wisdom excelleth
folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
— Op TESTAMENT.
Excelling, as much as orient gold
surmounteth brass. — WILLIAM
THOMSON.
Exchequer.
The king’s exchequer was like the
spleen ; for when that did swell, the
whole body did pine. — Trasan.
Excite.
Exciting as a Quaker Meeting. —
Grorcr Apr.
Excite him, as the donkeys on the
green did Betsy Trotwood. — Dickens.
Excrescence.
A little rounded excrescence like a
steel wart. — Irvin S. Cons.
EXHAUSTLESS. — EXQUISITE.
Exhaustless.
Exhaustless as the ocean. — Ourpa.
Exhaustless as the choral founts of
night. — T. Bucaanan Reap.
Expand.
Expanded like a flower under the
sun. — ANON.
Expanding like the dawn. — Joun
Davipson.
Expand, as tides that ebb, or tides
that flow. —Lorp Dr TaBLevy.
Expanded like the face of the sun
when it mounts over the eastern hill.
— Jeremy Taytor.
Expect.
Expectation, like a fiery steed, antic-
ipates the course, and pants to hear
the sprightly signal start him for the
goal. — Roprert JEPHSON.
Expensive.
Expensive as glory. — SyDNEY
SMITH.
Experience.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by
experience. We know by experience
itself, that it is a marvelous pain, to
find out but a short way by long
wandering. And surely, he that would
prove wise by experience, he may be
witty indeed, but even like a swift
runner, that runneth fast out of his
way, and: upon the night, he knoweth
not whither. — Roger AscHam.
Experience, like a pale musician, holds
A dulcimer of patience in his hand,
Whence harmonies, we cannot under-
stand,
Of God’s will in his worlds, the strain
unfolds
In sad, perplexed minors : deadly colds
Fall on us while we hear, and counter-
mand
Our sanguine heart back from the fairy-
land
With nightingales in visionary worlds.
—E. B. Brownina.
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Human experience, like the stern
lights of a ship at sea, too often illumi-
nates only the path we have passed
over. — COLERIDGE.
Expire.
Expired like the sound of a melan-
choly echo. — Anon.
Expired like hardy plants which lose
_ their color and perfume when trans-
planted to a hot-house. —Izip.
Expiring like the deserted camp-fires
of a retiring army. — GrorcEe W.
Curtis.
Expire like an exhausted taper. —
GOLDSMITH.
Doomed to expire like blossoms that
ne’er see a second sun. — Ractne.
Exploded.
As exploded as the mysteries of
Eleusis. — Ricuarp Le GALLIENNE.
Expression.
True expression, like the unchanging
sun,
Clears and improves whate’er it shines
upon. — Porr.
Expressionless.
Expressionless as a cheese. — ANON.
Expressionless as a gravestone. —
Isip.
Expressionless as a Sphinx’s face. —
Isp.
Expressive.
Expressive as the ridge of a cat’s
back. — Anon.
Exquisite.
Exquisite, like the heart of a wild
rose. — ANON.
Exquisite in their mechanism as
the motion of the planets. — JAMES
HUNEKER.
s . Exquisite
Like fiery chrysoprase in deep basalt.
—D. G. Rossertt.
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Exquisite — continued.
Exquisite as the coming of spring
and quite as natural. — Oscar WILDE.
Extended.
Extended, like home-bound cranes.
— ANon.
Extended as the heavens. — Van-
BRUGH.
Extinct.
Extinct as the dodo. — ANon.
Extinck as th’
Peter DuNNE.
Extinguish.
Extinguished as stars by the rising
sun. — ANON.
bison. — FINLEY
Extinguished like a taper’s flame. —
AmBrosE BIERCE.
Extinguished, like a flame that sinks
down hopelessly among the late de-
caying embers. — HawTHORNE.
Extinguish’d, like the vital spark in
death. — Hoop.
Extortion.
Extortion is like a whirlpool, that
swalloweth whatever it catches. —
ANON.
Extravagance.
Extravagance is like a violent fire,
that is no sooner stopped in one place
than it breaks out in another. — Van-
BRUGH.
Exult.
Exulting like a conqueror. — JosErH
Conrab.
Exulted as the sunrise in its might.
— SWINBURNE.
Eye.
My eyes like the wheels of a chariot
roll around.—#scuyus (E. B. Brown-
ING).
Her eyes were like a butterfly’s gor-
geous wings. — JAMES Lang ALLEN.
Eyes like mountain water that’s
flowing on a rock. — Winuiam ALLING-
HAM,
EXQUISITE. —— EYE.
Dovelike eyes, depths as of heaven
when charged with gloom. — ANon.
Eyes like burnt holes in a blanket,
— Is.
Eyes like saucers. — Izin.
Eyes transparent as a cloudless sky,
— Isp.
Eyes, brilliant and humid like the
reflection of stars in a well. — Ep-
MONDO DE AmICcIs.
Languishing eyes like those of a roe
looking tenderly at her young.—
AMRILKAIS.
Eyes like a hind’s in love-time. —
Epwin ARNOLD.
Her sparkling eyes, like Orient pearles,
Did cast a heavenlye light.
— Encutsu Batuap.
His eyes, like those of a pitiless
judge, seemed to go to the very bot-
tom of all questions, to read all
natures, all feelings and thoughts. —
Bazac.
Burning eyes that blaze through
a lace veil, like flame through cannon
smoke. — Iz1p.
These lovely lamps, these windows
of the soul. — pu Barras.
Eyes like flames of sulphur. — Brav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
Eyes, like torches, fling their beams
around. — Isrp.
Blue violet, like Pandora’s eye. —
Tuomas L. Brppogs.
Eyes glazed over like harebells wet
with dew. — Caroting BowLes.
Her eyes are bright as stars
In the blue.
— Rosert Bripces (American).
Her sunken grey eyes, like reflections
from the aspect of an angel. —— CHAR-
LOTTE BRONTE.
EYE,
Eye — continued.
Her eyes are dark and humid,
Like the depth on depth of lustre hid
i’ the harebell.
— Roserr Brownine.
With eyes, like frésh-blown thrush-
eggs on a thread,
Faint-blue and loosely floating in his
head. — Imp. .
Doubting eyes,,
Like a child that never knew but love
Whom words of wrath surprise.
— E. B. Brownine.
Shining eyes, like antique jewels set
in Parian statue-stone. — Iprp.
Eyes like the summer’s light blue
sky. — BuLwer-Lytron.
Beautiful eyes in the face of a hand-
some woman are like eloquence to
speech. — Inrp.
His eyes are like a balance, apt to
propend each way, and to be weighed
down with every wench’s looks. —
Rosert Burton.
Eyes like the dawn of day.—
F. A. Burier.
Brilliant eyes, swift-darting as the
stars. — CARLYLE.
Twin violets by a shady brook were
like her eyes. — ALICE CaRyY.
Eyes, shining like thin skins full of
blood. — Ixsip.
What a curious workmanship is that
of the eye, which is in the body, as the
sun in the world; set in the head as
in a watch-tower, having the softest
nerves for receiving the greater multi-
tude of spirits necessary for the act
of vision. — STEPHEN CHARNOCK.
Those dry eyes of his shining more
like poisoned stones than living tissue.
—JosrerH ConraD.
Expectant yellow eyes, like a cat
watching the preparation of a saucer
of milk. — Iz1p.
Her eyes are sapphires set in snow.
— CoNSTABLE.
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An eye like the polar star. — E1iza
Cook.
O my love has an eye,
Like a star in the sky.
— Barry CoRNWALL.
Honest eyes... . Blue like the
tropic skies. — D’ANNUNZIO.
Eyes, gleaming and sparkling like
lizards’ eyes in the crevices of old
walls.— DaupET.
Her eyes grew bright and large,
Like springs rain-fed that dilate their
marge. — AuBREY DE VERE.
Her eyes, like stars in midnight
waters glossed. — Inn.
Her eyes are bright as beryl stones
that in the tankard wink. — AusTIN
Dosson.
Eyes like the morning. — Inm.
Eyes like live coals. — DUMAS, PERE.
Her eyes like shadows in the light of
torches on the Mount of Doom. —
Maurice Francis Ecan.
Old men’s eyes are like old men’s
memories, they are strongest for things
a long way off. — GrorceE Exror.
When a man speaks the truth in the
spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the
heavens. When he has base ends, and
speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and
sometimes asquint. — EMERSON.
An eye can threaten like a loaded
and levelled gun, or can insult like
hissing or kicking; or, in its altered
mood, by beams of kindness, it can
make the heart dance with joy. — Inip.
But oh, to see his solar eyes
Like meteors which chose their way
And rived the dark like a new day.
— Isp.
Her eyes like the radiance the sun-
beams bring. — ANcrENnT Erse.
Eyes like the summer skies when
twin stars beam above. — F. A. Fany.
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Eye — continued.
Eyes as azure as the wave. — VIOLET
FANE.
Eyes like dark blue pansies. — Nor-
MAN GALE.
Eyes as greye as glasse. — GEORGE
GASCOIGNE.
A burning eye, yellow and phosphoric
like the eye of a crocodile or a lion. —
GAUTIER.
The most dazzling stars are pebbles
without lustre beside the diamonds of
her eyes. — Joseru A. pr GoBINEAU.
His eyes were like the eyes of doves
when washed by the dews of the morn-
ing. — GOLDSMITH.
Mary with her cheerful eyes,
Like heartsease where a dew drop lies.
— Epmunp Goss.
Azure eyes, like stars upon the river’s
brink. — Inn.
Her eyes, fair eyes, like to the purest
lights,
That animate the sun, or cheer the day ;
In whom the shining sunbeams brightly
play,
Whiles fancy doth on them divine
delights. — RoperT GREENE.
Her eyes two twinkling stars in
winter nights. — Inin.
Her eyes like glassy streams. — Inm.
The dame had eyes like lightning, or the
flash
That runs before the hot report of
thunder. — Inn.
Two eyes,
Like heaven’s bright lamps in match-
less beauty shining. — Ini.
His eyes were grey,
Like Titan in a Summer day.
— Ip.
Eyes like violets steep’d in dew. —
J. C. GUTHRIE.
Her eyes, like moonbeams glowing.
— Hariz.
EYE.
Eyes that mock the diamond’s
blaze. — Joun HarrincTon.
Eyes like twin blue stars. — HeErn-
RicH HEINE.
Ambiguous. . . blue eyes like the
china dog on the mantel piece. —O.
HEnry.
Eyes frosty blue, like a winter sea
that is made bright, not warm, by the
sun. — Maurice HEw tert.
Eyes like a hare’s, that look sideways
for danger. — In.
Eyes like stars, robed in dull red. —
Ip.
Shrewd old party . . . eyes like gim-
lets. — Heapon Hr.
The lack-lustre eye, rayless as a
Beacon street door-plate in August. —
O. W. Hotes.
An eye as clear and steady as the
evening star. — Iprp.
Eyes ... mild as a gazelle’s. —
Hoop.
Brilliant eyes,
As deeply dark as desert skies.
— Laurence Hope.
Dreaming, wistful eyes,
Dark and deep as mysterious skies,
Seen from a vessel at sea. — Iprp.
Wistful eyes,
As luminous and tender as Kotri’s
twilight spies. — Isp.
His eyes . . . deep sunk beneath his
lowering brows,
Like caverns by a moonlit sea.
. —R. M. Mines.
Eyes ... overflow like two cups
filled above the brim. — Hugo.
Sweet eyes . . . tender as the deeps
in yonder skies. — JEAN INGELOW.
The sophist’s eye,
Like a sharp spear, went through her
utterly,
Keen, cruel, perceant, stinging.
— KEats.
EYE.
Eye — continued.
Eyes like two streams of liquid
light. — Frances Anne Kemsur.
Eyes like the dawn of day. — Inn.
Her eye
Flames like a fresh caught hind’s.
— KiIncs.ey.
Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
— Miss Lanpon.
Eyes like the flower that was Rous-
seau’s delight. — ANDREw Lane.
‘ O lovely eyes of azure,
Clear as the waters of a brook that run
Limpid and laughing in the summer
' sun !
I dislike an eye that twinkles like a
star. Those only are beautiful which,
like the planets, have a steady, lambent
light — are luminous, but not spar-
kling. — Isr.
Eyes dilated, as if the spirit-world
were open before him, and some beau-
Ipip.
Like the stars that nightly shine,
Thy sweet eyes shed light divine.
— Lover.
Flaw-seeing eyes, like needle points.
— LowEL.
Eyes pe[alrcing like the Sun beames.
— Lyty.
Blue eyes, like Delft saucers. —
Maarren MAartens.
His eyes like meteors of night. —
James MAcPHERSON.
Bright eyes
Which were like lotus-blossoms.
— MAHABHARATA.
Eyes. . . like restless stars in the pit
of night. — Epwin Marxuam.
Vacant eyes, blue as the flowers of
the flax plant. — Guy pr Maupassant.
Unfathomable eyes, which hid their
secrets under the undisturbed serenity
— LONGFELLOW.. _
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of majestic repose, like a mountain
lake, whose waters seem black on ac-
count of their depth. — Inn.
Her eye beams as kindly and bright,
As the sun in the azure-tinged sky.
— CaTuLLe MEnpEs.
Blessed eyes, like a pair of suns,
Shine in the sphere of smiling.
— Tuomas Mip.eton.
And the bright dew-bead on the
bramble lies, like liquid upon beauty’s
eyes. — James MontTcoMErY.
Eyes like setting planets, weak and
dim. — Cuaries L. Moore.
Each bright eye,
Like violets after morning’s shower,
The brighter for the tears gone by.
— Tuomas Moors.
Eyes, whose sleepy lid like snow on
violets lies. — Ipip.
Eyes as soft as doves. — Miss
Mutocx.
Eyes, like reflected moonbeams on a
distant lake. — OssIAN.
Eyes flashed like the sun playing on
water. — Oumpa.
Eyes like blue heavens in a night of
frost. — Inrp.
Eyes shining like the planets. —
Isp.
Her eyes were of a deep brown hue,
like the velvety brown of a stag’s
throat. — In.
Her eyes are like free-booters, living
upon the spoile of stragglers. — Sir
THOMAS OVERBURY.
Eyes like an orange-grove
In whose enchanted bowers the magic
fire-flies rove. — Isp.
What eyes! [Daniel Webster’s] like
charcoal fire in the bottom of a deep,
dark well. — TuHropoRE PARKER.
Eyes blazed like a bale-fire. — JoHn
Payne.
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Eye — continued.
Her black eyes sparkled like sun-
beams on ariver : a clear, deep, liquid
radiance, the reflection of ethereal
fire. — THomas L. PEacock.
Eyes. . . stared like windows at the
peep of day. — STEPHEN PHILLIPS.
The eye, like a shattered mirror,
multiplies the images of its sorrow.
— Por.
Luminous eyes,
Brightly expressive as the twins of
Leda. — Inp.
The eye is the window of the soul;
the mouth, the door; the intellect,
the will, are seen in the eye. —Hiram
Powers.
The eyes are the pioneers that first
announce the soft tale of love. —
PROPERTIUS. \
Eyes glittering like basilisks. —
CHARLES READE.
Her eye worked like an ice gimlet in
her daughter’s face. — Ipip.
Her eyes are blue and dewy as the
glimmering Summer-dawn. — JAMES
Wartcoms RIey.
Eyes as fresh and clear as morning
skies. — Ini.
With a pair o’ eyes like two fried
eggs. — Isp.
Her eyes are like the open heaven
Holy and pure from sin.
— C. G. Rosserrt.
Dim dried eyes like an exhausted
well. — Inn.
Eyes
As of the sky and sea on a gray day.
—D. G. Rosserri.
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters stilled at even. —Ism.
Her dazzling eye ;
As liquid in its brilliancy as the deep .
blue of midnight ocean,
EYE.
When underneath, with trembling
motion,
The phosphor light floats by.
— Rusxw.
Her eyes were like a heaven, where
sunlight always glows. — A. J. Ryan.
His eyes like those that Houris
wear. — SaDI.
Thine eyes
Mirage of sultry prisons, flashing in —
And out, like fulg’rous lightning
through dark skies.
— Francis S. Saurus.
As a moonbeam white,
As a starbeam white,
Was her eye of iris ray.
—Ism.
An eye like Mars, to threaten and
command. — SHAKESPEARE,
Her eyes, as murder’d with the view,
Like stars ashamed of day, themselves
withdrew. — Isp.
Thy eyes’ windows fall,
Like death, when he shuts up the
day of life. — Isp.
His eye
Red as ’twould burn Rome. — Izmp.
His eyes, like glow-worms, shine
when he doth fret. — Inrp.
Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheath’d
their light,
And canopied in darkness sweetly lay,
Till they might open to adorn the day.
— Isp.
Eyes as fair
As star-beams among twilight trees.
— SHELLEY.
His faint eyes,
Like dew upon a sleeping flower.
— Ism.
Thine eyes are like the deep, blue
boundless heaven. — Ism.
Eyes like kindling flame. — Lyp1a
H. Sigourney.
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Eye — continued.
In her hazel eyes her thoughts lay clear
As pebbles in a brook.
— ALEXANDER SMITH.
Her goodly eyes like sapphires
shining bright. — SPENSER.
An eye is, for all the world, exactly
like a cannon, in this respect, That it
is not so much the eye or the cannon,
in themselves, as it is the carriage of the
eye, and the carriage of the cannon;
by which both the one and the other
are enabled to do so much execution.
~_— STERNE.
An old light smolders in her eye.
There ! she looks up. They grow and
glow
Like mad laughs or a rhapsody
That flickers out in woe.
— TRUMBULL STICKNEY.
Eyes as glad as summer. — Swin-
BURNE.
Gold-eyed as the shore-flower shelter-
less
Whereon the sharp-breathed sea blows
bitterness,
A storm-star that the seafarers of love
Strain their wind-wearied’ eyes for
glimpses of. — Isp.
Your grave majestic eyes
Like a bird’s warbled words
Speak, and sorrow dies.
—Ipp.
Eyes,
Pale as the skies.
— ARTHUR SYMONS.
His threatening eyes
Like flaming torches burned.
— Tasso.
Eyes . . . clear as the unshadowed
Grecian heaven. — BAYARD TAYLOR.
Like a blue spot in the sky
Was her clear and loving eye.
—Srr Henry Taytor.
Eyes like heaven’s own blue. —
Esaras TEGNER.
His eyes are like the eyelids of the
morning. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Thine eyes are like the fish-pools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim.
—Isn.
Eyes like unto a flame of fire. —Ism.
But woe’s me, and woe’s me,
For the secrets of her eyes !
In my visions fearfully
They are ever shown to be
As fringéd pools, whereof éach lies
Pallid — dark beneath the skies
Of a night that is
But one blear necropolis.
And her eyes a little tremble, in the
wind of her own sighs.
— Francis Tuompson.
Like pansies dark i’ the June o’ the
year, grow my Love’s glad eyes. —
JAMES THOMSON.
Her eyes are like the statues, — mild,
grave, and wide. — Pau VERLAINE.
Eyes, dark and mysterious as
Night’s; but, like Night’s own eyes,
ready, I thought, to call up the throb-
bing fires of a million stars. — THEo-
porE Watrts-DUNTON.
Eyes flashing like sapphires. — IB.
Eyes like English skies, where seemed
to play
Deep azure dreams behind the tender
grey. —Isp.
; O deep eyes,
Darker and softer than the bluest dusk
Of August violets, darker and deeper
Like crystal fathomless lakes in summer
moons. — AuGcusTA WEBSTER.
How brilliant and mirthful the light
of her eye,
Like a star glancing out from the blue
of the sky. — WHITTIER.
Eyes like a bright blue-bell. — Exta
WHEELER WILCOX.
Your eyes are like fantastic moons
that shiver in some stagnant lake. —
Oscar WILDE.
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Eye — continued.
Eyes half veiled. . .
Like bluest waters seen, through mists
of rain. — Oscar WILDE.
Blue eyes shimmer with angel glances
Like spring violets over the sea.
— Constancre F. Woo son.
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair.
— Worpsworta.
Eyes
Like the harebells bathed in dew.
—Ism.
Eyes like sunbeams. — JoHANN |
ZSCHOKKE. :
Fabulous.
” As fabulous as Aladdin’s ring. —
O. W. Hotes.
As fabulous as the immortality of
the giants of mythology. — Tuomas
PAINE.
Fabulous as Bucephalus or Black
Bess. — THACKERAY.
Face.
His face is like a street before they
lay the pavement. — ANoNn.
Thy face, like dawn when it lights
the dawn. — ARABIAN Nicuts.
Sweet youthful face, fair as the moon
at full. — Epwin ARNoLp.
His face looks like a warrant. —
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
A face that cannot smile is like a bud
that cannot blossom which dries up in
the stalk. — Henry Warp Bercuer.
His face is fair as heaven. — WIL-
LIAM BLAKE.
EYE, — FACE.
Eyebrow.
Eyebrows like curved snow-drifts,
— Mavrice Hew ett.
Her eyebrows like a bent bow. —
“VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE.”
Eyeless.
Eyeless as old Destiny. — SuzLury.
Eyelid.
Eyelids close
Calmly, as to a night’s repose,
Like flowers at set of sun.
— Fiiz-Greene HA.iecx.
His face is like the pippin, grown
red ripe in frosty suns that shone. —
Artuur C. Benson.
A sharp face, like a knife in a cleft
stick. — E. B. BRownina.
He had a face like a benediction. —
CERVANTES.
That face of yours looks like the title-
page of a whole volume of roguery.—
CoLLEy CIBBER.
His face looked like a face that had
‘refused to jell and was about to run
down on his clothes. — Irvin S. Coss.
Face,
Long as a courtier’s out of place.
— Comman.
Face like an ancient lemon.
— JosrEpH CoNnraAD.
A face like a smoked herring.
— ANATOLE FRANCE.
A face like the setting sun on a sum-
mer’s day, when promise of a hot day
to-morrow is read in its ruddy hue.
—F. C., Grirritu.
FACE, — FADE,
Face— continued.
Her little face is like a walnut shell
With wrinkling lines.
—W. E. Hentery.
Face like a flame. — Maurice |
HEWLETT.
Her face like roses blown,
And in the radiance and the hush,
Her thought was shown.
— Jean INGELOw.
A face that was like an open letter in
a foreign tongue. — Henry JAMES.
His face is like a squeezed orange.
— Ben Jonson.
Her face was like the earthen pitcher
of Gideon : it concealed the light. —
Grorce MacDona.p.
His face was like an April morn
Clad in a wintry cloud.
— Davi Ma ttet.
A face, like nestling luxury of flowers.
— GreraLtp Massey.
Her fair face half hid, like a ripe peep-
ing rose. — OWEN MEREDITH.
Her face is as white
As her pillow by night.
—Izsm.
She is hid away all but her face, and
that’s hung about with toys and de-
vices, like the signe of a taverne, to
draw strangers. — Sir Tuomas Over-
BURY.
Faces did glister like the key-hole
of a powdering-tub. — RaBEzals.
A face open as day.— RocErs.
Thy face is like the full moon of
heaven, allied to light, but far from my
hopes. — “ROMANCE OF ANTAR.”
Her own face was like a flower
Of the prime,
Half in sunshine, half in shower,
In the year’s most tender time.
—C. G. Rossetti.
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Her face was like an opening rose,
So bright to look upon :
But now it is like fallen snows,
As cold, as dead, as wan.
—Isn.
Faces are as legible as _ books,
with this difference in their favor, that
they may be perused in much less time
than printed pages, and are less lia-
ble to be misunderstood. — FREDERIC
SAUNDERS.
*Tis not that she paints so ill but,
when she has finished her face, she joins
so badly to her neck, that she looks like
a mended statue, in which the con-
noisseur may see at once that the head
is modern, though the trunk’s antique.
—R. B. Suerman.
Her face was like a lily hidden in
holy dusks. — GEorGE STERLING.
Her face was like the Milky Way i’ the
sky,
A meeting of gentle lights without a
name. —SiR JOHN SUCKLING.
Thy face
Was as a water’s wearied with wind.
— SWINBURNE.
His face was as the must that lies
upon a vat of new-made wine. — Oscar
WILDE.
Factions.
These factions amongst great men,
they are like
Foxes, when their heads are divided,
They carry fire in their tails, and all
the country,
About them goes to wreck for’t.
— Joun WEBSTER.
Fade.
Fade as a passing breath. — GILBERT
Azssott A BECKETT.
Faded as the iris after rain in April’s
tearful weather. — ANON.
Fades as the splendor fades from the
| sky, when the sun sinks to sleep. —
Ini.
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Fade — continued.
He faded away like a pound of soap
in a hard day’s wash. — ANON.
Fade away like some fabled city of
mythology. — In.
Fade like autumn leaves, and fade and
die
With no kind hand to raise the head
and gently close the dying eye.
— Isp.
Fade . . . like ghosts prohibited the
day. — Ipm.
Faded like snow. — Isp.
Faded like the morn. — ARABIAN
Nicuts.
Fades like an unfixed photograph.
— Wituiam ARCHER.
Fade like grass. — Matruzw Ar-
NOLD.
Fades awa’ like morning dew. —
ScortisH Bauiap.
Fade away like morning beauty from
her mortal day. — WILLIAM BLakeE.
As flowers kept too long in the shade
. . . fade. — E. B. Brownine.
Fading like moonlight softly into
darkness. — RoBERT BUCHANAN.
Beauty fades as a tree in winter. —
Rozsert Burton.
Fade like stars before the sun. —
CAMPBELL.
Fade away like a Vesture. — Car-
LYLE.
Faded . . . like the mist of a breath
on a mirror. — JosePH CONRAD.
Fade like morning’s blush. — Euiza
Cook.
Fades like the rainbow’s brilliant
arch. —Ipm.
Fades
Like the fair flow’r dishevell’d in the
wind. — CowPErR.
A beauty fading like the April
show’rs. — WiLL1aM DrumMonp.
FADE.
Fade away like a cloud and vanish.
— Frovupe.
Fading, like a morning dream. —
GERALD GRIFFIN.
Fades as a kiss on lips of light. —
Frank W. GUNSAULUS.
Fading away, like a pale English
flower, in the shadow of the forest. —
HAWTHORNE.
Faded like a dream of youth. —
O. W. Hotmes.
Faded . . . like dew upon the sea. —
Isp.
Fade like the roseate flush, the golden
‘glow,
When the bright curtain of the day is
rolled. —Ism.
Fade unspoken,
Like daffodils that die with sheaths
unbroken. —Isn.
Fades like an old faith grown gray.
— Brian Hooker.
Fade away like the pale sister of the
night,
When she resigns her delighted light,
Lost in the blaze of day.
—Joun Hucues.
Faded from me like a dream. —
Hueco.
Fade like an August marigold. —
JEAN INGELOw.
Fade,
As shadows passing into deeper shade.
— LONGFELLOw.
Faded slowly from the sight as
blushes from the cheek. — Inm.
Fade away like a thin vapory cloud.
Lorp LytTTELTon.
Faded like some rich raiment worn
of old. — Rosamunp Marriort-Wat-
SON.
Is all faded, like fragrance,
From the languishing late flowers.
— Owen MEREDITH.
FADE, — FAINT.
Fade — continued.
Fading . . . like a lingering star
That pales at sunrise in the waters of
light. —Lioyp MirrFun.
Fades like a funeral lay. — THomas
Moore.
Fades like a once-heard tale. —
Lewis Morris.
Fades like sunset flame. — Con-
STANCE C. W. NaDEN.
Fading like a ghost
At gray cock-crow.
—Joun G. NEHARDT.
How fading are the joys we dote upon !
Like apparitions seen and gone.
—Joun Norris.
Faded away like a woodcock leaves
a weasel. — EpwARD PEPLE.
Faded like a wreath of mist at eve.
— Grorce D. PRENTICE.
Fade. . . like a nightmare’s ghastly
presence, in the truthful dawn of day.
— ADELADE A. PROCTER.
Fade as a flower in May. — R. Pyn-
SON.
Fade like the gowans in May. —
ALLAN Ramsay.
Fade...
Like stars half quenched in mists of
silver dew. — SHELLEY.
Fade like vapor. — Inn.
Fade, like the hopes of youth. —
SouTHEY.
Fade like to a flowre that feeles no
heate of sunne. — SPENSER.
Faded, as fields that withering winds
leave dry. — SWINBURNE.
Fade like flame. — Ini.
Fade as leaves when the woods wax
hoary. — In.
We all do fade as a leaf. — Op
TESTAMENT.
Fading as hearts forget, as shadows
flee. — F, O. Ticknor.
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Fade
As placidly as when an infant dies.
— Tuomas Warp.
Fade, like waves breaking on a dreary
shore. — JoHn WILson.
Fades like the lustre of an evening
cloud. — Worpswortu.
Fail.
Failed
Like a brief dream of unremaining
glory. — SHELLEY.
Failing like an unreplenished stream.
—Ism.
Fail like the trances of the summer
air. — Ip.
Fain.
Fain of the wild glad weather
As famine is fain of feast.
— SWINBURNE.
Faint.
Faint as the hum of distant bees. —
ANON.
Fainter than scent of soever long-
kept lavender. — Max BEErRBoum.
Faint . . . like a lost star. — Robert
BRownina.
Faint as a waft from years
Long past.
— Heen G. Cone.
As faint and helpless as a new-born
babe. — Lorp Dr Tastey.
Faint as the music that in dreams we
hear. — Mary A. Dre VERE.
T-hear their cry afar
Faint like the death-song of a fallen
star. — ARTURO GRAF.
Faint as the dim ghost of a dream-
sea. — Ricnarp Hovey.
Faint as the light of stars and wan.
—Jran INGELOw.
Faint as a glimmering taper’s wasted
light. — Str WILLIAM JONES.
Faint as the visions in a dream. —
KIpiine.
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Faint —. continued.
Faint as the Spring. — OwEN MzERE-
DITH.
Faint . . . like chimings from some
far-off tower. — AGNES C. MITCHELL.
A faint strain,
As if some echo, that among
Those minstrel halls had slumber’d
long,
Were murm’ring into life again.
— Tuomas Moore.
Faint and forlorn . like the
breath of a spirit sighing. — Mrs.
Norton.
Faint as the voice of the telephone.
— Morgan Rosertson.
‘Faint as shed flowers. — D. G. Ros-
SETTI.
Faint . . . as the wavering flame of
spirits of wine. — W. CLtark RussELL.
Faint, like distant clarion feebly
blown. —Srr Watter Scott.
' Faint as the far-off clouds of evening.
— SouTHEY.
Faint as the moonlight that rests
upon your sleep, or the first glow of
dawn that wakes you to new endeavor.
— SUDERMANN.
Faint as the moon if the sundawn
gleam. — SWINBURNE.
Faint as the shadows of ages
That sunder their season and ours.
—Ism.
Faints like a dazzled morning moon.
— TENNYSON.
Faint as half-forgotten dreams. —
Frank Waters.
Fainter than a young lamb’s bleat.
— Wim B. Yeats.
Faintly.
Glimmering faintly like the rack of
the moon in her light cast back. —
E. B. Brownie.
FAINT. — FAIR.
Like a pale moon in vapor, faintly
bright. — Joun Dyer.
Faintly as tolls the evening chime.
— Tuomas Moore.
Faintly, like falling dew. — Frep-
ERICK TENNYSON.
Fair.
Fair as virtuous friendship : as the
candid blush of him who strives with
fortune to be just. — AKENSIDE.
Fair as Esther. — ANON.
Fair as a friar that is invited to
dinner. — In.
Fair as a saint. — Ip.
Fairer than fancy ever feigned. —
Isp.
Fair as Lady Dove. — Insp.
Fair as stars that shine in summer
skies. — Inm. ‘
Fair as the garden of Shiraz. — Is.
Fair as the glorified isles of the blest.
— Ini.
Mary is fair as the morning dew.
— Isp.
Fair as the virgin’s vows. — Ini.
Fair as the wild rose. — Isp.
Fair as winter lilies. — Ipm.
Fair as youths by brides caress’d.
— Inn.
As fair as summer roses. — THOMAS
ASHE.
Fair as lotus when the morn kisses
its opening petals red. -— ANCIENT
BALLAD or HInDUSTAN.
Fair as the cup of a lily held in a
maiden’s hand. — Eugene Barry.
Fair as the floweret opening in the
morn. — BratTTiE.
Fair as the bud unblasted. — BEau-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
FAIR,
Fair — continued.
Fair as the morn. — MIcHAEL
Bruce.
Fair as the hills of Paradise. — W11-
L1AM CULLEN BRYANT.
Fair as pearls.—Gortrriep A.
BURGER.
As fair a thing as e’er was form’d of
clay. — Byron.
Fair as the crowning rose of the whole
wreath. — Isp.
Fair, as the first that fell of woman-
kind. — Inm.
Fair as the forest. — ALicE Cary.
Fair as Ambition’s dream, or
Beauty’s face. — THomMas CnHat-
TERTON.
Faire as is the bryghte morwe [morn-
ing]. — CHAUCER.
Faire as is the rose in May. — Isp.
Fair as, Eden’s bowers. — CoLE-
RIDGE.
Fair, as the bosom of the swan. —
Ipw.
Fair withal, as spirits are. — Izrp.
Fair as any goddess who sweeps
through the Ivory Gate. — Mortimer
CoLLins.
As fair as truth. — Barry Corn-
WALL.
Fair as cygnet’s down. — NATHANIEL
Cotton.
Fair as light in heaven, or flowers in
spring. — ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.
Fair as Spenser’s dream. — SYDNEY
DoBELL.
Fair as those old fields we knew. —
IB.
Fair as a sculptor’s marble dream. —
Jun C. R. Dorr.
Fair as the morning’s snow. —
AncIENT Erse.
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As honor fair. — FaLconer.
As Cynthia fair. — Francis Fawkes.
Fair. . .as all the flowers of May.
—Ism.
Fair as the flowers themselves. —
JOHN FLETCHER.
Fair as Aurora. — Auicr A. Foicer.
A face as fair as summer skies,
Where many a blush in ambush lies.
—H. B. Freeman.
Fair as a young maid asleep beneath
new fallen snow. — GAUTIER.
Fair as the dawn in the spring time.
— Gracosa AND ILLica.
Fair as Paphos’ brooks. — Robert
GREENE.
Fair as Helen, Sparta’s pride. —
ARTHUR GUITERMAN.
Fair as the
Harte.
Fair as the summer’s evening skies.
— Isp.
Spring. — WALTER
Fair she is as foam-born Venus. —
HernricH HEINE.
Fair, Lady Mary, as a lily in the sun.
— Henry HEtrorp. :
Fair as Eve in Paradise. — Ropert
HERrRIck.
Fair as a god. — Homer (Pope).
Fair as the new-born star that gilds
the morn. — Izrp.
Fair is she as the dreams young poets
weave. — Hoop.
Fair as the wave-bleached lily of the
stream. — Isr.
Fair . . . as the spotless moon upon
the midnight sea. — Horace.
She as fair as any shepherdess
That ever was in mask or Christmas
scene. —W. D. Howe tts.
Fair as a woodland flower. — Mary
JOHNSTON.
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Fair — continued.
Fair as some wonder out of fairy
land. — Karts.
Fairer than Phoebe’s sapphire-re-
gion’d star. — Ip.
As fair,
As Sion in her height of pride.
—Joun KeEsie.
Fair as a flower, and faded just as
soon. — Omar Kuaryam.
Fair as the sun. — KINGSLEY.
Fair as bar of gold. — Kirtine.
Fair as Aphrodite rising from the
deep-blue Grecian sea. — SIGMUND
KRASINSKI.
Fair as the moonlight. — Miss
Lanpon.
Fair as original light first from the
chaos shot. — Ricnarp LovELACE.
You’re fair and fresh asa morning
in May. — Lover.
Fair as the garden of God. — Lorp
LYTTELTON.
Fair as bride to altar lead. — Evan
MacCott.
Fair as a
Mac-HEnry.
Fair as the whitest snow on Scythian
hills. — MarLows.
Seraph. — GEORGE
O, thou art fairer than the evening air,
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
—Ism.
Fair as the spirit of the evening star.
—GeraLp Massey.
Fair as dreams. — Owen MEREDITH.
She is fair as the spirit of light,
That floats in the ether on high.
— Apam Mickiewicz.
Fair as flame. —R. M. Mites.
Fair as the noon sky. — Mitton.
Fair as Orion.—James Monrt-
GOMERY,
FAIR.
Fair as the rainbow shines through
darkening showers. — Inn.
Fair as the Moon’s unclouded light.
— Epwarp Moore.
Your face is as fair and bright
As the foam on the wave in the morning
light. — Lewis Morais.
Fair as the lightning thwart the sky,
As sun-dyed snow upon the high
Untrodden heaps of threatening stone
The eagle looks upon alone.
— Witiiam Morais.
Fair as an angel from the unknown
land. — Miss Mutock.
She is as fair as a peach. — MILEs
O’REILLY.
Fair he was, like the rainbow of
heaven. — Ossian.
Fair as the summer-beauty of the
fields. — Orway.
Fairer than snow on the raven’s
back. — Ini.
Fair as
J. N. Paton.
Fair as a musk-willow forest. —
PERSIAN.
Fair like the rose, ’midst paling
flowers the queen. — PETRARCH.
youth and _ love. —
As the opening blossom fair. —
Matruew Prior.
Fair, like goddesses. — RABELAIS.
A face as fair as the summer dawn.
—James Wuitcoms RILey.
Fine and fair as your school-boy
sweetheart’s hair. — Inrp.
Fair as a bridal chamber. —
C. G. Rossetti.
Fair thou art as moonrise after rain.
— Isp.
Fair as the flowers that maidens
pluck for an hour’s. delight. —
D. G. Rossetti.
Maiden fair as a silvery dream. —
Francis S. Sartus,
FAIR.
Fair — continued.
Fair as the summer. — Haypen
SANDS.
Fair as the earliest beam of eastern
light. — Sirk Water Scorr.
Fair as any mother’s child. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Fair as day. — Ini.
Fair as text B in a copy-book. —
Isp.
Her face as fair as tho’ she had look’d
on Paradise, and caught its early
beauty. — Ini.
Fair as breathing marble.— SHEL-
LEY.
Eyes as fair as star-beams among
twilight trees. — Isr.
Fair as the fabulous asphodels. —
Isp.
Fairer than any wakened eyes be-
hold. — Isp. .
Fair, like stars when the moon is
awakened. — Ixpip.
Like great god Saturne faire. — Sir
Parr Sipney.
As fair as the first beams of the
morning. — RouMANIAN Sona.
Faire as Phoebus sunne. — SPENSER.
Fair as a fairy. — SWINBURNE.
Fair as a field in flower. — Isr.
Fair as all that the world may call
most fair, save only the sea’s own face.
— Isp.
Fair as any poison-flower
Whose blossom blights the withering
bower
Whereon its blasting breath has power.
— Isrp.
Fair as a star-shaped flower. — Inn.
Fair as dawn. — Inrp.
Fair as dreams that die and know not
what they were. — In.
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Fair as even the wakening skies. —
Isp.
Fair as flame. — Isp.
Fair as fled foam. — Isr.
Fair as heaven in spring. — Ip.
Fair as hope divines. — IB.
Fair as life. — IBip.
Fair as peace. — Is.
Clean and fair
As sunlight and the flowerful air.
— Isp.
Fair as the ambient gold of wall-
flowers. — Inp.
Fair as the eyes are fair. — Ipip.
Fair as the face of the star-clothed
night. — Isr.
Fair as the frondage each fleet year
sees fade. — IBip.
Fair as the morning. — Isp.
Fair as the sunbright air. — Inn.
Fair as the sundawn’s flame
Seen when May on her first-born day
bids earth exult in her radiant
name. — Isp.
Fair as the world’s old faith of
flowers. — Inrp.
Fair as thine eye’s beam
Hidden and shown in heaven.
— Isp.
Fair as thought could dream. — Inrp.
Fair as youth. — Isp.
Fair as some Arcadian dell. — Bay-
ARD TAYLOR.
Fair as the last star that leaves the
morning air. — Isr.
Fair as the loveliest landscape of
pastoral England. — Jsrp.
Fairer than Rachel by the palmy well,
Fairer than Ruth among the fields of
corn. — TENNYSON.
Fair as the moon.— Op TESTA-
MENT.
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Fair — continued.
Fair as the daughters of Job. — OLp
TESTAMENT.
Fair as lily leaves. —J. T. TRow-
BRIDGE.
Fair as the day that bodes as fair a
morrow. — Auaust Von PLATEN.
Fair as a statue of marble. —
MicHAEL VOROSMARTY.
Fair as a gorgeous fabric of the East.
— Isp.
Fair as the primrose mead, or blush-
ing rose. — THoMAS WaRTON.
Fair as in Mirza’s Bagdad dream. —
WHITTIER.
Fair
As Pison was to Eden’s pair.
— Ibm.
Fairer than the day, or the flowery
meads in May. — Grorce WITHERS.
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
— Worpswortu.
Fair as beams of light. — Taomas
YALDEN.
Faith.
Faith without works is like a bird
without wings; though she may hop
with her companions on earth, yet she
will never fly with them to heaven;
but when both are joined together,
then doth the soul mount up to her
eternal rest. — Francis BEAUMONT.
Faith, like the phoenix, soars and
sings. — Ricnarp Le GALLIENNE.
Faith, like light, should ever be
simple and unbending. — Martin
LUTHER.
Faith, like the itch, is catching. —
Luiat Putct. .
Faith is like a lily lifted high and
white. — C. G. Rossertt.
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful
life, is like the lamp burning in an
ancient tomb. — Mapame SwETcuHINE.
FAIR. — FALL.
Faithful.
Faithful as dog, the lonely shepherd’s
pride. — AiscuyLus.
Faithful as a good book. — Anon.
Faithful as the planets. — Inrp.
Faithful as wax to one settled impres-
sion. — BULWER-LYTTON.
Faithful as the sun in the heavens. —
JAMES R. GILMORE.
Faithful as the knee-joint to its
socket. — ARTHUR GUITERMAN.
Faithful as the eagle to the sun, as
is the steel unto the magnet. — Huco.
Faithful as the hands of a clock to
the springs. — GrEorcE MEREDITH.
Faithful as the star is to the night. —
T. Bucuanan Reap.
Faithful, from day to day,
As Hesperus, that leads the sun his
way. — Tasso.
Faithful as the sun. — Henry
VAUGHAN.
Faithless.
Faithless as fair weather. — ANON.
Faithless. . . as the winds. — APHRA
Brun.
Fall.
(See also FELL.)
Sweet-falling as the evening dew.
— ANon.
Fall like a thousand of brick.— Inip.
Falling like Sierra’s April flood that
pours in ponderous cadence from the
cliff. — Im.
Falls like the leaves in October. —
Isp.
Falling like the tower Siloam. —Inip.
Fall like small birds beaten by the
storm against a dead wall, dead. —
P. J. Barney.
Falling...
softly as a snowflake.
— Isp. .
FALL. — FALSE,
Fall — continued.
Falling like a bolt out of the blue.
— CARLYLE.
Falls and risings, like a swan upon
vaving water. — CoLLEY CIBBER.
Fall, like the autumn-kissed leaf.
— Paut Laurence Dunsar.
Fall on me like a silent dew,
Or like those maiden showers,
Which by the peep of day, do strew
A baptism o’er the flowers.
— Herrick.
Like a leaf that quits the bough,
The mortal vesture falls.
—O. W. Homes.
Like a city without walls, the
grandeur of the mortal falls who
glories in his strength and makes not
God his trust. — Macav.ay.
They fall away, like the flower on
which the sun hath looked in his
strength. — James MacpHERson.
He falls like an oak on the plain ;
like a rock from the shaggy hill. —Ism.
Falls like some baffled thing. —
Artuur W. E. O’SHAUGHNESSY.
Falling soft as snow on snow. —
- F. T. Pauerave.
Falling as gently as an answer to a
prayer. — ADELAIDE A. PRocTER.
Falls like Lucifer,
Never to hope again.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Fall as a slaughtered beast head-
less. — SWINBURNE.
Fallen as leaves by the storms in
their season thinned. — Inm.
Softer falls
Than petals from blown roses’on the
grass. — TENNYSON.
They fall like — before the mower.
— THACKERAY.
Fall off, like leaves from a withered
tree. — VOLTAIRE.
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False.
False as a man with a black head
and a red beard. — ANon.
False as Dick’s hatband. — Ini.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays
and ruins the walls it embraces ; but
true friendship gives new life and
animation to the object it supports.
— Rosert Burton.
False as suborn’d perjurers. — Sam-
UEL BUTLER.
False as the father of lies. —G. K.
CHESTERTON.
False and fair-foliaged as the man-
chineel. — CoLERIDGE.
False as a bulletin. — Naro.ron.
False as the adulterate promises of
favorites in power when poor men
court them. — Otway.
False as the wind, the waters, and
the weather. — Iz.
False as God is true.
— Tuomas PaIne.
False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,
Its gaudy colors spread on ev’ry place.
— Porr.
As false as Waghorn, and he was
nineteen times falser than the deil. —
ScoTTisH PROVERB.
False as an obituary. — Epcar
SALTUS.
False as dice. — SHAKESPEARE.
False as dicers’ oaths. — Inm.
False as hell. — Ipm.
False
As stairs of sand.
—Ism.
False as water. — Isp.
False...
— Isp.
as wolf to heifer’s calf.
False as the fowler’s artful snare.
— SMOLLETT.
False and foul as fear. —SwWINBURNE.
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Falsehood.
Falsehood, like a nettle, stings
those who meddle with it. — Anon.
A mixture of falsehood is like alloy
in coin of gold and silver, which may
make the metal work the better, but it
embaseth it. — Bacon.
Falsehood, like a drawing in per-
spective, will not bear to be examined
in every point of view, because it is a
good imitation of truth, as a perspec-
tive is of the reality, only in one. —
C. C. Corton.
Falsehoods, like weeds, flourish with-
out care. Weeds care nothing for soil
or rain. They not only ask no help,
but they almost defy destruction. —
R. G. Incersott.
To tell a falsehood is like the cut
of a sabre: for though the wound may
heal, the scar of it will remain. —
SaDI.
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes
the more in proportion as air and light
are excluded. — WHATELY.
Falsetto.
Falsetto, like the notes of a split
reed. — WasHINGTON IRVING.
Falter.
Faltering like the skylark’s young.
— James Montcomery.
Fame.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up
things light and swollen, and drowns
things weighty and solid; but if
persons of quality and judgement con-
cur, then it filleth all round about,
and will not easily away; for the
odors of ointments are more durable
than those of flowers. — Bacon.
Fame is like a crop of kanada
thissels, very eazy tew sow, but hard
tew reap. —JosaH Bruurnes.
Fame is like,a whimsical mistress ;
she flies from those who pursue her
FALSEHOOD. — FAMILIAR.
most, and follows such as show the
least regard to her. —SamMuEL Crox-
ALL.
Fame, as a river, is narrowest wi.e:¢
it is bred, and broadest far off. —
Sir Wiituram DaveNnant.
Fame, like a new mistress of the
town, is gained with ease, but then
she’s lost as soon. — DrypDEN.
To some characters, fame is like an
intoxicating cup placed to the lips,
— they do well to turn away from it
who fear it will turn their heads.
But to others fame is “Love dis-
guised”, the love that answers to
love in its widest, most exalted sense.
— Mrs. Jameson.
Fame, like money, should neither
be despised nor idolized.—L. C.
JUDSON.
Fame, like a wayward Girl, will still
be coy
To those who woo her with too
slavish knees,
But makes surrender to some thought-
less Boy,
And dotes the more upon a heart at
ease. — Keats.
Good fame is like fire: when you
have kindled it, you may easily pre-
serve it; but if you once extinguish
it, you will not easily kindle it again.
— PLUTARCH.
The way to fame, like the way to
heaven, is through much tribulation.
— STERNE.
Fragrant his fame as flowers that
close not. — SWINBURNE.
Familiar.
Familiar as a popular
ANON.
song. —
Familiar as the sights on our streets.
— Isp.
Familiar as my sleep, or want of
money. — BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
FAMILIAR, — FAR.
Familiar — continued.
Familiar as the simple lore
That two policemen and two thieves
make four.
— AmBRoSE BIERCE.
Familiar as a cradle-song. —R. J.
BurRDETTE.
Familiar as a voice of home. — JoHN
CRAWFORD.
Familiar as an oath.—Lorp Dr
TABLEY.
Familiar, like the amulet worn on
the heart. — Grorce EL tor.
As familiar as a fiddler. — Joun
FLETCHER.
Familiar to me as my own face in
the glass; as the speech of my own
tongue. — Huco.
Familiar as eating. — MAssINGER.
Familiar as his garter. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Familiar in his mouth as household
words. — Isp.
Familiar as the sun and moon. — |
Henry D. THoreav.
Familiar as our childhood’s stream
Or pleasant memory of a dream.
— WHITTIER.
Familiar as a book. — N. P. Wiis.
Familiarly.
Talks as familiarly of roaring lions
As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Family.
His family is like potatoes; all
that is good of them are underground.
— ANON.
The family is like a book — the chil-
dren are the leaves,
The parents are the covers that pro-
tective beauty gives.
At first the pages of the book are blank
and purely fair,
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But time soon writeth memories and
painteth pictures there.
Love is the little golden clasp that
bindeth up the trust,
Oh, break it not, lest all the leaves
shall scatter and be lost.
— ANON.
Fan.
It fanned his cheek
Like a meadow-gale of Spring.
— COLERIDGE.
Fanciful.
Fanciful as furnitures. — ANON.
Fancy.
Fancy, like a spright,
Prefers the silent scenes of night.
— NaTHANIEL CoTTon.
Fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at
home. — CowPER.
Fangless.
Fangless as the fat worms of the
grave. — JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
Fantastic.
Fantastical, like a sick man’s dreams.
— ANON.
Fantastic . . . as the sports of a
Naiad. — Butwer-Lyrron.
Fantastic as a war-dance. —G. K.
CHESTERTON.
Fantastic as a Chinese weapon. —
Maurice MArter.inck.
Fantastic as a woman’s mood. —
Sir WaLter Scott.
A fantastic splendor as of Aladdin
and Arabian nights. —IsraEL ZANG-
WILL.
Far.
Far as good is above evil. — ANon.
As far from the heart as from the
eyes. — Ism.
As far as finite is from infinite. —
P. J. Batey.
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Far — continued.
Far as mortal eye can compass
sight. — Byron.
Atom from atom yawns as far
As moon from earth, or star from star.
— EMERSON.
Far as asunder. — J. S.
KNowLES.
poles
Afar as angels or the sainted dead.
—Gerorce MacDona.Lp.
Far as imagination’s eye can roll. —
MonTGoMERY.
Far as human man is from the brute.
— Lewis Morris.
As far as sleep from waking. —
Joun G. NEIHARDT.
And no star
Is from thy mortal path so far
As streets where childhood knew the
way. —D. G. Rossetti.
As far from help as limbo is from
bliss. — SHAKESPEARE.
So far from sounding and discovery,
As is the bud bit with an envious worm,
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to
the air,
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
— Isp.
Far as the remotest line
That bounds imagination’s flight.
— SHELLEY.
Burning far, like the light of an
unmeasured star. — In.
Far as heaven’s red labouring eye
could glance. — SWINBURNE.
Far as hope from joy or sleep from
truth. — Isp.
Far from earth as heaven. — Ini.
Far and wide, like the falcon that
hunts through the sky. — Esaras Trc-
NER.
Fascinate.
Fascinate —as a snake would a
bird. — JoserH Conrap.
FAR. — FAST.
Fascinating.
Fascinating as a loose tooth. —
ANON.
Fashion.
An Englishman of fashion is like
one of those souvenirs, bound in
gold vellum, enriched with delicate
engravings, on thick hot-pressed paper,
fit for the hands of ladies and princes,
but with nothing in it worth reading
or remembering. — EMrERson.
A man of fashion is like a certain
blue flower, growing spontaneously in
ploughed grounds, which chokes the
corn, spoils the crop, and takes up
the room of something better. — M..
DE La BRUYERE.
For fashion’s sake, as bawds go to
church. — JouHN WEBSTER.
Fast.
Fast as a jack rabbit in front of a
prairie fire. — ANon.
Fast as a dog will lick a dish. — Inrp.
As fast as the foam-flakes drift on
the river. — Ipm.
As fast as a fisher could let out line.
—J. M. Barrie.
Fast as Time’s swift pinions can
convey. — SAMUEL Boyser.
Fast as the streaming rain. — CHAT-
TERTON.
Gulp it down as fast as a Neapolitan
beggar does a plateful of free sealding-
hot macaroni. — Henry T. Finck.
Served as fast as you throw the five
baseballs at the colored gentleman’s
head. — O. Henry.
Our days run
As fast away as does the sun ;
And as a vapour, or a drop of rain
Once lost, can ne’er be found again.
— Rosert Herrick.
Fast as the rolling seasons bring
The hour of fate to those we love.
—O. W. Homes.
FAST. — FATAL.
Fast — continued.
Fast as light. — Huco.
Fast as a horse can trot. — Ben
JONSON.
Spend vows as fast as vapors, which go
off
Even with the fumes.
— CHartes Lams.
Fast as windy flames devour. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Fading fast as rainbows. — THoMAS
Moore.
Held her fast, mercilessly, as a
snake holds a little bird. — Miss
Mutock.
Fast as a dog can trot. — RaBELAIS.
Fast as the magnet flies. — EbMonD
Rostanp.
As fast as the simoon’s desert wind.
— Friepricu RUcKERT.
Fast as an eagle through the air. —
SCHILLER.
Fast
As lagging fowls before the northern
blast. — SHAKESPEARE.
- Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum. —Isp.
Entrap the hearts of men, faster
than gnats in cobwebs. — IBm.
Faster than thought or time. —
Isp.
Fast as autumn days toward winter.
— SWINBURNE.
Fast as fire on earth devours. — Isp.
Fast as the gin’s grip of a way-
farer. — Ipip.
Fast as warriors grip their brands
when battle’s bolt is hurled. — Inm.
Made fast as with anchors to land.
— Isp.
Fast in bondage as herded beasts.
— Isp.
Fast as storm could speed. — [srp.
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Faster than dolphins do o’ershoot
the tide, cours’d by .the yawning
shark. —C. J. WELLs.
Fast as a. musician scatters sound
Out of an instrument.
— WorDsworTH.
Fasten.
Like one drowning fastens upon
anything that is next at hand. —
JoHN EARLE.
Fastened like nails in a cartwheel.
— Sir Water Rateicu.
Fasten him as a nail in a sure place.
— Otp TESTAMENT.
Fat.
Fat as a bacon-pig at Martlemas.
— ANon.
Fat as brawn. — Ini.
Fat as a sheep’s tail. — Ipm.
A red bag, fat with your unpaid
bills, like a landing net. — Dion
Boucicavtt.
Fat as Mother Nab. — SamuEL
BuTLer.
Fat as a whale. — CHAUCER.
Fat as a barn-door fowl. — Con-
GREVE.
Fat as seals. — CHARLES HALLock.
Fatte as a foole. — Lyty.
As fat as a distillery pig. —Scor-
TIsH PROVERB.
As fat as a Miller’s horse. — Isip.
Fat as butter. — SHAKESPEARE.
Fat as tame things. — Iprp.
Fat and fulsome to mine ear
As howling after music. — Ibrp.
Fat as grease. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Grow fat as the heifer at grass. —
Ipm.
Fatal.
Fatal as Herod’s worms. — ANON.
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Fatal — continued.
Fatal as the eye of the basilisk. —
ANON.
Fatal as the tongue of the serpent.
— Isp.
Fatal as the shade of Death’s dark
valley. —P. J. Barry.
Fatal as the scythe of death. —
CowPeEr.
Anger and power are as fatal as
lightning. — Grorce Eniot.
Fatal as the Egyptian night,
When the eldest-born were slain.
— James MontTcomery.
Fate.
My fate is like that of an eagle, who,
being shot with an drrow, observes
his own feathers on the arrow that
kills him. — CHESTERFIELD.
Faultless.
Faultless as blown roses in June
days. — Epwarp DowpEn.
Faultless as a flower. — SWINBURNE.
Favors.
I do confess thou’rt sweet, yet find
Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets,
Thy favours are but like the wind
That kisses everything it meets.
And since thou canst with more than
one,
Thou’rt worthy to be kiss’d by none.
— Sm Rosert Ayton.
Fawn.
Fawn like spaniels. — MaRLowE.
Fawned like hounds. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Fawning like a courtier parasite.
— VOLTAIRE.
Fear.
Fear, like spare diet, starves the
fevers of lust and quenches the flames
of hell. — O. W. Hotmes.
Fear on fear, like light reflected from
the dancing wave, visits all places, but
can rest in none. — Rosert JEPHSON.
FATAL. — FEED.
As corn o’ergrown by weeds, so heed-
ful fear
Is almost chok’d by unresisted lust.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Trembling fear, as fowl hear falcon’s
bells. — Ini.
Fear is like a cloak which old men
huddle
About their love, as if to keep it warm.
— WorDSWORTH.
Fearful.
Fearful as a locust bane. —C. F.
ALEXANDER.
Fearful, like a dog an old master
drives away, and which fears the new
one. — Ourpa.
Fearful as a siege. — SHAKESPEARE.
Fearless.
Fearless as the strong-winged eagle.
— James MacpHerson.
Fearless as a drunkard. — THomas
MDLETON.
Bred him fearless, like a sea-mew
reared
In rocks of man’s foot feared,
Where nought of wingless life may
sing or shine. —— SWINBURNE.
Fearlessly.
Fearlessly, like a happy child, too
innocent to fear. — SOUTHEY.
Feast.
Feast like Dives. — Anon.
Feast like Lucullus. — Isr.
Feasting like fiends upon the in-
fidel dead. — SHELLEY.
Feeble.
Feeble as a lamb’s bleat. — Anon.
Feeble as the wing of a chicken in
the pip. — CuarLorrE Brontii.
Feed.
Feed like an oxen at a stall.—
SHAKESPEARE.
Feed on us, as worms devour our
body. — SHELLEY.
FEEL. — FELL.
Feel.
Nature meant that a fat man should
have an appetite and that he should
gratify it at regular intervals — meant
that he should feel like the Grand
Canyon before dinner and the Royal
Gorge afterward. — Irvin S. Coss.
Feelings.
It is with feelings as with waters :
the shallow murmur, but the deep are
dumb. — Sir Water RaLeicu.
The feelings, like flowers and butter-
flies, last longer the later they are
delayed. — RicuTer.
Feet.
Her pretty feet like snails, did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep,
Did soon draw in again.
— Rosert Herrick.
To make the tale of her charms
complete,
They [her hands] were matched by the
shape of her exquisite feet,
Feet so light no maid might show,
So perfectly fashioned from heel to toe,
If on the eye of a lover she stepped,
Her foot would float on the tear he
wept. — Jami.
Her feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice, stole in and out,
As if they feared the light.
— Sir JOHN SUCKLING.
A baby’s feet, like sea-shells pink,
Might tempt, should heaven see meet,
An angel’s lips to kiss, we think,
A baby’s feet.
Like rose-hued sea-flowers toward the
heat
They stretch and spread and wink
Their ten soft buds that part and meet.
— SWINBURNE.
Felicity.
Domestic felicity, which, like the
small-pox or the plague, a man can
have only once in his life. — GzorcE
WasHINGTON.
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Fell.
(See also Fall.)
Fell like piled-up cards. — Roprrr
BROWNING.
Fell as thick as harvests beneath
hail. — Byron.
The charioteer fell like a fluttered leaf ;
Or as feather shaken from the wing
Of some high-soaring eagle, when the
hail
Falls in a whirlwind and the woods
cry back. —Lorp De Tastey.
Jussaic fell like a mass of dead
flesh. — Dumas, PERE.
Fell like a ninepin. — Jost Ecur-
GARAY.
The stars of heaven fell calmly away,
Like flakes of snow in a winter day.
—James Hoae.
She fell like a column of water. —
W. D. Howe ts.
He fell as
J. S. Kyow.es.
His face fell like a cookbook cake.
—Josrra C. LIncoin.
Fell, like a flail on the garnered
grain. — LONGFELLow.
Like corn before the sickle the stout
Lavinians fell. — Macautay.
He fell, like the bank of a mountain-
stream. — JAMES MacPHERSON.
She ... fell from her full height
as a stone drops from a rock into the
gulf below. — Ouma.
one struck dead. —
Like the watch-tower of a town
Which an earthquake shatters down,
Like a lightning-stricken mast,
Like a wind-uprooted tree
Spun about,
Like a foam-topped waterspout
Cast down headlong in the sea,
She fell at last. —C. G. Rosserrti.
Fell, like ocean’s feathery spray
Dashed from the boiling surge
Before the vessel’s prow.
— SHELLEY.
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Fell — continued. /
Fell, like the unseen blight of a
smiling day. — SHELLEY.
Fell fast, as the seared leaves that
from the trembling tree the autumn
whirlwind shakes. — SouTHEY.
Fell like ripe grass before the
mower’s scythe. — Ini.
Fell like a thousand of brick. —
Smon Sues.
Fell as falls an ember from forth a
flameless pile. — SWINBURNE.
Fell a spirit, as sinks the star of
day beneath its watery bed of western
waves. — JoserH TURNLEY.
But I fell ;
Fell, like the snow-flakes, from heaven
— to hell.
— James W. Watson.
Fell upon his ears like fire-bell at
night. — THomas Watson.
Ferments.
Ferments like boiling yeast. —
Grorce Mac-Henry.
Ferocious.
Ferocious as a catamount searching
for its dinner. — ANon.
Ferocious as a bogus archangel full
of cocaine. — Henry L. Mrncxen.
Ferocious as wolves. — VOLTAIRE.
Fervent.
Fervent as the solar rays. — Franx-
un P. Apams.
Fervent as fire. — ANON.
Fervent as a saint. — Exiza Cook.
Fervent as Hesper in the brow of
Eve. — Grratp Massey.
Fervent as fiery moon. — Swin-
BURNE.
Fervent as glorious noon. — Isaac
Warts.
FELL. — FIDGETY.
Festered.
Festered like buried thorns in the
flesh. — Irvin S. Coss.
Fetid.
Atmosphere as fetid as the stym-
phalian lake, over which no bird could
fly. — ANON.
Fickle.
Fickle as friends. — ANon.
Fickle as the lightning. — Inip.
Fickle as the weather. — Inm.
Fickle as love. — Batzac.
Fickle as the flying air. — Brav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
Fickle...
BEuN.
as the winds. — APHRA
Fickle as a feather. — ALEXANDER
BRoME.
Fickle as the sea. — WILLIAM CUL-
LEN Bryant.
Fickle and bright as a fairy throng.
— Euiza Coox.
Fickle as the sky. —-JamEs GRa-
HAME.
Fickle as a female in hysterics. —
O. W. Hoimes.
Fickle as the
Kina.
flood. — W1ILLiAM
Fickle as the breezes blow. — JosEPH
B. Lapp.
Fickle as a changeful dream. —
WALTER Scott.
Fidget.
In a fit of fidgets, when she behaved
like a puppy chewing a string, a clumsy
woman in a side-saddle, a hen with
her head cut off, or a cow stung by a.
hornet. — Kreiine.
Fidgety.
Fidgety as an old maid. — Bat-
ZAC.
FIERCE. — FIGHT,
Fierce.
Fierce as the flight of Jove’s de-
stroying flame. — AKENSIDE.
Fierce as a Japanese mask. — ANON.
Fierce as Jove. — Inn.
Fierce as lecherous desire. — Inn.
Fierce as a lion of Cotswold. — Inip.
Fierce as a mother bird. — Iz.
Fierce as a rameat.—J. R. Bart-
LeET?’s “‘DicTIONARY OF AMERICAN-
ISMs.”’
Fierce as those flames which shall
consume, at close of all. — Buacavap-
Gita.
Fierce as twenty bloodhounds.
—E. B. Brownina.
Fierce as the shout of victory. —
WILLIAM CULLEN Bryant.
Fierce as the blast that tears the
northern sky. — CHATTERTON.
Fierce as the fallynge thunderbolte.
— Isw.
Fiers as leoun. — CHAUCER.
Fierce as sin. — P. H. Hayne.
Fierce as a whirlwind. — Homer.
Fierce as a tigress plundered of her
young. — JUVENAL.
Fierce as the hydra. — WILLIAM Kina.
Fierce as Achilles was. — Mar.owE.
Fierce as a female Leviathan. —
Owen MEREDITH.
Fierce as mounts the flame in air.
— WiuuraMm J. Mickie.
Fierce as a comet. — MILTON.
Fierce as ten furies. — Ipip.
Fierce as a turkey-cock. — James
MontTGoMeEry.
As fierce as the Pentland Firth. —
Scortish PROVERB.
Fierce .. . as whetted scythe. —
JoHN RUSKIN.
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As ferce and as cruell as the feende
of hel. — Jonn SKELTON.
Fierce as a famished wolf. —
SouTHEY.
Fierce as hauke in flight. — Spensrn.’
Fierce as a blast of hate from hell. —
SWINBURNE.
Fierce as the fervid eyes of lions. —
Is.
Fierce as flaming fire. — Tasso.
Fierce as aqua fortis. — Joun Tat-
HAM.
Fierce, as powers at bay. — Bayarp
TAYLor.
Fierce as wolves. — Totsroy.
Fiery.
Fiery as the encircling neighborhood
of a forge. — D’ANNUNZzIO.
Fiery as powder. —Joun W. Dr
Forest.
Fiery as a stag at bay. — THEODORE
TILTON.
Fight.
Fight as fiercely in defence of his .
mistress as Blandimar and Paridel, of
romantic fame, are said to have
fought for the lovely Florimel. — Anon.
Fight like a bulldog. — Inrp.
Fight like Kilkenny cats. — Inm.
Fight like sin. — Ini.
Fight like thunder. — Inm.
Fight like a dragon. — Ropert
Burton.
Fight like mad or drunk. — SamuEL
BUTLER.
Fight like a cock. — ConGREvE.
Fight like hell-roosters. — SrerHEn
CRANE.
Put up a fight like a welter-weight
cinnamon bear. — O. Henry.
Fight like a bull in a tether. —
KINGSLEY.
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Figure.
She had a figure like a pillow. —
ANON.
Her figure is like a willow bough. —
JosepH A. DE GOBINEAU.
File.
In files they lay,
Like the mower’s grass at the close of
day. — Byron.
Fill.
Fill like a rush of wind and shaft of
sunshine. — WiLLIAM ARCHER.
My heart feels filling like a sinking
boat. —P. J. Barney.
Filled as cloud with fire. — Swin-
BURNE.
Fill like the shadow of a cloud. —
WHITTIER. p
Filthy.
Filthy as the mouth of a fired gun.
— ANon.
Final.
Final as going to Heaven. — JosEPH
Conrab.
Finance.
His finance is like the Indian
philosophy ; his earth is poised on
the horns of a bull, his bull stands
upon an elephant, his elephant is
supported by a tortoise; and so on
forever. — Epmunp Burks.
Fine.
Fine as a Maypole on May-day. —
ANON.
Fine as a mist of lace. — Inrp.
Fine as five-pence. — Isr.
Fine as gossamer. — Inip.
Fine as point lace. — Ipm.
Fine as a skein of the casuist Esco-
bar’s worked on the bone of a lie. —
Rosert BRowninc.
Fyn as ducket in Venice. — Cuav-
CER.
FIGURE. — FIRM.
Fine as an ape in purple. — CLARKE’s
“PROVERBS.”
Fine as a silver dollar saloon. —
ELBert Hupparp.
A sound so fine, there’s nothing lies
’twixt it and silence. — J. S. KNow Les.
Fine as bronze floss. — Amy LESLIE.
Fine as light. — SHELLEY.
Fine as silkworm’s thread. —
SouTHEY.
Fine as the gleamy gossamer that
spreads its filmy web-work o’er the
tangled mead. — Isp.
More fine
SWINBURNE.
than moonbeams. —
Fine as ice-ferns on January panes.
— TENNYSON.
Fine as a hedge in May. — SamMuEL
WESLEY.
Finger.
Like reeds were those taper fingers
of hers to write on each heart love’s
characters. — JAMI.
Fire.
Fire the heart devout, like can-
tharidian plasters. — Burns.
Fired like a planet on its peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
— Porte.
Fired, as by a spell. — SHELLEY.
Firm.
Firm as the shaft that props the
towering dome. — AiscHyLus.
Firm as the solid base of this great
world. — AKENSIDE.
Firm as adamant. — ANON.
Firm as a mountain. — Isp.
Firm as the granite base of Mount
Washington. — Is.
Firm as the iron hills. — Ipm.
Firm as the budding fruit. —
ARIOSTO.
FIRM. — FIT.
Firm — continued.
' Firm as well-cured olives. — ARIS-
TOPHANES.
Stand firm like a rock. — Marcus
AURELIUS.
Firm as butchers. — Bacon.
Firm as the heart of a mountain. —
AMBROSE BIERCE.
Firm in his sinew as the hind leg of a
stag. — BuLWER-LYTTON.
Firmer than heaven and earth. —
Bunyan.
Firm as a fortress. — Byron.
Held firm, like a wall of rock. —
CARLYLE.
Firm-founded, like the bamboo’s
clamping roots. — CHINESE.
Firm as Sparta’s king. — Sim Fran-
cis DoyLe.
Rock firm as
Harpy.
Firm as the band that clasps the
antlered spoil. —O. W. Hotmes.
facts. — THomas
Firm as the rooted mountain rock.
—Ism.
Firm as Atlas. — Ropert JEPHSON.
Firm as steel. — Vircinia W. JoHn-
SON.
Firm as the tread of lions. —
RicHarp Lr GALLIENNE.
Firm as the oak on rocky heights.
—Epwarp Lovisonp. *
Firm as Nature’s self. — LowE.t.
Firm as a pillar. — Grorce MeErz-
DITH.
Hands firm as driven stakes. —Ipip.
Firm as the poles, or earth, which
never move. — GEORGE SANDYS.
Firm as faith. — SHAKESPEARE.
Firm as rocky mountains. — Ip.
Firm as the world’s centre. — SHEL-
LEY,
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Firm as dust and fixed as shadows.
— SWINBURNE.
Firm as a stone. — Op TESTAMENT.
As virtue, firm. — Wituiam Tuom-
SON.
Firm as the fabled throne of Grecian
Jove. — Ini.
Firm as the castle’s feudal roof. —
Tuomas WaRTON.
As firm as rock in ocean. — WILLIAM
WHITEHEAD.
Firm as the chain of rocks which
guard the strand. — Wi.L1am WILKIE.
Firm and unflinching, as the lighthouse
reared
On the Island-rock.
— Worpswortu.
Firm as solid crystal. — Ini.
Fist
(See also Hanp.)
Fists like shoulders of * mutton. —
BALzac.
Fit (Adverb).
Fit as a rope for a thief. — ANon.
Fit as a shoulder of mutton for a
sick horse. — Iprp.
Fit as a fiddle. — Wittiam Havcu-
TON.
Fit as a saddle for a sow. — LEANn’s
“ COLLECTANEA.”
As fit as a pudding for a dogges
mouth. — Lyty.
Fit as a fritter for a friar’s mouth. —
EncuisH PRovers.
As fit as ten groats is for the hand
of an attorney, as your French crown
for your taffeta punk, as Tib’s rush
for Tom’s forefinger, as a pancake for
Shrove-Tuesday, a morris for May-
day, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold
to his horn, as a scolding quean to a
wrangling knave, as the nun’s lip to
the friar’s mouth ; nay, as the pudding
to his skin. — SHAKESPEARE,
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Fit (Adverb) — continued.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of
gold in pictures of silver. — OLp TEs-
TAMENT.
Fit (Verb).
Fit as a banana skin on a banana.
— ANon.
Fit in like dog’s teeth. — Irv.
Fits like the bark on a tree. — Ip1p.
Fits like feathers on a duck. — Inrp.
Fit like the paper on the wall. —
Isp.
Fit into his niche like a peg into a
hole. — Bauzac.
Fits like a bathing suit coming out
of the water. — GEorGE BroapHuRsT.
Fits in its place, like a marble stone
accurately hewn and _ polished. —
CARLYLE.
Fits as a shell fits a crab. — Sir
A. Conan Dore.
Fit as a thump with a stone in an
apothecary’s eye. — THomas Futter,
M. D.
Fitted into it like a brilliant into the
setting of a ring. — Hazuirr.
Fits you like a flannel washed in
hot suds. — O. Henry.
Fit like Sunday shoes.—O. W.
Homes.
Fitted as does a key in a well-oiled
lock. — Berrina von HutTten.
Fit . . . like the leg and trouser,
the hair and the comb. — Henrik
IBsEN.
Fits the present purpose like a ring
to your finger. — W. S. Lanpor.
Fit her as a helmet might a hero. —
Amy LESLIE.
Fitted into each other like the art-
fully covered pieces of wood which
composed the picture puzzles of our
childhood. — ALEXANDER K1ELLAND.
FIT. — FIXED.
Fit, like wheel to nave, or joint to
spit. — Wituiam Kine.
Fits like a kid glove. — Gzorcx
MEREDITH.
Fits you like a finger stuck in the
mud, — H. W. Paiturrs.
Fitful.
Fitful and faint, like the shifting
mirage of the desert. — EucEnE
Barry.
Fitful like the talking of trees. —
D. G. Rossertt.
Fitful as the sea. — SwINBURNE.
Fitfully.
Comes fitfully like broken music.
— TENNYSON.
Fits.
By fits and girds (starts), as an
ague takes a goose. —JoHN Ray’s
“HANDBOOK OF PROVERBS.”
Fixed.
Fixed as fate. — ANON.
Fixed as the laws of the Medes and
the Persians. — Ipip.
Fixed as the laws of the planetary
system. — Ibm.
Fixed as your name on a note. —
Ipip.
Fixed like ony stane. — JoANNA
BaILLig.
Fixt — like
ApHRA BEHN.
Fix’d as the rock that braves the
main. — THomas BLACKLOCK.
conscious guilt. —
Fixed as the orb of the burning
sun. — Emrty Bronre.
Fixed as the polar star. — WILLIAM
ALLEN ButTuer.
Fixed, as in death. — Jonn VANCE
CHENEY.
Fixt as an island ’gainst the waves
and wind. — ABrawam Cow Ley.
FIXED. — FLAME,
Fixed — continued.
Eyes immovably fixed .. . like a
miser torn away from his coffers, or
like a mother separated from her child
about to be led away to death. —
Dumas, PERE.
Fixed like a statue on his marble
throne. — F. W. Faper.
Sullen, fix’d like some old oak’s
deep-rooted, knotted trunk, which
hath endur’d the tempest-breathing
months of thrice a hundred winters, yet
remains unshaken.—-RicHARD GLOVER.
Fixed as a sculptured figure. —
GoETHE.
Fixedly as rocky marge. — Krarts.
Gaze fix’d . . . as one who deep in
heaven some airy pageant sees. —
Joun KEBLE.
Fixed as Lochlin’s thousand rocks.
— James MacpHerson.
Fixed like a rock. — MananuHaRATa.
Fixed as a monument.— W. M.
PRAED.
Fixt as the monument on Fish street
Hill. — W. B. Ruopgs.
As fixed as the law of light. —
CHARLES SANGSTER.
As fixed as Cheviot. — Sir WALTER
Scorr.
Fixed and indispensable as the
majestic laws that rule yon rolling
orbs. — SHELLEY.
Fix’d as a mountain ash. — WILLIAM
SoMERVILLE.
Like the stone eyeballs of the statue
fixed. — SoUTHEY.
Fixed like a sea-rock. — SWINBURNE.
Fixt
As are the roots of earth and base of
all. — TENNYSON.
Fixed as the earth. — THEOGNIS.
Fixed . . . like churchyard graves.
— TuroporE TILTON.
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Fix’d as oaks. — Paut WuiteHeap.
Fixed as a star. — WorDswortu.
Fixed as a_ sentinel. — Epwarp
Youne.
Fizz.
Fizzes_ like wildfire. — Ropert
Brownine.
Fizz . . . like the last sputtering of
a firework. — Boots TarKINGToN.
Fizzle.
Fizzle out like a damp squib. —
ANON.
Fizzled like freshly opened soda
water. — KIpLine.
Fizzling like an impatient soda
fountain. — Harry Lron Witson.
Flabby.
Flabby as a Norfolk dumpling. —
ANON.
As flabby as a sponge. —Guy DE
Maupassant.
Flags.
There is affection in every employ-
ment, and it gives the spirit energy,
and keeps the mind intent upon its
work or study. This if it be not re-
laxed, becomes dull, and its earnest-
ness flags, — as salt that has lost its
savor, so that it has no pungency or
relish ; or as bended bow, which
unless it be unbent, loses the power
that it derives from its elasticity. —
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.
Flame.
Flamed like a sheet of molten gold.
— Wiuuiam H. Arnsworts.
Flame like torch-flames in the pas-
sionate air. — Sipney LANIER.
Flame, like a meteor, to the troubled
air. — Ropert Lioyp.
Flaming like a carbuncle. — RaBzE-
LAIS.
Flaming, like the jaws of hell. —Isrp.
Flames like morn. — SWINBURNE.
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Flap.
Flapping down behind him like the
back-fin of a water-serpent. — RoBert
BRownine.
Flap as a flag as the winds go by.
—James WaHItcoMB RILEY.
Flare.
Flare
Like a spent lamp. about to die.
—Joun Davinson.
Flare like torches. — LONGFELLOW.
Flared like molten brass. — JAMES
MontTcoMERY.
Flared, like Titan torches flinging
flakes of flame and embers, springing
from the dale. —James Wuitcoms
RILEY.
Flares like an angered and storm-
redding morn. — SWINBURNE.
Flash (Noun).
A mere flash; as chaff and straw
soon fired, burn vehemently for a
while, yet out in a moment. — RoBerr
Burton.
A flash like a snow avalanche. —
Taomas WESTWooD.
Flash (Verb).
Flashes like cut glass. — ANon.
Flash like stars. — Ipp.
Eyes flashing, like shooting thunder-
bolts. —P. J. Barury.
Flashing, like a newly-awakened
flame. —R. D. BLackmore.
Flashed like the spray of a fountain.
— Isp.
Flashing like a
Grore M. Branpss.
Flash’d like a
Bripces (English).
Flash like a rocket. —C. S. Cat-
VERLEY.
steel blade. —
jewel. — Ropert
Flashing . . . like scimitar from its
sheath. — Pau Laurence DuNBaR.
FLAP, — FLAT.
Flashes... like a revelation. —
Paut Hamitton Hayne.
Flashed like dazzling arrow tipped
With amorous heat. — Ism.
Flashes like the shining soul of a
jest. — W. E. Henry.
Flash like a heliograph. — Kipiine.
Flashing like a scythe. — Ricwarp
Le GALLIENNE.
Flashed like a falchion from its
sheath. — LONGFELLOW.
Flashed, like a sabre in the sun. —
Txomas Moore.
Flash like golden fire-flakes from the
sky. — WitueLM MULLER.
Flashing like thought. — Miss Mvu-
LOCK.
Flashed ...
Like a red-hot eye from a grave.
—C. G. Rossertt.
Flashing like fire-flies. — IBm.
Flash like a steel blade tipped with
fire. — Francis 5. SaLrus.
Flashing like a fiery stream. —
SCHILLER.
Flashed like a strong inspiration. —
SHELLEY.
Like a mirror sparkling to the sun
with dazzling splendor, flashed. —
SouTHEY.
Her Fies did flash out fiery light,
Like coles that through a silver censer
sparkle bright. — SPENSER.
Flash and toss
Like plumes in battle’s blithest charge.
— SWINBURNE.
Flat.
Fell flat as a damp squib. — ANon.
Flat as a pricked bladder. — Inrp.
Flat as your hand. — Ixrp.
Flat as the beaten coin. — ANTAR.
Flat as a flounder. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER,
FLAT. — FLED,
Flat — continued.
Flat as an anvil’s face. — Robert
Browninc.
Flat as
BRownina.
a gravestone. —E. B.
Flat and bare as Hebrew verse of
Bishop Hare. — Joun Byrom.
Flat as a fillet of sole. — Irvin S.
Coss.
Flat as a juryman. — Dickens.
Flat as a flail. — Bret Harre.
As flat as a pancake. — Lupvic
Howpere (1684-1754).
Flat as a rose that has long been
pressed. —O. W. Homes.
As flat as Aschylus in Bohn’s
translation. — Hugo.
Flat as a willow-pattern plate. —
Isp.
Flat as an excuse. — SYDNEY Mun-
DEN.
Flat as the fens of Holland. —
Sir Watter Scott.
Flat
As dead sands be at utmost ebb that
drink
The drainéd salt o’ the sea.
— SWINBURNE.
Flatter.
A woman who won’t flatter is like a
piano that won’t play. — ELLEN Tuor-
NEYCROFT FOWLER.
Flatterers.
Flatterers are cats that lick before
d scratch behind. —ANon.
For as a wolf resembles a dog, so
doth a flatterer a friend. A flatterer
is compared to an ape, who, because
she can not defend the house like a
dog, labour as an ox, or bear burdens
as a horse, doth therefore yet play
tricks, and provoke laughter. — Sir
Water RALEIGH.
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Flattery.
Flattery is like false money: it
impoverishes those that receive it. —
ANON.
Flattery is like Kolone water, tew
be smelt of, not swallowed. — JosH
BILuines.
Your flattery, like a rich jewel, has
a value not only from its superior
lustre, but from its extraordinary
scarceness. — RicHaRD CUMBERLAND.
Flattery resembles the picture of a
_ suit of armour in this respect, that it
is calculated to yield delight, not to
render any actual service. — DEMoPH-
ILUS.
Flattery is the destruction of all
good fellowship ; it is like a qualmish
liqueur in the midst of a. bottle of
wine. — DISRAELI.
Flattery is like a painted armor ;
only to show. — SOCRATES.
Though flattery blossoms like friend-
ship, yet there is a vast difference in the
fruit. — Ibm.
Flaunt.
Beauty .. . flaunts like the coral
of summer flower. — Roprrt Bripces
(English).
Flecked.
Flecked as a turkey egg. — ANON.
Fled.
(See also Fly.)
The tyrant from our shore, like a
forbidden demon, fled. — AKENSIDE.
Fled, like the raven from the bird of
Jove. — Inp.
Filed like leaves on the gale. — Anon.
Fled, like rats from a sinking ship.
—Ism.
Sorrow fled on fleeting pinions, like
the icy breath of winter that spring
zephyrs waft away. — Isp.
Fly around like a bat in the twilight.
— BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON.
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Fled — continued.
Fled from his thoughts like a sickly
dream. — Butwer-Lytron.
Like a passing thought, she fled. —
Burns.
Fled like frighted doos. — Isr.
Fled like crows when they smell
powder. — SaMuEL Butter.
Fled like a dream. — Cowper.
Each quiet day has fled like the
same moth, returning with slow wing,
and pausing in the sunshine. —
Grorcs Exjot.
Like murder, chas’d by conscience,
fled. — Epenezer Eviiort.
Fled like the flood’s foam. — EMEr-
SON.
Fled as soon as fleet the violets. —
Haroma.
Fled like a felon. —O. W. Hotes.
Fled like a Parthian. — Huco.
Fled like a dusky cloud. — Kipiine.
Fled like the mist of Cona. — JAMES
MacpHERSON.
Fled, as the dawn clouds flee before
the sun. — JoHN Payne.
Fled like shadows. — Perrarcn.
Fled, as fogs disperse before the
god of day. — CHARLES READE.
Fled like a mist before the radiant
day. — Roscommon.
Fled at will, as in a wingéd chariot.
— SHELLEY.
Fled
Like insect tribes before the northern
gale. — Is.
Fled,
Like the brief glory which dark Heaven
inherits
From the false dawn, which fades
ere it is spread,
Upon the night’s devouring darkness
shed. — Is.
FLED. —~ FLEE.
Fled
Like vultures frightened from Imus
Before an earthquake’s tread.
— Isp.
Fledde like a beest. —JoHn SKEL-
TON.
Like spectres from the sight of
morning, fled. — SouTHEy.
Fled like a glittering rivulet to the
tarn. — TENNYSON.
As flies the shadow of a bird, she
fled. — Isp.
My best years have fled away, like
dreams, or like a minstrel’s lay. —
WALTER VON DER VOGELWEIDE.
Fled away like a dream. — Joun
WESLEY.
Fled like a flash of light. — Exta
WHEELER WILCOX.
Fled, as time will in a dream. —
N. P. Wrius.
Fled as fast as doth the haunted
fawn. — WorDSWORTH.
Fled
Like vapour, like a towering cloud,
dissolved. — Is.
Flee.
(See also Fly.)
Flee like desires. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER. :
Flee like a shamed child. —R. M.
MILNEs.
Flee like a dream’s dim imagery. —
SHELLEY.
Flee, like mist from the tempest’s
might. — Ipm.
_ Flee
As clouds and winds and rays across
the sea. — SWINBURNE.
Flee as a bird to your mountain. —
Otp TESTAMENT.
Flee, as fleeing from a sword. —
Isp.
Fleeth also as a.
Ipip.
shadow. —
FLEE. — FLEETING.
Flee — continued.
Flee as the air. — WurttTieEr.
Fleeing like the rose of an Arctic
night. — GzorcE E. Woopserry.
Fleet.
Fleet as a falling star. — ANon.
Fleet as a greyhound. — Ini.
Fleet as Diana. — In.
Fleet as kindled fire. — Ini.
Fleeter than hawk that ever flew. —
Epwin ARNOLD.
Fleet is his foot as the wild roe-
buck’s. — C. 8S. CALVERLEY.
Fleet as the whirlwind. — Camp-
BELL.
Flete as fleaynge cloudes that
swymme before the syghte. — THomas
CHATTERTON.
Fleet as leash-slipped greyhounds.
— Dante.
Fleet as deer the Normans ran
Through Curlieu’s Pass and Ardrahan.
— T. O. Davis.
Fleet as fancy. —Cuartes Drs-
DEN, JR.
Fleet as the swallow cuts the drift.
— JosrrH R. Drake.
Fleets as a dream. — Evian Fen-
TON.
Fleet as the arrow from the bowstring
flies,
Fleet as the eagle darting through the
skies. — Firpavsi.
As fleet
As had they wings upon their feet.
— Jacques JASMIN.
Fleet,
As silver-sandalled Artemis.
— Frances ANNE KEMBLE.
Fleet as wind. — MAHABHARATA.
Fleet as the
Marston.
dew. — Pure B.
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Fleet as zephyr’s pinion. — THomMAs
Moors.
Fleeter than the roe. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Fleeter than lightning’s flash. —
SOPHOCLES.
Fleet as light. — SwInBURNE.
Fleet as the lightning’s laugh. —
Ipip.
Fleet
As words of men or snowflakes on the
wind. — Isp.
Fleet and slim as Atalanta. —
Tomas WEsTwoop.
Fleet as shooting star. — Isr.
Fleet as the shadows. — Worps-
WORTH. ,
Fleet as days and months and years.
— Is.
Fleeting.
Light and fleeting as a dream of
night lost in garish day. — AiscHYLUs.
Fleeting as a shade. — ANoNn.
Fleeting as joy of youth. — Epwin
ARNOLD.
Fleeting like feathers in the winde
alofte. — GEORGE GASCOIGNE.
As fleeting as April sunshine. —
GerHart HAUPTMANN.
Fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker’s
brim
And break on the lips while meeting.
— Cuartes Fenno HorrMan.
Fleeting as a passing sigh. — Sic-
MUND KRASINSKI.
Fleeting as air. — SwIrt.
Fleeting like a beam of light. —
TENNYSON.
Fleeting as the bow in the clouds.
— TUPPER.
A thing as fleeting as the thin sea-
foam. — G. S. VIERECK.
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Fleeting — continued.
Fleeting as the wings of sleep. —
VIRGIL.
Fleeting as health or beauty. —
Worpsworta.
Flesh.
All flesh is as grass, and all the
glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the flower
thereof falleth away. —New Trsta-
MENT.
Fleshless.
Fleshless as a joint of cane. — IRvIN
S. Coss.
Fleshless as bars of steel. — Dumas,
PERE.
Fleshless as the talons of a hawk. —
Epwin Markuam.
Fleshless as a skeleton. — SaIntT-
PIERRE.
Flexible.
Flexible as a riding whip. — ANon.
As finely flexible as linen. — GEORGE
W. Curtis.
Flexible as figures in the hands of
the statistician. — IsrazrL ZANGWILL.
Flickering (Adjective).
Flickering light like the jewels of a
broken necklace. — Kipiine.
Flicker (Verb).
Flickering like a flame in the wind.
-—— ANON.
Flicker
KRaSINSKI.
Flickering like dying lamps in
sepulchres. — SCHILLER.
like a lamp. — Siemunp
Flickers like a blown-out flame. —
SWINBURNE.
Flickering like a wind-bewildered
leaf. — Ipm.
Flicker like fire. — Ipm.
Flickering like a casement ’gainst
the sun. — CHarLes T. TURNER.
FLEETING. — FLIRTATION.
Flickering like a flame, half choked
by wind and dust. — G. S. VIERECK.
Flimsy.
Flimsy as gauze. — ANON.
Flimsy as gossamer. — Ip1p.
Flinch.
Flinch ... like a plant in too
burning a sun. — THomas Harpy.
Fling.
Fling . . . as a bird flings o’er his
shivering plumes the fountain’s spray.
— Witiiam Cutten Bryant.
Flung up like a fortress lifted by
powder. —Grorce MEREDITH.
Flung like vile carrion to the hound.
— Sir WattTeER Scort.
Flung as foam from a ship’s swift-
ness. — SHELLEY.
Flip.
Flips away like whalebone from the
finger. — R. D. BLACKMORE.
Flippantly.
Flippantly, as a boy not yet grown
bashful. — XENoPHON.
Flirt (Noun).
A flirt is like a dipper attached
to a hydrant; every one is at lib-
erty to drink from it, but no one
desires to carry it away. —N. P.
WILLIS.
Flirt (Verb).
She had flirted as far and wide as
the butterfly flirts with the blossoms,
as it flutters on through the range of
a Summer day. — Oumpa.
Flirtation.
Flirtation is like the slime on water-
plants, making them hard to handle,
and when caught, only to be cherished
in slimy waters. — Donatp G. Mrtcx-
ELL.
FLIRTATION. — FLOAT.
Flirtation — continued.
Flirtations are like motor cars;
they either exceed the speed limit and
end in a smashup, or they are so slow
that a girl nearly dies of nervous pros-
tration waiting for them to get some-
where. — Heten Row.anp.
Flirtation is like a circulating library,
in which we seldom ask twice for the
same volume. — N. P. WILLIS.
Flit.
Flitted away like a bird on a wintry
night. — ANoNn.
Fiit like a summer cloud. — Ip.
Flitting like motes in the sunbeam.
-——Joun BrovucHam.
Seasons flit before the mind as flit
the snow-flakes in a winter storm,
seen rather than distinguished. —
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
Flittering here and there, like sun-
shine in the uneasy ocean-waves. —
Isp.
Flitted . . . fitfully as an April
sunbeam. — BuLWER-LYTTON.
Flitted like a spark. — Hoop.
Flit like a ghost away. — Kzats.
Fancies flit, and wheel like butter-
flies on banks of thyme. — ANDREW
Lane.
Flit like
Marauis.
Flitting like a shadow of love. —
Donato G. MitcHE.t.
Flits, like a living flake of fire. —
SamuEeL Minturn Peck.
blown feathers. — Don
Flit over the brain like the ghosts
of the dead. — Tuomas PRINGLE.
He flits like a bee. —Osmanut Prov-
ERB.
Flit like a swallow that stoops to
lave its burnished bosom in the wave.
—T. Bucnanan Reap.
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Filit,
Like spendor-winged moths about a
taper. — SHELLEY.
Flit, like life’s enjoyments, on rapid,
rapid wing. — CAROLINE SOUTHEY.
Flitted awiy like a kite wi’ a brokken
string. — TENNYSON.
Flits like a sudden drift of snow
against the dull grey sky. — Oscar
WILDE.
Float.
Float away like the deluding mist of
a mirage. — ANON.
Floating like the Hesperian garden of
old. — In.
Floats like the lotus in the lake,
unmoved. — Isr.
Floating downward in airy play,
Like spangles dropped from the glis-
tening crowd
That whiten by night the milky way.
— Wituiam Cutten Bryant.
Floating like the Cyannean Isles
in the Euxine Sea. — Ropert Bur-
TON.
Floats over the troubles of life as
the froth above the idle wave. —
Wiiuiam Hazuitt.
Floats like an atmosphere. — Lonc-
FELLOW. :
Floats like an Ark safely through
all the deluge of the dark. — GrRaLp
Massey.
Floats like soft-melting murmurs of
grief. — James MonTGoMERY.
Floating in the air like so many
spiders upon their cobwebs. — Mun-
CHAUSEN.
Floats like oil upon brown seas. —
NIETZSCHE.
Floating like foam upon the wave.
— Sir Water Scorr.
Floating like the streamers in the
wind. — SouTHEY.
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Float — continued.
Gently floating ... like a faery
chime of blue harebells, heard in
dreams, beneath the forest trees. —
A. J. Symineron.
They float in its rythmic measure
like leaves on a summer stream. —
Evita WHEELER WILCOX.
Flock.
Flocking into the country like
pigeons in the Spring. — J. Fenimore
CoorEr.
Flocked to his call
Like sprites that necromancy
Of a Prospero holds in thrall.
— Don Manauis.
Flood.
It flooded the crimson twilight like
the close of an Angel’s Psalm. —
AvetawE A. Procter.
Florid.
Florid as a milk-maid. — ANon.
Florid as the Spring. — ALrrep
AUSTIN.
Flounce.
Flounce like a Fish. — Ropert
WOLSELEY.
Flounder.
Floundered, like a silly creature
chasing a marsh-lamp. — GrorcE
MEREDITH.
Flounder on, like wounded whales
Tossed on the bosom of a stormy sea.
— Worpswortu.
Flourish.
Flourishes like a green bay tree. —
ANON.
Flourished . . . like scripture-trees
called bay. — Ropert Brownine.
Flourishing as a Banyan-grove. —
CaRLYLE.
As cedars beaten with continual
storms, so great men flourish. —
CHAPMAN.
FLOAT. —— FLUCTUATE.
Flourishes like the mountain oak. —
Acnes REPPLIER.
Flourish as a branch. — Otp Tsta-
MENT.
Flourish like an herb. — Inm.
Flourish like grass of the earth. —
Isp.
Flourish like the palm tree. — Int.
As a flower of the field so he flourish-
eth. — Inm.
Flourishing as the flowers in May.
— Lewis Waacer.
Flow.
Flow like a free and flowing river.
— ANoN.
Eloquence flows like droppings of
sweet poppy syrup. — Macau.ay.
Flow, like the dews of the love-
breathing night, from the warmth of
the sun that has set. — THomas
Moore.
Bubble, bubble, flows the stream
Like an.old tune through a dream.
— Mavrice Tompson.
Flow as hugely as the sea.—
SHAKESPEARE.
Flowed like light amid the shadows
of the sea cast from one cloudless
star. — SHELLEY.
Flowed by like the streaming images
of sleep. — Epira Wiarton.
Flow,
Like smoke, along the level of the
blast,
In mighty currents.
— Worpsworta.
Fluctuant.
Fluctuant, as the ark of Noah. —
Bacon.
Fluctuate.
Fluctuated like a stormy sea, urged
by the secret Furies. — THomas
ASHE.
FLUCTUATE, — FLUTTER,
Fluctuate — continued.
Fluctuated as flowers in rain
That bends them and they tremble
and rise again
And heave and straighten and quiver
all through with bliss
And turn afresh their mouths up for a
kiss,
Amorous, athirst of that sweet influent
love. — SWINBURNE.
Fluctuates like a sleepy wave. —
Bayarp Taytor.
Fluent.
Fluent as the skylark sings
When first the morn allures its wings.
— AKENSIDE.
As fluent as a parrot is,
And far more Polly-glottish.
— Hoop.
Fluent as the sea. — SHAKESPEARE.
Fluid.
Fluid as a cloud or the air. — Emer-
SON.
Flurried.
Helpless and flurried as a fish
landed on a grassy bank with a barbed
hook through his gills. — Ouma.
Flush.
Flushed to radiance where they
stood,
Like statues by the open tomb
Of shining saints half risen.
—E. B. Brownine.
Flushed . . . like a rose. — AUBREY
De VERE.
Rosy flushes, like warm dreams of
love. — Frances ANNE KEmBLe.
Flushes, like some young Hebe’s lip.
— Tuomas Moore.
Have ne’er by shame been taught
to blush:
- Like vernal roses in the sun flush.
—Ism.
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Flushed as one afire with wine. —
SWINBURNE.
Flutter.
Fluttered like a dead leaf in a
blast. — P. J. Barney.
Fluttered like a winged asp. —
Ini. :
Fluttering like a raven wounded.
—R. D. Biackmore.
Its meaning flutters in me like a
flame under my own breath. — E. B.
Brownina.
Fluttering, like dumb creatures be-
fore storms. — Ism.
Fluttered like a tame bird, in
among its forest brothers far too
strong for it. — Isp.
Flutter . . . like sparrows round an
owl. — Butwer-Lytron.
Flutters up and down like a butterfly
in a garden. — SaMUEL BUTLER.
Flutters as wing’d with joy. —
Byron.
Flutters as an unreal shadow. —
CARLYLE.
Flutterings as in a _ slumbering
aviary. — DAuDET.
Fluttered like a bird with broken
wings. — DIcKENS.
Flutter like snowflakes. — HAMLIN
GARLAND.
Fluttering like a piece of gold leaf.
— Hazurr.
Fluttered noiseless as a flame. —
J. G. HoLann.
Fluttering like new-mown hay. —
O. W. Hoimes.
Flutter like a flickering,
lamp. — SiemuND KRasINsKI.
Fluttered like a lark. — Gera
Massey.
Flutters like a bird fresh caught. —
Miss Mrrrorp.
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Flutter — continued.
Fluttering like a prisoned bird. —
Lewis Morris.
Flutters like a flower
Along the glory of the hills.
— Jonn Payne.
Made my own heart flutter as a bird
that beats for freedom at the bars that
prison it. — James Wuitcoms RILey.
Gauzy wings fluttered by
Like the ghost of a daisy dropped
out of the sky. — Isip.
Fluttering like pigeons. —C. G.
Rossettt.
T flutter like a child after her mother.
— SaprHo.
Fluttered, like a vision. — SCHILLER.
Like snow-coloured petals
Of blossoms that flee
From storm that unsettles
The flower as the tree
They flutter.
— SwINBURNE.
Fluttering like spent fire. — Inm.
Fluttered like a callow lark,
With dim fore-feeling of the azure free,
Sustaining wing and strength of song-
ful glee. — Bayarp TayLor.
Like an angel’s pinion, fluttereth. —
J. T. TRowBRIDGE.
Fly.
(See also Fled and Flee.)
Each mysterious form,
Flew like the pictures of a morning
dream. — AKENSIDE.
Flew along like a bird in a tempest.
— ANON.
Flies like antic shapes in dreams.
— Isp.
His arms flew like a windmill. —
Ini.
Flying, like blown flame. — Inm.
Flies like chaff wide scattered by
the wind. — Ini.
FLUTTER. — FLY.
Flew like feathered Mercury. —
Isp.
Flew like granado. — Inm.
Words flew out of his mouth as
shot out of a gatling gun. — Ism.
Flew like a cloth-yard shaft from a
bended yew. —R. H. Barnam.
Fly, like a yelping Cur with a Bottle
at his Tail. — CoLitey CrpsBer.
Fly as the leaves before the autumn
tempest. — Isrp.
Fly as a bird on the wings of Night.
— Arapian Nicuts.
Fly like . . . the northern wind. —
Francis BrEaumMont.
Fly, like a full sail. — Beaumont
AND FLETCHER.
Fly like chaff before the wind. —
JAMES BOSWELL.
Flying .. . like scatterings of dead
leaves in autumn-gusts.—E. B.
BRownine.
Flew, as if he knew
A frenzied wretch was on his back.
— Euiza Cook.
Fly as from the plague. — Joun
Davies.
Flies like a feather in the blast. —
JosEpH R. DRAKE.
Away like a glance of thought he
flew. — Ipp.
Flies like the nimble journeys of
the light. — DrypENn.
Fly like doves that the exalted eagle
spies. — RicHarp DvuKE.
Friends have flown, like leaves
whirled away by the blast. — Mrs.
FE. Forrester.
A headlong crowd is flying
Like a billow that has broken and is
shivered into spray.
—O. W. Hotes.
FLY.
Fly — continued.
Fly
Like the cannons that burst on the
Fourth of July. — Isp.
Flew as in a dream. — Huco.
Sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
— LonerELLow.
Flies like a bird unfettered from her
cage. — Maria LowEtt.
Flew like sparks in burnt up paper.
— Lowe Lt.
Fly as fast as Iris or Jove’s Mercury.
— Martowe.
Fly as fast as the hare from the
horn. — Brian MELBANCKE.
Flown
Like a smoke melted thinner than air,
That the vacancy doth disown.
— Grorcrt MERreniTH.
Flew around like the spray on a
storm-driven deck.—Joaquin MiLuer.
Flown, like morning clouds, a thous-
and ways. — James MonrTcomeEry.
All flew like the down of a thistle.
— Ciement C. Moore.
Swiftly flew as glancing flame. —
Tuomas Moore.
Flown are those days with their
winged delights, as the odor is gone
from the summer rose. — LouISsE
CHANDLER Movutton.
Flew like the swift and dazzling
flight of gold-winged orioles. — Ourpa.
As before the pike will fly
Dace and roach and such small fry ;
As the leaf before the gale,
As the’chaff beneath the flail,
As before the wolf the flocks,
As before the hounds the fox ;
As before the cat the mouse,
As the rat from falling house ;
As the fiend before the spell
Of holy water, book, and bell ;
As the ghost from dawning day.
-- Toomas L. Peacock.
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Some fly, like pendulums, from good
to evil,
And in that point are madder than the
devil. — CurisTorHer Pirt.
He flies like a dog that has burnt
his paw. — OsMANLI PRovers.
Flew as the spirit flies from the
dead. — D. G. Rosserri.
Fly like eagles which pursue their
prey. — GrorGcEe Sanpys.
Flew at him, like the young hero
Siegfried when he attacked the wild,
long-bearded dwarf Alberich. —
JOSEPH V. VON SCHEFFEL.
Flown like the light clouds of a
Summer’s day. — Joun Scorr.
Fly, like mist before the zephyr’s
sigh. —Srr WALTER Scort.
Fly like chidden Mercury from
Jove. — SHAKESPEARE.
Like falcon to the lure, away she
flies. — Ibi.
Fly like thought. — In.
Like soldiers, when their captain once
doth yield,
They basely fly.
Like a flock of rooks at a farmer’s gun
Night’s dreams and terrors, every one,
Fled from the brains which are their
prey. — SHELLEY.
Flew like the wind. —Joun SKEL-
TON.
Flew at him like an hellish fiend. —
SPENSER.
—Izm.
Flew like a wyld gote. — Isp.
Fly, like scattered sheepe. — Inn.
Flew away as lightly as the wind.
— Isp.
Flying fast as roebucke through the
fen. — Inn.
Flie, as leapes the deere fled from
the hunter’s face. —Earu or StTin-
LING.
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Fly — continued.
Fly as if the devil drove. — Swirt.
Flown as flies the
feather. — Inip.
Fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
— Isp.
blown foam’s
Fly away as a dream. — Isp.
Flew like a blossom blown about.
— WALTER THORNBURY.
Flown,
Like birds from the nest when their
wings have grown.
—Joun T. TROWBRIDGE.
Fly,
Like doves before the gathering storm.
—G. 8. Virrecx.
Flown,
Like the morning-glory’s cup.
— Ameria B. WELBy.
Fly like flower-seeds on the breeze.
—N. P. Wis.
Foam.
Foamed like a wounded thing. —
SHELLEY.
Foamed like a flagon.—M. E.
STEBBINS.
Foaming at the mouth like Cham-
pagne bottles. — IsrarL ZANGWILL.
Fold.
The soft palms fold like kissing
shells. — ANON.
Folds up like a crush hat or a con-
certina. — Irvin S. Coss.
Folded like a wave.—O. W.
Homes.
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
and as silently steal away. — LoNGrEL-
LOW.
The flowers fold their cups like
praying hands. — Grratp Massey.
Folded like thoughts in a dream. —
SHELLEY.
FLY. — FOLLOW. .
Eyelids folded like a white-rose leaf.
— SWINBURNE.
Folded up as folds a primrose when
the gates of day are shut. — EucENE
Fircu Wars.
Follow.
Follow the track of blood .. .
Like to some hound that hunts a
wounded fawn. — AtscHYLUS.
Follow like a flock of sheep.—ANon.
Follow . .
mon. — IBip.
. like geese on a com-
Follow one like Anthony’s pig. —
Isp.
Followed fate as an Irishman a
wheelbarrow. — In.
Follows like a shadow. — Isp.
Followed faithfully
As if ’twere his shadow.
— Epwin Arwno..
Follow’d her desire, as sunlight
tracks the shadow of a cloud.—
Tuomas ASHE.
I be bounde to followe it,
As the carpenter his ruler.
— Enouiso Babiap.
Follow one another like ducks in a
gutter. — BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
The jackals of the desert follow their
prey in families, like the place-hunters
‘of Europe. — JoHn Bricar.
Followed like a comet-tail. — Car-
LYLE.
Followed like a child after the Pied
Piper. — O. Henry.
Follow each other, like surge upon
surge. — Witi1am Knox.
Misfortune follows him like a faith-
ful hound. — Strepuen Pariyies.
Follow, as the night the day. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Followed . . . like one drawn by 2
charm. — E. R. Sri.
FOLLOW. — FORBIDDING,
Follow — continued.
Youth follows life, as bees the
honeybell. — Bayarp Taytor.
Will follow thee,
As the ripple follows the bark at sea.
— WHITTIER.
Like geese each other follow.
— Grorce WITHERS.
Folly.
Folly is like the growth of weeds,
always luxurious and spontaneous ;
wisdom, like flowers, requires cultiva-
tion. — Hosea Battovu.
Folly is like a sore on a surfeited
horse, cure it in one place and it breaks
out in another. — DrypDEn.
Dead flies cause the ointment of the
apothecary to send forth a stinking
savour: so doth a little folly him
that is in reputation for wisdom and
honour. — Otp TESTAMENT.
Fond.
Fond as cat is of milk. — ANon.
Fond as the miser is of his gold.
— Izip.
Fond and sad as Juliet. — RoBert
Bropces (American).
Fond as a bride. — JoHn Gay.
Fond as hounds are of running after
foxes. — Hoop.
Fonder than ignorance. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Fond of an old sweetheart as a
brisk widow of her third husband.
—Joun WILtson.
Fool.
Fools are as like husbands as pil-
chards are to herrings. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
A fool, like a bottle, which would
make you merry in company, will
make you dull alone. — Vanproucn.
Fools, like apes, are mimics from
their birth. — WitLiam WuITEHEAD.
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Foolery.
Foolery, sir, does walk about the
orb like the sun: it shines every
where. — SHAKESPEARE.
Foolish.
Foolish as a calf. — ANon.
_Foolish as an endeavor to make a
lobster climb a tree and give a re-
port of the atmospheric conditions. —
Ism.
Foolish as a peacock. — Inn.
Foolish as to scratch one’s head with
a firebrand. — Inm.
Foolish as the tailor who sews
sleeves to the pocket holes. — Inn.
Foolish as to flash a roll of bills
before a lawyer. — Ip.
Foolish as to talk of color to a blind
man. — Ipip.
Foolish as to try to pull hair from
a bald man’s head. — Isp.
Thare iz just this difference between
a fule and a hen, the fule cackels be-
fore, the hen not till after the egg iz
lade. — JosH BILiines.
More foolish than the prodigal who
eats
The husks of sense.
— Lewis Morris.
Foolish, as to look for a rainbow in
the night. — Sypnrey MunpEN.
Foolish as to have confidence to
promise himself three years. — RaBr-
LAIS.
Foolish as the disturbing phantoms
of the night. — WaLTER TRUMBULL.
Foolish as a search would be for
new sunlight to illuminate the marbles
of Michael Angelo. — Wittiam Win-
TER.
Forbidding.
Forbidding as a mourning card. —
Compton MACKENZIE.
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Force.
Creative force, like a musical com-
poser, goes on unwearyingly repeating
a simple air or theme, now high, now
low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand
times reverberated, till it fills earth
and heaven with the chant.
— Emerson.
Forcible.
Forcible as custom. — Bacon.
Forehead.
Her forehead’s like the show’ry bow,
When shining sunbeams intervene,
And gild the distant mountain’s
brow. — Burns.
A forehead more pure than the
Parian stone. — WHITTIER.
Foremost.
Foremost in his mind,
Like the keen prow of some on-forging
ship.
— Pau Laurence Dunzar.
Forged.
Forged like steel and tempered
thought. — SWINBURNE.
Forgiving.
Forgiving like unto the Earth her-
self. — MAHABHARATA.
Forgotten.
Forgotten like waves on the sea. —
ANoN.
Thrown aside and forgotten as are
the hoofs and horns of a buffalo. —
J. FENIMORE COOPER.
By all forgot, like a flower whose
stem is broken. — BARRY CORNWALL.
Forgotten, as the foliage of thy
youth. — CowPER.
Forgotten like the forms of last
year’s clouds. — FRANKLIN.
Poor and forgotten like a clod upon
the field. — Huco.
Forgotten like an almanac out of
date. —M. pz La BruyErn.
FORCE, — FORSAKEN.
Forgotten like an antique tale
Of Hero and Leander.
— CHARLES Lamp.
Forgotten as a fallen star. — Harry
B. Smita.
Forgotten as changes of dreams. —
SWINBURNE.
Forgotten like spilt wine. — Isp.
Forgotten as a dead man out of
mind. — Otp TESTAMENT.
Forgotten like a dream. — Worps-
WORTH.
Forked.
Forked like the loveliest lightnings.
— SwINBURNE.
Forlorn.
As forlorn as the faded coquette. —
Wituiam ALLEN BUTLER.
Forlorn
As midnight, and despairing of a morn.
— CowPeEr.
: Forlorn,
As the night-owl’s sob of fear,
As Memnon moaning at morn.
— Jan INGELOw.
Formal.
Formal and precise, like rooms
which we enter and leave, not those
in which we settle and dwell. —
BuLwer-LytTTon.
Formal ... as the veil of a nun.
— Henry JAMES.
Formal as a Quaker. — GrorcE P.
Morris.
Formless.
Formless as air. — P. J. Barer.
Formless as midnight. — Hueco.
Forsaken.
Forsaken like some old house one
moves out of and locks up when one has
gotten a new one. — BJORNSTJERNE
BsORNSON.
Forsaken, as ships go to old Davy.
— Hoop.
FORSAKEN, — FOUNDLING.
Forsaken — continued.
Forsake us soon, like morning-stars.
—Joun Pomrret.
Forsaken, like the shadows that fly
from the dawn. — W1LL1am WINTER.
Fortune.
Fortune, like other females, delights
rather on favoring the young than the
old. — ApDISON.
Fortune is like women, loves youth
and is fickle. — ANon.
Fortune is like the market, where,
many times, if you can stay a little,
the price will fall; and again, it is
sometimes like Sibylla’s offer, which
at first offereth the commodity at
full, then consumeth part and part,
and still holdeth up the price. —
Bacon.
The way of Fortune is like the milky
way in the sky ; which is a meeting,
or knot, of a number of small stars,
not seen asunder, but giving light
together ; so are there a number of
little and scarce discerned virtues,
or rather faculties and customs, that
make men fortunate. — Inp.
Fortune resembles an unjust dis-
tributor of the Olympic prizes, in so
much as she most frequently bestows
her favours on the undeserving. —
DEMOPHILUS.
False Fortune, like a fawning strumpet,
About to leave the bankrupt prodigal,
With a dissembled smile would kiss at
parting,
And flatter to the last. — DRYDEN.
Good fortune, like ripe fruit, ought
to be enjoyed while it is present. —
EPIcTETUvs.
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a
pure source, but grow muddy as they
grow large. — J. Pretit-SEnn.
Fortune is like a widow won,
And truckles to the bold alone.
— WILLIAM SOMERVILLE.
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Fortune, like other drabs, values a
man gradually less for every year he
lives. — Swirt.
Fortune is like glass — the brighter
the glitter, the more easily it is broken.
— Pusuius Syrus.
Fortune as well as women must be
taken in the humor. — WycHERLEY.
Forward.
Forward like a fierce hound strain-
ing on a leash.—Srr A. Conan
Doy1e.
Forward like a wind-blown flame.
— Francis THompson.
Foul.
Foul as Zebedee’s hen that laid
three rotten eggs to a good one. —
J. R. Bartiert’s ‘“ DicTIoNARY OF
AMERICANISMS.”
Foul, like a birding place. — THomas
DEKKER.
Foul as a sty.
— Epcar Ler Masters.
Foul as slander. — SHAKESPEARE.
Foul as Vulean’s stithy. — Ini.
Foul as bloated pestilence. —
RicwarD SHEIL.
Foul as plague-polluted gloom. —
SWINBURNE.
Foundling.
The devoted benches of public
justice were filled by some of those
foundlings of. fortune, who, over-
whelmed in the torrent of corruption
at an early period, lay at the bottom,
like drowned bodies, while soundness
or sanity remained in them; but, at
length, becoming buoyant by putre-
faction, they rose as they rotted,
and floated to the surface of the pol-
luted stream, where they were drifted
along, the objects of terror, and
contagion, and abomination. —J. P.
Curran.
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Fragile.
Fragile as a lily. — ANon.
Fragile as rainbows. — Isp.
Fragile as a shade. — Bauzac.
Fragile as a dream. — Water Ma-
LONE.
Fragile as a leaf.— Donat G.
MircHe...
As fragile as a strand of rain. —
James Wurtcoms RILey.
Fragile as some dream which Hope
with hollow hand hath guided. —
Mary A. TowNsEnp.
Fragrance.
The fragrance of her rich and de-
lightful character still lingered about
the place where she had lived, as a
dried rosebud scents the drawer where
it has withered and perished. — Haw-
THORNE.
Fragrant.
As fragrant as clover’s sod. — ANON.
Fragrant as musk. — Ip.
Fragrant as field-flowers. — Baizac.
Fragrant . . . as May. — Lorp Dr
TABLEY.
Fragrant as a violet on a summer’s
night. — EMERSON,
Fragrant as the breath of angels. —
O. W. Homes.
Fragrant as thyme upon the moun-
tains. — Dr. JoHNSON.
Apples, as fragrant, and as bright a
hue, as those which in Alcinou’s
gardens grew, mellowed by constant
sunshine ; or as those, which graced
the Hesperides, in burnished rows. —
JUVENAL.
Fragrant as the morning rose. —
MarLowe.
Fragrant as the frosted blossom of a
May night. — Grorcr Merepitu.
FRAGILE, — FRANTIC.
Fragrant as the dewfall. —Swin-
BURNE.
Fragrant as lilacs. — THACKERAY.
Fragrant as the breath of flow’rs. —
WILL1AM THOMSON.
Frail.
Frail as a lily. — ANon.
Frail as flesh is. — LAMAN BLANCHARD
Frail as the leaf in Autumn’s yellow
bower. — CAMPBELL.
Frail as the clouds. — Dr Quincey.
Frail as a sigh. —Sypnry DoBELL.
Frail as the web that misty night
has spun. — O. W. Hotmgs.
Frail as dishes. — Hoop.
Frail as frost-landscapes on a win-
dow-pane. — LowELL.
Frail as the clouds of sunset. —
James MonTGOMERY.
Frail as glass. — PETRARCH.
Frail as a flake of snow. —A. J.
Ryan.
Frail
As May’s first lily in a Northern vale.
, — Bayarp Taytor.
Frail
As perfume of the cuckoo-flower.
— TENNYSON.
Frank.
Frank as growths of spring. —
Grorce Enior.
Frank as a _ soldier. — James
GRAHAME,
Frank as the call of April birds.
— W. E. HEn-ey.
Frank as the day. — CHARLES
READE.
Frantic.
Frantic as a war dance. — ANON.
Frantic like a madman’s dream. —
GroRGE GRANVILLE.
FRAYED, — FREE,
Frayed.
Frayed like fretted foam. — ALFRED
AUSTIN.
Freckled.
Freckled like a pard. — Keats.
Free.
Free,
As Thames and Seine, St. Lawrence,
Nile, and Ganges,
Mingled in one illimitable sea.
— Grant ALLEN.
Free as a fly. — ANon.
Free as a gift. — Ini.
Free as a wood sawer. — Inmn.
Free as egg-nog on Christmas Eve.
— Izr.
Free as the diamond is free from
alloy. — Isip.
Free as the sybil’s leaves of yore.
— Isp.
Free as thought. — Ini.
Free as a hurricane. — Iprp.
Free as a mountain goat. — Iprp.
As free from artifice as is the dimple
in childhood’s cheek. — Atrrep Avus-
TIN.
Free as Phoebus. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
Free as wanton winds. — APHRA
Brun.
Free, as a young calf, from sorrow.
— Isr.
Free as whispering air. — Inr.
Free as bird on branch, just as ready
to fly east as west. — E. B. Brown-
ING.
Free as light. — Isp.
Free as a babe from cheating. —
Rosert Brownine.
Free as cloud and sunbeam are. —
Isp.
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Free and winding as a poet’s thought
through his verse. — BuLWER-LYTTON.
Free and graceful... like Dian
when the bounding hart she tracks
through the morning dew. — CH#RE-
MON.
Free as the wind. — CHaTTERTON.
Free as the light and air. —
CHURCHILL.
Free as water. — WILL LEVINGTON
ComrFort.
Free as the sunbeams on the chain-
less air. — Ropert T. Conran.
Free-handed as a harlot. — JoHN
Davipson.
Free as a liberated ghost. — SYDNEY
DoBELL.
Free and noble as clear poesy. —
Micuaret Drayton.
Free as nature first made man. —
DrybDeEn.
Free as an Arab. — EMERSON.
Free as a mountain bird. — W. S.
GILBERT.
Free as a tethered ass. — Isip.
Free as the hawk. — GOETHE.
Smiling free, as rose to summer air.
— Dora GREENWELL.
Free as the soul. — Epwarp Hake.
Free, like one who trails the plough.
— SamurL HorrensTEIN.
Good and free
As when poor Eve was innocent.
— JEAN INGELOW.
Free as an eagle. — Karts.
Free as the sky-searching lark.
—Ism.
Free as the breeze. — Francis Scott
Key.
More divinely free
Than Pacific’s boundless sea.
— Freperic L. KNow.es.
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Free — continued.
Free as ambient air. — Sir RocEer
L’EstRANGE.
Free as the waters of life. — ALFRED
Henry Lewis.
Free as a king. — Tuomas Lopce.
Free as warmth in summer’s weather.
— CuarLes Mackay.
Free as breezes be on Nature’s velvet
flooring. — Ertc Mackay.
Free as the thought that ye canna
confine. — D. M. Morr.
Free as Severn’s waves, that spring to
bless
Their parent hills.
— James MontTcomery.
Free as the fetterless
Tuomas Moore.
wind. —
Free as first innocence. — Otway.
Free as mountain winds. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Freer than a jailer. — Isr.
Free in spirit as the mountain. —
SHELLEY.
Free from flaw or stain as diamond
from the mine. — D. B. W. SLapEN.
Free,
As the stars’ mountain-tops be,
As the pearl, in the depths of the sea,
From the portionless king that wears
it. — E. C. SrepMan.
Free
As birds that breast and brave the sea.
— SWINBURNE.
Free as the circling sea. — Iip.
Free as heaven. — Ibip.
* Free-born as winds and stars and
waves are free. — Inmp.
Freer than birds or dreams are free.
— Isp.
Free as song. — Bayarp TayLor.
As free as the eagle’s wing. —
Henry D. Tuorzav,
FREE, — FRESH.
Free as fishing is. — Izaak WALTON.
Free as Emperors. — WILLIAM
Warp.
Free as our rivers are
Ocean-ward going.
— WHITTIER.
Free to rise
As leaves on Autumn’s whirlwind
borne. — Inn.
Free as India’s leopard. —N. P.
WILLIs.
Free as the soul of the fragrant wine.
— WILLIAM WINTER.
Free as the Sun. — WorDswortu.
Free as our desires. — IBIpD.
Freely.
Freely as the streams of Eden
flowed. — Inn.
Freely, as the firmament embraces
the world. — SCHILLER.
As freely as a conduit spout. — C.
TourNeEUR.
Frequent.
Frequent as the ‘“‘begats” in the
Bible. — Anon.
Frequent as figs
Rosert Brownine.
at Kaunos. —
Frequent as telegraph poles on a
railway journey. — SYDNEY MuNDEN.
Fresh.
Fresh as an apple-tree bloom. —
WiiuiaM ALLINGHAM.
Fresh as May-flowers. — ANACREON.
Fresh as a buttercup. — ANON.
Fresh as a cherub. — Inn.
Fresh as a flower just blown. — Inip.
Fresh as an egg from the farm. —
Ipip.
Fresh as a November chrysanthe-
mum. — Isip.
Fresh as a sea breeze. — IBrp.
FRESH.
Fresh — continued.
Fresh and charming as Hebe. —
Isp.
Fresh as if she had been born with
the morning. — Inn.
Fresh as a young head of lettuce. —
Isp.
Fresh as summer’s grass. — Isr.
Fresh as the dawn. — Inm.
Fresh as the dewy field. — Inmn.
Fresh as the firstlings 0’ the year. —
Isiw.
Fresh as Fiumicino’s foam. — AL-
FRED AUSTIN.
Fresh and fragrant as a rose. — P. J.
BalLey.
Fresh as a sprouting spring upon the
hills. — Isp.
As fresh as any flower. — ENGLISH
Baap.
Her face is as fresh as a frosty
morning in Autumn. — Batzac.
Fresh as a white rosebud. — Isp.
Fresh as dew. — IBip.
Fresh as butter just from the churn.
—J. R. Bartiett’s é‘DIicTIONARY OF
AMERICANISMS.”
Fresh, as the floweret opening on
the morn. — BEaTTiE.
Fresher than the day-star. — R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Fresh as from Paradise. — RoBrert
BRrownina.
Lips to lips
Fresh as the wilding hedge-rose-cup
there slips
The dewdrop out of. — Is.
Fresh as the flowr amid the sunny
showr’s of May. — Micuaet Bruce.
Fresher than the morning dawn
When rising Phcebus first is seen.
— Burns.
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Fresh as
Byron.
a nursing mother. —
Fressh as a rose. — CHAUCER.
As fressh as faucon comen out of
mewe. — Ip.
As fressh as is the brighte someres
day. — Isp.
Fressh as is the monthe of May. —
Isp.
Fresh as sea-born Cythera. — Hart-
LEY COLERIDGE.
Fresh as the foamy surf. — Exiza
Cook.
Fresh and as gay
As the fairest and sweetest, that blow
On the beautiful bosom of May.
— Cowper.
All show’d as fresh, and faire, and
innocent, as virgins to their lovers’ first
survey. — Sir WiLLiaM DAvENANT.
Fresh as a clover bud. — Lorp Dr
TABLEY.
Fresh as a lark. — Dickens.
Fresh as butter. — Izm.
Fresh as a fresh young pear-tree
blossoming. — Austin Dogson.
Fresh as primrose buds. — Epwarp
DowbeEn.
As fresh as flovis that in May up
spredis. — Wittiam Dunzar.
As fresh as rain drops. — GrorGE
Eror.
Fresh as the trickling rainbow in
July. — Emmrson.
Fresh as the wells that stand in
natural rock in summer woods or
violet-scented grove. — F. W. Faser.
Fresh as early day. — Francis
FAawKEs.
Fresh, like the larks, from a dew
bath in the daisies. —S, GERTRUDE
Forp.
Fresh as a peach. — GOETHE.
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Fresh — continued.
Fresh as the May-blown rose. —
RICHARD GLOVER.
Fresh as a blossom bathed by April
rain. — P. H. Hayne.
Fresh as the breeze blowing over the
heather. —O. W. Homes.
Fresh as the dews of our prime. —
Isp.
Fresh as April when the breezes
blow. — R. M. Mines.
Fresh and fine as a spring in winter.
—Ricwarp Hovey.
Fresh as April’s heaven. — Hueco.
Fresh as a young girl. — Isp.
Fresh as milk and roses. — JEAN
INGELOw.
As fresh as the fruit on the tree. —
Henry JAMEs.
Fresh as the morning. —BEn Jonson.
Fresher than berries of a mountain-
tree. — Kats.
Fresh as Aurora’s blushing morn.
— Wim kine.
Freshening as the morning air. —
C. M. S. McLetian.
Fresh as a pippin. — THEOPHILUS
Manrziazs.
Fresh as the drop of dew cradled at
morn. — GERALD Massry.
Fresh as the orchard apple. —
George Merepita.
Fresh as light from a star just dis-
‘covered. — THomas Moore.
Fresh as Spring. — Coventry Pat-
MORE.
Fresh as paint.—Sir Artuur T.
QUILLER-CoucH.
Fresh as the welling waters, —
SamMvuEL Rogers.
Fresh as dew. — C. G. Rosserrt.
Fresh as the sun. — Imp.
FRESH.
Fresh as the tropic rose. — CHARLES
SANGSTER.
As fresh as a May gowan. — Sir
WALTER Scort.
Fresh as an old oak. — Ism.
Fresh as a bridegroom. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Fresh as Dian’s visage. — Inm.
Fresh as morning’s dew distill’d on
flowers. — Inw.
Fresh as flower of May. — SPENSER.
Fresh as flowers in medow greene
doe grow. — Iprp.
Fresh as morning rose. — Isp.
Fresh as a four-year-old. —R. 5.
SURTEES.
Fresh as farthing from the mint.
— Swirt.
Fresh as the spirit of sunrise. —
SWINBURNE.
Fresh as a sea-flower. — Ibm.
Fresh as a man’s recollections of
boyhood. — THACKERAY.
Fresh as the first beam glittering on
a sail. — TENNYSON.
Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in
Paphian wells. — Ibm.
Fresh and ruddy as a_ parson’s
daughter. — BonNELL THORNTON.
Fresh as a daisy. — TotstToy.
Fresh as Eden. — Henry VAUGHAN.
Fresh as Spring’s earliest violet. —
WHITTIER.
Fresh as the moon. — Isp.
Fresh as the lovely form of youthful
May, when nymphs and graces in the
dance unite. — WIELAND.
Fresh as banner bright, unfurl’d to
music suddenly. — Worpswortu.
Fresh as a lark mounting at break
of day. — Inrp.
FRET. — FRIENDSHIP.
Fret.
Frets like gumm’d taffety. — ANon.
Fretting as fire frets, an inch from
dry wood. — Roserr Brownine.
Fret as in a cage. — Freperick W.
FaBer.
Fret,
Like a pupil of Walton and Cotton,
Who remains by the brink of the water,
agape,
While the jack, trout, or barbel effects
its escape
Thro’ the gut or silk line being
rotten. — Hoop.
Fretting like a wild horse struggling
to escape. — Huco.
Frets like a gummed velvet. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Friend.
A false friend is like a shadow on a
dial ; it appears in clear weather, but
vanishes as soon as a cloud approaches.
— ANON.
A true friend is like sound health ;
the value of it is seldom known until
it is lost. — Ipm.
A real friend is somewhat like a
ghost or apparition ; much talked of,
but rarely seen. — Cuartes N. Buck.
The malyce of a friend, is like the
sting of an Aspe, which nothing can
remedie, for being pearced in the
hande it must be cut off, and a friend
thrust to the heart it must be pulled
out. — LyLy.
But as all floures that are in one
Nosegay, are not of one nature, nor
all Rings that are worne vppon one
hande, are not of one fashion : so all
friendes that associate at bedde and
at boord, are not one of disposition. —
Isp.
Friends’ are like melons: to find
one good, you must a hundred try.
— Ciaupe MerMet.
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A friend both wise and true amid all
shocks resplendent shines, like fire
upon a rock’s high top, which dissipates
the darkness round and fills the
travellers by with joy profound. —
ORIENTAL.
A friend should be like money, tried
before being required, not found
faulty in our need. — PLurarcu.
A profitless friend is like a fleece
without hair. — OsMaNLI PRrovers.
An untried friend is like an un-
cracked nut. — Russian PROVERB.
A new friend is as new wine ; when
it is old thou shalt drink it with
pleasure. — SrracH.
Old friends, like old swords, still are
trusted best. — Joun WEBSTER.
Friends, like mistresses, are avoided
for obligations past. — WycHERLEY.
Friendless.
Friendless as an alarm clock. —
ANON.
Friendly.
Friendly as a spotted leopard that’s
been stirred up with an elephant hook.
—SEeweELu Forp.
Friendly as a puppy. — BETTINA
von Hurtren.
Friendship.
The friendship of a great man is
like the shadow of a bush, soon gone.
— ANON.
The friendship of the ever-genial
man is too often like a grate-fire,
exceedingly bright to look at, but not
reliable in so far as the dispensation
of warmth on a really cold day is con-
cerned. — Inm.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays
and ruins the walls it embraces ; but
true friendship gives new life and
animation to the object it supports.
.— Robert Burton.
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Friendship — continued.
As the Sun is in the Firmament, so is
friendship in the world, a most divine
and heavenly band.—Rosert Burton.
The firmest friendships have been |
formed in mutual adversity, as iron
is most strongly united by the fiercest
flame. — C. C. Couron.
Friendship is less apparent when
too nigh,
Like objects when they touch the
eye. — CoWLEY.
As the harbour is the refuge of the
ship from the tempest, so is friendship
the refuge of man in adversity. —
DEMOPHILUS.
Friendship, like love, is but a name,
Unless to one you stint the flame. —
The child whom many fathers share,
Hath seldom known a father’s care.
’Tis thus in friendship ; who depend
On many, rarely find a friend.
—Joun Gay.
Friendship is like a debt of honor ;
the moment it is talked of it loses its
real name, and assumes the more un-
grateful form of obligation. — GoLp-
SMITH.
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast
beef. — Dr. Jounson.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed
by long absence, though it may be in-
creased by short intermissions. —IBip.
Friendshippe should be like the
wine which Homer much commend-
ing, calleth Maroneum, whereof one
pient [pint] being mingled with fiue
quartes of water, yet it keepeth his
old strength and vertue, not to be
qualified by any discurtesie. Where
salt doth grow nothing els can breede,
where friendship is built, no offence
can harbour. — Lyty.
Houses are like friendship; there is
hardly one in a thousand worth a long
lease. — Ourpa.
FRIENDSHIP. — FRISK.
Friendship is like those ancient
altars where the unhappy, and even
the guilty, found a sure asylum. —
MapaMe SWETCHINE.
Friendship is like rivers, and the
strand of seas, and the air, common to
all the world; but tyrants, and evil
customs, wars, and want of love, have
made them proper and peculiar.
— Jeremy Taytor.
New friends, like one’s best coat
and patent-leather boots, are only
intended for holiday wear. At other
times they are neither serviceable nor
comfortable; they do not answer
the required purposes, are ill adapted
to give us the ease we seek. A new
coat, however, has this advantage,
that in time it will become old and
comfortable ; so much can by no
means be predicted with certainty of
a new friend. — ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
Friendship — our friendship —is like
thebeautiful shadows of evening, spread-
ing and growing till life and its light
pass away. — Miuaty VirKkovics.
The friendship of the world is like
the leaves falling from the trees in
autumn ; while the sap of maintenance
lasts, friends swarm in abundance ;
but in the winter of our need they
leave us naked. — WaRwWICK.
Frightened.
As frightened as Macbeth before the
ghost of Banquo. — Lours VEuILLoT.
Frigid.
Frigid as an iceberg. — ANon.
Frilled.
Frilled like a French chop. — Anon.
Frisk.
Frisk away,
Like school-boys, at th’ expected warn-
ing,
To joy and play. — Burns.
Frisk about like a wanton she-goat.
— Horace.
FRISKY. — FULL.
Frisky.
Frisky as colts. — DANIEL WEBSTER.
Frizzle,
Frizzled like a lawyer’s wig. —
R. D. Brackmore.
Frolic.
Frolic as the
Hovey.
snow. — RIcHARD
Frolicsome.
Frolicsome as a boy. — ANon.
Front.
Always in front, like a cow-catcher
on a locomotive. — ANON.
Like a camel’s guide, he always
keeps in front. — OsMANLI PROVERB.
Frown.
Frowned like a fury. — WILLIAM
BLAKE.
Frowning, as if in his unconscious arm
He held the thunder. — Cowper.
My frown is like a winter house,
Laid eastward in a bitter land.
—Lorp Dre TaBtey.
Frowns, like winter storms. — JAMES
SHIRLEY.
Frowned like a thunder-cloud. —
STEPHEN SMITH.
Frowned like Good Friday. — SrEn-
SER.
Frugal.
Frugality, like a short and pleasant
journey, is attended with much en-
joyment and little toil. — DEmMopuHiLus.
Frugal, like a beggar’s child. —
EMERSON.
Fruitful.
Fruitful as Ceres. — ANoNn.
As fruitful as Egypt. — Roserr
Burton.
Fruitful as seeded earth. — GrorcE
Eiot.
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Fruitful as the full-grown year. —
Aaron Hit,
Fruitful as the free elements. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Fruitful as the land that-feeds us.
— Isp.
Fruitful as a sheltering palm. —
SWINBURNE.
Fruitless.
Fruitless as the celebrated bee who
wanted to swarm alone.—G. K.
CHESTERTON.
Fruitless as it would be to explain
the most difficult problems of Sir
Isaac Newton to one ignorant of
vulgar arithmetic. — FreLpine.
Fruitless as the lamentations of a
prophet crying in the wilderness. —
Frank Horripce.
Full.
Full as a goat. — ANon.
As full as a toad is of poison. —
In.
Full of airs as a music box. — Inip.
Full of angles as the book of Euclid.
— Inu.
As full of blunders as a successful
career. — Ipip.
Full of events as a dime novel. —
Ipip.
Full of poetry as a lily is of dew. —
Isp.
Full of royalty as a pack of cards.
— Ism.
Full of terror as a tragedy of Soph-
ocles. — Int.
Full of maggots as a pastoral poet’s
flock. — SamureL BUTLER.
Full as the hyve is of honey. —
CHAUCER.
Full of company as a jail. — THomas
DEKKER.
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Full — continued.
Full as a bee with thyme. — Ropert
HERRICK.
Full of life as a multitude. — Huo.
Chock full of noble sentiments as a
bladder is of wind. —J. K. JzRomn.
Full as a piper’s bag. — Brn JONSON.
Full of noise as a mill. — Lean’s
“COLLECTANEA.”
Full of. life and light and sweetness
As a summer day’s completeness.
— LowE LL.
Full of fragrant love as May’s musk-
roses are of morning’s wine. — GERALD
Massey.
Full of folds as a sleeping boa-
constrictor. — WILLIAM MatTHeEws.
Full of passion as a_ tiger. —
Branper Martruews.
Full as a_tick.—Joun Ray’s
-“HANDBOOK OF PROVERBS.”
As fu’ as a biled wulk. — ScottisH
PROVERB.
As fu’ as a piper. — Isrp.
As fu’ as the Baltic. — Inmp.
Full as a plenteous river. —C. G.
Rossetri.
As full of labour as a wise man’s
art. — SHAKESPEARE.
Full of quarrels as an egg is full of
meat. — Ini.
Full of spirit as the month of May.
— Isrp.
As full of sorrows as the seas of
sands. — Inip.
Full as a cup with the vine’s burn-
ing dew. — SHELLEY.
As full of wisdom as a cheese of
mites. — SPENSER.
Full as a feaster’s hand
Fills full with bloom of bland
Bright wine his cup.
— SWINBURNE.
FULL. —— FURIOUS.
Full of the knowledge of the Lord,
as the waters cover the sea. — Op
TESTAMENT.
Full as the summer rose. — JAMES
THOMSON.
Fulsome.
As fat and fulsome to mine ear
As howling after music.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Fumbling.
Fumbling ... like a ricketty
cricket, saying its beads. — DaniEL
Henry Homes.
Fumbling about her like a drowning
person. — Hugo.
Fume.
Fumed, like champagne that is
fizzy. — Buss Carman.
Fume like a stew-pot. — Epwarp
SHARPHAM.
Fun.
Fun has no limits; it is like the
human race and face; there is a
family resemblance among all the
species, but they all differ. — Sam
SLICK.
, Funny.
Funny as a wooden leg. — GrorGE
ADE.
Funny as a barrel of monkeys. —
ANON.
Funny as a clown. — Ini.
Funny as a crutch. — Ini.
As funny as a funeral in a snow
storm. — Inp.
Funny as to throw an egg into an
electric fan. — Ini.
Funny as an open switch. — Amy
LESLIE.
Furious.
Furious as a favored child
Balked of its wish. — Byron.
As breme [furiously] as blase of
straw yset on fyre. — CHAUCER.
FURIOUS. — GAPE.
Furious — continued.
Furious . . . like a wounded bull in
an arena. — DUMAS, PERE.
Furious as the wind. — Otway.
Furious . . . as a bitch is when she
has lost her puppies. — VANBRUGH.
Furtively.
Embraced her tenderly but furtively
like a feather curling round a lovely
head, caressing yet scarce touching.
— CHARLES READE.
Eyes furtively, like a guilty person.
— Isip.
Gabble.
Gabbled like a goose. — Puriip
FRENEAU.
Gabble like tinkers. —SHAKESPEARE.
Gabbles,
Like the laborers of Babel. — Swirt.
Gad.
Like frisking heifer, loose in flowery
meads,
She gads where’er her roving fancy
leads.
Gaiety.
Gaiety is to good-humor as animal
perfumes to vegetable fragrance. — Dr.
JOHNSON.
Gallant.
Gallant as the Abencerrages of Gren-
ada. — ANTHONY HamILTON.
Gallantly.
Gallantly as a good ship meets a
heavy sea. — Miss Mutocx.
‘Gallantly, like an old fencer. —
RaBELAIS.
Gallop.
Galloping like a fury. — ANON.
— AMBROSE PBILIPS..
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Fuss.
As much fuss as a bushel of salt
thrown into a furnace. — ANON.
Futile.
Futile as to turn back the hands of
a clock. — ANON.
Futile as a tenor in a boiler shop. —
Henry Irvine Dopes.
Future.
The Past is like a funeral gone by.
The Future comes like an unwelcome
guest. — Epmunp Goss.
Galloping, as with dispatches from the
Pit,
Between his hell-bound hounds.
—W. E. HENLEy.
I had seen the Arab galloping like
the wind. — Guy pE Maupassant.
Gambol.
Gambol like a fawn. — ANON.
Gambol like a lambkin. — Inip.
Gambol like a young cat and her
first kitten. — Iprp.
Gambol like a dancing — skiff.
— WorpDswoRrtH.
Game.
Game as a badger. — ANON.
Game as a fighting cock. — Isr.
Game as a lion. — Isp.
Game as a pebble. — Inn.
Game as hornets. — ALFRED HENRY
LEwIs.
Gape.
Gaping mouth wide open like a
dying codfish. — ANon.
Gape as it were dogs for a bone. —
ALEXANDER BaRCLAY.
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Gape — continued.
Mouths that gap’d like bung-holes.
— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Gape like an oyster. — Inn.
Gaping like an indolent lion. — J.
FENIMORE COOPER.
Gapes like a sheriff for execution.
—Joun Day.
Gape wider than an oyster-wife.
— Tuomas DEKKER.
Like dead heaps of fishes, stranded
by the storm-spray, gaping, staring.
— Aurrep Domett.
Gaped, like the griesly mouth of
hell. — SPENSER.
Gaping like a stuck pig. — Swirt.
Garlanded.
Ribanded and garlanded like a
thyrsus. — EpmMunD GossE.
Garrulous.
Garrulous as an old maid. — ANon.
Garrulous as a magpie. — Mason
L. Weems.
Gasp.
Gasping like a fish newly taken from
the water. — Epwarp EcGGLEsTon.
Gasping ... like a trout after
water on a kitchen table. — FLAUBERT.
Gasping like
— KINGSLEY.
frogs in drought.
Gather.
Gathered like ants. —ANOoN.
Gather like a locust’s
Byron.
Gather like night-dew. — Ini.
Like a morning mist it gathered. —
O. W. Hoimes.
Gathers like a tide. — CuristopHER
Pitt.
crew. —
Gather,
Like flocks of clouds in spring’s de-
lightful weather. — SHELLEY.
GAPE, — GAY.
Gathering ... As broken breakers
rally and roar
The loud wind down that drives off
shore. — SwINBURNE.
Gather .. . like flies in the sun.
— Isp.
Gathered thy children together, even
as a hen gathereth her chickens under
her wings. — New TESTAMENT.
Gathered as water spilt on the
ground, which cannot be gathered up
again. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Gaudy.
Gaudy as a butterfly. — WiL1AM
Hazurr.
Gaudy as the summer. — JamEs
SHIRLEY.
Gaudy, like a harlequin’s jacket.
— THACKERAY.
Gaunt.
Gaunt as a wolf. — Austin Dogson.
Gaunt as a gibbet.—Lorp Ds
TABLEY.
Gaunt as bitterns in the pools.
— Emerson.
Gaunt,
Like the drear soul of poverty.
— T. Gorpon Hak.
Gaunt as a _ greyhound. — JoHN
Ray’s ‘““HanpBook or PRroverss.”
Gaunt as a grave. — SHAKESPEARE.
Gaunt as it were the skeleton of him-
self. — TENNYSON.
Gay.
Gay as a blackbird. — ANon.
Gay as a bullfinch. — Inip.
Gay as a negro funeral. —Inm.
Gay as the tropic bird’s sheen is
youth’s fresh frolic freeness. — A. H.
BEESLY.
Gay and gladsome as the air. —
Mary E. Buake.
GAY. — GAZE,
Gay — continued.
Gay as Colinette. — Roperr
Brivces (American).
Gay as a woman’s wish. — Henry
Brooke.
Gay .. . like a Swiss guard off duty.
— Rosert Brownine.
Gay as a
BucHANAN.
guinea. — RoBERT
Gay as the gilded summer sky. —
Burns.
Gaie as all nature at the mornyng’s
smile. — CHATTERTON.
Gay as gold. — ‘“‘Cuester Puays.”
Gay as the dahlia’s bloom. — Euiza
Coox.
Gay,
As the fairest and sweetest, that blow
On the beautiful bosom of May.
— CowPEr.
Gay as a butterfly. — Dickens.
Gay as a thrush. — Austin Dos-
SON.
Gay as a chaffinch. — Dumas, PERE.
Gay as larks. — La FontTaIne.
Gay as Apollo’s locks. — Joun Forp.
Gay as the joy of a maiden’s look.
—Sam Watrer Foss.
Gay,
Like to a light and brilliant butterfly,
Around a dusky flower. — GoETHE.
Gay as a mote. — WILLIAM Hazuitt.
Gay as the thistledown over the lea.
— T. W. Hiaernson.
Gay and fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker’s
brim, and break on the lips while
meeting.
— C. F. Horrman.
Gay as bridal bowers with vows of
many-petalled maids. —O. W. Houmes.
Gay as the morning. — WiLu1AM
Livingston.
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Gay as the hawthorn in May.
— Evan MacC io...
Gay as sun. — Mana-
BHARATA,
a rising
Gay as lover to the altar. — GeraLp
Massey.
Colors as gay as those on angels’
wings. — Tuomas Moore.
Gay as the starling shoots thro’ the
skies. — F. W. H. Myers.
Gay as if his life were young. —
_Orway.
Gay as mischief. — Ourpa.
Gay as the primrose-dell in May.
— AmBrosE Puitips.
As the feathered warblers
— WILLIAM SHENSTONE.
gay.
Gay as April ere he dreams of May.
— SWINBURNE.
Your voice was gay
As the voice of a bird in the dawn of a
day.
On a sunshiny tree.
— ArtTHuR SyMoNS.
Gay as the garments of gem-
sprinkled gold. — Bayarp Taytor.
Too gay .. . like a pink ribbon on
the bonnet of a Puritan woman.
— Henry D. Tuoreav.
As gay as a bridegroom. — VAn-
BRUGH.
Gay as the dancing wind. — Sarau
C. Woo.sey.
Gaily, as one who hath no care or
pain. — WILLIAM WATSON.
Gay as the
YALDEN.
spring. — THOMAS
Gaze (Noun).
I gazed a gaze, az tho i wuz triing
tu thread the rong end ov a kambrik
needle. — Josu BriiLinos.
Steady gaze, like little dogs face to
face with one of their own kind.
— Greorcs Eur.
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Gaze — continued.
Lingering gaze, like a peacock whose
eyes are inclined to his tail. — Hoop.
Gaze for gaze
As baby looks on baby.
— Francis THOMPSON.
Gaze (Verb).
Gazed like one who fronts a foe.
— Epsenezer Exiott.
Gazed, like
WALTER SCOTT.
lion roused. — Sir
Gazed like the startled deer. — Ipip.*
General.
Broad and general as the casing
air. — SHAKESPEARE.
Generosity.
Generosity is like the sea, and yet
the sea hath its bounds. — ANon.
Generous.
Generous as a dream. — ANON.
Generous as the sun in spring.
—P. J. Barney. |
Generous as a lord. — J. FENIMORE
CoopEr.
Generous ag
Hunt.
daylight. — LriaH
Genial.
Genial as sunshine. — ANON.
Genial as a pawnbroker’s kiss.
—J. H. Biackwoop.
Genius.
Genius, like Shakespeare’s toad,
may be out at the elbows and down at
the heels, yet still wears a precious
jewel in its head. — Hitary BE tt.
Men ov genius are like eagles, tha
live on what tha kill, while men ov
talents are like crows, tha live on
what haz bin killed for them. — JosH
BILLINGS.
Early genius, like early cabbage,
does not head well. — Isr.
GAZE, — GENTLE,
Genius, like humanity, rusts for
want of use. — Wittiam Hazzirr.
The advent of genius is like what
the florists style the breaking of a
seedling tulip into what we may call
high-caste colors.... It is a sur-
prise — there is nothing to account
for it. —O. W. Houmes.
The richest genius, like the most
fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots
up into the rankest weeds; and instead
of vines and olives for the pleasure
and use of man, produces to its sloth-
ful owner the most abundant crop of
poisons. — Davin Hume.
The mind contemplates genius
through the shades of age, as the eye
surveys through artificial capacity.
— Dr. JoHNson.
Genius, like a torch, shines less in
the broad daylight of the present than
in the night of the past. —J. Prrir-
SENN.
Genius is the alarm-clock of sleep-
ing centuries. — RICHTER.
Genius, like fire, is a good ser-
vant, but a terrible master. — Mrs.
SIGOURNEY.
Genius .as with fashion: all those
are displeased at it, who are not able
to follow it. —THomas Warton.
Gentle.
Gentle as a fawn. — Irish BALLAD.
maid,
Gentle as a love-sick
— ApHRrA BEHN.
Gentle as a turtle-dove.—R. D.
BLACKMORE.
(
As gentle as the lover’s sighs.
— CLAUDIAN.
Gentle as the moon. — RicwarD
Henry Dana (1787-1879).
Gentle and placid as Socrates.
— Davpet.
Gentle as sleep.— Lorp DE TaBLEY.
GENTLE, — GHASTLY.
Gentle — continued.
Gentle as a feather-stroke.—GrorcEe
E.iot.
Gentle as the falling dew. —- Hesiop
(CooKE).
Voice gentle as the breeze that plays
in the evening among the spices of
Sabara. — Dr. JoHNson.
More gentle than the wind in sum-
mer. — Krarts.
As gentle an’ soft as the sweet sum-
mer air. —J. 8. Le Fanu.
Gentle as truth. — W. J. Linton.
Gentle as chaines that honor binde.
— Ricwarp LOvELACE.
Gentle as a sigh love-fraught.
— Evan MacCot.t.
Gentle, loving, kind
Like Mary singing to her mangered
child. —-Grorce MacDona.p.
Gentle as infancy. — W. T. Price.
Gentle as the cradle-babe. — SHAKE-
SPEARE,
They are as gentle
As zephyrs blowing below the violet.
. — Isp.
Gentyll as faucoun
Or hauke of the towre. — SKELTON.
Gentle as eve. — Joun TayYton.
Music that gentler on the spirit lies,
Than tir’d eyelids upon tir’d eyes.
; — TENNYSON.
The queen as soft and gentle, like a
moonbeam white and fair. —Lupwice
UHLAND.
Gentle as an infant child. — Worps-
WORTH.
Gentle as the morning light. — Inip.
Gentle as a jay on tree. — ‘‘WorLDE
AND THE CHYLDE.”
Gently.
Gently as to make no more noise
than a spider attaching its thread.
— Bauzac.
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Gently as a rabbit goes. —R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Gently, like the morning’s light,
Shedding, unmark’d,, an influence
soft and bright,
Till all the landscape gather in the
sight. — E. B. Brownine.
Gently as a lamb. — Aticr Cary.
Gently as an hand.
— DICKENS.
angel’s
Gently as falls a mother’s tender
speech. — Jutia C. R. Dorr.
Breathe as gently, as a perfumed pair
of sucking bellows, in some sweet
lady’s chamber. — Jonn Forp.
Gently like thoughts that come and
go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.
—W. H. Gipson.
Falling as gently as an answer to a
prayer. — ADELAIDE A. ProctTERr.
Gently as the dew mingles with the
darkening maze. — JAMES WHITCOMB
Rivey.
Gently as any-
— SHAKESPEARE.
sucking dove.
Gently as the twilight takes the
parting day. — THomas Warp.
Gently, as morning-dews distil.
— Isaac Watts.
Ghastly.
Ghastly as broad-eyed slumber.
— ANON.
Ghastly as smiles on some fair maniac’s
face
Smiling unconscious o’er her bride-
groom’s corse. — GEorGE Exjor.
Ghastly as a laugh in hell. — Tuomas
Harpy.
Ghastly as a tyrant’s dream. —
SHELLEY.
Face ghastly . . . like a dead man’s
by the sepulchral lamp. — SouTHEY.
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Ghost.
Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak
till they are spoke to. —R. M. Mines.
Ghostly as remembered mirth. —
Wituram Watson.
Gibber.
Gibbers like a dead man’s ghost that
clamours for the licht it’s lost. — J. B.
SELKIRK.
Giddy.
Giddy as a dancing dervish. —
Laurence Housman.
As giddy as an hour-old ghost that
stares into eternity. — James Wuit-
coms RILEY.
Gift.
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who
is not aware that the greedy char is
deceived by the fly which he swallows.
— Marriat.
A gift is as a precious stone in the
eyes of him that hath it : whithersoever
it turneth, it prospereth. —OLp Txrs-
TAMENT.
Gilded.
Gilded as a glittering toy. —Dick-
ENS.
Girl.
A girl is like a flower fresh gathered;
but a guilty woman is a flower trodden
under foot. — BaLzac.
The presence of a young girl is like
the presence of a flower, the one gives
its perfume to all that approach it,
the other her grace to all that sur-
round her. — Lours DrsNoyvers.
Glad.
~f# Glad as one would give me a crown
— ANoN.
Glad as a fly. — ARasran Nicuts,
Every heart was glad,
As if the taxes were abolished.
—T. L. Beppogs.
Glad as
BRowninec.
singing-birds. —E. B.
GHOST. — GLADDEN.
As glad as April skies.— Exiza
Cook.
Glad as children come from school.
— GEORGE GASCOIGNE.
As glad as fish that were but lately
caught
And straight again were cast into the
pool. — Iz.
Glad as the clay-red
Blaring of battle-horns.
— Ricnarp Hovey.
Glad as the bird up the summer vault
singing. — E. M. Ketty.
Glad as the skylark’s earliest song.
— Miss Lanpon.
His face as glad as dawn. — Fiona
Mac.eop.
Glad, like the young spring’s
earliest rose. — J. C. MAnaan.
Glad as a blossoming tree. — Epwin
Marka.
Glad of life as leaves in spring.
— JosEPHINE P. PEaBopy.
Glad as a fowl of a fair day. —
EnGiiso PRovERB.
Glad as brief delay. — Sir Watrer
Scorr.
Glad as a bird whose flight is im-
pelled and sustained by love. —
SWINBURNE.
‘Glad as the golden spring to greet
Its first live leaflet’s play. — Ini.
Glad as a soul in pain, who hears from
heaven
The angels singing of his sins forgiven.
— WHITTIER.
His voice as glad as April bird’s.
— Isp.
Glad as fruition. — C. P. Witson.
Glad as gardens. — Joun WILSON.
Gladden.
Gladdening to our eyes as_ the
flowers in May. — R. D. Biackmore.
GLADDEN. — GLANCE.
Gladden — continued.
Gladdens like a beam in spring . . .
making blithe each daisie one by one.
— ALEXANDER SMITH.
Gladsome.
Gladsome as the first-born of the
spring. — COLERIDGE.
Gladsome as summer. — RoBErr
TANNEHILL.
Glance (Noun).
Glances that shoot and illuminate
like the sudden gleams that glow
through autumn clouds. — Anon,
The glance of the eyes like the fawn’s
soft gaze. — ARABIAN NiGHTs.
Gave a glance as from: the depths of
a tomb. ~— STEPHEN CRANE.
like
Glance lightning. — Dumas,
PERE.
A glance as bright as a gnome’s in
his mine of gold. — P. H. Hayne.
The first glance of a soul which does
not yet know itself is like the dawn in
the sky. — Hugo.
The glances of women are like cer-
tain apparently peaceful but really
formidable machines. You pass them
every day quietly, with impunity and
without suspicion of danger. There
comes a moment when you forget
even that they are there. You come
and go, you muse, and talk, and laugh.
Suddenly you feel that you are seized !
It is done. The wheels have caught
you, the glance has captured you. It
has taken you, no matter how or
where, by any portion whatever of
your thought which was trailing,
through any absence of mind. You
are lost. You will be drawn in en-
tirely. A train of mysterious forces
has gained possession of you. You
struggle in vain. No human succor
is possible. You will be drawn down
from wheel to wheel, from anguish to
anguish, from torture to torture.
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You, your mind, your fortune, your
soul; and you will not escape from
the terrible machine, until, according
as you are in the power of a malevolent
nature, or a noble heart, you will be
disfigured by shame or transfigured by
love. — Inn.
A glance . such as Voltaire
would have thrown upon a provincial
academician who had proposed a
rhyme to him. — Ip.
His glance was like a gimlet, cold
and piercing. — Ini.
Fair lady, a glance of your eye is like
the returning sun in the spring — it
melts away the frost of age, and gives
a new warmth of vigor to all nature.
— Artaur Murpeuy.
. A glance like water brimming with
the sky or hyacinth-light where forest-
shadows fall. — D. G. Rosserrt.
A glance like the sunshine that
flashes on steel. — WHITTIER.
Glance (Verb).
Glances like one who expects a blow.
_— ANON.
Javelins glanced like leven-light on
‘white mail-shirt. — Arabian Nicuts.
Glancing white, like streams in
sunny valleys. — Tuomas MILLrEr.
Glancing like a sabre’s gleam. —-
Ourpa.
Glane’d like rays of glory. — ALLAN
Ramsay.
Glance ...as the glints of a
thousand gems. —JamEs WuitcomB
RIey.
Glanced by like a star in a storm.
—G. H. Sass.
Glance and gleam like the green
heights of sunset heaven. — Swin-
BURNE.
Glancing like a dragon-fly. — TEn-
NYSON.
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Glare.
Eye . . . glared like a full moon, or
a broad burnished shield. — AppIson.
Glares like the maniac’s moon,
whose light is madness. — ANON.
Glaring like mad. — ARISTOPHANES.
Glaring at each other like two gaunt
wolves with a famished brood. —
Maruitpz Bup. :
Glare Like gates of hell.
—Rosert BRownina.
Glare like the eye of an enemy.
—JosEPH CQNRaD.
Glaring like a lion in a trap. —O.
HEnry.
: Glare,
Like to a dreadful comet in the air.
— Rosert Herrick.
Glares like a tiger. — Huco.
Glares like an excited cat. — Kir-
LING.
Glared like hot iron. — Isp.
Glaring like red insanity. — Miss
Lanpon.
Broad and glaring as the eye of the
Cyclops. — W. 8. Lanpor. !
As glares the famished eagle from the
Digentian rock
On a choice lamb that bounds alone
before Bandusia’s flock,
Herminus glared on Sextus.
— Macautay.
Glared like a torch amidst creation’s
tomb. — James MontTGoMEry.
Glare,
Like fiery serpents hissing through
the air. — Insp.
Glare, as when a torch is hurled
before a sleeper’s eyes. — BAYARD
TAYLor.
Glares, like a troubled Spirit. —
WorDSWORTH.
Gleam.
Gleams like a naked sword. —ANON.
GLARE. —~- GLEAM.
Gleamed like fireflies. — Inn.
Gleamed like gold from the evening
rays. — Isr.
Gleam like sunny heavens. — Isp.
Gleaming like the chamomile. —
ARABIAN NIGHTS.
Gleamed as the lightning glitters
against the murky night. — Epwin
ARNOLD.
Gleamed like a praying-carpet at the
foot of those divinest altars. — Ipip.
Gleam like glass. — P. J. BAILEY.
Gleaming like the white moonlight.
— Isp.
Gleaming like a flash of lightning.
— Bauzac.
Gleamed upon the water like a bride
at her looking-glass. — R. D. Buack-
MORE.
Gleamed like star-motes in the
milky-way. — MatuitpE Buinp.
Gleameth like a seraph sword. — E
B. Brownina.
Glare
Like gates of hell.
—Rosert Brownine.
Gleamed like Saint Sophia’s dome
when all the faithful troop to morning
prayer. — Isip.
Gleam . . . like the phosphor of the
foam upon the shore. — Roserr Bu-
CHANAN. :
Gleams, like a seraph from the sky
descending. — Byron.
Gleams like flint. —Mapison Ca-
WEIN.
Gleam
Like the bright rainbow on an evening
stream. — COLERIDGE.
Golden gleams,
Like the bright miracles we see in
dreams. — Juuia C. R. Dorr.
Gleaming like shot silk in the sun-
shine. — Str A. Conan Dove.
GLEAM.
Gleam — continued.
Gleamed like the flocks of cloudlets
bright in sunny air at morn. — F. W.
Faser.
Gleamed . . . like sapphires in the
mid-day hours. — Pau FErRRo.t.
Gleamed as funeral lamps in a sepul-
chral chamber. — FLAUBERT.
The sand... gleamed like mica
dust. — GAUTIER.
Gleamed . . . like a star beam, one
star beam of some high predominant
star. — ArTHUR Henry Hatam.
Gleamed and shone, like a splinter
of daylight downward thrown. —
Wa ace: Harney.
Gleams, like to the angel’s sword. —
CuyaRLes Harpur.
Gleams like an angel-market. — W.
E. HENLEY.
Gleams like a diamond on a dancing
girl. —O. W. Hotmes.
Gleam like
CuasE JOHNSON.
gold. — PHILANDER
Gleaming like rose-hued pearls be-
low the wave.— Frances ANNE
KemBte.
Gleam like pale wells of precious
malachite. — Ipm.
Gleams like a dream in his face. —
H. C. Kenpatu.
Gleam like the golden flash of a
moon-lit stream. — Miss Lanpon.
Gleams like the taper in the blaze
of day. — Ropert Luoyp.
Like a river, frozen and star-lit,
gleamed his coat of mail. — Lone-
FELLOW.
Gleamed like a grate of brass. —
Isp.
Gleamed on the hillside like a patch
of snow. — Is1p.
Gleam, like midnight’s boreal dances.
— LoweLL.
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Gleamed like moonshine on wet
sands. — GrorGE MacDona tp.
Gleam, like drifted gold in summer’s
cloudless beam.— James Monrt-
GOMERY.
Gleam’d, like the meteors of a
northern sky. — pip.
Gleam like the pearls that sprinkle
A virgin’s golden hair. — NANAKKASH.
Gleamed like the young moon’s
crescent. — PILPay.
Gleam, like a glow-worm in the
night. — T. BucHanan Reap.
Gleams like a rising harvest moon.
— Isp.
Gleams like the galleon rare of an
Argonaut’s dreams. — James WuIt-
coms Riry.
Gleams like a beacon from afar. —
C. G. Rossetti.
Gleam
Like islands on a dark blue sea.
— SHELLEY.
Gleam like the white effigies on
tombs in dim cathedrals. — ALEXAN-
DER SMITH.
Lurid gleam, like the reflection of a
sulphur fire. — SouTHEY.
Gleams as a ghost’s glory in dreams.
— SWINBURNE.
Gleam broad as the brows of the
billows that brighten the storm with
their crests. — Isr.
Gleam like a cloud the westering sun
stains red ‘
Till all the blood of day’s blithe heart
be bled
And all night’s heart requickened.
— Isp.
Gleams like spring’s green bloom
on boughs all gaunt and gnarry. —
Ini.
Gleam
Like the green heights of sunset heaven.
— In.
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Gleam — continued.
Gleam like a brooklet, whose bed is
all unshaded. — CARMEN SYLVA.
Gleam like sea-mists o’er the plain.
— Bayarp Tay tor.
Gleamed like fancy made of golden
air. — TENNYSON.
Gleam like the rosy east. — WILLIAM
THOMSON.
Gleamed like a satin ribbon in the
sun, or like the pearly inside of a shell.
— Henry D. Tuoreav.
Gleaming like a sea. — VirGIL.
Gleams like an angry lion’s eye. —
Oscar WILDE.
Gleeful.
Gleeful as the Evil One a-counting
of his imps. — CHARLES READE.
Gleeful as a brook or bird. —
Maurice THompson.
Glib.
Glib as glass. — Ropert BRownina.
Glib as wolves. — ALFRED HEnry
Lewis.
Glib as clockwork. — James Wuit-
coms RILEY.
Glibly.
As glibly as a top kept in vivacious
movement by the perpetual applica-
tion of the lash. — Butwer-LytTon.
Glide.
Glide like a gentle stream. — ANon.
Glided like a flame of wind-blown
fire. — THomas AsHE.
Glide like a fallen leaf.—E. B.
BRowNING.
Glide away
Like a ghost at break of day.
— Rosert Brownine.
Glide like happiness away. — Byron.
Glided . . . like naked demons flit-
ting among the clouds. — J. FentmorE
Cooper.
GLEAM. —— GLIMMER.
Glide
On smoothly, as a river floweth by,
Or as on stately pinion, through the gray
Evening, the culver cuts his liquid
way. — Davi Gray.
Glide like the flitting arrow. —
Tuomas Hastines.
Glide
As thought through spirits sanctified.
— Pavut Hamitton Hayne.
Like phantoms painted on the magic
slide,
Forth from the darkness of the past we
glide,
As living shadows for a moment seen
In airy pageant on the eternal screen.
——O. W. Homes.
Let my soft minutes glide securely
on, like subterraneous streams, un-
heard, unknown. — Bishop Norris.
Glide over her mind as water over a
glass. — Harriet Parr.
Glide to and fro like ghosts of buried
centuries. — Por.
Like shuttles through the loom, so
swiftly glide
My feather’d hours.
— GEorGE SAnpys.
Gliding like a vision o’er the ground.
— SouTHEY.
Glided like a dream. — Cretia THax-
TER.
Gliding like morning mist
Enkindled by the sun.
— Worpswortu.
Glimmer.
Glimmering faintly like the rack
O’ the moon in her own light cast back.
— E. B. Brownine.
Glimmer like a star in autumn’s hazy
night. — Wituiam CuLLEN Bryant.
Glimmers . . . like starry twinklers
that momently break
Through the rifts of the gathering
tempest’s rack.
— Josern R. Drake.
GLIMMER. — GLISTEN.
Glimmer — continued.
Glimmering, like the balance-pan
That weighs its guinea as he weighs
his man. — 0. W. Homes.
Glimmer, like the last flicker ofa
night-light. — Hugo.
Glimmer like a coral grove. —
Water MALone.
Glimmer like a butterfly. — Don
Marquis.
The firelight glimmers upon the
walls of your cherished home, like the
Vestal fire of red upon the figures of
adoring angels, or like the flame of
Hebrew sacrifice, whose incense bore
hearts to Heaven.—Donatp G.
Mrircue..
Tresses glimmering and gleaming
like glad waters running over shelving
shallows, rimmed with clover. — JAMES
Wuitcoms Riry.
Glimmers like a meteor. — SAMUEL
Rocers.
Glimmered like fire. — Francis S.
SALTus.
He glimmered apart
In solemn gloom
Like a dying lamp in a haunted tomb.
—R. H. Stropparp.
Glimmered through the misty sphere
like moonlit marble. — Bayarp
TAYLOR.
Glimmered like a faint, vanishing
tinge of blood on snow. — Henry Van
Dyke.
Glimmered like a pine tree dimly
viewed
Through Alpine vapors.
— Worpsworts.
Glint.
Glints like polished jet. — ANon.
Glints like sunshine. — Isp.
Glints . . . like a lance that flees.
—D. G. Rossertt.
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Glint, like thousands of suns from
the dew-drops. — ScHILLER.
Glisten.
Glistens like the forehead of morn-
ing. — ANON.
Glistened as still
As when on moonlit eves no zephyr
spills the glistening dew.
— Epwin Arnot.
Glistening, like a maid at her own
ideas. —R. D. BLackmore.
Glistened like dormer-windows piled
with snow. — Inm.
Glistened like a plate of beaten
silver. — J. Fentmore Cooper.
Glistened like the path of diamonds
in the sun. — DIcKENs.
Glistening .. . like the track of
moonlight on the sea. — Tuomas
Harpy.
Glistens like a star. — Emma
Lazarus.
Glistened as the tears in a widow’s
eyes. — CAMILLE LEMONNIER.
Glistened like the dews of morn.
— LoncreLLow.
Glistened like the sun in water.
—Isw.
Glistened like the glow of precious
stones. — GrorcE Mac-Henry.
His eyes dilated and glistened like
the last flame that shoots up from an
expiring fire. — Guy pE Maupassant.
Glistens like a clump of stars. —
Cosmo MoNnkKHOUSE.
Glistening like gossamer. — JAMES
MontTcomery.
Glisten like the glistening eyes of
nightingales in vernal leaves. —
Rosert NoEt.
Glistening like satin. — Ouma.
Glistened, like a globe of burnished
gold. — Por.
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Glisten — continued.
Glistened like an emerald,
Beneath the glow-worm’s sheen.
— Francis S. Satrus.
Glistring lyke glasse. — SKELTON.
Eye glistened like that of a rattle-
snake. — SMOLLETT.
Glistened like a tin roof in the noon-
day sun. — Henry M. Stantey.
Glistening like the eyes of love. —
Josera TURNLEY.
Glitter (Noun).
Has a cold cheerless glitter, like the
new furniture. in a warehouse. — ALEX-
ANDER SMITH.
Glitter (Verb).
Glittering like an Eastern Caliph.
— ANON.
Glittered like spun glass. — Izip.
Robes glitter like young sedge grass.
— Ixzip.
Glittered in the gloom
Like a gilt epitaph within a tomb.
— Amprose BIERCcE.
Glittering, like a splendid wave that
rises out of shapeless gloom. — Lau-
RENCE BINyYoNn.
Cold glitter as of ice. — CARLYLE.
Glittered as if strewn with powdered
pumice. — D’ANNUNZIO.
Glittering as snow in the sunshine.
— Davpet.
Glittered like
Joun Doran.
Glittered like fish from the sweep-
net. — DUMAS, PERE.
dragon-flies. — Dr.
Glitters like a star. — GoETHE.
Glitter like heaven new-born. —Izin.
Glittered like dew. — Rancrr GULL.
Glittering like a lost jewel, which
some ill-fated wanderer might pick
up, and thenceforth be haunted by
strange phantoms of guilt, sinkings
GLISTEN. — GLITTER.
of the heart, and unaccountable mis-
fortune. — HAWTHORNE.
Glittered and sparkled as if diamonds
had been flung against it by the double
handful. — Ini.
Glitter like an angel’s ladder. — A.
E. Housman.
Glittering as a parterre. — Hugo.
Glitters like a sea of light. — Sic-
MUND KRASINSKI.
Glittered like a winter sun. — OWEN
MEREDITH.
Glittering as steel. — Ourpa.
Eye glittered like rattlesnake’s. —
CHARLES READE.
Genius glittered like the gloriola of
a saint. — Isp.
Glittered like a sickle of tin. —
Epaar Satus.
Glittering like the spangled dew-
drop. — Sir Water Scorr.
His armor glytteryde as dyd a glede.
— Ricwarp SHEIL.
Glittering as the wine-bright jacinth-
stone. — SWINBURNE.
Glittering as wine. — In.
Glittered like a bed of flowers. —
TENNYSON.
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies
tangled in a silver braid. — Isw.
Glittered . . . like sleet-bound trees
in wintry skies. — Jounw TRUMBULL.
Glitter . . . like the bayonets of a regi-
ment on parade. —Joun C. Van Dyke.
Glitter . . . like the glass pendants
of a chandelier. — Ipip.
They glitter in my fancy like the dis-
tant multihedral
Steeples, domes and sunlit turrets of
some beautiful cathedral.
— Evcene Firco Ware.
Glittering like an argent shield. —
Oscar WILDE.
GLOBULAR. — GLOSSY.
Globular.
Globular like a hazel-nut. — Baron
MUNCHAUSEN.
Glossy.
Glossy as a mole. — ANON.
Gloomy.
Gloomy as a graveyard on a wet
Sunday. — Anon.
Gloomy as a hobgoblin. — Dickens.
Gloomy outside, like a rusty chest.
— DryvdEnN.
Gloomy as night. — Homer (Pope).
Begloomed like seas empurpled under
cloud. — Rosert Noe.
Gloomy and dogged like adangerous
maniac in his cell. — CHarLes REapeE.
Gloomy, like a gathered tempest.
— Isaac Watts.
Glorified.
Glorified ... like the angel St.
John saw in the sun. — THomAsS
Harpy.
Glorified like the illuminated figures
in the painted chronicles. — Ouma.
Glorious.
Glorious as a victory for the victor.
— ANON. :
Glorious as when Pericles ruled over
Athens. — Isip.
Glorious as the sun. — BEAUMONT
AND FLETCHER.
Glorious . . . as spreads before us
the sky’s unspeakable blue. — Mary
GEOGHEGAN.
‘Glorious as the morning star of
heaven. — RoBERT GREENE.
As glorious as the portal of the sun.
— Isp.
Glorious as a heavenly promise.
—G. T. Hr.
Glorious as the rainbow’s birth.
~-GeraLp Massey.
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Glorious as the Spring. — Massin-
GER.
Glorious as a midnight star. —C.
G. Rossetti.
Glorious as purple twilight. — Inm.
Thou art
As glorious to this night, being o’er my
head,
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering
eyes
Of mortals.
Sweet and glorious as compassion.
— SWINBURNE.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Glorious as the sea. — Inp.
Rose glorious as with gleam of gold
unpriced. — Inip.
Glorious as if a glimpse were given
Within the western gates of heaven.
— Crura THAXTER.
Glorious as unclouded May. — Joun
TosIn.
Glorious as the new-built town.
— WALLER.
Glorious, like the seer-seen angel”
Standing in the sun. — WHITTIER.
Glory.
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperse to
naught. — SHAKESPEARE.
As the vine is the glory of the trees
it clasps, as the grapes of the vine, as
the bull of the herd, as the standing
corn of the fruitful field, thou and
_thou alone art the glory of those who
love thee. — VIRGIL.
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine
bright,
But look’d too near have neither heat
nor light. —Joun WEBSTER.
Glossy.
Glossy as a shark’s tooth. — ARLO
Bates.
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Glossy — continued.
As glossy and black as a scarab.
— Rosert Brownine.
Glossy like
JACKSON.
laurel. — HELEN H.
Glossy as a heron’s wing.— THOMAS
Moore.
Glossy as the finest silk. — OrrENTAL.
Glow (Noun).
Healthy glow, as a fine frosty morn-
ing. — GEorGE GISSING.
Glow (Verb).
Her eye balls . . . glowed like flam-
ing carbuncles. — W. H. Ainsworru.
Glow like a blacksmith’s forge.—
ANON.
Glowing like molten iron. — Ipm.
Glow like the gates of the New Jeru-
salem. — Isp.
Glow like the golden fleece. — Inn.
Glow like the vernal grass. — Inrp.
‘Glow and glimmer soft as ocean blush
of Indian shells. — Matuitpe Bunp.
Cheeks glow red as tomatoes. —
Rosert BRowninc.
Glowing in the green, like flakes of
fire. — WILLIAM CuLLEN Bryant.
Glow,
Asif her veins ran lightning.
— Byron.
Aglow, like fruit when it colors. —
WILLIAM CANTON.
Glow... like a pool of flaming
blood. — JoszpH Conran.
Glowing like sunset-clouds upon the
borders of the Tappan-Zee.—F. S.
CozzENs.
Glows like a painter’s palette. — T.
W. H. Crostanp.
Glows as some rain-burnished rose.
—Lorp De Tastey.
Glowed like June. — C. G. Durry.
GLOSSY. —— GLOW.
Glow like adoration. — EBENEZER
ELuorr.
Blush and glow like angel’s wings.
—Ism.
Glow like webs of golden tissue in
the sun. — F. W. Faner.
Glow like twin roses in the verdant
bush. — Francis Fawkes.
Glowin’ like a circus poster. —
SEWELL Forp.
Glowing like a bride robed to meet
the bridal hour. — S. GerrrupE Forp.
Glow . . . like Laura’s cheek when
blushes rise. — JoHn Gay.
I glow as with new wine. — GOETHE.
Glowed like a household fire. —
HAWTHORNE.
Glows like a red flame in the dark.
— Isp. -
Glowed like sunshine. — Isp.
Glowed like a coal,
In the throat of the furnace.
—W. E. HENLEY.
Glows like a kiln. — Is.
Soft and glowing as a summer’s eve.
— Henrik Hertz.
Glow like a queen’s missal. — O. W.
Homes.
Glowed like the mom _ beneath
Aurora’s wings. — Isr.
Glows like the old prophets. — J.
G. HoLianp.
Glow like fiery meteors. — Homer
(PorPE).
Golden glow,
Like Iris just bedabbled in her bow.
—~ Hoop.
Glow like a self-enkindled star. —
Lemus. Hopkins.
Glows, like a peak at dawn. — Huco.
Glow like flashing seas of green. —
Herren H. Jackson.
GLOW. — GNAW.
Glow — continued.
Glow
Like the northern lights on snow.
— Keats.
Glows like the diamond in the
presence of radium. — ANDREW LANG.
Glowed like angels in the sun. —
GeratD Massey.
Glowed like a watch fire in the Wil-
derness. — In.
Glowing imperial as the sun-toucht
rose. — IBm.
Glowing like anthracite coal. —
Donato G. MiTcHELL.
Glowed like a torch amid creation’s
tomb. — JAMES MontTGOMERY.
In youthful beauty glows,
Like Phoebus, when he bends to cast
His beams upon a rose.
— Tuomas Moore.
-Glowed like the arbutus or beech of
the Umbrian hills. — J. H. Newman.
Glow like paint on death’s shrunk
cheek. — Mites O’REILLy.
Jewels . . . glowing like sunbeams.
— Ouma.
The Court, it glows, and shines
like rotten wood.—Srr WALTER
RALEIGH.
Glows like a golden group of butter-
cups. — T. BucHanan Reap.
Glowed, like great archangels moving
slow
On some celestial road. — Inrp.
Her white forehead glowed like a
rose. — CHARLES READE.
Glow like a flower. —C. G. Ros-
SETTI.
Glowed like the first splendors of
the morn. — Jos& SELGAS.
Glowed like plated Mars. — SHakE-
SPEARE.
Glows like solid amethyst. —
SHELLEY.
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Glowing like the vital morn. — Ism.
Glow
As a heart burns with some divine
thing done. — SWINBURNE.
Glow ... like the sunset’s flush
on a field of snow. — Bayarp Tay-
LOR.
Glows, like baker’s oven. — WILLIAM
TENNANT.
Glowed as a cloud worn thin. —
WALTER THORNBURY.
Glow like a great pearl. — Joun C.
Van DYKE.
With beauty glows like that of
Venus, where she rose naked in blush-
ing charms from Ocean’s hoary wave.
—JosEPH WaRTON.
Glum.
Glum as an oyster. — ANON.
Glum as mud. — Isp.
As glum as a man who has found a
penny and lost a sixpence. — ScorTTisH
PROVERB.
Glum as- an__ undertaker. —
THACKERAY.
Gluttonous.
Gluttonous as curiosity. — Lewis
CARROLL.
Gnarled.
Gnarled like olive branches. — Guy
DE MAuPASSANT.
Gnaw.
Gnaw me, like a burning worm. —
Bunyan.
Gnawed as with a file.—D. G.
RosseErTtI.
Gnaw like fire. — SWINBURNE.
Pain gnaws at my heart like a rat that
gnaws at a bean
In the dusty dark of a ghost-frequented
house. — ARTHUR SYMONS.
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Go.
(See also Gone.)
Go along like sixty. — ANON.
Go like a house afire. —Iprp.
Going as if he had trod upon eggs.
— Rosert Burton.
Go along like blazes. — Dr Quincey.
The multitude goes, like the flower
and the weed,
That wither away to let others succeed.
— Wituram Kwox.
Goeth . . . as an ox goeth to the
slaughter. — Op TESTAMENT.
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as
out of a seething pot or caldron. — Ipip.
God.
For God is like a skilful Geometri-
cian, who, when more easily and with
one stroke of his Compass he might
describe or divide a right line, had yet
rather do this in a circle or longer way,
according to the constituted and fore-
laid principle of his art. — Sm Tuomas
Browne.
Gold.
Gold in the house is like sun in the
world. — Arabian Nicuts.
Gold, like the sun, which melts wax
and hardens clay, expands great souls
and contracts bad hearts. — R1IvARoL.
Golden.
Golden as the fruits of autumn. —
ANON.
Golden as the sun. — P. J. Barry.
Golden as the sunlight. — FLaAuBERT.
Golden as honey in the sun. —
Lowe.
Golden as the glow of morning sun-
light. — Cuinron ScoLLarp.
Gold as golden as the gold of hives.
— SWINBURNE.
Golden as water kindled with presage
of dawn or night. — In.
GO. —— GONE,
Golden as a star. — THomas Wank.
Golden as the fagade of St. Mark’s
with dancing reflections. — IsraEL
ZANGWILL.
Gone.
Gone as a gone goose. — ANON.
Gone as a shadow goes. —R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Gone as evanescent cloudlands. —
MartuitpE Biinp.
Gone, like traces on the deep,
Like a spectre grasp’d in sleep,
Dews inhal’d from morning glades,
‘Melting snows, and gliding shades.
— Henry Brooke.
Quite gone... like a lost star.
— Rosert Brownina.
Gone . . . like ice on a June day.
— CARLYLE.
Gone into their snares like a thread
into a needle. —Frpor DostTorvsky.
Gone, like a vapor which the potent
morn kills, and in killing glorifies.
— Davin Gray.
Gone like the bubble that bursts in the
sun 5
Gone like the grain when the reaper is
done ;
Gone like the dew on the fresh-morn-
ing grass ;
Gone without parting farewell ; and
alas!
Gone with a flavor of hydrogen gas!
— Bret Harte.
Gone like the locust band, when whirl-
winds bear
Their flimsy legions through the waste
of air. — Recinatp HEBER.
Gone, like smoke dissolved in air.
— Aaron Hit.
Gone, like the tenants that quit with-
out warning,
Down the back entry of time.
—O. W. Hotmss.
Gone, like the spray. — Kinaster.
GONE. — GOOD.
Gone — continued.
Thou art gone from my gaze like a
beautiful dream. — Grorce LInLEY.
Gone was every trace of sorrow,
As the fog from off the river,
As the mist from off the meadow.
— LoneGFELLow.
Gane, like the flowers o’ spring awa’,
or like a vision perished. — ALEXANDER
McLaucuian.
Seen no more,
Gone, like the wind that raised the
wave,
The spent wave on the shore.
— Georce Merepitu.
Gone like a meteor. — Tuomas
Moore.
Gone, like the thoughts that once
were ours. — IBID.
Gone like all things else that men
set life upon. — F. W. H. Myers.
To-day we are here, to-morrow gone,
like the shadow that vanisheth, like
the grass that withereth, or like the
flower that fadeth; or indeed like
anything, or rather like nothing. —
Otway.
Gone, as an angel’s wing through
an opening cloud is seen, and then with-
drawn. — JoHN PrERPoNT.
Gone as soon as a grain of corn
thrown to an ant. — PLautTus.
Gone as an unreturning river. — C.
G. Rossetti.
Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou art gone, and forever.
— Sir WALTER Scott.
Gone like the bloom upon the
heather, —J. B. SELKIRK,
Gone, as they never had been. —
Bayarp Tay.or.
Gone like shadow when it declineth.
— Oxnp TESTAMENT.
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Your early splendor’s gone
Like stars into a cloud withdrawn —
Like music laid asleep
In dried up fountains.
— Witiram WALLACE.
Gone, like the summer lightning’s
gleam. — Frank Waters.
/ Gone
As the fox-hunter follows the sound of
the horn. — WHITTIER.
The red man has gone like the mist
on the air. — Ipip.
Gone as a cloud faded into the sky.
—W. B. Yzats.
Good.
Good as a feast. — ANON.
Good as an addled egg. — Inm.
Good as an idle bird. — Inrp.
Good as ever went upon the ground.
— Isp.
Good as new. — Isp.
Beauty is as good as ready money.
— Isp.
Good as truth. — Inm.
Good as dew to flowers. — Insp.
Good as gold. — Bauzac.
Good as white bread and just as in-
sipid. — Isp.
Good as wheat. — J. R. BARTLETYT’s
“DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS.”
As good as a show. — BULWER-
Lytton.
Good as a play. — Cuartes IT.
As good music as when pigs play on
the organ. — CLARKE’s ‘‘PROVERBS.”
Good as ever water wet. — Haz-
uitr’s ‘‘PROVERBS.”
Good as ever trod upon shoe leather.
—“Lonpon CHANTICLEERS.”
Good as bread. — LONGFELLOW.
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Good — continued.
Good as puppet show. — Nortu-
ALL’S “‘FoLtk PHrases.”
Good as ever flew in the air. — JOHN
Ray’s “Hanpsook oF PrRoverss.”
Good as a sermon. — SOUTHEY.
Good as a comedy. — Jonn Taytor.
To do good to the base is like sowing
the sea. — THEOGNIS.
Good-nature.
Good-nature, like a bee, collects
honey from every herb. Ill-nature, like
a spider, sucks poison from the sweetest
flower. — ANON.
Goodness.
True goodness is like the glow-worm
in this, that it shines most when no
eyes, except those of heaven, are upon
‘it. — Epwin ARNOLD.
As a horse when he hasrun, a bee
when he, has made honey, so man
when he has done a good act does
not call out for others to come and
see, but he goes on to another act,
as the vine goes on to produce again
the grapes in season. — Marcus Av-
RELIUS.
Goodness, like the Sun, enlightens
all. —Samurt Boyse.
Goodnesse is like the art prospec-
tive: one point center, begetting in-
finite rayes. — Srr THomas OVERBURY.
Your goodness is as a morning
cloud, and as the early dew it goeth
away. — OLtp TESTAMENT.
Good-will.
Good-will, like a good name, is got
by many actions, and lost by one. —
FRANCIS JEFFREY.
Gore.
Gore like the tusks of a boar.—
ANON.
Gorgeous.
Gorgeous as a sultana, — ANON.
GOOD. ——- GRACEFUL.
Gorgeous as are a rivulet’s banks in
June. — WiLuiam CULLEN Bryant.
Gorgeous as the heavens. — DE
QUINCEY.
Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Gossip.
A gossip in a village is like a viper
in a bed. — ANON.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idle-
ness. — NinNon DE LENCLOS.
Gossipin’ about like a cracked bell-
clapper. — Grorce MEREDITH.
Gossip must often have been likened
to the winged insects bearing pollen to
the flowers; it fertilizes many a
vacuous reverie. — IBID.
Govern,
Govern the lips as they were palace
doors, the King within. — Epwin
ARNOLD.
Government,
A government tumbling and drifting
on the whirlpool and mud-deluges,
floating atop in a conspicuous manner,
no whither, like the carcass of a
drowned ass. — CARLYLE.
But when a government is grown in
strength,
Like some old oak, rough with its
armed bark,
It yields not to the tug, but only nods,
And turns to sullen state.
— Drypen.
Government, like dress, is the badge
of lost innocence. —'THomas Parner.
Graceful.
Graceful as an Alpine sapling. —
ANON.
Graceful as a bird on the wing. —
Isp.
Graceful as a fawn. — Isp.
Graceful as the arch of a rainbow. —
Ii.
GRACEFUL. — GRASP.
Graceful — continued.
’ Graceful as a fairy-tale. — WiLtiam
ARCHER.
Graceful as a black frigate with snow
white sails. — Bazac.
Graceful as a springborn fairy. —
Paut Hamitton Hayne.
Graceful as Mars. — Homer (Pore).
Graceful as a snake of the paradise
of Asia. — Davi pr La Game.
Graceful as the willow-bough o’er
the streamlet weeping. — Lover.
As warm and graceful as May. —
Epwarp Lovisonpb.
She is graceful as the greenly waving
boughs in summer wind. — GERALD
Massey.
Graceful as a Naiad. —GEORGE
Moors.
Graceful as a faun. — SAMUEL
RoGeErs.
Graceful as an ivy, bough born to
cling and lean. — C. G. Rossetti.
Graceful as a bow just bent. — Rus-
KIN.
Graceful and free
As honeysuckles and the lilies be.
—D. B. W. Stapen.
Graceful as a couchant goddess. —
ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
Graceful as the sapphirine tide. —
JOSEPH TURNLEY.
Graceful as the shawl-designs
Of Delhi or Umritsir.
— WHITTIER.
Gracefully.
Flit about as gracefully as a pickax
in a sack. — Ipp.
Gracious.
All gracious and good as when God
made the living creatures, and none
was afraid. — Buss CaRMAN.
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Gracious as a medieval queen. —
Tuomas Herwoop.
As gracious as the morn. — Hugo.
Gracious as the golden maiden morn
When darkness craves her blessing.
— SWINBURNE.
Gracious as a duchess. — THack-
ERAY.
Grand.
Grand like Barbarossa’s beard. —
ANON.
Grand as a victory. — Isp.
Grand as thought. — Batzac.
Grand as a Greek statue. — RoBERT
BROWNING.
As grand as the world. — Josrepu A.
DE GOBINEAU.
Grand as floor-walkers. — O. Henry.
Grand as the frigate on the wind. —
JEAN INGELOw.
Grand as the passion felt but never
spoken. — Tracy Rosinson.
Grand,
As though a distant singing sea broke
on a tuneful strand.
—C. G. Rossertt.
Grand
As any stone that decks a monarch’s
hand.
—D. B. W. Siapen.
Grand as doomsday and as grave.
— TENNYSON.
Grasp.
Grasps, like death. — EBENEZER Ex-
LIOTT.
Grasp as firm
As his whose arm is nerved by glory’s
zeal. ‘ — GERALD GRIFFIN.
Grasp like a scourge.—T. Bv-
CHANAN Reap.
Grasps as in water, the more she
grasped the less she held. —Sir
Pup SIDNEY.
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Grate.
Grate like a sawblade under the
file. — Henrik IpseEn.
Grating like arsenic. — Jonn Wol-
coTT.
Grateful.
Thou touchest me gratefully, like
Nature’s wholesome breath. — Nic-
coto Tommaseo (D. G. Rossertt).
Gratis.
Gratis, as yesternight. — CARLYLE.
Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the good. faith of
traders, it maintains commerce ; and
we often pay, not because it is just
to discharge our debts, but that we
may more readily find people to trust
us. — RocHEFOUCAULD.
Grave.
Grave as an old gate-post. — ANON.
Grave as Pascal. — Inm.
Grave, as the manner of noble men
is. — E. B. Brownie.
Grave as an organ. — DICKENS.
Grave and thoughtful as rich mourn-
ers. — DIOGENES.
Grave as actors do in Lent. —
Pierce Ecan.
Grave as a mourning hearse. —
Ini.
Grave as Libanius, slumbering o’er
the laws. — ELuau Fenton.
Grave as saints. — J. J. Jusseranp.
As grave as Porcius Cato when he
met with a repulse which he had
never expected nor dreamt of. —
MarcELLINUS.
Grave as an eye dwelling on blood.
— Grorce MerepiTu.
Grave as a judge. — “ Poor Rosin’s
ALMANACK.”
GRATE, — GRAY.
Grave
As the unwilling herald of the king.
— ARTHUR SYMONS.
Grave as from a funeral. — TENNY-
SON.
Gravity.
Gravity in a woman is like to a
gray beard upon a breaching boise
chinne, which a good scholemaister
would cause to be clipt, and the wise
husband to be avoyded. — Ly y.
Gray.
Gray as grannun’s cat. — ANON.
Gray as the inside of a pewter dish.
— Isp.
Gray hairs are like the light of a
soft moon, silvering over the evening
of life. — Inn.
Grey as a badger.—R. H. Bar-
HAM.
Gray as shallow sea. — Cucuu-
LAIN.
Grey as a hoary monolith. — G. K.
CHESTERTON.
Misty gray, like a cow’s breath on a
frosty morning. — Irvin 5. Coss.
Grey as time. — Grorce Dar-
LEY.
Gray, like a shield embossed in.
silver. — LoNGFELLow.
Grey, like the soft creeping twilight.
— WitiiamM Morris.
Gray as smoke.—Joun G. NEI-
HARDT.
Gray as glass. — SHAKESPEARE.
Grey, like a storm-extinguished day.
— SHELLEY.
Grey as a flower ruined. —
SWINBURNE.
Grey as the mom.—J. A. Sy-
MONDS.
Her eyes are grey like morning dew.
—W. B. Yzats.
GREAT. — GRIEF,
Great.
Great as a lord. — Frances Fawkes.
It is with great men as with high
mountains. They oppress us with
awe when we stand under them : they
disappoint our insatiable imaginations
when we are nigh, but not quite close
to them : and then, the further we re-
cede from them, the more astonishing
they appear; until . . . they at one
moment seem miraculously lifted above
earth, and the next strike our fancies
as let down from heaven.
—J.C. Hares.
I think myself as great
As Cesar riding in the Roman street,
With captive kings at his triumphant
car. — Mar.owe.
Greed.
Greedy as a hog. — Anon.
Greed was like a slip-knot drawn
more and more tightly about his
heart, till reason at length was stifled.
— Batzac.
As greedy as ten cocks scraping in a
dunghill for ae barley pickle. — Scot-
TISH PROVERB.
Greedy as a cormorant. — Joun
SKELTON.
Greedy as hell’s mouth. — Leonarp
WRricuT.
Green.
Green as May. — James Lane AL-
LEN.
Green as a gooseberry. — ANON.
Green as a,gourd. — Inm.
Green as a lizard. — Ini.
Green as bottled glass. —Ism.
Green as emeralds. — Ism.
Green as grass. — Iptp.
Green as the deep waters. — Ipm.
Green as the sea. — Ipp.
Green as a leaf. — THomas ASHE.
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As green as any privet-hedge a bird
might choose to build in.—E. B.
Brownina.
Green as blissful Eden. —R. C.
Dutt.
Green as the mantled pool. — Hoop.
Green as hope before it grieves. —
Miss Lanpon.
Green as a meadow by Chaucer. —
Ricwarp Le GALLIENNE.
As green as the leaves of the fir
tree. — “ Mapinoaion.”
Green as jealousy. — Grorcr MERE-
DITH.
Green as an arum leaf. — Ouma.
Green as the grave of a loved one. —
C. G. Rosserrt.
Green as leeks. — SHAKESPEARE.
Green as the forest’s night. —
SHELLEY.
Green as summer. — SWINBURNE.
Green as the salt-sea_ billows. —
WorbDswortu.
Greetings.
Christmas greetings are like pots of
ore ; -
The hollower they are they sing the
more. — Ambrose BIerce.
Grew.
Grew like the summer grass. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Grew,
Like a pale flower by some sad maiden
cherished. — SHELLEY.
: Grey.
(See Gray.)
Grief.
Woman’s grief is like a summer
storm, short as it is violent. — JOANNA
BarLuxie.
Genuine grief is like penitence, not
clamorous, but subdued. — Josa Bit-
LINGS.
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Grief — continued.
Grief and passion are like floods
raised in little brooks by a sudden
rain. — DRYDEN.
Grief, like wine, the tongue will
render free. —J. M. LEGARE.
Grief, like night, is salutary. It
cools down the soul by the putting out
its fevered fires; and if it oppresses
her, it also compresses her energies.
The load once gone, she will go forth
with greater buoyancy to new pleas-
ures. — JoHN PULSFORD.
Grief
Was as a last year’s leaf
Blown dead far down the wind’s way.
— SWINBURNE.
Grieve.
Grieve like the stranger-tended child,
Which seeks its mother’s arms, and
sees and feels them not.
— Criia THAXTER.
Grim.
Grim as a judge. — Anon.
Grim as Cerberus. — Inin.
Grim as death. — Ibm.
Grim as a voice from the grave. —
A. H. Brxsty.
Grim as a Swiss guard. — RoBert
Brownine.
Grim as a grizzly fighting for her
cub. —Joun G. NEIHARDT.
Grim as a crow. — JOSEPH SKIPSEY.
Grim as dreams that quicken from
dead men’s graves. — SWINBURNE.
Grim as hell. — Ip.
Grin.
Grin like a Cheshire cat, from ear to
ear. — ANON.
Grinning like one bringing rare
news. — J. M. Barrie.
Grinning like enchanted apes. —
Tuomas CARLYLE.
GRIEF. —— GROPE.
Grin like a basket of chips. —
Francis GROSE.
Grins like some. fantastic nightly
spectre. —A. G. OEHLENSCHLAGER.
Grin like lions
Upon the pikes o’ the hunters.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Grip.
Grips like a vise. — ANON.
Grips like hoops of steel. — In.
Grip like some kind of sinning. —
Rosert W. SERVICE.
Gripe.
Gripe as hard Cassibelan. — SHakr-
SPEARE.
Gripe like a convulsion. — CoLE-
RIDGE.
Groan.
Groaned
Like some sad prophet, that foresaw
the doom
Of those whom best he loved, and
could not save. — DrypeEw.
Groans like a
Ricwarp LovELAcE.
cannon-ball. —
Groaneth, like a door on rusty
hinges. — TUPPER.
Groaning like a dying horse. —
Wiii1am Warp.
Grog.
Grog, like grief, is fatal stuff for any
man to sup ;
For when it fails to pull him down, it’s
sure to blow him up.
— Joun G. Saxe.
Grooved.
Grooved like the sunken spaces
between the fingers. —Joun Bur-
ROUGHS.
Grope.
Groping blindly: as in a dream. —
Hueco.
Groped like a blind man finding his
way. — Guy pr Maupassant.
GROSS. —— GULP.
Gross.
Grosse as a hog. — MIDDLETON.
Gross as a mountain. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Gross as ignorance made drunk. —
Isp.
Ground.
Ground,
Like a thousand vanquish’d men in
bloody flight. — SHAKESPEARE.
Groundless.
Groundless as the dreams of philos-
ophy. — LAURENCE STERNE.
Group.
As the moths around a taper,
As the bees around a rose,
As the gnats around a vapour,
So the spirits group and close
Round about a holy childhood as if
drinking its repose.
—E. B. Brownine.
Grovel.
Grovel like swine. — ANON.
Grow.
Grow like a cow’s tail, downwards.
— ANon.
Grows like Jimson weed in a pile of
compost. — Inn.
We do not make our thoughts ;
they grow in us like grain in a wood.
—P. J. Batiey.
Growing like smoke. — FraNncEs
Hopeson Burnett.
Grow like grass in May. — GrorcE
Eor.
Like some fair plant beneath my care-
fulhand —
He grew, he flourish’d and he grac’d
the land. — Homer (Port).
That grows with gazing on, like
lover’s beauty. — GeraLtp Massey.
Grew like the summer grass. —
SHAKESPEARE.
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Grow like weeds on a neglected
tomb. — SHELLEY.
Grows great as the moon through the
month. — SwINBURNE.
Growl.
Growled within himself like a little
double-bass. — Dickens.
Growls, roars and breaks itself,
like our eternal and powerless despair.
— Dumas, PERE.
Growl, like a crescendo in the double
bass. — Lover.
He growls like a bear that has burnt
his paw. — Osman PRovers.
Grunt.
Grunt like a bear when he is a-
moaning. — ULpian FULWELL.
Grunting like some pounded animal.
— Mavrice Hew err.’
Grunted like a pig under a tub. —
Lyty.
Grunts like a hog. — Maritowr.
Guarded.
As well guarded as a prince in his
castle. — JAMES OTIS.
Guest.
A guest, like a fish, has an unpleas-
ant odor after three days. — Guipo
CAVALCANTI.
Guileless.
Guileless and simple as a six-year-
old child that has never left its mother.
— Batzac.
Guileless as a candidate. — RicHarp
LE GALLIENNE.
Guileless as infancy. — T. N. Tat-
FOURD.
Gulp.
Gulped as . . . swallowing sobs. —
JosEPpH CONRAD.
Gulped it down fast as a Neapolitan
beggar a plateful of pure scalding-hot
macaroni. — H. T. Finck.
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Gulp — continued.
Gulped down pleasures as a dog
does his dinner. — Inrp.
Gurgled.
Gurgled like the cry of a drowning
man, — W. C. Russet.
Gush.
Gush like a fountain at its source.
— Donatp G. MitcHELL.
Habit.
Habit may be likened to a cable ;
every day we weave a thread, and
soon we cannot break it. — ANON.
Habits are like the wrinkles on a
man’s brow; if you will smooth out
the one, I will smooth out the other.
— Jos BILuines.
Bad habits are as infectious by ex-
ample as the plague itself by contact.
— FIeLpine.
Hack.
Hacked like a hand-saw. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Hacked like dull wood of every day.
— Francis THompson.
Haggard.
Haggard and wan as slain men. —
Epwin ARNOLD.
Haggard as spectres. — SCHILLER.
Haggard as crime. — SWINBURNE.
Haggard as fear. — Inmp.
Haggard as hell. — Inm.
Haggard as the face of night. —
Ini.
Hair.
Her hair was like the threads of
gold. — Scottish Ba.uap.
GULP. — HAIRY.
Gushes like nectar from Hebe’s
Olympian bottle. — W. H. VENABLEs,
His heart
Gush’d like a river-fountain of the hills,
Ceaseless and lavish, at a kindly smile,
A word of welcome, or a tone of love.
— WHITTIER.
Gusts.
His speech came in gusts, like
linnets in the pauses of the wind. —
Wiiuam Dr Morean.
Her hair is like the curling mist
That shades the mountain-side at
e’en. — Burns.
Her dusky hair, like silver night
elbowing the gloom of twilight. —
Darrev Fiaers.
Hair like weed. — Maurice Hew-
LETT.
His blond hair like gold from the
furnace. — CuarLes NopIEr.
Hair like the mist of the hill, soft
and curling in the day of the sun. —
Ossian.
Her hair is like the golden corn
A low wind breathes upon :
Or like the golden harvest-moon
When all the mists are gone :
Or like a stream with golden sands
On which the sun has shone
Day after day in summertime
Ere autumn leaves are wan.
— C. G. Rosserti.
Her hair, like golden threads, play’d
with her breath. — SHAKESPEARE.
Hairless.
Hairless as an egg. — Ropert HEr-
RICK.
Hairy.
Hairy as a mastodon. — JosEPH
Conrab.
HAND. — HANG.
Hand.
He had a hand like a bunch of
bananas. — R. F. Ourcautt.
Hands like rugged bark. — Hoop.
A baby’s hands, like rosebuds furled.
— SWINBURNE.
Handily.
Handily as a Tacoma Indian picks
hops. — Amy LEsuiz.
Handsome.
Handsome as houris. — ANON.
Handsome as paint. — Inip.
Handsome as a new stake-rope on
a thirty-dollar pony. — O. Henry.
Handsome as a Detaille chevalier.
— Amy L&sLiz.
Handsome as one full on drugs. —
ALFRED Henry Lewis.
Handsome as a hackman’s hat. —
Sypney Muwnpen.
Handy.
Handy as a hen. — ANon.
Handy as a poker in Hell. —Ism.
Handy as a robin after a rain. —
Izip.
Handy as a pocket in a shirt. —
J. R. Bartuert’s ‘Dictionary oF
AMERICANISMS.”
Handy as a pig with a musket. —
NorrHatt’s ““Fotk Purasss.”
As handy as a corkscrew in Ken-
tucky. — J. P. Witson.
Hang.
Hang as high as Haman. — ANon.
Hanging like Mahomet’s coffin, be-
tween earth and heaven. — Isp.
Hang together like bees. — Inm.
Hang together like birds. — Inm.
Hang together like burrs. — Isin.
Hangs together like a rope of sand.
— Ip.
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Like Mahomet’s coffin, the shocking
word hung half-way ’twixt the root and
the tip of the tongue. —R. H. Barua.
One snowy cloud hangs, like an
avalanche of frozen light upon the
peak of night’s’cerulean Alp. —T. L.
BEDDOEs.
Hung, like words of transport
trembling on the tongue, too strong
for utterance. — Roperr BLoomMriELD.
Hang like Mahomet in the air. —
SaMUEL Butier.
You dosed me with a drug that
hangs about my tongue like a pound-
weight on a humming-bird’s wing.
J. FENIMORE Cooper.
Hangs his head . . . like bending
lilies over-charg’d with rain. —
Ricuarp DuKE.
Hung like heaven around. — Gzratp
Massey.
_ Hang like a tail. —Grorce Mers-
DITH.
Hangs on the heart like a nightmare.
— Owen Merepira.
Hung like mists o’er sleeping streams
In uninhabitable lands.
— T. Bucwanan Reap.
Hung like a vapor in the cloudless
sky. —SamuEL Rogers.
Hung like an icicle on a Dutchman’s
beard. — SHAKESPEARE.
His listless hand
Hung like dead bone within its withered
skin. — Isp.
Hangs like flax on a distaff. — Isr.
Hang me in a bottle like a cat, and
shoot at me. — Isip.
Hang upon him like a disease. —
Izu.
Hang upon my tongue like a new-
married wife about her husband’s neck.
— Isp.
She hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.
— Isp.
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Hang — continued.
Hang on her lips like a padlock on a
pedlar’s budget.— Epwarp SHARP-
HAM.
Hung like bees on mountain-flowers.
— SHELLEY.
Hang like night on heaven above me.
— Isp.
Hangs heavy as the dewiest poppy.
— Artuur Upson.
Hang like sackcloth on a wanton
nun.— THomas WapE.
Hanker.
Hanker as strongly as do pianists
in the presence of an open keyboard.
— James HUNEKER.
Happiness.
Happiness is like sunshine; it is
made up. of very little beams. —
ANON.
Happiness, like the blue of the sky,
cannot be lasting, for the earth, to
yield its fruits, requires the rain, and
man to estimate at their true value
this life and the next, has need of
tears. — FeRNAN CABALLERO.
Happiness, like a refreshing stream,
flows from heart to heart in endless
circulation. — Henry GRovE.
Happiness is reflective, like the light
of heaven; and every countenance,
bright with smiles, and glowing with
innocent enjoyment, is a mirror trans-
mitting to others the ways of a supreme
and evershining benevolence. — WasH-
INGTON IRvING.
Happiness, like a snail, is never
found from home, nor without a home.
—L. C. Jupson.
Happiness is like game, if you aim.
at it from too long a distance, you
must miss it. — ALPHONSE Karr.
False happiness is like false money ;
it passes for a time as well as the true,
and serves some ordinary purposes ;
HANG. — HAPPY.
but when it is brought to the touch
we find the lightness and alloy and
feel the loss. — Pore.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which
the least shadow intercepts, while
adversity is often as the rain of spring.
— CHINESE PROVERB.
Happy.
Happy as a big sunflower. — ANON.
Happy as a boy at a baseball game.
— Izv.
Happy as a June bug. — Inm.
Happy as a prince. — Inip.
Happy as a pussy that sees cream.
— Isp.
Happy as a queen. — Izip.
Happy as a turtle dove. — Iprp.
Happy as a wave that dances on the
sea. — Ipip.
Happy as the sunlight. — THomas
ASHE.
Happy as Heaven. —P. J. Barury.
Happy as a reprieved thief. —
Bauzac.
Happy as a clam at high water. —
J. R. Barriert’s “ DicTIONARY OF
AMERICANISMS.”
Happy az a_ dinner-bell. — Josu
Briuines.
Happy as a May-pole.—R. D.
BLacKMOoRE.
Happy as birds in the spring. —
Witiram Brake.
Happy as a lark. — ANNE Bronté.
Happy as the kine in the fields. —
BuLwer-LytTTon.
Happy as birds that sing on a tree.
— Sir JAMrEs CARNEGIE.
Happy as a fish in water. — VicTor
CHERBULIEZ.
Happy as Spirits cleansed.— Av-
BREY Dr VERE.
HAPPY. — HARD.
Happy — continued.
Happy as ol’ maids an’ died on-
married. — Fintey Peter DuNNE.
Happy as a king. — Joun Gay.
Happy as the blest above. — GrorGE
GRANVILLE.
Happy as a Sunday in Paris, full of
song, and dance, and laughter. —
Firz-GreEne HAuieck.
Happy as the Day.—J. G. Hot-
LAND.
Happy as a lord. — Hueco.
Happy as the Bird whose nest
Is heaven’d in the heart of purple
Hills. — Greratp Massey.
Happy as a miner when he has dis-
covered a vein of precious metal. —
Guy DE Maupassant. ,
Happy as a schoolgirl going home
for the holidays. — Ism.
Happy as a priest at a wedding. —
Gxrorce Moore.
Happy as an enfranchised bird. —
Tuomas Moore.
Happy as a poor man with a bag of
gold. — Miss Mutock.
Happy as a pig in muck. — Nortu-
ALL’s “‘Fotk PHraseEs.”
Happy asa young lamb. — Ourpa.
Happy as heroes after battles won.
— Marruew Prior.
As happy as the day is lang. —
ScottisH PROVERB.
Happy as the fairest of all. —
SHAKESPEARE.
As happy as a serf who leaves
the king ennobled. — ALEXANDER
SMITH.
Happy as a rose-tree in sunshine. —
THACKERAY.
Happy as a child. — Worpswortu.
Happy as a Lover. — In.
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As happy as birds in their bowers.
— Inip.
Happy as a wave. — Ipip.
Hard (Adjective).
Hard as a brick. — ANon.
Hard as a cobble-stone. — Isp.
Hard as a cricket-ball. — Ini.
Hard as granite. — Ipip.
Hard as hail stones. — Ism.
As hard as horn. — Inn.
Hard as marble. — Inn.
As hard as the rocks of Dundee. —
Ipip.
Hard as flint. — Ropert Burton.
Hard as adamant. — Cawpray’s
“TREASURIE OR STORE-HOUSE OF
SMILIES.”
Hard as a 1907 prune. — HELEN
GREEN.
Hard as a barren stepmother’s slap.
— Lapy Grecory.
Hard as wire. — JoHN Heywoop.
As hard as the heart of a religious
foe-curser. —O. W. Houmss.
Hard as an egg at Easter. — Lean’s
“COLLECTANEA.”
Hard as nails. — Inm.
Hard as iron. — THomas Loner.
Hardeneth like the Adamajn]t. —
Ly.y.
Fingers, hard as a lobster’s claws.
— Guy bE Maupassant.
Hard as the devil’s nagnails. —
NorrTwaty’s “Fotk PHRASES.”
Hard as a sheet of brass. — OurpDa.
Hard as a pine-knot.— James K.
PAvULDING.
Hard as steel. — SHAKESPEARE.
Hard as the palm of ploughman. —
Ini.
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Hard — continued.
Hard as the push of death. — Swin-
BURNE.
'
Hard as a piece of the nether mill-
stone. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Hard as Severn salmon dried in
Wales. — Nep Warp.
Hard as a flint stone. — LEONARD
Wrricut’s “A Dispiay or DuTIE.”
Hard (Adverb).
Hard as being good. — ANon.
As hard as to shave an egg. — Isr.
As hard to answer as why cats love
fish. — Iprp.
Hard to climb as Parnassus. — Ibrp.
As hard to hold as an eel by the tail.
— Isr. :
As hard as for an empty sack to
stand upright. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
Hard as death. — HAWTHORNE.
Hard to enter my belief as Dives
into heaven. — THomas Hrywoop.
Hardy.
Hardy as a mountain pine. — ANON.
Hardy as Highland heather. — W.
DupeEon.
. Hardy as a forest pig. — NorRTHALL’S
““FoLtK PHRASES.”
Hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Harmless.
Harmless as a strawberry festival.
— ANON.
Harmless as Sancho’s ass. — Inm.
Harmless as the turtle-dove. —
Patrick Bronré.
Harmless and pleasant as the
murmur of brook and wind. — Rosert
BucHANAN.
Harmless as an infant’s play. —
CowPEr.
HARD. —— HASTE.
Harmlesse as the bee that doeth but
taste the flower and flee away. —
WiLuiaAM DrRumMMOND.
Harmless as reptiles kept in spirits.
—Sypney Munpen.
Harmless as the turtle of the woods.
— Otway.
Harmless as a paper tiger. — CuI-
NESE PROVERB.
Harmless as my life’s first day. —
SWINBURNE.
Harmless as the lightning life of
song. — IBID.
Harmless . . . as petals of a flower.
— Bayarp Taytor.
Harmless as doves. — NEw TEsTA-
MENT.
Harmless as a babe. — Worps-
WORTH.
Harsh.
Harsh as blame on ear unused to
aught save Angels’ tongues. — RoBERT
BRownine.
Harsh as. .
JoHn Davigs.
. a grating wheel. —
Harsh as truth. — WiLLIAM Lioyp
GARRISON.
Harsh as the bitterness of death. —
SWINBURNE.
Like a jagged shell’s lips, harsh. —
Iprp.
Of harsher import than the curfew-knell
That spoke the Norman Conqueror’s
stern behest. — WoRDSWORTH.
Haste.
Hastened like homing pigeons, which
do not look behind. —Hamuin Gar-
LAND.
Haste... like flaming tapers
brightening as they wasted. — JamEs
Wuitcoms RIxey.
Like as the waves make towards the
pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end.
— SHAKESPEARE.
HASTE, —- HEAD.
Haste — continued.
Hastes . . . like as war horse to the
fray. — WULFFER.
Hasty.
As hasty as Hopkins, that came to
jail over night and was hanged the next
morning. — EncuisH PRrovers.
Hasty as fire. — SHAKESPEARE.
Hasty, like a Scotch jig. — Im.
Hate (Noun).
Hate is like fire; it makes even
light rubbish deadly. —GzoreE Exjot.
Hate without ,an object is like a
shooting-match without a target. —
Hueo.
Hate (Verb).
Hate like poison. — ANon.
Hates as Heaven hates falsehood.
— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Hate like cat and dog. — CARLYLE.
Whose breath I hate
As reek o’ the rotten fens.
— Hueco.
I do hate him as I do hell pains. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Hate is as an unfilled can. — Ini.
Hateful.
Hateful as death. — CARLYLE.
Hateful to me as the gate of Hades
is that man who hides one thing in
his heart and speaks another. —
Homer.
Hateful as hell. — Jonn Puruies.
Hateful as Cocytus’ misty mouth. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Hateful to me as the reek of a lime-
kiln. — Ini.
Hateful as the grave. — SWINBURNE.
Hatred.
Hatred without a desire for ven-
geance is like a seed falling on stony
ground. — Bauzac.
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Haughty.
Haughty as the devil. — Pops.
Haunt.
Haunts like a knell. WituaMm
AYTOUN.
Haunt us as eagles haunt the moun-
tain air. —P. J. Battery.
Your beauty haunts me like a
fevered dream. — Lapy Durrenin.
Haunts... . like some sweet
cadenced strain. — G. H. ELLWANGER.
Haunts the memory, like the wild
imagings of a fevered nightmare. —
R. W. Fraser.
Haunted as a robber-path through
wilderness of wood. — Hugo. :
Haunted .. . like a regret. — La-
MARTINE.
Haunts like a wild melody.
— Tuomas Moore.
Haunt... like an avenging fiend.
— Miss Mutocx.
Vex and haunt me like a tale of my
own future destiny. — ScHILLER.
Haunt thee like a wicked con-
science. — SHAKESPEARE.
Haunt one like a ghost. — Epwarp
SHARPHAM.
Haunting like spectres.—T. N.
TALFOURD.
Haunted me like a passion.
— WorDSWORTH.
Hazy.
Hazy of thought, as a calf looks at
a butcher. — Anon.
Hazy, like an oil-lamp full of fungus.
—R. D. Biackmore.
Head.
Head as hairy as Faunus. — E. B.
BRownInNG.
Many heads t’ obstruct intrigues;
As slowest Insects have most Legs.
— SamureL Burtier.
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Head — continued.
The head of a womanis like a weather-
cock on the top of a house, which turns
with the slightest wind. — Moers.
The head, like the stomach, is most
easily infected with poison when it is
empty. — RicHTER.
His head is like a stomach and in-
testines which let the food pass through
them undigested. — ScHOPENHAUER.
I hang the head
As flowers with frost, or grasses beat
down with storms. — SHAKESPEARE.
Headstrong.
Headstrong as an allegory on the
banks of the Nile. —R. B. Sueripan.
Headway.
Making headway like birds aflying. —
ANON.
Makes such head as a fire does in a
raging wind. — DicKENs.
Heal.
Healing as a Sabbath psalm. —
Aurce W. BrorHErTon.
Health.
A man too busy to take care of his
health is like a mechanic too busy to
look after his tools. — ANon.
Health is like munny, we never
hav a true idea ov its value until we
lose it. — JosH Bintines.
Health and good humor are to the
human body like sunshine to vegeta-
tion. — MassILion.
Healthy.
Healthy as a May morning. — ANON.
Healthy as pity for all the conquered.
— Isp.
Healthy as a May hedge in bloom.
—Sir A. Conan Dov ie.
Healthful as poignant brine. — Wi1-
Liam WATSON.
HEAD. — HEART.
Heap (Noun).
All in a heap, like a slaughtered
lamb. — SHAKESPEARE.
Heap (Verb).
Heaped like Pelion on Ossa. — ANon.
Heaped like a host in battle over-
thrown. — Wiii1aM CULLEN Bryant.
Heart.
A heart is like a fan, and why ? —
*Twill flutter when a beau is nigh :
Oft times with gentle words he’ll take
it ; ,
Play with it for a while, then break it.
— ANon.
The heart of a man is like a delicate
weed,
That requires to be trampled on boldly
indeed. — Ism.
A flinty heart within a snowy breast
Is like base mold lock’d in a golden
chest. — Francis BEaumont.
The human heart is like Indian
rubber : a little swells it, but a great
deal will not burst it. If “‘little more
than nothing will disturb it, little less
than all things will suffice” to break
it. — Anne Bronté.
The heart is like the sky, a part of
heaven ;
But changes, night and day, too, like
the sky ;
Now o’er it clouds and thunder must
be driven,
And darkness and destruction as on
high ;
But when it hath been scorch’d and
piere’d and riven,
Its storms expire in water-drops; the eye
Pours forth, at last, the heart’s blood
turn’d to tears. — Byron.
A maiden’s heart is as champagne,
ever struggling upward. — C. S. CaL-
VERLEY.
The heart is like the tree that gives
balm for the wounds of man, only
when the iron has wounded it. —
CHATEAUBRIAND.
HEART.
Heart — continued.
My heart is like the fair sea-shell,
There’s music ever in it.
— Euiza Coox.
A woman’s heart is as intricate as a
ravelled skein of silk. — Dumas, PirRE.
Some hearts are like a melting peach,
but with a larger, coarser, harder stone.
—J. C. Harr.
Hearts, like apples, are hard and sour,
Till crushed by Pain’s resistless power.
—J. C. Hotianp.
The heart of a man has been com-
pared to flowers ; but unlike them, it
does not wait for the blowing of the
wind to be scattered abroad. It is so
fleeting and changeful. — Yonma
KENKO.
His heart was like a bookful of girls’
song. — Francis LEDWIDGE.
Her heart, like the lake, was as pure
and as calm,
Till love o’er it came, like a breeze
o’er the sea,
And made the heart heave of sweet
Mary machree. — Lover.
The human heart is like a millstone
in a mill ; when you put wheat under
it, it turns and grinds, and bruises
the wheat into flour; if you put no
wheat in it, it still grinds on; but
then it is itself it grinds, and slowly
wears away. — Martin LuTHER.
My heart is like a hearth where
Cupid is making a fire... me-
thinks Venus and Nature stand with
each of them a pair of bellowes, the
one cooling my low birth, the other
kindling my lofty affections. — Lyy.
The heart is like an instrument
whose strings steal nobler music from
life’s mystic frets. —Grratp Mas-
SEY.
A wise man’s heart is like a broad
hearth that keeps the coales [his pas-
sions] from burning the house. — Sir
THomas OVERBURY.
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A heart is like a new house — the
ones that dry the plastering are not
the true tenants. —Epvuarp Pait-
LERON.
His heart is like a mountain of
iron. — PENTAUR.
The hearts of pretty women, like
New Year’s bonbons, are wrapped in
enigmas. — J. PetrT-SENN.
A woman’s heart, like the moon, is
always changing, but there is always
a man in it. — PuNcu.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in
the sky, are best relieved by the letting
of water. — RIVAROL.
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot ;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset
fruit ;
| My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea ;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
—C. G. Rossertt.
Her heart is like an ordered house
Good fairies harbour in. — Isp.
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth
its greatest countenance in its lowest
estate. — Sir Paiute Sipney.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are
like a potsherd covered with silver
dross. — OLD TESTAMENT.
A woman’s heart is just like a
lithographer’s stone, — what is once
written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
— THACKERAY.
My heart is like fire in a close vessel :
I am ready to burst for want of vent.
—Joun WESLEY.
Her heart is like an outbound ship
That at its anchor swings.
— WHirTIER.
Heart as calm as lakes that sleep,
In frosty moonlight glistening.
— Worpswortu.
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Hearty.
Hearty as a buck. — ANon.
Hearty as an O.K. — Isp.
Hearty as an oak, — SaMvuEt Foors.
Hearty . . . like a trombone thor-
oughly impregnated with cheerful
views of life. — CHARLES READE.
Heat.
Heats like the hammered anvil. —
O. W. Homes.
Heave.
Heaved and sighed like the dying
gasp of a syphon bottle. — ANon.
Heaves .. .
Like a mighty ship in pain,
Facing the tempest with struggle and
strain. —E. B. Brownine.
Heaves like a water-weed that
opens to the wave. — Izrp.
Heaves like a long-swept wave about
to break. — Byron.
Heaved like the surface of the sea.
— Dumas, PERE.
Heaved as in his breast the waves of
life kept heaving to and fro. — Hoop.
Heaving ... like the sea in the
background of a marine piece at the
theatre. — Grorce MEREDITH.
Heaved like ridgy waves. — Ossian.
Heart heaved as a man’s death-smitten
with a dart
That smites him sleeping, warm and
full of life. — SWINBURNE.
Heaven.
Heaven is like unto treasure hid in
a field; the which when a man
hath found, he hideth, and for joy
thereof goeth and selleth all that he
hath, and buyeth that field. — New
TESTAMENT. ;
Heavily.
Laboring heavily —like a tramp
freighter in a heavy sea. —E. D. Prics.
HEARTY. — HELD.
Heavily, as sorrow-laden. — Haw-
THORNE.
Heavy.
Heavy as a boarding-house dump-
ling. — ANon.
Heavy as death. — Marruew Ar-
NOLD.
Heavy as a panegyric. — CONGREVE.
Heavy as the hand of death. —
DIcKENs.
Head as heavy as alderman’s. —
FIeLvine. :
Hung heavy as an opiate. — THomas
Harpy.
Heavy and lumpish . . . like a de-
funct nightmare, which had perished
in the midst of its wickedness, and
left its flabby corpse on the breast of
the tormented one, to be gotten rid of
as it might. — HAWTHORNE.
Heavy, like a spade that digs in
clay. —R. H. Horne.
Heavy as remembered sin
That will not suffer sleep or thought
to ease. — Kpuine.
Lies heavy ... like murder on a
guilty soul. — ScHILLER.
Heavy as lead. — SKELTON.
Heavier than the sands of the sea.
— Otp TESTAMENT.
Heavy as a Dutchman. — Mrs.
Henry Woop.
Heavy as frost. — WorpsworTH.
Heeds.
Heeds
As the seven Seas should a pebble cast.
— Epwarp FitzGErap.
Held.
Held on like a summer cold. —
GEORGE ADE.
Held back like a hearse horse. —
ANON.
Held on like grim death. — Isp.
HELD. — HIDE.
Held — continued.
Held on to him like a life-belt. —
Lioyp OsBourRNE.
Held you...
As flesh holds flesh, and the soul the
soul. — SWINBURNE.
Help.
As far from help as limbo is from
bliss. — SHAKESPEARE.
Helpless.
Helpless as a babe. — ANon.
Helpless, as a cat in a trap. — Ip.
Helpless as a corpse. — Ini.
Helpless as Balaam. — Inm.
Helpless as a king of England. —
Emerson.
Helpless as an infant caterpillar
in a nest of hungry ants. — JAMEs
Montcomery Frace.
Helpless as the dead. — W. S. Gir-
BERT.
Helpless as a turtle on its back. —
O. Henry.
Helpless as a lame beggar. — Ourpa.
Helpless and flurried as a fish landed
on a grassy bank with a barbed hook
through its gills. — Ipmp.
Helpless as a ship in stays. —
Rosert Louris STEVENSON.
Helpless, like doves driven headlong
down by a murky tempest. — Viral.
Helpless as a sailor cast on desert
rock. — WorDsworTH.
Helpless . . . as the blind. — Ipm.
Helter-Skelter.
Helter-skelter . . . like a crowd of
frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks
pursue. — Ropert Brownine.
Heresy.
Heresies perish not with their
authors, but, like the river: Arethusa,
though they lose their currents in one
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place, they rise up again in another.
— Sir Tuomas Browne.
Hero.
Like the young lion wounded by the
dart,
Whose fury kindled at the galling
smart ;
The hero rouses with redoubled rage,
Flies on the foe, and foams upon the
stage. — Paut WHITEHEAD.
Heroic.
Heroic as martyrdom. — Ourpa.
Heroism.
Heroism, like Plotinus, is almost
ashamed of its body. — EMERson.
Hesitate.
Hesitating like stag at bay. — Joun
CLARE.
Hesitating, fluttering, like the bird
with young wing, weak and dubious.
— Groree Exiot.
Hesitating like a bather about to
make his plunge. — Tuomas Harpy.
Hesitate, like the submissive voice
of an inferior. —Srr Watrer Scort.
Hew.
Hew’d away, like doctors of theology
When they dispute with sceptics.
— Byron.
Hewn as if with stroke of swords in
tempest steeled. — SWINBURNE.
Hide.
Hid, like a thought of God, un-
uttered. — P. J. BarLey.
Closely hid as Rameses in the
pyramid. — Juris C. R. Dorr.
Hide ourself as Adam at the voice
of the Lord God in the garden. —
EMERSON. '
Hidden . . . like the works of a
watch beneath the hands. —H. A.
JONES.
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Hide — continued.
Hide like gentle nuns from human
eyes. — Sipney Lanier.
Hid like incense in a flower’s heart.
—Gerratp Massey.
Hid like a buried star. — Jamzs
MontTGoMERY.
Hid, as in a grave. — Rowe.
Hid
Safe from the glare of the day like an
eye under its lid.
— Frank D. SHERMAN.
Hidden . . . like a dark well, whose
unseen brink is overgrown with waving
grass. — VALMIKI.
Hideous.
Hideous as midnight. — ANoN.
Hideous as evil. — Huco.
Hideous as the witch of Endor. —
Henry MAcKeENZIE.
Hideous like a savage at his altar.
— NIET2SCHE.
Hideous as a_ skeleton. — ANTON
TCHEKHOV.
High.
High as a kite. — ANON.
High as summer-surge swells. — Iprp.
Higher than Gilroy’s kite. — Inm.
High as the herald-star. — Epwin
ARNOLD.
High as man’s desires. — BEACONS-
FIELD.
High . . . as the stars were above
the clouds. — A. C. Benson.
Higher than the price ov gold. —
JosH BILines.
High as the stars. — CARLYLE.
High as the head of Fame. — Con-
GREVE.
High as the spheres. — Ibip.
Piled high as the skies. — FreDERICK
THE GREAT.
HIDE. — HISS.
High as the berries of a wild ash
tree. — Kats.
High as Jove’s roof. —S1ir Rocsr
L’EsTRANGE.
High as that peak in Heaven where
Milton kneels. — Epwin Marka.
High as most fantastic woman’s
wits could reach. — Orway.
As high as Gilderoy. —ScottisH
PROVERB.
High as heaven itself. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
High as the sunniest heights of
kindliest thought. — SwINBURNE.
As high as heaven. —Otp Trsta-
MENT.
High as manhood’s noon. — Worps-
WORTH.
Hilarious.
Hilarious as a sailor ashore. — ANON.
Hinders.
Hinders . . . like water, that by
force of its own pressing violence and
abundance cannot find a ready issue
through the neck of a bottle, or of a
narrow sluice. — MonrTaIGNE.
Hiss.
Hiss like a steam kettle. — ANON.
Hiss . . . like shot from guns. —
E. B. Brownina.
The sea hissed like twenty thousand
kettles ! — JosrpH Conran.
Hissed like a forked serpent. —
Aubrey De VERE.
Hiss, like a goose with a flock of
goslings. — Sam Suick.
Hissing like a snake. — Hugo.
Hiss like vipers. — Sremunp Krasin-
SKI.
Hissed like a rocket. — CAMILLE
LEMONNIER.
Hisses like red-hot iron. —W. C.
RUSSELL.
HISS. —- HOLLOW.
Hiss — continued.
Hisses and roars, as when fire is
with water commixed and contending.
— SCHILLER.
Hiss as of a rushing wind. — SHEL-
LEY.
Hisses as with mouths of snakes and
wolves at bay. — SWINBURNE.
Hiss like bottle(d) ale. — Jonn Tay-
LOR.
; History.
History is like sacred music, because
truth is essential to it. — CERVANTES.
History, like religion, unites all
learning and power. — RIcHTER.
Hoarse.
Hoarse as the rustling of autumnal
breeze. — HENRY BROOKE.
Hoarse raven, — CHARLES
READE.
as a
Hoarse as warning prophets in an
evil age. — Bayarp Taytor.
Hoarse
As when a hawker hawks his wares.
— TENNYSON.
Hoary.
Hoary as. the glacier’s head
Faced to the moon.
— GrorcE MEREDITH.
Hoary as ashes that show not a
gleam. — SwINBURNE.
Hoar as the hawthorn blossom in
spring. — IB.
Hoary as weeds cast up from the
hoary sea. — Ipip.
Hobble.
Hobbles as a goose.— JOHN SKELTON.
Hold.
Hold on like grim death. — Anon.
Hold him, like an eagle that has
seized an eaglet in his talons. —
Bauzac.
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Hold together like burrs. — WILLIAM
CampEn’s ‘REMAINS CONCERNING
Britain.”
Holds as tight as a horse-leech. —
Dickens.
Holds him fast
As a night-flag round the mast.
— Gerorce MEREDITH.
Her arms the master hold,
As on wounds the scarf winds tight.
— Isp.
Hold like colors shell.—
TENNYSON.
of a
Taken hold upon me, as the pangs
of a woman that travaileth. — OLp
TESTAMENT.
Holds . . . together as the shell
does the egg. — Joun C. Van Dyke.
Holler.
Holler like a loon. — ANon.
Holler... like a calf for its
mammy. — Boot TARKINGTON.
Hollow.
Hollow as a gun. — ANON.
Hollow as the soul of an echo. —
Ii.
Hollow as the murmur of the mid-
night sea after the tempest nursed it-
self to rest. — Ini.
As hollow as an egg shell. —P. J.
BaiLey.
Hollow and wasteful as a whirl-
wind. — Izip.
Hollow as is the armour of a ghost.
— T. L. Breppozs.
Hollow as an _ actor’s
Geert Burcess.
laugh. —
Hollow like a niche in a column. —
Frpor DosToEvsky.
Hollow and dead as the empty shell
of last year’s nut. — VioLeT Fane.
As hollow as any trumpet in Europe.
— FIeLpinc.
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Hollow — continued.
Hollower than an echo fallen
Across some clear abyss.
— JEAN INGELOW.
Hollow as the unbowell’d winds. —
H. H. Mitman.
Hollow, as a, sepulchre. —M. D.
Post.
Hollow as a drum. — CHARLES
READE.
Hollow like a breathing shell. —
D. G. RosseErti.
Hollow as a ghost. — SHAKESPEARE.
Hollow as the hopes and fears of
men. — TENNYSON.
Holy.
As holy, as the symbol that we lay
on the still bosom of our white-robed
dead. —O. W. Homes.
Holy as heaven a mother’s tender
love. — Mrs. Norron.
Holy as the watch of an invisible
spirit. — Por.
_ Holy as bowers where angels have
flown. — A. J. Ryan.
Holy as a choir of nuns. —R. D.
WILLIAMS.
Holy as a spire rear’d o’er the
house of God. — Jounn Wi1son.
Holy as one from an angel clime.
— Witiiam WINTER.
Home.
As much at home. .
water. — BaLzac.
. as a fish in
Homeless.
Homeless as the dogs in the Constan-
tinople streets. — PrmrrRE pE CouLE-
VAIN.
Homely.
Homely as a hedge-fence. — ANon.
Homely as the queen of spades. —
Isp.
HOLLOW. — HONESTY.
Homely as a stump fence. — ARr-
TeMus WagrbD.
Homer.
In the Odyssey, Homer may be
likened to the -setting sun, whose
grandeur still remains, though his
beams have lost their meridian heat.
— Loneinus.
Honest.
Honest a man as ever brake bread.
— ANON.
Honest a man as ever trod on shoe
leather. — Inm.
Honest as a cat when the meat is
out of reach. — Ipip.
Honest as a mirror. — [srp.
Honest as the day is long. — Ixip.
Honest as the sun. — Inm.
Honest as the skin between his brows.
—“Gammer Gurton’s NEEDLE.”
Honest as a tar. — JAMES GRAHAME,
Honest a man as ever lived by bread.
— Tuomas Hrywoop.
Bluffly honest as a northwest wind.
— LoweLL.
Honest a man as any in the cards,
when all the Kings are out. — Brian
MELBANCKE.
Honest as the skin between his brows.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Honest as the nature of man first
made, ere fraud and vice were fashions.
— Otway.
Honesty.
Honesty iz like a 7 per cent. in-
terest ; it will beat all kind of specker-
lashuns in the long run. — JosH
BILLINGS.
Honesty
Is like a stock of money laid to sleep,
Which, ne’er so little broke, does
never keep.
— Cyrit TourNneur.
HONEYED. —— HOPE.
Honeyed.
Honeyed as the damask rose. —
Nora Hopper.
Honor.
Honor that is gained and broken
upon another hath the quickest re-
flection, like diamonds cut with facets ;
and therefore let a man contend to
excel any competitors of his in honor,
in outshooting them, if he can, in
their own bow. — Bacon.
Honour is like the eye, which can-
not suffer the least injury without
damage ; it is a precious stone, the
price of which is lessened by the least
flaw. — BossueEt.
Honor is like a widow, won
With brisk attempt and putting on ;
With entering manfully, and urging,
Not slow approaches, like a virgin.
—Samuet BuTLER.
Honour is like that glossy bubble
That finds philosophers such trouble,
Whose least part crack’d, the whole
does fly
And wits are crack’d to find out why.
— Isp.
r y . : :
Woman’s honour is nice as ermine ;
*twill not bear a soil. — DRYDEN.
Honour doth appeare to statesmen like
a vision in the night,
And jugler-like workes 0’ th’ deluded
sight.
— Witi1am Harpineron.
Honor and he agree as well together
as a satin suit and woolen stockings.
—Joun Marston.
Honor ... like power, disdains
being questioned. — NicHoLas Rowe.
Honor, like life, when once lost,
never returns. — PuBLIus SyRus.
As. snow in summer, and as rain in
harvest, so honour is not seemly for a
fool. — Op TESTAMENT.
Hooded.
Hooded like a hawk. — ConGREVE.
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” Hoot.
Hooted at like an old tale. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Hop.
Hop as light as bird from brier. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Hope.
Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim at
objects in an airy height :
The little pleasure of the game is afar
off to view the flight. — Anon.
It is equally precarious to moor a
ship by an insufficient anchor, and to
ground hope on a capricious temper.
— DEMOPHILUS.
A woman’s hopes are woven as
sunbeams ; a shadow annihilates them.
— GrorcE Eniort.
Hope, like the glimmering taper’s light
Adorns and cheers the way ;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.
— GOLDSMITH.
Our hopes, like withered leaves, fall
fast. — LONGFELLow.
As froth on the face of the deep,
As foam on the crest of the sea,
As dreams at the waking of sleep,
As gourd ‘of a day and a night,
As harvest that no man shall reap,
As vintage that never shall be,
Is hope if it cling not aright,
O my God unto Thee.
—C. G. Rossertt.
Hope is like a harebell trembling
from its birth. — Izip.
Who builds his hope in air of your fair
looks,
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast ;
Ready, with every nod, to tumble down
Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we
journey towards it, casts the shadow
of our burden behind us.— SamvuEL
SMILES.
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Hope — continued.
_Hope has left you like a painted
dream. — JoSEPH STANSBURY.
As some adventurous flower, on savage
craig-side grown,
Seems nourished hour by hour from
its wild self alone,
So lives inveterate Hope, on her own
hardihood.
— Wituiam Watson.
Hopeful.
Hopeful as the break of day. —
T. B. Avprics. ,
Hopeful as Prometheus. — GrorcE
MacDona.p.
Hopeless.
Hopeless and as full of fear
As are the blasted banks of Erebus.
— Mar.Lowe.
Hopeless as telling Belshazzar his
dream. — T. N. Paces.
As hopeless as for the musician to
pour his notes into the ear of a deaf
man. —J. McNertu WHISTLER.
Horned.
Horned like the crescent moon. —
SHELLEY.
Horny.
Horny as a camel’s knee. — ANATOLE
FRANCE.
Horny as a briar rose. — Hueco.
Horrible.
Horrible as viper-bitten bodies. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Horrible, like the shrieks of witches.
— MUNCHAUSEN.
Horrid.
Horrid as a murderer’s dream. —
Dr. JOHNSON.
Horrid as the witches in Macbeth.
— Bonnett Tuornton.
HOPE. — HOT.
Horse.
A white horse and a beautiful woman
are akin, and two troublesome things
to manage : the first is difficult to be
kept clean ; and the second, honest. —
SAMUEL Foote.
Hospitable.
Hospitable as an old Siracusan. —
Dumas, PERE,
Hostile.
By nature as hostile to mystery as
the sunshine to a dark corner. — Haw-
THORNE.
Hostility.
Hostility between two people is like
fire, and the evil-fated backbiter sup-
plies fuel. Afterwards, when they are
reconciled together, the backbiter is
hated and despised by both parties.
— ANON.
Hot.
Hot as a black pudding. — ANon.
Hot as a coal. — Ini.
Hot as a pone cake. — Ipm.
As hot as hot might be. — Inmp.
Hot as Jove. — Ism.
Hot as love’s flaming climate. —
Isip.
Hot as pepper. — Ixnip.
Hot as ten thousand suns in one. —
Ipip.
Hot as the hinges of hell. — Inm.
Hot as Tophet. — Ini.
Hot as a volcano. — Inip.
Hot as the devil’s kitchen. —J. R.
Bartiett’s “DicrioNary oF AMERI-
CANISMS.”
Hot as the fire of the Lord out of
heaven could make it. — Bunyan.
Hot as a basted turkey. — WiLL
CARLETON.
Hot as hell-fire. — DrypEn.
HOT. — HUDDLE.
Hot — continued.
Agonies as hot as flames of sulphur.
—Joun Forp.
Hot as hate. — Hamiin GaRLaNp.
Love is as hot as pepper’d brandy.
— Wituram Kine.
Hot as a toast. — Lyty.
Hot as hay harvest. — Brian MEL-
BANCKE.
Hot as flame. — Ourpa.
Hot as coals of glowing fire. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Hot as gunpowder. — Izip.
Hot as molten lead. — Isr.
Hot as monkeys. — Ism.
Hot as Perseus. — Ini.
Hot as hell. — SwinBurne.
Hot like Mars. — Ipip.
Hot and close as fire. — Isr.
Hot as an oven. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Hot as a swinked gypsy. — Francis
THOMPSON.
Hot as Indian
ZANGWILL.
curry. — IsraEL
House.
A house without woman or firelight
is like a body without soul or spirit.
— FRANKLIN.
Houses are like friendship ; there is
hardly one in a thousand worth a long
lease. — Ourpa.
Hover.
Hover as a hawk. — ANon.
Hover like a moth around a flame.
— Isp.
Hovered round the work like rain-
bow round a fountain. — P. J. BaILey.
Hovering like the summer sky. —
M. A. Browne.
Hover — like a moth intoxicated with
light. — Jon GAaLsworTuyY.
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Hovering near,
Like some base vulture in the battle’s
rear. — Recinatw Heser.
Hovered, like a spectre, in the
background of all her imaginations.
— Kuncs ey.
Strives and hovers
As a bird above the brood her bosom
covers. — SWINBURNE.
Hovers as birds that impend on the
sea. — Izip.
Howl.
Howl like a dervish. — ANon.
Howl like a vagabond for bread. —
Isr.
Howled like a just-lugged bear. —
Rozsert Brownine.
Howling, like a wolf, flies the fam-
ished northern blast. — Witt1am CuL-
LEN BrYAnrt.
Howl’d for help as wolves do for a
meal. — Byron.
Howl like a wolf. — Dickens.
Howls like a thousand demons. —
GrorGe Eior.
Howling like a pig in a gate. —
KINGSLEY.
Howl like a wild beast. — Kipiina.
Howled like a pack of famished dogs.
— LaMARTINE.
Howlings, like a herd of ravenous
wolves disappointed of their prey. —
Wiii1am H. Prescott.
Howling like savage creatures grazed.
by death. — Cuaries Reape.
Howling, like a slaughtered town.
— SHELLEY.
Huddle.
Huddle together at random...
like the forms of dreams. — AUSCHYLUS.
Huddled in rows, like wrinkles in
some old gown. — Rozpert BripGeEs
(AMERICAN).
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Huddle — continued.
Huddled like beasts beneath the
drovers’ whips. — JoHN MASEFIELD.
Hueless.
Hueless as a ghost. — CoLERIDGE.
Cheeks hueless as a brandy-peach.
—O. W. Homes.
Hueless as young ivory. — GEORGE
Cazsor Lopae.
Hug.
Hug me as a devil hugs a witch. —
ANON.
Hug like a bear. —Iziv.
Hug like a boa-constrictor. — Isr.
To be hugged by a bony man is
about as luxurious as sitting on a
picket fence. — Isr.
Huge.
Huge as a planet. — Keats.
As huge as Ossa piléd on Pelion. —
Owrn MEREDITH.
Huge as high Olympus. — SHaxkeE-
SPEARE.
Hum.
Hum like a cobbler. — Anon.
Hum,
Like listless topers singing o’er their
cups. — ARABIC.
Hum and murmur like a hive. —
E. B. Brownine.
Hummed ... as the sea in shells.
— Isp.
Humming, like bees that are swarm-
ing. — Hermyrica Herne.
Humming like a hornet. — Lona-
FELLOW.
Humming . . . like a hive of bees.
— Joaquin MILier.
Human.
Human as a kiss. — Vance THOMP-
SON.
HUDDLE. — HUNGRY.
Humble.
‘Humble as a grateful almsman. —
ANoN.
Humble as a worm. — Isp.
Humble as Uriah Heep. — Isp.
Humble as is a lamb. — ALEXANDER
Barciay.
Humble as a Jesuit to his superior.
—SamvueE. Butter.
As humble as the grass. — Buiss
CARMAN.
As humble as the child of one that
sweats, to eat the dear-earn’d bread
of honest thrift. — Joun Forp.
Humbly, like a praying nun. —
O. W. Homes.
Humble as a stone. — Hoon.
Humble as a worm. — Isp.
Humbly as they used to creep
To holy altars.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Humility.
Humility like darkness reveals the
heavenly lights Henry D. Tuorzau.
Humor.
A sense of humor is to a lonely
citizen of the world what is to a ship-
wrecked sailor on a desert the knife
with which he hews the logs to make
his hut, and cuts the fruit by which he
lives. — Berrina von Hutren.
Humorous.
Humorous as April. — ANon.
Humorous as wind. —JoHn DryDEN.
Humorous as_ winter. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Hunger.
Hungering hard as frost that feeds
on flowers. — SWINBURNE.
Hungry.
Hungry as a bear. — ANon.
Hungry as a church mouse. — Isp.
HUNGRY. — HUSHED.
Hungry — continued.
Hungry as a diamond without a
karat. — ANon.
Hungry as a graven image. —J. R.
Bartiet?’s “ Dictionary oF AMERI-
CANISMS.”
Hungry as a tired hound. — “Tus
Curistmas Prince.”
Hungry as a_ horse. — CLARKE’S
“PHRASEOLOGIA PUERILIS.”
Hungry as devouring flame. — Ep-
ENEZER ELLiotr.
Hungry as the chap that said a
turkey was too much for one, not
enough for two. — O. W. Hotes.
Hungry as the jaws of a gaol. —
“Jacke Drum’s ENTERTAINMENTS.”
Hungry as if it were the last day of
Lent. — Henri Murcer.
Hungry as a hunter. — NorTHALL’s
“Fotk Parasgs.”
Hungry as a wolf.—Joun Pat-
GRAVE.
Hungry as a kite. —Srr WaLTER
Scort.
Hungry as the sea,
And can digest as much.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Hungry ‘as a hawk.—Joun Tay-
LOR. :
Hungry as the winter. — ANTON
TCHEKOV.
Hungry as the grave. — JAMES
THOMSON.
Hunted.
Hunted like a stag. — ANon.
A man [Voltaire] hunted by the little
devils that dwell unchained within
him ; like Pentheus by’ the Menads,
like -Acteeon by his own Dogs. —
CARLYLE. ,
Hurled.
Hurled as a stone from out of a
catapult. — TENNYSON.
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Hurry.
Hurried, like one distraught. —
T. B. Atpricu.
Hurried like a torrent through a
strait. — Joun Davipson.
Hurried dike moon-ray flashes
through the drifting snow. — Mites
O’REILLY.
Hurry . . . like the leaf in a roaring
whirlwind. — TENNYSON.
Hurt
Hurts one like the day
Let suddenly on sick eyes.
—E. B. Brownine.
Husband.
Husbands are like apples, they
shouldn’t be picked till they are ripe.
— ANON.
Husbands, like spectacles, to fit
every age, from fifteen to fourscore.
— GOLDSMITH.
Hushed.
Hushed, as in waiting for a bird to
sing. — RicHarp Hovey.
Lies hushed, like a seer in a vision.
W. D. Howe tts.
Hushed like an infant on its mother’s
breast. — GERALD Massry.
Hushed, as if nature were retired. —
Orway.
Hush as death. — SHAKESPEARE.
Hushed as midnight. — Isp.
Hushed soft as the leaves and the grasses
Are hushed if the storm’s foot draws
near. — SWINBURNE.
Hush’d ... as a sick man’s room
when he taketh repose. — TENNYSON.
Hushed as the warm Numidian
heaven. — WHITTIER.
Hushed as night. — Worpsworrtu.
Hushed
As the unbreathing air, when not a leaf
Stirs in the mighty woods. — Inmp.
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Hustle.
Hustle like fiery-eyed dragons. —
Henrik Issen.
Hustle about me like pent-up air.
— D. G. Rosser.
How close-packed the mob is, they
hustle like a herd of swine. — THxEo-
CRITUS.
Hypocrite.
An hypocrite is like unto an apple,
that is very faire and beautiful with-
Ideas.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread
out in proportion to the size of the
box which imprisons the roots. —
Buiwer-Lytron.
Ideas are for the most part like bad
sixpences and we spend our lives in
trying to pass them off on one another.
— SAMUEL Butier (1835-1902).
Ideas are like shadows — substantial
enough until we try to grasp them. —
Isp.
An idea, like a ghost (according to the
common notion of ghosts), must be
spoken to a little before it will explain
itself. — DickEns.
A fixed idea is like a gimlet ; every
year gives it another turn. To pull
it out the first year is like plucking
out the hair by the roots; in the
second year, like tearing the skin; in
the third, like breaking the bones ;
and in the fourth, like removing the
very brain itself. — Hugo.
An idea is like a meteor; at the
critical moment, the confused medita-
tions which have preceded it open a
way, and a spark flashes forth... .
These flashes are generated in the
HUSTLE, — IDLE.
out, but within is corrupted and rotten.
—ANTHONIE FLETcHER’s ‘“‘CERTAIN
Very Proper AND PROFITABLE Sim-
ILES,” 1595.
Hypocrites ! for ye are like unto
whited sepulchres, which indeed ap-
pear beautiful outward, but are within
full of dead men’s bones, and of all
uncleanness. — New TESTAMENT.
Hysterical.
Hysterical as a tree full of chickens.
— Irvin S. Coss.
conscience in its states of cloud and
darkness. — Ip.
Our ideas, like pictures, are made
up of lights and shadows. — JoUBERT.
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which
sculptors put in their statues. It im-
pales and sustains. — TAINE.
Ideas are like beards ; men do not
have them until they grow up. — VoL-
TAIRE.
Idle.
Idle as digging in the bottom of the
river for the stars we see reflected on
the surface. — Anon.
Idle as railing at a deaf man. — Isp.
Idle as to aim at inscrutable things
beyond the moon. — Isp.
Idle as a lazzarone. —J. ASHBY-
STERRY.
As idle as a dial when the sun
Sulks in the clouds.
— ALFRED AUSTIN.
Idle as the stroke of a cane on the
hide of rhinoceros. — BuLwER-LyTron.
Idle as air. — Atice Cary.
As idle as a painted ship upon a
painted ocean. — COLERIDGE.
IDLE. ——- IMMOBILE.
Idle — continued.
Idle, as the dreams of maids. —
Watrer Harre.
Idle as a summer noon. — Omar
KuayyaM.
Looks idle,. perhaps, and foolish,
like a hat on its block in the store. —
Joyce KILMEr.
Idle, and mean as a collier’s whelp.
— Kipeiine.
Idleness.
Idleness feeds on the empty day
As a chameleon on the air.
— Ricuarp Hovey.
Idly.
As idly as a babe that sees the
painted pictures of a book. — Bayarp
TayLor.
Ignorance.
He makes his ignorance pass for
reserve, and, like a hunting-nag, leaps
over what he cannot get through. —
SaMUEL BUTLER.
Ignorant.
Ignorant as a pig is of the side pocket
of a pool table. — Anon.
Ignorant as a bookseller. — CoLz-
RIDGE.
As invincibly ignorant as a town-fop
judging of a new play. — DRYDEN.
Ignorant as a Tripoline ambassador,
or an envoy from Mujac. — GoLp-
SMITH.
Ignorant as a raw kitchen wench.
— Grorcre MEREDITH.
The ignorant person is like a cock
out of season, which crows at midnight.
— OsMANLI PROVERB.
Ignorant as dirt. — SHAKESPEARE.
Ignorant as a child. — THOREAU.
Ilimitable.
Illimitable as the boundless sea. —
ANON.
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Illiterate.
Illiterate as the lowliest hedger and
ditcher. — Eucenr Fiexp.
Tll-Natured.
Tll-natured as an old maid. — Con-
GREVE.
Illuminated.
Illuminated him as the ‘burning
taper lights up consecrated plate. —
Grorcr MEREDITH.
Illusion.
Illusion like the tints of pearl,
Or changing colors of the sky,
Or ribbons of a dancing girl
That mend her beauty to the eye.
— Emerson.
Tllusive.
Tllusive, like a dream. — Jutia C. R.
Dorr.
Immaculate.
Immaculate as an angel. — ANON.
Immaculate as Tanit. — FLAUBERT.
Immaculate as a sheet of white
paper. — SAMUEL Foote.
Hearts immaculate as light. — J. G.
HO Lianp.
Immaculate as fresh snow. — T. N.
Pace.
Immaterial.
Immaterial as a ghost. — JoserH
ConraD.
Immaterial as a moonbeam. — Ep-
GAR SALTUS.
Immediately.
Immediately, like a repeating clock
of which the spring has been touched.
—G. B. Suaw.
Immense.
Immense as the sea. — SWINBURNE.
Immobile.
As immobile as an .unruffled lake
on a perfect summer’s day. — D. R.
ANDERSON.
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Immobile — continued.
Immobile as a Sphinx’s face. —
ANON.
Immobility.
Immobility lay on his limbs like a
leaden garment. — JosePH ConraD.
Immortal.
Immortal as the stars. — MATHILDE
BLInp.
Immortal as air or as fire is. —
SWINBURNE.
Immortal as art and as love. —Isrp.
Immortal as the sun. — ARTHUR
SYMons.
Poetry is the first and last of all
knowledge: it is immortal as the
heart of man. — WorDsworTH.
Immovable.
Immovable as the figure of Mer-
cury. — ANON. :
Grenadiers . . . stood their ground
immovable, like rocks, steadily spout-
ing fire-torrents. — CARLYLE.
Immovable as a pump or a lamp-
post. — DicKENs.
Immovable as a leopard crouching
in the jungle. — FLAuBERT.
Immovable as a picture. — IBm.
Immovable, as if it were painted on
the wall. — HawTHoRNeE.
Immovable as a setter at the scent
of quail. — O. Henry.
Immovable, like the owner’s names,
cut in brass, and nailed to their doors.
— Tuomas Ho.crort.
Immovable in the flow of the rout
as rocks in running water. — Huao.
Immovable as a man of iron. —
KINGSLEY.
Immovable as the sun. — THEOGNIS.
Immovably.
As immovably as the pillars that
prop the universe. — FisHer AMEs.
IMMOBILE. — IMPENETRABLE,
Immutable.
Immutable as the laws of the
Medes ‘and Persians. — ANON.
Impalpable.
Impalpable as stars-beams in deep
seas. — Paut Hamitton Hayne.
Impalpable as a rainbow on the
clouds. — Miss Mrrrorp.
Impartial.
Impartial as bullets in a battle. —
ANON.
Impartially.
Impartially as ‘the grave. — Kip-
LING.
Impassable.
Impassable as marble. — Anon.
Impassable, as the veil of the Image
of Sais. — BuLWER-LyTTOoN.
Impassive.
Impassive as a figure of carved
ivory. — ANON.
Impassive as an Indian idol. — Inn.
Impassive as the copper head on a
penny. — Kipine.
Impassive as an angel. — Sir
RicHarD STEELE.
Impatient.
Impatient as a lover. — ANON.,
Impatient as a boy. —SiamuND
KRASINSKI.
Impatient as a hungry infant. —
Sypney MunpeEn.
Impend.
Impends, like a crag over the brow
of a lofty precipice. —O. W. Homes.
Impenetrable.
Impenetrable as a hedgehog. —
ANON.
Impenetrable to the view as the
deep blue of a glacier. — D’ANNUNZIO.
Impenetrable as granite. — OvumDa.
Impenetrable as rhinoceri. — IBD.
IMPENITENT. — IMPOSSIBLE,
Impenitent.
Impenitent as a stone. — ANON.
= Imperceptible.
Imperseptible as the spots on the
sun or the shadows on a sunlit seat.
— SWINBURNE.
Imperceptibly.
Imperceptibly as old age comes on.
—W. S. GILBERT.
Imperfect.
Imperfect as discourses in a dream.
— GEORGE GRANVILLE.
Imperfection.
Our inborn human imperfection is
part of the order of things, like the
constant deformation of the petal in
the plant. — Taine.
Imperishable.
Imperishable as eternity. —P. J.
Balrey.
Impersonal.
Impersonal as Shakespeare. —
CHARLOTTE BRonté.
Impersonal as the justice of God.
-— Hueco.
Impertinent.
Impertinent as puns. — G. K. CHEs-
TERTON.
Imperturbable.
Imperturbable as diplomatists. ~
Bauzac.
Impervious.
Impervious as a statue to all sight
and sound. — OumaA.
Impetuous.
As eager flames, with opposition pent,
Break out impetuous when they find a
rent. — GEORGE GRANVILLE.
Impetuous as a poet. — JOUBERT.
Impetuous as a wild boar. —Sir
Watter Scorr.
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Implacable.
Implacable as the voice of Doom.
— CaRLYLE.
Implacable an adversary as a wife
suing for alimony. — VANBRUGH.
Implacable as the wind. — Viral.
Important.
Important as a militia officer on a
training day. —J. R. Bartiert’s “Dic-
TIONARY OF AMERICANISMS.”
Important as life eternal and death
eternal. — CARLYLE.
Important as the linch-pin. — O. W.
Homes.
Imposing.
Imposing as a set of solid gold
teeth. — Rex Bracu.
Impossible.
Impossible as an echo without a
voice to start it. — ANoN.
Impossible as for a blind man to |
describe color. — Isip.
Impossible as for .a lawyer to feel
compassion gratis. — Inip.
Impossible as for one buried alive
to lift his gravestone. — Ini.
Impossible as for the full-grown bird
to live imprisoned in the eggshell. —
Ini.
Impossible as for the man in the
moon to come down. — Izmp.
Impossible as for:the poles to come
together till the earth is crushed.—Inp.
Impossible as for widows to feed on
dreams and wishes ;
Like hags on visionary dishes.
— Isp.
Impossible as to count the waves.
— Isp.
Impossible as to hiss and yawn at
the same time. — Isp.
Impossible as to hold the wind with
a net. — Ipip.
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Impossible — continued.
Impossible as to join in a procession
and look out the window. — Anon.
Impossible as to jump away from
your shadow. — Ism.
Impossible as to mend a bell. —
Isp.
Impossible as to paint a sound. —
Isp.
Impossible as to recall the days that
are past. — Ipip.
Impossible as to reconcile cats and
rats, or hounds and hares. — Isrp.
Impossible as to replace a hatched
chicken in its shell. — Ibm.
Impossible as to stem the eternal
flood of time. — Ism.
Impossible as to wash a black man
white. — IBip.
Impossible as to wet the sea. — Ipip.
As impossible for him to take flight
of fancy as it would be for a watch-
maker to put together a chronometer
with nothing except a two-pound
hammer and a whip-saw in the way
of tools. — JoszrH Conran.
Impossible as it would be for a full
balloon not to go up. — DicKEns.
A little girl without a doll is almost
as unfortunate and quite as impossible
as a woman without children. — Hugo.
Impossible as for a blind man to
copy Raphael. — Lonpon TELEGRAPH.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled
by any outward touch as the sun-
beam. — Mitton.
As impossible as that a man should
walk in procession at his own funeral.
— Tuomas Parne.
Impossible as to cut fire into steaks,
or draw water with a fish-net. —
RaBELals.
Impossible as a centaur or a griffin.
—Joun SKELTON.
IMPOSSIBLE, — INCAPABLE.
Impossible as to get the whole
music of the spheres into a sonata. —
Rosert Louis STEVENSON.
Impotent.
Impotent as ‘‘the strengthless tribes
of the dead.”” — ANDREW Lana.
Impractical.
Impractical as to attempt to satisfy
a tiger’s hunger with paté de foie gras. —
ANON.
Impressionable.
Impressionable- as an AXolian harp
to the rise or fall of a passing wind.
— BuLweEr-LyTTOoN.
Impudent.
Impudent as a young barrister after
getting a verdict by mistake.— ANon.
Inaccessible.
Inaccessible as the best defended
fortress. — FIELDING.
Inaccessible, like some tall cliff. —
ScHILLER.
Inanimate.
Inanimate as a statue. — ANON.
Inanimate as mutton. — Isr.
Inanimate as the picture on a postal
card. —Ipmp.
Inaudible.
Inaudible like spirits. —E. B.
BRrownine.
Inaudible as dreams. — CoLERDGE.
Inaudible . . . like a damp £olian
harp. —Grorce Du Maurier.
Inborn.
Inborn, as fragrance in the heart of
flowers. — Ourpa.
Incalculable.
Carlyle’s course through the world
of books is as incalculable as a bee’s
in a clover-field. — ArncHrBaLD Mac-
Mecnan.
Incapable.
Incapable as quicksilver of lying
still. — Fireipine.
INCARNATE. — INDEFINITE.
Incarnate.
Incarnate, as all summer in flower.
— SWINBURNE.
Incessant.
Incessant streams supplies
Like the red star that fires th’ autumnal
skies. — Homer (Pore).
Incessant . . . as the sound of the
sea. — Mary Jounston.
Like a broker’s mouth, he speaks
incessantly. — Osmanit PRovERs.
Incessant as the squeaking cry of a
monkey. — Ivan TURGENEV.
Incomes.
Our incomes,. like our shoes, if too
small, will gall and pinch us, but if
too large, will cause us to stumble and
to trip. — C. C. Coiron.
Incomprehensible.
Incomprehensible as a man starting
a long journey without a good book. —
LAMARTINE.
Incongruous.
As incongruous as a blacksmith with
a white silk apron. — ANON.
Incongruous as a joke on a grave-
stone or a ledger. — Ipip.
Incongruous as Matthew Arnold
jumping rope. — Isp.
Incongruous as a merry dirge, or
sacramental bacchanal. —P. J. Baruey.
Incongruous as a wedding-dress at a
funeral. — J. M. Barrie.
Inconsistent.
Inconsistent as the seas or as the
wind. — Fre.pine.
Inconsistent as the sharpest antithe-
sis. — Rurus W. GRISWOLD.
Inconstant.
Inconstant as the wind. — ANon.
Inconstant as the shadows we sur-
vey. — SaMuEL Boyse.
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Inconstant as the moon. — SAMUEL
BUTLER.
Inconstant . . . like the veriest flower
’neath whose dream folds fair
Some poisonous germ lies brooding.
— MicHarEL DELEVANTE.
Inconstant as a ship with a broken
helm. — EcypTian.
More inconstant than the wind. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Inconstant as waves. — SMOLLETT.
Inconstant as the waving sea. —
Ear oF STIRLING.
Incorruptible.
Incorruptible, unending, free,
Liké the moon’s golden road upon the
sea. —F. W. H. Myers.
Increase.
Increase like wind and oil on a fatal
fire. — ANON.
Increased, like a spreading sore. —
ANDREW LANG.
Increased as fast as the calendar of
saints. — THOMAS PAINE.
Increased my fury, as the beating
of a drum stimulates the soldier in
courage. — Por.
Increased as the chant of the dawn
that the choir of the noon outsings.
— SWINBURNE.
Incredible.
Incredible as the fulfilment of an
amazing and startling dream in which
he could take the world in his arms
—all the suffering world. — JoszPu
ConraD.
Indecorum.
A great indecorum, to use men like
old shoes or broken glasses, which are
flung to the dunghill. — Roprert Bur-
TON.
Indefinite.
Indefinite, like the quality of the best
manners. —S. Werr MrrcHeE.u,
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Indelible.
Indelible as Domesday Book. —
EMERSON.
. Indented.
Indented like a saw. — RoBert
Burton.
Independent.
Independent as a bird. — ANoNn.
Independence, like honor, is a rocky
island without a beach. — NapoLEon.
Independent as if he had paid two-
pence for a park chair. — Harry
Leon WILson.
Indestructible.
Indestructible as are the stars. —
SCHILLER.
Indifferent. :
Indifferent as my right hand and
my left. — ANON.
Indifferent as rain. —G. K. CHrs-
TERTON.
Indifferent as the moon. — CHARLES
READE.
Indifferently.
Indifferently as the herring’s back-
bone doth lie in the midst of the fish.
— ANON.
As indifferently as a boy plucks
down a cranberry bough. — Ourpa.
Indigestible.
Indigestible as cold plum pudding.
— Berrina von HutTrTEn.
Indispensable.
Indispensable as your skin. — ANON.
Indispensable as
Emerson.
clean linen. —
Indispensable
As the majestic laws
That rule yon rolling orbs.
— SHELLEY.
Indistinct.
Indistinct, like a vapor exhaled by
the earth. — JosrEPpH CoNnRAD.
INDELIBLE, — INEFFECTUAL.
Indistinct, like language uttered in
a dream. — CowPreEr.
Indistinct like the echo of a sym-
phony dying away. — FLAUBERT. |
Indistinct as the premonition of
calamity. — HawTHORNE.
Indistinct as water is in water.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Indistinct as a camel’s track be-
tween Mourzouk and Darfour. —
Henry D. Toorerav.
Indistinctly visible as through a
white gauze veil. — Mrs. TroLLope.
Indistinguishable.
Indistinguishable . . . like a celeb-
rity in a crowd. —J. M. Barris.
Individuals.
Individuals, like nations, must have
suitable broad and natural boundaries,
even a considerable neutral ground,
between them. — Henry D. Toorrav.
Indolent.
Indolent as an old _ bachelor. —
GOETHE.
Indolent, like the face of a happy
lotus-eater. — Rosert HicHens.
Indolent as a lazy breeze of mid-
summer. — JAMES WuitcomsB RILEY.
Indolent as a warm rain. — TRUM-
BULL STICKNEY.
Industrious.
Industrious as an ant. — HENRYK
SIENKIEWICZ.
Ineffective.
Ineffective as a safety razor at a
negro ball. — Anon.
Ineffectual.
Ineffectual as plaint from a tomb.
— ANON.
Ineffectual, like geese babbling at
a vulture. — Ini.
INEFFICIENT. — INFREQUENT.
Inefficient.
Inefficient as Nester Roqueplan’s
diatribe against the sun. — ANon.
Ineradicable.
Ineradicable as sin. — HAwTHORNE.
Ineradicable, like some persistent
vegetable growth, because its seed
is an element of the very soil out of
which it springs. — WaLTEeR Pater.
Inert.
Inert as stone. — ANON.
Inert as a dead body. — Huco.
Inevitable.
Inevitable as death. — ANon.
Inevitable as the unfolding of the
lily bud to the sun. — Inn.
Inevitable as the brute mother
shields her young from attacks of the
hereditary enemy. — GEorGE E ior.
Influences . . . inevitable as those
musical vibrations which take posses-
sion of us with a rhythmic empire that
no sooner ceases than we desire it to
begin again. — Insp.
Inexcusable.
Inexcusable as Peter’s denial of our
Lord. — Jonn A. Brneuam.
Inexhaustible.
Inexhaustible as the hoard of King
Neibelung, which twelve wagons in
twelve days, at the rate of three
journeys a day, could not carry off.
— CARLYLE.
Inexhaustible as the deep sea. —
Ovrpa.
Inexorable.
Inexorable as that of Destiny and
Doom. — CaRLYLE.
Inexorable as the grave. — DE Quin-
CEY.
Inexorably.
A premonition embraces inexorably,
like the closing of a folding umbrella.
— ANON.
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Infamous.
Infamous as Hell. — Eart or Ro-
CHESTER.
Infatuating.
Infatuating as a houri. — ANon.
Infectious.
More infectious than the poison of
the spider. — ANon.
Inference.
Inferences are like: shadows on the
wall — they are thrown from an ob-
ject, and are monstrous distortions of
it. — GEoRGE MEREDITH.
Infidelity.
Infidelity, like death, admits of no
degrees. — MaDaME DE GIRARDIN.
Infinite.
Infinite as the dividing of the foam
and the sifting of the sea-sand, —
ANON.
Infinite as
Symons.
the soul. — ARTHUR
Inflamed.
Inflamed as spirits damned in hell
may feel. — Borarpo.
Gloriously inflamed ... like an
aerial mist across the sky. —F. W.
FABER.
Inflamed like the crimson rose. —
PERSIAN.
Inflexible.
Inflexible as a granite block. —
ANON.
Inflexible as an oak. — GOLDSMITH.
Influence.
Of as little influence as the letter “p”
in pneumonia. — ANON.
Infrequent.
Infrequent as a porterhouse steak
in a ten-dollar-a-week boarding-house.
— Simeon Forp.
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Inherent.
Inherent as the sheen of a bird’s
plumage, as the texture of a flower’s
petal. —JoHn Burrovueus.
Inherent, like the laws of gravity.
— FrRoupeE.
‘Injurious.
Injurious as the tainted breath of
fame. — THomas YALDEN.
Ink.
A small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, pro-
duces that which makes thousands,
perhaps millions, think.
— Byron.
Innocence.
Innocence is like an umbrella:
when once we’ve lost it we must never
hope to see it back again. — PuncH.
Innocence is like a polished armor ;
it adorns and it défends. — Sout.
Innocent.
Innocent as a cloistered nun. —
ANON.
Innocent as a dove. — Imp.
Innocent as a lamb. — Ini.
Innocent as flowers. — Inmp.
Innocent as angels. — Bauzac.
Innocent as a new-bora babe. —
Isp.
Innocent as 2 merino lambs. —
Joss BILLInes.
Innocent as an infant. —R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Innocent as a_ babe. — Ropert
Brownie.
As innocent as a new-laid egg. —
Witiiam S. GILBERT.
Innocent as a child. — Gotpsmrru.
Innocent as the wayside fly. —
Cyrit Harcourt.
‘ Innocent as sleep. — AARon Hitt.
INHERENT. — INSEPARABLE.
Innocent as an almanac. — JAMES
HuNEKER.
Innocent
As youth before its charm is spent.
—G. E. Montcomery.
As innocent as a devil of two years
old. — EnetisH PRovERB.
Innocent as grace itself. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Innocent as milk. — SPENSER.
Innocent as the age of gold. —
Rosert Louis STEVENSON.
Innocent as a child unborn. —
SAMUEL WESLEY.
Innumerable.
Innumerable as the gay motes that
people the sunbeams. — ANON.
Innumerable as the stars of night.
— Miron.
Innumerable as maggots. — RoBERT
Louis STEVENSON.
As the sand which is by the sea
shore innumerable. — NEw TEsTA-
MENT.
Inoffensive.
Tnoffensive as the stone with which,
at play, a boy makes ducks and drakes.
— Dumas, PERE.
Inoffensive as a glass of water. —
Hugo.
Insatiate.
Insatiate as a Puritan. —‘‘THE
Honest Lawyer,” 1616.
Inscrutable.
Inscrutable as a sphinx. — ANON.
Inseparable.
Inseparable, as a shadow to a body.
— Rosert Burton.
Inseparable as Athos, Porthos and
Aramis. — Frpor DosTorvsky.
Inseparable as finger and thumb.
— FarquiHar.
INSEPARABLE, -— INTERMITTENTLY.
Inseparable — continued.
Inseparable as peanuts and the Bow-
ery. — Kate FIEt.
Inseparable as beauty and love. —
Mrs. JAMESON.
Wheresoe’er we went, like Juno’s swans,
Still we went coupled, and inseparable.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Insidious.
Insidious as the odor of poppy leaves.
— ANon.
Insinuating.
Insinuating as a corkscrew boring
into a tender cork. — ANon.
Insinuating as ink. — IB.
Insipid.
Insipid company as a looking-glass.
— BEACONSFIELD.
Insipid as an old acquaintance. —
Cottey CIBBER.
Insipid things — like sandwiches of
veal. — Hoop.
Insipid as a garden much watered.
— Horace.
Insipid, and dull as a drone,
Though near to each other
As sister and brother,
They both take their airing alone.
— Rosert Luoyp.
Insistent.
Insistent as remorse. — Hugo.
Insoluble.
An enigma, dark and insoluble as
that of the Sphinx. — Dr QuINcEY.
Inspire.
Kindred thoughts inspire,
As summer clouds flash forth electric
fire. —Samue. Rocers.
Instant.
Instantly, like a bullet from the
barrel. — Anon.
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Emotion extinguished instantly, like
a lighted match in a water-butt. —
HERMANN SUDERMANN.
Instant as a thought.—N. P.
WILLIS.
Instinctive.
Instinctive in her as its song to a
bird, as its swiftness to a chamois. —
Ouwa.
Intangible.
Intangible as a shadow. — Batzac.
Intangible and indescribable as the
tints of morning or evening. — Henry
D. TuorEav.
Intellect.
The intellect of the wise is like
glass : it admits the light of heaven,
and reflects it. — J. C. Hare.
The highest intellects, like the tops
of mountains, are the first to catch
and reflect the dawn. — Macautay.
Intense.
Intense as a trumpet sounding in the
knights to tilt. — Ropert BRownina.
Intense as the cling of the sun to the
lips of the earth. — Ricuarp Hovey.
Intense as life. — THEODORE WIN-
THROP.
Intercede.
Intercede like an angel of mercy. —
DuMAS, PERE.
Interlocked.
Interlocked like a couple of pre-
posterous gladiators. — DicKENs.
Interminable.
Interminable as a Lapland day. —
ANON.
Intermingled.
Intermingled like the tares among
the wheat. — Bacon.
Intermittently.
Intermittently, like the click of a
blind man’s cane. — Irvin S. Cozs.
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Intimate.
Intimate, fluctant, free, like the clasp
and the cling of waters. — Biss Car-
MAN,
Intolerable.
Intolerable as a fortunate fool. —
Sypngy MunpEN.
Intoxicated.
Intoxicated as a colt that has been
turned into a meadow.—Guy DE
MAUvPASSANT.
Intoxicating.
Intoxicating, like all joys that are
soon lost. — JuLES SANDEAU.
Wildly intoxicating as a mad gallop.
—W. H. Arnsworts.
Intricate.
Intricate as the hardest proposition
in Euclid. — Anon.
Intricate as a thicket. — Hugo.
Intrigue.
Intrigues of state, like games of
whist, require a partner, and in both,
success is the joint effect of chance
and skill ; but the former differ from
the latter in one particular — the
knaves rule the kings. — C. C. Cotton.
Intrude.
Intrude like comets on the heavenly
solitude. — MatrHew ARNOLD.
Invade.
Invades like the ocean. — ANON.
Invaluable.
Invaluable as the virtue of con-
formity in the army and navy. —
Henry D. TuHoreav.
Invariable.
Invariable as the laws of gravitation.
— ANon.
Invariable as the waxen image of a
little old lady under a glass case. —
Grorce Evior.
INTIMATE, — IRREPARABLE.
Inventive.
Inventive as an excuse. — ANON.
Invigorating.
As invigorating as a bath of salt
water when the skin is peeled off. —
JAMES HUNEKER.
Inviolable.
Inviolable as recorded oaths. —
Rosert JEPHSON.
Invisible.
Invisible like the gods. — ANon.
Invisible as thought. — GEORGE
Eniort.
Invisible as air. — JUVENAL.
Invisible,
As a nose on a man’s face, or a weather-
cock on a steeple.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Involuntarily.
Work involuntarily, like the heart.
— SCHOPENHAUER.
Involved.
Involved like a cart involved in mud
and muddle. — StTepHEN CRANE.
Inwoven.
Inwoven,
Like sunlight through acacia woods
at even. — SHELLEY.
Irksome.
It is irksome to them so to live, as
to a bird in a cage, or a dog in a kennel.
— Rosert Burton.
Irrecoverable.
As irrecoverable as a lump of butter
in a greyhound’s mouth. — ANon.
Irregular.
Irregular as a _ toper’s walk. —
Ricwarp Le GALLIENNE.
Irreparable.
Irreparable as taking ‘away life. —
Str Ricuarp STEELE.
‘IRRESISTIBLE. — JEALOUS.
Irresistible.
Irresistible as the force of gravity.
— Anon.
_ Irresistible, like a man with eight
trumps in his hand at a whist table.
— Isp.
Irresistible as when from some tall
peak into the plain
Thunder and smoke and crash the
rolling rocks.
— Epwin ARwNoL.
Trresistible as the needle to the pole.
— Butwer-Lyrton.
Jabber.
Jabbering like rooks. — ANON.
Jabbering . . . like two intriguing
ducks. — RicHarD CUMBERLAND.
Jangled.
Like sweet bells jangled, out of
tune, and harsh. — SHAKESPEARE.
Jar.
Jarred on the ear like a squeaking
lead-pencil. — Wituiam ARcHER.
Jarred horrid, like the rusted hinge
upon a door of hell, like the shrill
scream outbursting from a frightened
charger’s throat, like the rasp of a
tang of brass against an iron gate. —
Hugo.
Jars like a butting ram. — WILLIAM
J. Lampton.
Jarring.
Jarring sound, like a cracked bell.
— Micwaet Drayton.
Jargon.
Jargoning like a foreigner at his food.
— LonGrELLow.-
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Irresolute.
Irresolute as Adriadne when she was
urged to fly. — W. S. Lanpor.
Irrevocable.
Irrevocable, as death. — CHARLOTTE
Bronte.
Irritating.
Irritating as a hundred needles
forgotten in an armchair. — Daubert.
Issue.
Issuing, as from a fountain. — ANON.
Jaunty.
Jaunty as the nimble flit of a cabaret
dancer in midnight season form. —
GRANTLAND RICE.
Jaw.
A jaw like a nutcracker. — Anon.
A jaw like a vise. —- Inrp.
An old lady with a jaw like a flat-
iron. — Maurice HEw ert.
Jealous.
Jealous as a barren wife. — Con-
GREVE.
Jealous as a pet greyhound. — Huco.
Jealous as a Spaniard, — Isr.
Jealous as a Spanish miser. —
Cuartes Mackin.
As jealous as a nine-day’s lover. —
H. C. MERIva.e.
Jealous as a Barbary cock pigeon
over his hen. — SHAKESPEARE.
Jealous as a cat. — ToRRIANO’S
“TraLIAN PROVERBS.”
Jealous as a couple of hairdressers.
—R. C. Trencu.
Jealous as a Venetian. — VOLTAIRE.
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Jealousy.
Jealousy is like
A polished glass held to the lips when
life’s in doubt ;
If there be breath, ’twill catch the
damp, and show it.
— DryveEn.
Jerk,
Jerky as a ride on a buckboard. —
ANON.
Jerking . . . like the lid of a boil-
ing pot. — Buiss CARMAN.
Jerked his head like a bird. — Dicx-
ENS.
Jerky as a cinematograph. —J. K.
JEROME.
Jerky like a clockwork snake. — H.
G. WELLS.
Jest.
Good jests bite like lambs, not like
dogs. — ANON.
Jests, like sweetmeats, have often
a sour sauce. — IBID.
Jingle.
Jingle . . . like rattling handcuffs.
— Irvin 8. Coss.
Jingled like a carriage horse. —
Kipiine.
Jingle like a crate of broken erockery.
—W. J. Locke.
Jocund.
Jocund as June. — Water Ma-
LONE.
Joined.
Joyned as burre to burre. — ALEX-
ANDER BaRcLay.
Joined like a five-fold twisted cord.
—Joun Davigs. ;
Joints.
Like a fishing rod, all joints. —
ANON.
JEALOUSY. — JOY.
Joker.
Practical jokers, like physicians,
seldom take their prescriptions with
pleasure. — JoSEPH JEFFERSON.
Jolly.
Jolly as a shoe-brush. — Epwin
Booru.
Jolly as a country host. — ANDREW
MarveELt.
Jolly as a sandboy. — NorTHALt’s
“Fotk PHrasgs.””
As jolly as a play. —James Wuir-
coms RILEY.
Jolt.
Jolted like a solitary penny in an
iron bank. — ANon.
Jostle.
Jostled like a crowd of people rush-
ing to catch a train. — ANON.
Came jostling together like heads
and sticks on the last day of Donny-
brook. — W. Baye BERNARD.
Joy (Noun).
Joy is like a fitful gleam,
Discerned through shadowy mists of
dream. — Grant ALLEN.
For joys that are gone, when remem-
bered again,
Like flowers bereft of their sweets by
the frost, ;
Are poor withered things that do but
retain
The thorns of the rose, when its
fragrance is lost.
—E. F. Anprews.
Joy like the joy of a leaf that unfolds
in the sun ;
Joy like the joy of a child in the borders
of sleep. — Ricuarp Hovey.
For joys are like sunbeams, — more
fleeting than they,
And sorrows cast shadows between ;
And friends that in moments of bright-
ness are won,
Like gossamer, only are seen — in the
sun. — Lover.
JOY. — JUMP.
Joy — continued.
Joy is like restless day; but peace
divine
Like quiet night ;
Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day
shall shine
Through Peace to Light.
— ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER.
Joy is like the ague ; one good day
between two bad _ ones. — DANISH
PROVERB.
Joy in this world is like a rainbow,
‘which in the morning only appears in
the west, or towards the evening sky ;
but in the latter hours of day casts
its triumphal arch over the east, or
morning sky. — RIcHTER.
As bitter wormwood never doth de-
licious honey yield,
Nor can the cheerful grape be reap’d
from thistles in the field ;
So who, in this uncertain life, deceitful
joys pursue,
They fruits do seek upon such trees on
which it never grew.
— FLorEeNcE WILSON.
Joy (Verb).
Joy’d as the spring, when March his
sighs has spent,
And April’s sweet rash tears are de-
coy’d by May. — DavEnant.
Joyful.
Joyful as flowers when they are
filled to the brim with dew. — Anon.
Joyful as a nest. — Inrp.
Joyful as a fly. — AraBian Nicuts.
Joyful as the back of a gravestone.
— Nortuatu’s ‘“FoLtK PHRASES.”
Joyfully as the shepherd bears a
strayed lamb to the fold. — CHARLES
READE.
Joyful as the light.—C. G. Ros-
SETTI.
Joyful as the sea. — SWINBURNE.
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Joyless.
Joyless as the winter days which
bound the earth under bands of iron
and let no living thing or creeping
herb rejoice or procreate. — OuIDA.
Joyless as the blind. — Worps-
WORTH.
Joyous.
Joyous as a child. — Anon.
Joyous as the trill of a skylark. —
Isp.
Joyous as the song of the wren. —
J. FenrMorE Cooper.
Joyous, like a rising star. — JoHNn
Hay.
Joyous as a bobolink. — Kars.
Joyous as the morning ray. — SHEL-
LEY.
Joyous as the cadence of the sea. —
Bayarp TAYLor.
Joyous as the laughter of a child. —
Cretia THAXTER.
Jubilant.
Jubilant as old sleigh bells. —
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
Jubilant as earth. — SWINBURNE.
Judgment.
The judgment of the wise is, like
gold, distinguished for its superior
weight. — DEMOPHILUS.
*Tis with our judgments as our watches,
— none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
— Pore.
Jump.
Jumping about like a toad in a
thunderstorm. — ANON.
Jumped at it like a trout at a May-
fly. —Ipm.
Jumped like a bird for a berry. —
Ini.
Jump like Harlequin. — Emerson.
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Jump — continued.
Jumps, like a sole from the pan. —
Hoop.
Jumpy as a cat. — Kip.ine.
Justice.
Justice is like the north star, which
is fixed, and all the rest revolve about
it. — ConFUCIUS.
Justice is like the Kingdom of God :
It is not without us as a fact; it is
Keen.
Wit as keen as archer’s dart. —
‘A. A. ADEE. :
Keen as a bride. — ANON.
Keen as the sight of an eagle. —
Isp.
Keen as the sun. — Inw.
Keen, like the horn of the cuspéd
moon. — ARABIAN NiGHTs.
As keen for profit as a Polish Jew.
— Bauzac.
Keen as the torture of impending
bankruptcy. — Isp.
As keen as a miser after his pay. —
JULES Q. DE BEAUREPAIRE.
Keen as Jove’s lightning wing’d
athwart the sky. — WILLIAM Broome.
. As keen as anguish. — James Caw-
THORN.
Keen as a poniard-thrust. — Exiza
Coox.
Keen as arrows. — FLAUBERT.
Keen as a razor. — JOHN Gay.
Keen as a hawk. — Hoop.
Keen as a sword. — Kip.ina.
Keen like a spear. —Smpnry Lanier.
K
JUMP. — KEEN,
within us as a great yearning. —
GrorcE Exiot.
As honor, just. — Davi Matter.
Human justice, like Luther’s drunken
peasant, when saved from falling on
one side, topples over on the other. —
Mazzint.
Justice, like lightning, ever should
appear ;
To few men ruin, but to all men fear.
— THomas RANDOLPH.
Keen as a wolf.—JAmMEs Mont-
GOMERY.
Keen of glance as a falcon. —
Ova.
Keen as steel. — Inm.
Keen as a blinded man... .
Smells in the dark the cold odour of
the earth. — STEPHEN PHILLIPS.
Keen as undrawn sword. — FRANK
RIcHARDSON.
Keen as is razor’s edge invisible.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Keen as the engine
Which tortures and which kills.
— SHELLEY.
Keen as a sword’s edge. — SwIn-
BURNE.
Keen as burns the passion of the
rose. — IBm.
Keen as death to smite. — Inip.
Keen as flame. — Ipip.
Keen as hate. — Ism.
Keen as iron in the flesh. — IBip.
Keen as lightning’s life. — Inr.
Eyes as keen as pain. — Isr.
Keen as sleep and strife. — Inm.
Keen as the fire’s own fang. — Inu.
KEEN. — KINDNESS.
Keen — continued.
Keen as the heart of Mars. — Swin-
BURNE.
Keen as hunger. — Ini.
Keen as the heart’s desire. — Isp.
Keen as the manslayer’s knife. —
Isp.
Keen as the sea’s thrill towards a
kindling star. — Inm.
Keen as desertion. — Srr Henry
TAYLOR.
Keen as a sabre from its sheath. —
WHITTIER.
Keen and eager as a fine-nosed
hound. — Worpswortu.
His face was keen as is the wind
That cuts along the hawthorn fence.
. — Isp.
Kill.
Kills the illusion as surely as would
the introduction of a Queen Anne
cottage in the scenery of a Roman
play. — ARTHUR ACHESON.
Kill like lightning flashes. — ANon.
Kill one another by the look, like
cockatrices. — SHAKESPEARE.
Killing as a plague. — Massincer.
Looks . . . as killing as the basil-
isk’s. — Isp.
As killing as the canker to the rose.
— MILTon.
Kind.
Kind as a kite. — ANon.
Kind as a turtle. — ANON.
As kind as the month of maying. —
H. C. BEEcuine.
Kind as cream. — BULWER-LyTTON.
Kind as a glove. — Carr’s “Dra-
LECT OF CRAVEN.”
As kynde as any wyf from Denmark
unto Ynde. — CHAUCER.
Kind as is the life of love. — “JackE
Droum’s ENTERTAINMENT,” 1601.
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Kind as kings upon their coronation
day. — DrypEn.
Kind as Cleopatra. — GrorcE Gas-
COIGNE.
She’s as kind as new faln April
showers. — RicHarD LOVELACE.
Kinde as Alceste. — Joun LypGatTE.
Kind as consent. —SypNEY Mun-
DEN.
Kind as hovering dove. —C. G.
RosseErmt.
Like the sunlight kind. — Swin-
BURNE.
Kind as harvest in autumn. — Isp.
Kind as the fostering air. — Isp.
Kind as the sun in heaven. — In.
She meeker, kinder than the turtle-
dove or pelican. — GEorGE WITHER.
Kindly.
Kindly as night dew. — P. J. Barney.
Kindly as the spirit of society. —
WorDSWORTH.
Kindle.
Kindling like a Christmas feaster
When some wild chorus shakes the
vinous air. —O. W. Ho Mes.
Kindled like as heaven in June. —
SWINBURNE.
Heart kindling as the heart of
heaven. — Isrp.
Kindling, as dawn a frost-bound
precipice. — Isrp.
Kindling as a rose at breath of
sunrise. — IB.
Kindles and burns,
Like a fiery star in the upper air.
— Waiitier.
Kindness.
Little acts of kindness are stowed
away in the heart, like bags of lavender
in a drawer, to sweeten every object
around them. — ANON.
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Kindness — continued.
To do a kindness to a bad man is
like sowing your seed in the sea. —
PHOCYLIDES.
Kindness, like grain, increases by
sowing. — ENGLISH PROVERB.
King.
Kings are like stars, — they rise and
set, they have
The worship of the world, but no re-
pose. — SHELLEY.
Kingly.
Kingly as Charlemagne on his
throne in the West. —Acnres ReEp-
PLIER.
Kiss.
Her kisses were like tire explosions.
— ANON.
Kissing . . . is as a prologue to a
play. — FreLpine.
The kisses of thy deathless lips,
Like strange star-pulses, throbbed
through space. — Paut HamiLTon
Hayne.
Kiss as close as a scallop.— Bren
JONSON.
Came kissing like rich airs from secret
shores
To those who sail into the eternal
dawn. — GeraLp Massry.
Kisses as unctuous as oil. — FRANCIS
S. SaLtus.
Kisses like sweet, sad, subtle scents
of myrrh. — Ipip.
Kisses are like grains of gold or
silver found upon the ground, of no
value themselves, but precious as
showing that a mine is near. — GEORGE
VILLIERS.
Kneel.
Knelt like a child marble-sculptured
and white
That seems kneeling to pray on the
tomb of a knight.
—E., B. Browning.
KINDNESS. —- KNOWLEDGE.
Kneeling . . . like a painted lady
on an altar tomb. —Mavricz Hrw-
LETT.
Knotted.
Knotted like water-snakes. — SHEL-
LEY.
Know.
I know him as well as if I had gone
through him with a lantern. — ANon.
I know him like a book. — Ism.
Knowing it as the moon her tradi-
tional influence upon the tides. —
Grorce MERepITH.
To know as well as a beggar knows
his dish. — James PILKINGTON.
Knowing.
Knowing as the stars. — Con-
GREVE.
Knowledge.
He picked up knowledge to wear it
on his head like the plumes of horses in
a parade. — ANon.
The distributions and partitions of
knowledge are . . . like the branches
of a tree, that meet in a stem, which
hath a dimension and quantity of
entireness and continuance, before it
come to discontinue and break itself
into arms and boughs. — Bacon.
Knowledge is like money, — the
more a man gets, the more he craves.
— Joss BILiines.
Knowledge is like capital : the more
there is in a country, the greater the
disparities in wealth between one man
and another. — BuLwer-LytTTon.
Knowledge . . . like a great rough
diamond ; it may do very well in a
closet by way of curiosity, and also
for its intrinsic value; but it will
never be worn or shine, if it is not
polished. — CHESTERFIELD.
Knowledge, like our blood, must
circulate. — DENHAM.
KNOWLEDGE, — LANGUAGE,
Knowledge — continued.
A little knowledge in some people is
like little boys throwing stones into
mysterious lakes. They make a great
clatter but the silence was more won-
derful. — Ricoarp Le GALLIENNE.
Knowledge of books is like that sort
of lantern which hides him who carries
”
Labor.
Laboring like galley slaves. — ANon.
Labour like a_ thresher. — BEav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
Labored heavily like a tramp
freighter in a heavy sea.—E. D.
Pricer.
Labours like the drops of rain on
the sandy ground.—Srr WALTER
RALEIGH.
Labyrinth.
Labyrinth you there, like a hid scent
in an unbudded rose. — Karts.
Laced.
Laced,
Like an hour-glass, exceedingly small
in the waist.
— THomas Moore.
Lady.
Ladies, like barristers, must wait
to be chosen. — ANON.
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing,
with small airs and small notions ;
about as applicable to the business of
life as a pair of tweezers to the clear-
ing of a forest. — GrorcE Exior.
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show
*T is to their changes half their charms
we owe. — Porz.
Great ladies, like great merchants,
set but the higher prizes upon what
they have, because they are not in
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it, and serves only to pass through
secret and gloomy paths of its own;
but in the possession of a man of
business, it is as a torch in the hand
of one who is willing and able to show
those who are bewildered, the way
which leads to their prosperity and
welfare. — Sir RicwarD STEELE.
necessity of taking the first offer. —
WYcHERLEY.
Lag.
Lagged behind,
Like boat against the tide and wind.
— SaMvueL BUTLER.
Lament.
Lament like a virgin girded with
sackcloth for the husband of her
youth. — Otp TESTAMENT.
Lamentation.
A lamentation,
Like some old prophet wailing.
— LoNGFELLow.
Lamentation is the only musician
that always, like a screech-owl, alights
and sits on the roof of an angry man.
— PLuTarcu.
Language.
Languages, like our bodies, are in a
perpetual flux, and stand in the need
of recruits to supply those words that
are continually falling, through disuse.
— FE.ton.
Written language is like a mirror
which it is necessary to have in order
that man know himself and be sure
that he exists. — LAMARTINE.
Language rises like a spring among
the mountains; it increases into a
rivulet ; then it becomes a river (the
water is still unpolluted), but when
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Language — continued.
the river has passed through a town
the water must be filtered. And
Milton was mentioned as the first
filter, the first stylist. — GrorcEr
Moore.
Language is like amber in its efficacy
to circulate the electric spirit of truth ;
it is also like amber in embalming and
preserving the relics of ancient wis-
dom, although one is not seldom
puzzled to decipher its contents. —
G. A. Sata.
Languid.
Languid as one from slumber newly
come. — Lorp Dre Tas.ey.
As languid as a lilied pond. — Nor-
MAN GALE.
A mind languid as a drooping wing.
— JAYADEVA.
Languid, like a lovesick maid. —
SwIrt.
Languidly.
Languidly, as voluptuously, as a
water-lily at rest on the water’s breast.
— Ours.
Languidly as a lost desire
Upon a sumach’s fading fire.
— Enizazetu S. P. Warp.
Languish.
Languish like a withering flower. —
Otway.
Languisheth
As lily drooping to death,
As a drought-worn bird with failing
breath,
As a lovely vine without a stay,
As a tree whereof the owner saith,
“Hew it down to-day.”
— C. G. Rossertt.
Even as poor birds, deceived with
painted grapes,
Do surfeit by the eye and pine the maw,
Even so she languisheth in her mishaps,
As those poor birds that helpless
berries saw. — SHAKESPEARE.
LANGUAGE. ——- LAUGH.
Languish as the leafe faln from the
tree. — SPENSER.
Lank.
Lank as an unthrift’s purse. —
Donne.
Lank as a greyhound. — SMOLLETT.
Lank as a ghost. — WorpDsworTH.
Lap.
Lapped her like a vapor. — Hoop.
Lapse.
Days, weeks and months lapsed
like soft measures, rhyming each with
each. — J. G. HoLianp.
Large.
Large as life and twice as natural. —
NorTuaLy’s ‘‘Fotk Purases.”
Lash.
Lashing her ‘face like the wing of a
raven driven by the storm. — La-
MARTINE.
Last.
Lasts about as long as a keg of
cider at a barn raising. — ALFRED
Henry Lewis.
Didn’t last him as long as a ten-
dollar bill would a Democrat the night
before election. — ‘‘ Brick ” Pomeroy.
Lasting.
Lasting as the pyramids. — AGNES
ReEPPLIER.
As lasting ... as the vestal fire.
— CHRISTOPHER SMART.
Lasting, as the lilac crocus of
autumn. — TUPPER.
Late.
Comes too late ;
*Tis like a pardon after execution.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Laugh (Noun).
Her laugh is like rare wine. —
Rosert Bripees (American).
LAUGH. — LAW.
Laugh — continued.
Her laff is like a singin’ brook that
bubbles as it passes. — Sam WALTER
Foss.
Gave a short laugh like the closing
of a padlock. — O. Henry.
A laugh like a suffocating wheeze.
— LEVER.
Her laugh is like a roundelay —so
ringing sweet and clear. — JAMES
Waurtcoms Ritey.
Her laugh is like sunshine. — Fran-
cis S. SALTUus.
Laugh (Verb).
Laugh like a loon. — ANON.
Laughing like a stentor. — Ipip.
Laughed like a bell. — R. D. Buack-
MORE.
Laughed as if he had drowned a dog.
—E. B. Brownine.
Laugh on one side, like the masks
of the ancients. — Dumas, PERE.
To laugh like Robin Goodfellow —
a long, loud, hearty horse laugh. —
Rosert Forsy’s ‘“‘VocaBULARY OF
East ANGLIA.”
Laughed like the sun. — Ricnarp
Le GALLIENNE.
Laughed as incessantly as a bird
sings. — Guy DE MaupassaNT.
Laughed like a bowlful of jelly. —
CLEMENT C. Moore.
Laugh like a swarm of flies. —
RaBELAISs.
He laughed like the screech of a
rusty hinge. —James WHITCOMB
RILey.
Laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Laughed, like a happy fountain in a
cave brightening the gloomy rocks. —
ALEXANDER SMITH.
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Laughs like beech-leaves ringing in
the light. — TRUMBULL STICKNEY.
Laughter.
Laughter rich as woodland thunder.
— Emerson.
Laughter and tears are meant to
turn the same machinery of sensibility ;
one is wind-power, and the other
water-power: that is all.—O. W.
Homes.
Laughter like a chime of bells. —
CHARLES READE.
Soft laughter as of light that stirs the
sea,
With darkling sense of dawn ere dawn
may be. — SWINBURNE.
Laughter soft as tears. — Ipm.
For as the crackling of thorns under
a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. —
Op TESTAMENT.
Sweet laughter in mirthfulness art-
lessly flowing
Like zephyrs at play through a fairy
flute blowing.
—R. D. Wiis.
Lavish.
Lavish as the moon. — Nora Hop-
PER.
Lavish, as all the dew were turn’d
to gems. — GERALD Massey.
Law.
Laws are like cobwebs; the small
flies are caught, the great break
through. — ANACHARSIS.
So he that goes to law, as the prov-
erb is, holds a wolf by the ears, or,
as a sheep in a storm runs for shelter
to a briar, if he prosecute his cause
he is consumed, if he surcease his suit
he loseth all; what difference? —
Rosert Burton.
The knowledge of the law is like a
deep well, out of which each man draw-
eth according to the strength of his
understanding. — CokE.
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Law — continued.
Strict laws are like a steel bodice,
good for growing limbs ; but when the
joints are knit, they are not helps but
burdens. — Sir F. Fane.
Solon used to say that speech was
the image of actions; . . . that laws
were like cobwebs, —for that if any
trifling or powerless thing fell into
them, they held it fast ; while if it
were something weightier, it broke
through them and was off. — DioGENES
LAERTIUS.
Law is like a sieve ; it is very easy
to see through it, but a man must be
considerably reduced before he can
get through it. —S. G. Morron.
The law is like the axle of a carriage
— you can turn it wherever you please.
— Russian PRovers.
Laws are not made like lime-twigs
or nets, to catch everything that
toucheth them, but rather like sea-
marks, to avoid the shipwreck of
ignorant passengers. — Sir PHILip Sip-
NEY. oe
Lawful.
Lawful as eating. — SHAKESPEARE.
Lawless.
Lawless as a town bull. — Anon.
Lawless as the sea or wind. — WAL-
LER.
Lawless, like the stormy wind. —
WILuiAM WILKIE.
Lawsuit.
A lawsuit is like an ill-managed
dispute, in which the first object is
soon out of sight, and the parties end
upon a matter wholly foreign to that
on which they began. — Epmunp
Burke.
Lax.
Lax like cut string. — H. G. WELIs.
Lay.
Lay like a bank of stage snow. — O.
Henry.
LAW. — LEAK.
Lay, like a smile upon the lips of
sleep. — Ruskin.
Lay, like winds that die in water.
— SHELLEY.
In silver slumber lay,
Like the evening starre adorn’d with
dewy ray. — SPENSER.
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him. .
— CHARLES WOLFE.
Laziness.
Laziness is a good deal like money
—the more a man has of it, the more
he seems to want. — JosH BILLINGs.
Lazy.
Lazy as a toad at the bottom of a
well. — ANon.
Lazy as Joe the Marine, who laid
down his musket to sneeze. — Isp.
Lazy as a lobster. — Bazac.
Lazy as Ludham’s dog that leaned
his head against the wall to bark. —
Tuomas FuLLer.
Lazy as a ship in the doldrums. —
Wituram D. O’Connor.
Lead.
Leads the passions, like the orb that
guides,
From pole to pole, the palpitating
tides. —O. W. Homes.
Leads them like a thing
Made by some other deity than na-
ture. — SHAKESPEARE.
Lead thee, as a staff directs the
blind. — Swirt.
Lead as a mother. — SwINBURNE.
Led lovingly like hound in huntsman’s
leash
Or child by finger.
Leak.
Leaks like a sieve. — ANon.
Leaking like a lobster-pot. — Kip-
LING.
— Ip.
LEAN. — LEARNING.
Lean (Adjective).
Lean as a dog in Lent. — ANon.
Lean as Sancho’s ass. — Ipp.
Leene was his hors as is a rake. —
CHAUCER.
Lean as alath.— Tuomas HEeywoop.
Lean as a backgammon board. —
W. S. Lanpor.
Lean as a lantern. — LANGLAND.
Lean like bull-beef. — Ricnarp
MATHER.
Lean as a skeleton. — THomas SHap-
WELL.
Leaner than fleshless
SHELLEY.
misery. —
As lean as a lizard. — James Smita.
Lean as death. — Tennyson.
Lean (Verb).
They leaned towards each other like
young saplings weakened at the root.
— Grace MacGowan Cooke.
Leap.
Leap like a cock at a blackberry. —
ANON.
Leaps, like happy hearts by holiday
made light. — Bernarp Barron.
Leaped in the air like a shot rabbit.
—R. D. Biackmore.
Leaps like a young horse
Who bites against the new bit in his
teeth,
And tugs and struggles against the new-
tried rein. — E. B. Brownine.
Leap such leap
As lands the feet in Heaven.
— Rosrert Brownine.
Leapt like a tongue of fire that
cleaves the smoke. — Isr.
Leapslike a bared sword. — Kiriina.
Leap like trout in May. — Isp.
Leaped as if stung by an electric
shock. — Grorce B. McCurcHeEon.
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Leapt like a leaping sword. — Joa-
Quin MILLER.
Leap away lyke froges. —JoHN
SKELTON.
Leaped like a roebuck from the
plain. — H. anp J. Surru.
Leaping like wanton kids in pleasant
spring. — SPENSER.
He leaped like a man _ shot. —
Rosert Louis STEVENSON.
Leap, like moody madness to the
changing moon. — JoHN STRUTHERS.
Leaps clear as a flame from the
pyres of the dead. — SWINBURNE.
Leaps like fire. — Ini.
Leap up
As red wine mantling in a royal cup.
— Isp.
Leaps up as the foe’s heart leaps.
— Isp.
Leapt like a passing thought. —
TENNYSON.
Leap, like the noise of a flame of
fire that devoureth the stubble, as a
strong people set in battle array. —
Owp TESTAMENT.
Leapt as lightly as weanling fawns
that leap around the doe. — TuEo-.
CRITUS.
Leap like a caressing angel. — N. P.
WILLIs.
Learning.
Learning is like a lark, that can
mount, and sing, and please herself,
and nothing else; but may know that
she holdeth as well as the hawk, that
ean soar aloft, and can also descend
and strike upon the prey. — Bacon.
Wear your learning like your watch,
in a private pocket, and do not pull it
out and strike it merely to show that
you have one. — CHESTERFIELD.
Learning is like mercury, one of the
most powerful and excellent things in
the world in skillful hands; in unskill-
ful, the most mischievous. —’PoPE.
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Learning — continued.
Learning, like money, may be of so
base a coin as to be utterly void of
use. — SHENSTONE.
Learning, like the lunar beam, affords
light. — Youna.
Leave.
Leaves . as silent lightning
leaves the starless night. — SHELLEY.
Lecherous.
Lecherous as a he-goat. — ANON.
As lecherous as a_ she-ferret. —
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Lecherous as a monkey. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Lecture.
A new lecture is like any new tool.
We use it for a while with pleasure.
Then it blisters our hands and we hate
to touch it. By-and-by our hands
get callous, and then we no longer
have any sensitiveness about it. But
if we give it up the callouses disappear ;
and if we meddle with it again, we
miss the novelty and get the blisters.
—O. W. Hotes.
Leer.
Leers like A’sop’s fox upon a crane
whose neck he craves for his chirurgian.
—Josrrn HAL.
Leers at me with eyes askance like a
seducer. — NIETZSCHE.
Leered at her like a satyr. — THack-
ERAY.
Legendary.
Legendary as the Flying Dutchman.
— ANON.
Leisure.
At leisure, as a laird dies. — ANON.
At leisure, as flax groweth. —
Witiram Campen’s ‘“REMAINS.”
Lenient.
Lenient as soft opiates to the mind.
— CowrEr.
LEARNING. — LIE.
Leprous.
He was leprous as snow. — Op
TESTAMENT.
Level.
Level as a pond. — ANon.
Level as a sea. —Lorp Dr Tastey.
Level as the cannon to his blank. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Lewd.
Lewd as drunkards that fall out.
— SamuEL But er.
Liar.
Liars act like the salt miners, they
undermine the truth, but leave just so
much standing as is necessary to sup-
port the edifice. — RicHTER.
Liberal.
A hand as lib’ral as the light of day.
— Cowper.
Liberal as the air. — SHAKESPEARE.
Libertine.
Libertines are hideous spiders, that
often catch pretty butterflies. —
DiweEror.
Liberty.
Liberty has its roots in the hearts of
the people, as the tree in the hearts of
the earth; like the tree it raises and
spreads its branches to heaven; like
the tree it is ceaseless in its growth, and
it covers generations with its shade. —
Hueo.
Lie (Noun).
A great lie is like a great fish on
dry land; it may fret and fling, and
make a frightful bother, but it cannot
hurt you; you have only to keep still
and it will die of itself. — GrorcE
CRABBE.
A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer
it is rolled, the larger it is. — LUTHER.
A lie is like a vizard, that may cover
the face, indeed, but can never become
it. — Ropert Soutu.
.
LIE. — LIFE,
Lie (Verb).
Lie as fast as dog can lick a plate.
— ANoN.
Lies like an auctioneer. — Ip.
Lies like a tooth-drawer. — Ipr.
Lies like print. — Irn.
Lie like a charlatan. — Batzac.
Lie like a political program. — Ism.
Lie like a gas meter. — Haroip
BRIGHOUSE.
Swere and lye as a womman kan.
— CHAUCER.
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the
wrong way, tormenting himself with
prickles. — Hoop.
Lies like a feller with a family horse
t’ sell. — Ape Martin.
Lies like a smile of sunshine among
lilies. — GeRatD Massey.
Lie like a book of anecdotes. —
Hannan More.
Lies like truth. — SHAKESPEARE.
Life.
Life is like a tale ended ere ’tis told.
—T. B. ALpRIcH.
In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns
block one’s way. A man’s very
wealth, ease, leisure, children, books,
which should help him to win, more
often checkmate him. — CHARLES
Buxton.
Life, as a windmill, grinds the bread
of Life. — Lorp Dr TaBLey.
This Life, which seems so fair, is
like a bubble blown up in the air by
sportive children’s breath. — WiLL1Iam
Drummonp.
Life is like a game of whist. I don’t
enjoy the game much; but [ like to
play my cards well, and see what will
be the end of it. — Grorcr Exior.
Life is a train of moods like a string
of beads, and as we pass through them,
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they prove to be many-colored lenses
which paint the world their own hue,
and each shows only what lies in its
focus. — EMERSON.
Man’s life is like unto’ a winter’s day,
Some break their fast and so depart
away,
Others stay dinner then depart full fed;
The longest age but sups and goes to
bed.
Oh, reader, then behold and see,
As we are now so must you be.
— BisHor Hensnaw.
Life is like yon fisher’s boat
Gay she quits the friendly shore.
—W. H. Leatoam.
Life is, after all, like baccarat or
billiards. .. . It is no use winning
unless there be a gallery to look on and
applaud. — Oura.
Like a morning dream, life becomes
more and more bright the longer we
live, and the reason of everything ap-
pears more clear. — J. P. RicuTEr.
Life, like the water of the seas,
freshens only when it ascends upwards.
—Ism.
After all, life is like soda-water.
Childhood, effervescence corked down
and wired; manhood, some sparkle,
more vapidity; old age, empty bottle,
cart it away with the rubbish. — T.
W. RoBeERTSON.
Life is like a beautiful and winding
lane, on either side bright flowers, and
beautiful butterflies, and tempting
fruits, which we scarcely pause to ad-
| mire and to taste, so eager are we to
hasten to an opening which we imagine
will be more beautiful still. By degrees
as we advance, the trees grow bleak;
the flowers and butterflies fail, the
fruits disappear, and we find we have
arrived — to reach a desert waste. —
G. A. Sata.
Our life is like a journey on which,
as we advance, the landscape takes a
different view from that which it pre-
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Life — continued.
sented at first, and changes again, as
we.come nearer. — SCHOPENHAUER.
A wise man is never disappointed.
Man’s life is like a game at tables ;
if at any time the cast you most shall
need does not come up, let that which
comes instead of it be mended by your
play. — THomas SHADWELL.
Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
— SHELLEY.
The vanity of human life is like a
river, constantly passing away, and
yet constantly coming on. — SwIFt.
Life is like wine; who would drink
it pure, must not draw it to the dregs.
— Str WILiiAM TEMPLE.
When all is done, Human Life is, at
the greatest and the best, but like a
forward Child, that must be Play’d
with and Humor’d a little to keep it
quiet till it falls asleep, and then the
Care is over. —Ism.
My life is like a stroll upon the beach,
As near the ocean’s edge as I can go.
— Henry D. Tuorzav.
My life is like the summer rose
That opens in the morning sky,
But, ere the shades of evening close,
Is scattered on the ground — to die.
—R. H. Wipe.
Lifeless.
Lifeless as the grave. — ANON.
Lifeless as a string of dead fish.
—G. K. CuHesterton.
Lifeless and lumpish as the bagpipe’s
drowsy drone. — Rozert Lioyvp.
Lifeless as a mouse in an exhausted
receiver. — Wittiam MatTHEws.
Lifeless as the icy moon. — Lewis
Morris.
Lift.
Lifts the head like conscious inno-
cence. — ANON.
LIFE, —— LIGHT.
Lifting my heart to her, as the spring
wind lifts the clouds. — R. D. Biacx-
MORE.
Lifting his feet like a knife grinder.
— Davpet.
Her favour lifts him up, as the sun
moisture. —Srr THomas OVERBURY.
Light (Adjective).
Light as the leaf that summer’s breeze
Has wafted o’er the glassy seas.
—ANACREON.
Light as flake of foam. — Hans
CurIsTIAN ANDERSEN. *
Light and clean as the foaming surf
that the wind severs from the broken
wave. — ANON.
Light and speedy as a steam-roller.
— Isp.
Light as a fly. — Ism.
Light as a sack of feathers. — Isp.
Light as down. — Isp.
Passed as light as October leaves
blown over the forest floor. — Ipm.
Light as the leaf of the aspen. —
Isp.
Light as the bow with its gay
blossoms springing. — Isrp.
Light as the spider’s silken lair. —
Isp.
Light as thistledown. — Isp.
Light as vain praise. — Ipip.
Light as whipped cream. — Isp.
Oaths as light as wind. — Isp.
Light enough to float in the sweat
of an ice pitcher. — Isip.
Light-hearted as a robin. — Ipip.
As light as leafe on tree. — OLr
EneusH BALLAD.
Light as hope. — BAUDELAIRE.
Light as a wind-blown leaf. — CHar-
LOTTE BECKER.
LIGHT.
Light — continued.
Light as cobwebs. — R. D. Biack-
MORE.
Light-footed as a hare.—H. H.
BoyEsEn.
Light as the fabric which swells in
the ambient air. — Samugt Boyse.
Light as a feather whisk. — RoBERT
BRownIna.
Light as the whispers of a dream. —
Witi1am CULLEN Bryant.
Light as a faint wreath of snow
That tremblest to fall in the wind.
— Rospert BucHANAN.
Light as day. — Bunyan.
Light as any lambie. — Burns.
Light as a Nereid in her ocean
sledge. — Byron.
Light as dreams. —Giosuz Car-
DUCCI.
Light as gossamer. — CARLYLE.
Light as winds that stir the willow.
— Auice Cary.
Light as leef on lynde. — CHaucrr.
Light as the busy clouds. — CoLr-
RIDGE. ’
Light as the sea-fowl rocking in the
storm. —J. FentmorE Cooper.
Light as froth. —Joun Davies.
Light as a snowflake. — AUSTIN
Dosson.
Light as an empty dream at break
of day. — DrypEn.
Light as the vapours of a morning
dream. — Isp.
Light as the light. — Farquaar.
Light as air. — FreLpine.
Light as the feather on the head of
beaux. — JoHn Gay.
Light as vapor. — Ricnarp Hovey.
Light like a sunbeam shattered into
mist. — Ip.
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Light-hearted as a boy. — Ipp.
Light as a rustling foot on last year’ 3
leaves. — Jean INGELOw.
Light
JAMES.
as cork. — Henry
Light as love’s angel. — Miss Lan-
DON.
Light as fairy footsteps. — Evan
MacCott.
As light as a leaf unbound
From the grasp of its parent tree.
— Ernest McGarrey.
Light as the flying seed-ball. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Light as a bubble that flies from the tub,
Whisked by the laundry-wife out of
her suds. — Isp.
Steps .. . light as though a winged
angel trod,
Over earth’s flowers, and feared to
brush away,
Their delicate hues. '
—H. H. Mian.
Light as the angel shapes that bless
An infant’s dream.
— Tuomas Moore.
Light as the bridegrooms bound
to their young loves. — Inm.
Light and feathery as squirrel-tails.
—Joun Murr.
Light as the breeze that brushed
the orient dew. — SamuEL RoceErs.
Light as the tinkling leaves, that wan-
der wide
When Vallombrosa mourns her pride.
—Joun Ruskin.
Light as a happy wave. — SCHILLER.
Light as the dancing skiff borne on
the silvery tide. — Isp.
Light as the rainbow’s leap into
space. — Isr.
Light as a beam of Dian. — OWEN
SEAMAN.
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Light — continued.
Trifles light as air. — SHAKESPEARE.
Light as the mote that danceth in
the beam. — H. anp J. Situ.
Light as a feather. — SopHOCLES.
Light as a lady’s plumes. —SouTHEY.
Light as a robe of peace. — IBip.
Light as a warrior’s summer-garb
in peace. — Isip.
Light as a laugh of glee. — Swin-
BURNE.
Heart is as light as a leaf on a tree.
— Isp.
Light as a spring south-wind. —Ixrp.
Light as foam. — Isr.
Light as laugh of flame. — Isp.
Light as riotous insolence. — Isp.
A hand at the door taps light as the
hand of my heart’s delight. — In.
Light ds the spray that disperses.
— Isp.
Light as floating leaf of orchard
snow, loosed by the pulse of Spring.
— Bayarp TayYLor.
Gallop . . . light as any antelope
upon the hills of the Gavilén. — Isp.
Light as the singing bird that wings
the air. — TENNYSON.
Light as a dry leaf in the winter
woods. — Crtia THAXTER.
A step as light as the summer air.
— WaiItTIER.
Light as'a buoyant bark from wave
to wave. — WoRDSWORTH.
Light as a sunbeam glides along the
hills. — Ip.
‘Light (Noun).
Tender light, like the first moonrise
of midnight. — Byron.
Lights as of dawn beyond the tomb.
— Hugo.
LIGHT. — LIKE.
Happy light, like those dream-
smiles which are the speech of sleep.
— GERALD Massey.
A redder light shone through the dell,
As if the very gates of hell
Swung suddenly ajar. — Warrier.
Lighter.
Lighter than vanity. — Bunyan.
Lighter than any linnet’s feather.
— Ricuarp Reatr.
Lighter than air.—Samurt Roc-
ERS.
Lighter than dandelion down. —
Purtie H. Savace. ©
Lightly.
Lightly as the skimming of swallows.
— Anon.
Lightly and softly,
As a queen’s languid and imperial arm
Which scatters crowns among her
lovers. — Roperr Brownina.
Set as lightly as a mouse-trap. —
Maurice Hew.err.
Lightly as swimming shadows dusk
the lake. — Grratp Massey.
‘Lightly as a kite rushes through the
gloom of the dawn. — Ouma.
Lightly as bird on wing. — SaMuUEL
Warp. ~
Like.
About as like as an apple to an
oyster. — ANON.
As like as the two halves of an apple.
—-Ipn.
As like as two pins. — Inrp.
_ As like each other as a sword and
scythe. — P. J. Barry.
As like him as flakes ov snow. —
JosH BrLies.
As like as hand to another hand.
— Ropert BRownina.
Like as twins. — Isp.
LIKE. —— LINGER.
Like — continued.
Is na mare like . . . than the nyght
oule resemblis the papingay. —GAWAIN
Douctas.
Like as chalk and coles. — James
Hourpis.
As lyke as one pease is to another.
— Lyty.
As like him as an eagle to an eagle.
— Ouma.
Like a leaf on a withering limb,
The fluttering life still clung to him.
— T. Bucuanan Reap.
No more like than chalk and cheese.
—SamueL Row.anp.
No more like my father
Than I to Hercules.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Alike as my fingers is to my fingers.
—Isp.
As like, as rain to water, or devil to
his dam. — Isp.
Like as-eggs. — Inmp.
As like this as a crab is like an apple.
— Is.
As like you,
As cherry is to cherry.
—Isn.
Day like to day, face like to face, as
waves in some calm sea. — WILLIAM
WATSON.
Likely.
Likely as to see a pig fly. — Anon.
As lykely to obtain thy wish, as the
Wolfe is to catch [eat] the Moone. —
Lyty.
Limber.
Limber as a watch chain. — ANON.
Limber az a lover. —JosH BILLincs.
His back as limber as a canker
worm’s. —O. W. Homes.
Limber as a frog. — Krrxina.
Limber as eelskins. — MmppLETon.
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Limber as a washed paper collar.
— STEPHEN SmirH.
Limp.
Limp as a rag. — ANON.
Limp as a glove. — Inn.
Limp like cut vine-twig. — Roperr
BRownine.
Limp as bags of oats. — ELBERT
Husparp.
Limp as your grandma’s Mother
Hubbard gown. — Wa.iace Irwin.
Limp as a chewed rag. — Kipiine.
Limp (Verb).
Limping like a sore-footed soldier
striding to the band. — IsraEL ZANc-
WILL.
Limpid.
Limpid as a cold blue lake on a
mountain. — ANON.
Limpid as a diamond. — D’An-
NUNZIO.
Limpid as the eye of a heron.
— Osmanti PROVERB.
Limpid as the mountain stream. —
JOHN SKELTON.
Line.
Lines as vivid and as durable as the
exergues of the Carthaginian medals.
— Por.
Lined.
Lined like the rind of a cantaloupe.
—O. Henry.
Linger.
Linger in the memory like the silvery
embellishments of a great singer. —
ANON.
Lingers like an old faith. — Isrp.
Lingered . . . like innocent birds
loath to be gone from the spot, where
their nest has been. — J. M. Barnriz.
The soft memory of her virtues . . .
lingers like twilight hues. — WILLIAM
CuLLeN Bryant.
236 LINGER.
Linger — continued.
Linger there,
Like hopeless love without despair.
— Rurus Dawes.
Lingering about like a_ bailiff. —
DICKENS.
I am lingering yet, as sometimes in the
blaze of day
A milk-and-watery moon '
Stains with its dim and fading ray
The lustrous blue of noon.
—O. W. Hotes.
Ling’ring now,
Like the last of the leaves left on
Autumn’s sere and faded bough.
— Tuomas Moore.
Lingered in the air like dying rolls
of abrupt thunder. — SaInTE-BEUvVE.
She lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame, or a dowager,
Long withering out a young man’s
revenue. — SHAKESPEARE.
Lingering like an unloved guest. —
SHELLEY.
Lingering a minute, like outcast
spirits, who wait, and see, through the
heaven’s gate, angels within it. —
THACKERAY.
Link.
‘Linked, like rose-buds in a wreath.
— ANON.
Linked like a river by ripples fol-
lowing ripples. — Epwin ARNOLD. 4
His vulture nature had already
linked itself to this poor little soul as
a spider binds a fluttering insect in its
web, which the little thing tries vainly
to break. — Paut Bouncer.
Linked each to each by labor, like a
bee. — Hoop.
Link in sympathy like the keys
Of an organ. — WaiTtirr.
Lip.
A lip like Persuasion’s, calling on us
to kiss it. — ANACREON.
—=TIP.
Lips just tinted like pink shells. —
ANON.
Lips that flamed like scarlet wine.
— Isp.
like
Lips coralline. — ARABIAN
NIcuHts.
Dainty lips like double carnelian. —
Isp.
Lips, as smooth and tender . . . as
rose-leaves in a coppice wild. —
Tuomas ASHE.
Curving lips like wave half-furled.
— ALFRED AUSTIN.
Lips like rosebuds peeping out of
snow. —P. J. BarLey.
Music lives within thy lips like a
nightingale in roses. — Inrp.
Her lippes, erst like the corall redde,
Did waxe both wan and pale.
— Eneusn Bauiap.
Lippes like roses dropping dew. —
Inn.
Her lips were like pomegranate
blossoms. — ARLO BatTEs.
A lip like ripest cherries. — Brav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
The Circassian damsel’s . . . lips
are like taverns of wine. — Ini.
Lips
Curved like an archer’s bow to send
the bitter arrows out.
— FE. B. Brownine.
Lips shook
Like a rose leaning o’er a brook,.
Which vibrates though it is not struck.
— Isp.
Lips with such sweetness in their
honeyed deeps
As fills the rose in which a fairy
sleeps. — Butwer-LyTron.
Lips like the red of Christmas holly.
— Frances Hopcson Burnett.
Her lips are like the cherries ripe
That sunny walls from Boreas screen.
LIP. —— LISTEN,
Lip — continued.
They tempt the taste and charm the
sight. — Burns.
Her lips like dewy rosebuds are. —
WILFRED CAMPBELL.
Lippes, rede as rose. — CHAUCER.
Her lips are like two budded roses
whom ranks of lilies neighbor nigh. —
H. ConstaBie.
Lips gay like the rose. — Lapy
FLorEnce Drxie.
Her lips are like the muscatel. —
Austin Dosson.
Like rubies are created their two
lips. — Fazi-Bey.
Lips as rounded as a cherry. —
Epmunp Gosss.
Lips like warm carnations. — Ism.
Her lips are roses over-washed with
dew,
Or like the purple of Narciss’ flower.
— Ropert GREENE.
With lips, like hanging fruit, whose hue
Is ruby ’neath a bloom of blue.
—T. Gorpon Hake.
Lips that spoil the ruby’s praise. —
JoHN HARRINGTON.
Red lips like a living, laughing rose.
— Laurence Hope.
A quiet smile played around his lips,
As the eddies and dimples of the tide-
play round the bows of ships.
— LOoNGFELLOw.
Lips,
That open like the morn, breathing
perfumes,
On such as dare approach them.
— Purp MAssincEr.
Lips .. . like a ripe raspberry. —
CaTULLE MENDES.
Lips like the carmine’s ruddy glow.
— Francis S. Sartus.
Lips, like roses dropping myrrh. —
GEORGE SANDYS.
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Lips . . . like roses ere they blow.
—~Joun G. SAXE.
Ruby lips... like rosebuds in
spring. — STEPHEN SMITH.
Her lips lyke cherries charming men
to byte. — SPENSER.
Lips like rose-petals blown apart.
—F. L. Stanton.
Lips like blood spilt on it. — Jonn
M. Syneg.
Lips like the honeyed lips of Hylas.
— Bayarp TaYtor.
Lips, parting like a loose bow, that
just has launched its arrow. — Ini.
My lips are like a thread of scarlet.
— Oto TestaMeEnt.
His lips like lilies, dropping sweet-
smelling myrrh. — Ip.
The red colour of her lipslike that of a
gourd. — “VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE.”
From lips as the lips of Hylas sweet,
And moved like twin roses which
zephyrs meet. — WHITTIER.
Through the open lips shone visibly a
delicate line of pearl,
Like a white vein within a rosy shell.
—N. P. Wiis.
Lipp’d like a lily, and as white as it.
— Isp.
Like sunset were her lips. — W. B.
YEATS..
Liquid.
Liquid as an Illinois road in April.
— Georce Frircu.
Liquidation.
A liquidation is something like a
chemical process, from which the clever
insolvent merchant endeavors to emerge
as a saturated solution. — Bauzac.
Listen.
Listened ... like a stag whose
mysterious faculties had detected the
footsteps of the distant hounds in the
gale. — J. Fenimore Cooper.
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Listen — continued.
Listened like one in whom a train
of novel ideas had been excited by the
reasoning of the other. — Isip.
It is like eating vanilla cream in
Paradise listening to beautiful music.
— CaMILLE LEMONNIER.
Holding his breath and listening . . .
like a burglar who is going to break
into a house. — Guy pe Maupas-
SANT.
Listened like a cushat dove that
listens to its mate alone. —C. G.
RossEtt1.
Listless.
Listless as the summer-stricken air.
— SWINBURNE.
Literature.
Literature, like virtue, is its own re-
ward. — CHESTERFIELD.
Literature, like nobility, runs in the
blood. — Hazuitr.
Literature, like a gypsy, to be pic-
turesque, should be a little ragged. —
Dovcias JERROLD.
Lithe.
Lithe as a panther.—T. B. AL-
DRICH.
Lithe as a snake. — ANon.
Lithe as a tiger. — Ini.
Lithe as leech. — Ropert Brown-
ING.
Lithe as a feather duster. — GELETT
BuraEss.
Lithe as a rat. — Frank Danpy.
Lyth as lasse of Kent. — Micuarn
Drayton.
Lithe as willow. — Ricuarp Hovey.
Lithe as lips
That curl in touching you.
— SWINBURNE.
Lithe as the dark-eyed Syrian gazelle.
— Bayarp Taytor.
LISTEN. — LIVID.
Little.
Little as Tom Thumb. — Nep
Warp’s : “ NuptiaL DIALOGUES AND
Depates,” 1710.
Live.
Live like a king..— Anon.
Live like a lord. — Isp.
Live like a prince. — Inip.
Live like fighting cocks. — Isp.
Will live together like two wanton
vines. — BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
He would live like a lamp, to the last
wink,
And crawl upon the utmost verge of
life. — DRYDEN.
I live in the town like a lion in his
desert, or an eagle in his rock, too
great for friendship or society, and
condemned to solitude by unhappy
elevation and dreaded ascendency. —
Dr. JoHNson.
Lively.
Lively and changeable, like a flame
in the wind. — Anon.
Lively as a cricket. — Inm.
Lively as fire. — RoBert Brivces
(English).
As lively as tints of young Iris’ bow.
—J. G. Cooper.
Lively as a chaffinch. — Dumas,
PERE.
Lively as the smiling day. — AARON
Hitt.
Lively as a
Homes.
squirrel —O. W.
Lively as grasshoppers. — Lover.
Livid.
As pale and livid as any skull un-
earthed from a graveyard. — Bazac.
Lips as livid as the opening lilac-
leaves. —O. W. Ho.mes.
Livid as Lazarus lately from death.
— Siwney Lanier,
LOATHE. — LONG.
Loathe.
Loathe worse than a leper’s mouth.
— SWINBURNE.
Loathsome.
Loathsome as the briny sea to him
who languishes with thirst. — AKEN-
SIDE.
Loathsome as death. —JAmMES
MontTGomeEry.
Loathsome as a _ toad. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Lock.
Locked in, like a fly in amber. —
ANON.
Lock’d up like veins of metal. —
Krats.
Locked as in a wrestle together. —
SWINBURNE.
Loll.
Lolling, like one indifferent, fabri-
cates a heaven of gold. — CuarLes
Lams.
London.
London is like a shelled corn-cob on
the Derby day. —O. W. Homes.
Lone.
As lone as a churchyard. — BuL-
WER-LYTTON.
Lone as the corse within its shroud,
Lone — as a solitary cloud,
A single cloud on a sunny day,
While all the rest of heaven is clear.
— Byron.
Lone like an eagle’s nest. — Miss
Lanpon.
Lone as incarnate death. — SHELLEY.
Lonely.
Lonely as a deserted ship. — ANON.
Lonely as a ghost. — Ip.
Lonely as a _ trance. — HarTLey
CoLERIDGE.
Lonely as a crow in a strange coun-
try. —JoserH Conran.
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There is nothing so lonely in the
world as the girl who has got to look
after herself. — Ipm.
As lonely as the sun. — Sir FRANCIS
H. Doyie.
Lonely as the Arctic Sea. — HamMLin
GARLAND.
Lonely in her gloom as a pale Angel
of the Grove. — Tuomas Moore.
Lonely as the home of kings
When the slow hours on leaden wings
Oppress the friendless great.
— Lewis Morris.
Lonely, as sovereigns are. — OuIDA.
Lonely as a catamount. — Sam
SLICK.
Lonely as in a garden-close
Slumbers the solitary rose.
, — ARTHUR SYMONS.
Lonely . . . as a crow on the sands.
— Worpswortu.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills.
— Is.
Lonesome.
Lonesome as a bell-buoy at sea. —
ANON.
Lonesome as a walnut rolling in a
barrel. — Epna FERBER.
Long.
Long as a day without bread. —
ANON.
Long as a Devonshire lane, — which
has no turning. — Inrp.
Long as an obituary. — Ipmp.
Long as the moral law. — Irv.
Long as a Thanksgiving sermon.
—J.R. Bartiett’s “DicTIONARY OF
AMERICANISMS.”
Long as death. — E. B. Brownine.
Long as an epic. — BULWER-LYTTON.
Face as long as an undertaker’s. ~
Isp.
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Long — continued.
Longer than a lawsuit. — THomas
DEKKER.
Long and slender, like a cat’s elbow.
— Tuomas FuLier.
Long as the spear of Aaron. —
Cuar.es B. Loomis.
Her sorrow as long
As the passage of numberless ages in
slumberless song. — SWINBURNE.
Long-Winded.
Long-winded as a tornado. — J. R.
Bartiett’s “‘DicTIONARY OF AMERI-
CANISMS.”
Look (Noun).
His look was like a sad embrace. —
Marruew ARNOLD.
With a look . . . that would split a
pitcher, as the Irish say. — CARLYLE.
A look like a noose. — Huco.
Look like
“COLLECTANEA.”
Gave her a look like red lightning.
— CHARLES ReADE.
Look (Verb).
Looks as if butter would not melt
in his mouth. — Anon.
Looked as if he would jump down
your throat. — Isr.
Looked as if he had eaten his bed-
straw. — Ipip.
Let-me-be. — LEAN’s
He looked like a composite picture
of five thousand orphans too late to
catch a picnic steamboat. — O. Henry.
Look like the far end o’ a French
fiddle. — ALEXANDER Hisiop’s “Prov-
ERBS OF SCOTLAND.”
To look as if he were hanged already.
— Sir. Joun Tayior.
She looks like an old coach new
painted, affecting an unseemly smug-
ness, whilst she is ready to drop to
pieces. — VANBRUGH.
LONG. — LOOSELY.
Lool.
Lool about . . . like gorged snakes.
— Haroip Freperic.
Loom.
Looms in the distant landscape of the
Past,
Like a burnt tower upon a blackened
heath. — LONGFELLow.
Loose.
Loose as .. . negligence. — JAMES
CaWTHORN.
Loose as the stubble in the field. —
GrorcE CROLY.
Loose as a vine-branch blowing in the
morn. — Austin Dosson.
Loose as the wrapper of a two-for-
fiver. —O, Henry.
Loose as Cossack pantaloons. —
O. W. Hotes.
Loose as eggs in a nest. — W. &.
Lanpor.
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s
robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Loose as the flame that flutters on
the grate. — ALEXANDER SMITH.
Loose, like a " Comet’s refluent
tresses, hung her heavenly hair dis-
persed. — SouTHEy.
Loose as the petals of roses dis-
crowned. — SWINBURNE.
Loose as the breeze that plays along
the downs. — James THomson.
The reins loose as flying ribbons. —
Lewis WALLACE.
Loose as a cloud-wreath on the sky.
— WHITTIER.
Loosely.
Loosely like embroidered robes
thrown o’er some funeral bier. — JoHN
BRENT.
LOQUACIOUS. —— LOUD.
Loquacious.
As loquacious as Polonius. — JAMES
HUNEKER.
Loquacity.
Whose loquacity, like an over-full
bottle, could never pour forth a small
dose. — Cuartes Exror.
Lording.
Lording it like a Bashaw. — ANon.
Lorn.
Lorn,
As needs must Samson when his hair
is shorn.
— Rosert Brownina.
Lorn as the hung-up lute, that ne’er
hath spoken
Since the sad day its master-cord was
broken ! — Tuomas Moore.
Lost.
Lost as Eden. — ANon.
Lost, like a river running into an
unknown sea. — Izip.
Lost like a predestined soul. — Ism.
Lost, like autumnal leaves, when
North winds rage. — CoNGREVE.
Lost himself in thought as though he
had fallen out of the world. — Josrru
ConraD.
Lost, like a star in day. — Henry
ELuison.
Lost like the day of Job’s awful
curse, in the third chapter, third and
fourth verse. — Bret Harte.
Lost, like the lightning in
The sullen cloud.
—O. W. Homes.
As lost, as any needle in a stack of
hay. — Hoop.
Lost in the gulf of chance to fall, as
oblivion swallows thought. — ALFRED
pe Musset.
Lost like stars beyond dark trees.
— D. G. Rosser.
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Lost, like the light flickering of a
cottage’s fire. — Sir WALTER Scott.
Lost as in a trance. — Esaras
TEGNER.
Loud.
Loud as a horn. — ANon.
Loud as the blows of a hammer. —
Isr.
Loud as the voice of an auctioneer.
— Isp.
Loud as Tom of Lincoln. — Ini.
Crying your name as loud and
hastily as men i’ th’ streets do fire. —
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Loud as a culverin. — R. D. Biack-
MORE.
Louder than harvest thunderstorm.
— Isw.
Loud as Sinai’s trumpet-sound. —
WILLIAM BLAKE.
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
— Isp.
As lowde as bloweth wynde in helle.
— CHAUCER.
Loud as a king’s “defiance. — Couz-
RIDGE.
Tumultuous and very loud . . . like
the roll of an immense and remote drum
beating the charge of the gale. —
JosEPH CONRAD.
Loud as thunder. —Sypnry DoBELL.
Loud as the sea. — Ricnarp Duke.
Loud as Jupiter’s thunder. — Pierce
Ecan.
As loud as Heav’n’s quick-darted
‘ flame. — Witu1aM HamitTon.
Loud as the trumpet rolls its sound.
— Izi.
Loud as when blust’ring Boreas issues
forth,
To bring the sweeping whirlwind from
the north. — WaLTer Harte.
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; Loud — continued.
Loud as the storm-wind that tumbles
the main. — O. W. HoLmgEs.
Loud, as the shout encount’ring
armies yield. — Homer (Pope).
Loud as the surges when the tem-
pest blows. — Inmp.
Loud as cavalry to the charge. —
GrorceE MEREDITH.
Loud as from numbers without
number. — MILTON.
Dreadful sounds,
Loud as tides that burst their bounds.
— Joun Scott.
Speak as loud as Mars. — SaaKkE-
SPEARE.
Loud as the clank of an ironmonger.
— SHELLEY.
Loud as the voice of nature. —
Isip.
Loud as the summer forest in the
storm, as the river that roars among
rocks. — SOUTHEY.
Loud, as when the tempest-tossed
forest roars to the roaring wind. —
Isp.
Loud as when the wintry whirl-
winds blow. — Ini.
Lowd as larke in ayre. — SPEN-
SER.
Loud as the winds when stormy spring
Makes all the woodland rage and ring.
— SwINBURNE.
Loud as when the storm at ebb-tide
rends the beach. — Ipip.
Loud as the trumpet of surviving
Fame. — WALLER.
Loud as the ocean when a tempest
blows. — WituiaM WILKIE.
Loud as the silver trumpet’s martial
noise. — Inip.
Loud as any mill. — Worpswortu.
LOUD. — LOVE.
Lounge.
Lounged like a boy of the South. —
Rozsert BRownine.
Love (Noun).
Love is like the rose: so sweet, that
one always tries to gather it in spite
of the thorns. — ANON.
Love is like the sunbeam that gleams
through the shower
And kisses off gently the dews from
the flower;
That cheers up the blossoms and bids
them be gay,
And lends the fragrance that perfumes
the day. — Isr.
Love, like a cough, can’t be hidden.
— Isp. ;
Love, like fire, cannot subsist with-
out continual movement ; as soon as
it ceases to hope and fear, it ceases to
exist. — Isrp.
Like threads of silver seen through
crystal beads let love through good
deeds show. — Epwin ARNOLD. ;
Love is like the rose,
And a month it may not see,
Ere it withers where it grows.
—P. J. Barry.
In love, a woman is like a lyre that
surrenders its secrets only to the hand
that knows how to touch its strings. —
Batzac.
The wrongs of love, like the notes of a
solvent debtor, bear interest. — Ipm.
Love is like youth, he thirsts,’
He scorns to be his mother’s page ;
But when the proceeding times assuage
The former heate, he will complaine,
And wish those pleasant houres againe.
— Francis Beaumont.
Luv is like the measles, one kant
alwus tell when one ketched it and
ain’t ap tew hav it severe but onst,
and then it ain’t kounted much unless
it strikes inly. — Jos BiLLinGs.
Uo
LOVE,
Love — continued.
Love is like the wild rose-briar ;
Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose-briar
* blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly ?
The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air ;
Yet wait till winter comes again,
And who will call the wild-briar fair?
Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now,
And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,
That, when December blights thy brow
He still may leave thy garland green.
— Entity Bronté.
Women’s love, like lichens on arock,
will still grow where even charity can find
no soil to nurture itself. —C. N. BovEr.
Love, like death, levels all ranks and
lays the shepherd’s crook beside the
sceptre. — BuLWER-LyTTon.
Love’s very much like bathing. At
first we go souse to the bottom, if we’re
not drowned, then we gather pluck,
.grow calm, strike out gently, and make
a deal pleasanter thing of it afore we’re
done. — Inmw.
Oh, my. luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June ;
Oh, my luve is like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
— Burns.
Love is increased by injuries, as the
Sunbeams are more gracious after a
cloud. — Ropert Burton.
As the Sun is in the Firmament, so
is Love in the world. — Ini.
Love is a fire that burns and sparkles
In men as naturally as in charcoals.
— SAMUEL BUTLER.
All love at first, like generous wine,
Ferments and frets, until ’tis fine ;
But when ’tis settled on the lye,
And from the impurer matter free,
Becomes the richer still, the older,
And proves the pleasanter, the colder.
— Isp.
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Love-passions are like parables, by
which men still mean something else.
— SamMvuEL Buruer.
Love in your heart as idly burns
As fire in antique Roman urns.
— Isp.
Love, like the cold bath, is never
negative, it seldom leaves us where it
finds us ; if once we plunge into it, it
will either heighten our virtues or in-
flame our vices. — C. C. Couron.
Love, like death, a universal leveller
of mankind. — CoNGREVE.
Love, like a greedy hawk, if we give way,
Does over-gorge himself with his own
prey. — ABRAHAM COWLEY.
Love, like a scene, at distance should
appear,
But marriage views the gross daubed
landscape near. — Drypen.
Love, like fire, when once kindled, is
soon blown into a flame. — FreLpine.
Look as it is with some true April day,
Whose various weather stores the world
with flowers ;
The sun his glorious beams doth fair
display,
Then rains and shines again, and
straight it lowers,
And twenty changes in one hour doth
prove ;
So, and more changing is a woman’s
love. — PHineAs FLETCHER.
Love is most like an owl that cannot
fly, though wings he has, and lurksin
every hole. Beware of him; the vil-
lain, old in sin, shuns the front door,
and by the back comes in. — FoLENGo.
Love like a little bird is made, that
hops about from bough to bough :
Into my bosom it has strayed and at
my heart is pecking now.
— GoLpont.
Love is like a landscape which doth
stand,
Smooth at a distance, rough at hand.
— Ropert HecGe.
244 LOVE,
Love — continued.
Love, like the opening of heaven to
the saints, shows for a moment, even
to the dullest man, the possibilities of
the human race. — ArTHUR HELPS.
Love rushed through him as a river
in flood. — Maurice Hewtetr.
O, love, love, love!
Love is like a dizziness ;
It winna let a poor body
Gang about his bizziness.
— Hoae.
Love is like a well profound,
From which two souls have right to
draw,
And in whose waters will be drowned,
The one who takes the other’s law.
—J. G. Hoanp.
Love is like spring: it laughs
through the cold and the snow; it
perfumes the night and flourishes under
graves. — Arsine Houssave.
Love is like epidemic diseases, the
more one is afraid of it, the more is one
exposed to it. — In.
Love’s like the measles — all the
worse when it comes late in life. —
DovucLas JERROLD.
Love is like medical science — the
art of assisting Nature. — LALLE-
MAND.
Love, like beauty, strong to lure ;
Love, like joy, makes man her thrall,
Strong to please and conquer all.
— Ernst Lanae.
Love, like the flower that courts the
sun’s kind ray,
Will flourish only in the smiles of day.
—Joun LANGHORNE.
True love, like the eye, can bear no
flaw. — LavATER.
Love, like the lark, while soaring sings;
Wouldst have him spread again his
wings ?
What careth he for higher skies
Who on the heart of harvest lies,
And finds both sun and firmament
Closed in the round of his content ?
—W. J. Linton.
Loue is likened to the Emerald which
cracketh rather then consenteth to any
disloyaltie, and can there be any
greater villany then being secreat not
to be constant, or being constant not
to be secret. — LyLy. ‘
Love gotten with witchcraft, is as
unpleasant as fish taken with medicines
unwholesome. — Inin.
Love is like a charming romance
which is read with avidity, and often
with such impatience that many pages
are skipped to reach the dénouement
sooner. — Tuomas Maricuat.
Love, like arm’d Death, is strong.
— Epwarp Moore.
’Tis love, like the sun, that gives light
to the year,
The sweetest of blessings that life can
give ;
Our pleasures it brightens, drives
sorrow away,
Gives joy to the night, and enlivens
the day. — Isp.
Ah! love is like a tender flower
Hid in the opening leaves of life,
Which, when the springtide calls, has
power,
To scorn the elemental strife.
— Lewis Morris.
Love, like the creeping vine, withers
if it has nothing to embrace. — N1-*
SUMI.
Love before marriage is like a too
short preface before a book without
end. — J. Petit-Senn.
Love, like death, makes all distinc-
tion void. — Mattuew Prior.
Love, like men, dies oftener of excess
than hunger. — Ricurter.
Love’s as cunnin’ a little thing as a
hummin’-bird upon the wing. — JAMES
Wuircoms Riney.
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LOVE,
Love — continued.
Love is like a red-currant wine — it
first tastes sweet, but afterward
shuddery, — T. W. Rozvertson.
True love is like ghosts, which every-
body talks about and few have seen.
— RocHEroucauL.
Love, like other little boys,
Cries for hearts, as they for toys.
— Ear. or RocHEstTer.
Love, like flowers, endureth but a
spring. — Ronsarb.
Love is like a lovely rose the world’s
delight. — C. G. Rossertt.
Love is like the moon: when it
does not increase, it decreases. —
SEQUR.
Love is like a child,
That longs for everything that he can
come by. — SHAKESPEARE.
Love like a shadow flies, when sub-
stance love pursues ;
Pursuing that that flies, and flying
what pursues. — Isp.
Love, that comes too late,
Like a remorseful pardon slowly
carried,
To a great sender turns a sour offence,
Crying, that’s good that’s gone.
— Isp.
Love is like understanding, that grows
bright
Gazing on many truths ; ’tis like thy
light, Imagination. — SHELLEY.
Love like air is widely given ;
Power nor chance can these restrain ;
Truest, noblest gifts of heaven !
Only purest in the plain.
. — WILLIAM SHENSTONE.
Love is an April’s doubting day :
Awhile we see the tempest lower ;
Anon the radiant heaven survey,
And quite forget the flitting shower.
— Iz.
Love is like a tune that’s played, and
life a tale that’s told. — W. W. Story.
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True love, like the lightning that
flashes, must kindle from eye to eye
and strike into the heart. — Franz
von SUPPE.
Love is awful as immortal death. —
Ipip.
Better is a dinner of herbs where
love is, than a stalled ox and hatred
therewith. — OLD TESTAMENT.
The love of a woman is like a mush-
room, —it grows in one night and
will serve somewhat pleasantly next
morning for breakfast, but afterwards
waxes fulsome and unwholesome. —
Cyrit TourNEUR.
Emotional effusions are like licorice-
root. When you take your first suck
at it, it doesn’t seem so bad, but it
leaves a very bad taste in your mouth
afterward. — TuRGENEV.
In love as in war, a fortress that
parleys is half taken. — MAarGuERITE
DE VALOIS.
Love . . . likea pirate, takes you by
spreading false colors. — VANBRUGH.
Love, like virtue, is its own re-
ward. — Isip.
Love, like fortune, turns upon a heel,
and ‘is very much given to rising and
falling. — Isp.
Love, my sweet Lidi! resembles the
fugitive shadows of morning ; shorter
and shorter they grow and at length
disappear. — Minty VirKovics.
Love’s like a torch which, if secur’d
from blasts,
Will fainter burn, but then it longer
lasts :
Expos’d to storms of jealousy and
doubt,
The blaze grows greater, but ’tis sooner
out. — Wiriu1am Wats.
Love, like a bird, hath perch’d upon a
spray
For thee and me to hearken what he
sings. »
— Wituiam Watson.
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Love — continued.
Love... as pure as Angel-worship,
when the just’
And beautiful of Heaven are bow’d in
prayer | — WHITTIER.
Love as strong as that which binds
the peopled Universe. — In.
Love is a lamp unseen, burning to
waste, or, if its light is found, nursed
for our idle hour, then idly broken. —
N. P. Wiuus.
Love, like ambition, dies as ’tis en-
joyed. —THomas YALDEN.
Love (Verb).
Love as a cat loves mustard. —
ANON.
Loved as a guardian angel. —Insmp.
As reeds and willows love the water side,
So love loves with the idle to abide.
— Francis BEAUMONT.
Loved as patriots. — E. B. Brown-
ING.
Love . . . dearly, like pig and pie.
— Ropert Burton.
Love as a Welshman does toasted
cheese. — JoHN Day.
Love as the dog does a whip. —
JoHn Ray’s ‘‘HanpBook or Prov-
ERBS.”
Love as the devil loves holy water.
— Swirt.
Love him as Frenchmen love Napo-
leon. — SWINBURNE.
My spirit loved and loves him yet,
Like some poor girl whose heart is set
On one whose rank exceeds her own.
— TENNYSON.
Loveliness.
Loveliness
Stays like the light, after the sun is set.
— Ricwarp SHEIL.
Loveliness,
Like a rich tint that makes a picture
warm
LOVE, — LOVELY.
Is lurking in the chestnut of thy
tress,
Enriching it, as moonlight after storm
Mingles dark shadows into gentleness.
—N. P. Witus.
Lovely.
Lovely as the first green in the wood.
— ANon.
Lovely as Venus. — Isin.
Lovely as sleep. — Bion.
Lovely as an angel’s dream. —
Emity Bronte.
Lovely as all excellence. —WILLIAM
BROWNE.
Lucid and lovely as the morning star.
— Micuaeu Bruce.’
Lovely as Love. — Byron.
Lovely as day. — GzorcE CoLman,
THE YOUNGER.
Lovely and piteous, like a frosted
flower. — HeLten G. Cone.
Lovely as the morning. — Barry
CorRNWALL.
Lovely as fairies. — Frrpavst.
Lovely as seraphs. — WASHINGTON
Irvine.
Lovely as lilies ungathered. — Har-
rier E. Hamiuron Kine.
Lovely as May. — Joun Locan.
Lovely as is the maiden moon in
May. — Water MaLone,
Lovely as a bridegroom. — Miss
Mirtrorp.
Lovely as an infant’s dream
On the waking mother’s breast.
— JAMES Montgomery.
Lovely as the first beam of the sun.
— OSSIAN.
Lovely as adolescence. — Ourpa.
Lovely as an obelisk in a desert. —
T. N. Page.
Lovely as light. — Matrurw Prior.
LOVELY. — LUCENT.
Lovely — continued.
Lovely as the Lord of Night. —
RAMAYANA.
Lovely as a queen. —D. G. Ros-
SETTI.
Lovely as the smiling infant spring.
—Sir WALTER Scorr.
budding
Lovely as oa
SOUTHEY.
Tose, ——
Lovely as nymphs. — Inm.
Lovely as the youthful dreams of
Hope. — Inip.
Lovely as a landscape in a dream. —
TENNYSON.
Lovely as the violet. — TuprEr.
Lovely as a Lapland night. —
WoRDSWORTH.
Lovely as spring’s first rose. — Inm.
Lover.
Lovers are like walking ghosts, they
always haunt the spot of their mis-
deeds. — GrorcE H. Boker.
Lovers like sick folks may say what
they please. — JEREMY COLLIER.
A lover is like a hunter, if the game
be got with too much ease he cares not
for it. — Rospert Map.
The quarrels of lovers are like sum-
mer showers, that leave the country
more verdant and beautiful. — Ma-
DAME NECKER,
Young lovers, like game cocks, are
made bolder by being kept without
light. — VANBRUGH.
Loving.
Loving as a mother’s voice. —
CARLYLE.
Low.
Low as the grave. — ANON.
Low as horse’s hoof. — ScotcH BAt-
LAD.
Low as zephyr, telling secrets to his
rose. — T. L. Beppoes.
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Lying low, like a malignant little
animal under a hedge. — JoseruH Con-
RAD.
Low as a bushy _ bramble. —
CuarLes Mackun.
Low as a_baboon’s forehead. —
Sypney Munpen.
Low as Hell. — D. G. Rossetti.
Fall low as Persian to the sun. —
CHARLES SANGSTER.
Low as to the fiends. — SHaKeE-
SPEARE.
As low as hell’s from heaven. —
Ipip.
Low as the softest breath that passes
in summer at evening
O’er the olian strings, felt there when
nothing is moving,
Save the thistle-down, lighter than air,
and the leaf of the aspen.
— SouTHEY.
Low as broken crown. — Swin-
BURNE.
Lower. .
Lowers like a storm. — CHRISTOPHER
Pirr.
Lowering as a storm-flushed moon.
— SWINBURNE.
Lowly.
Lowly as a flower. — Maprtson Ca-
WEIN.
Lowly as a slave. — TUPPER.
Loyal.
Loyal as a dove. — ANoN.
Loyal to her plighted faith as is the
sun in Heaven. — JoHN Forp.
Loyal as the Liberty on a golden
ten-dollar piece. —O. W. Hotes.
Loyal as prairie scout. — Amy Les-
LIE.
Lucent.
Softly licent as a rounded moon. —
LoweLL.
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Lucid.
Lucid as a Japanese sphere of rock-
crystal. —O. W. Homes.
Lucid and lovely as the morning
star. —Joun Locan.
Lucid as the dawn. — JoHN SKEL-
TON.
Lucid as daylight. —S. G. Tat-
LENTYRE.
Lucid as air. — JoHN WILSON.
Lugubrious.
Lugubrious as a tombstone. — REn-
NoLD WoLr.
Lull.
Lull’d like the depth of ocean when
at rest. — Byron.
Lulling as falling water’s hollow
noise. — JOHN Gay.
It lulled like the lull in a storm. —
Ouma.
Luminous.
Luminous as jelly. — AMBROSE
BIERcE.
Luminous as a panther’s skin. —
Sir A. Conan Dove.
As luminous as the sun’s intensest
beam. — CHARLES SANGSTER.
Luminous as a lit-up ballroom. —
H. pr VERE STACPOOLE.
Lure.
Lured as the fowler lures the bird. —
Lops DE VEGA.
Lurid.
Lurid as a comic opera climax. — J.
Currver Goopwin.
Lurid as hell. —Grorcze Casot
Lope.
Lurid as anguish. — SwInBURNE.
Lurk.
Lurk behind, like a concealed root.
— CERVANTES.
LUCID. — LUST.
Lurked as comfortably as a shy bird
in its native thicket.—JosrpH ConraD.
Lurk like vermin. — Joun Davipson.
Lurks like embers raked in ashes.
— DRYDEN.
Lurks and clings as withering, damn-
ing blight. — Grores Exior.
Lurking . . . like a concealed enemy.
— FIeLpina.
Lurks like a mole underneath the
visible surface of manners. — THOMAS
Harpy.
Lurk, like a snake under the innocent
shade
Of a spread summer-leaf.
— Tuomas Mippeton.
Lurking like a savage thing
Crouching for a treacherous spring.
— Maurice Txompson.
Luscious.
Luscious as locusts. — SHAKESPEARE.
Lust.
Lust, like a lawless headlong flood,
Impregnated with ooze and mud,
Descending fast on every side,
Once mingles with the sacred tide,
Farewell the soul-enliv’ning scene!
The banks that wore a smiling green,
With rank defilement overspread,
Bewail their flow’ry beauties dead.
— CowPER.
Base lust,
With all her powders, paintings, and
best pride,
Is but a fair house built by a ditch
side. —THomas Mipp.eron.
Lusts are like agues; the fit is not
always on, and yet the man is not rid
of the disease ; and some men’s lusts,
like some agues, have not such returns
as others. — HERBERT SPENCER.
Our headlong lusts, like a young fiery
horse,
Start and flee raging in a violent course.
— Isaac Watts.
LUSTFUL. —~ MAGNIFICENT.
Lustful.
As lustful as Messalina. — RoBerr
Burton.
Lustrous.
Lustrous as satin. — ANON.
Lustrous, thick like horsehairs. —
Rosert Brownine.
Lustrous as agate. — GAUTIER.
Lustrous as ebony. — SHAKESPEARE.
Lustrous as laughter. — SWINBURNE.
Lustrous as the day.— Joun Tartor.
Lustrous sun-set. — THOMAS
WADE.
as
M
Machine.
The Ford machine is like a bath-
tub. Everybody wants one, but no-
body wants to be seen in it. — CHAUN-
cey M. Depew.
Mad.
Mad as a hatter. — ANON.
Mad as an adder. — Ibrp.
Mad as a rat in a trap. — Ini.
Mad as a wet cat. — Ibmp.
Mad as blazes. — Isip.
Mad as tigers. — IBmp.
Mad as all wrath. —J. R. Bart-
LeTT’s “ DIcTIONARY oF AMERICAN-
IsMs.”
Mad as a bull among bumble bees.
— Isp.
Mad as May butter. — Braumont
AND FLETCHER.
As Staring madde like March Hares.
— Anprew Borne (1490-1549.)
As mad as Orlando for his Angelica,
or Hercules for his Hylas. — Robpert
Burton.
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Lusty. ;
Lusty as leaves in June. — GERALD
Massey.
Lusty as Nature. — WALT Warrman
Luxuriant.
Luxuriant as the vine. — ANon.
Luxurious.
Luxurious as a cluster of grapes. —
Wituam M. Reepy.
Luxury.
Luxury, like wine, both stimulates
and weakens. — ALPHONSE Karr.
He is as mad as a March hare. —
CERVANTES.
Mad ... like the warrior in the
fight. — Barry CorNnwWaALL.
Mad as a drunken squaw. — ALFRED
Henry Lewis.
Mad as the delirious dream
Of one who, on an Indian stream
Floating in a Morphean bark,
Feeds on the charméd lotus leaf.
—T. Bucuanan Reap.
Mad as Ajax. — SHAKESPEARE.
More mad
Than Telamon for his shield.
— Isp.
Mad as the vexed sea. — Ini.
Maddening.
Lived maddeningly, like a man who
has a drumming in his ear. — Maurice
HEWLETT.
Magnanimous.
Magnanimous as Agamemnon. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Magnificent.
Magnificent as Mrs. Siddons as
Lady Macbeth. — THackEray.
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Maid.
The spotless maid is like the blooming
rose
Which on its native stem unsullied
grows. — ARIOSTO.
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught
by glare,
And Mammon wins his way where
seraphs might despair.
— Byron.
Maids are like contentment in this life,
Which all the world have sought, but
none enjoy’d.
— Sir Jonn Davies.
A maiden is like a half-blown damask
rose, fair as a dream and full of the
sweet fragrance of the purity of dawn-
ing womanhood.— Annie E. Lan-
CASTER.
Majestic.
Majestic as a statue. — ANON.
Majestic as Cesar. — Inrp.
Majestic as Juno. — Isp.
Like Jove,
GRANVILLE.
majestic. — GEORGE
Majestic as the sun at noon. —
ORIENTAL.
Port as Majestic as Astley’s horse
dances. — Antony Pasquin.
Majestic in its movement as a
sonnet of Milton. — IsrarL ZANGWILL.
Majorities.
Decision by majorities is as much an
expedient as lighting by gas. — GLap-
STONE.
Malicious.
Malicious as a satyr. — ANON.
Malicious as Saul to David. — Ipin.
Maliciously like poison. — SuHaKe-
SPEARE.
Malicious as Satan. — THACKERAY,
Man.
Man is a social creature, and we are
made to be helpful to each other; we
MAID. ——- MAN.
are like the wheels of a watch, that
none of them can do their work alone,
without the concurrence of the rest. —
ANON.
Some men are like a brook, noisy
but shallow. — Inip.
Man is like a razor, the sharper for
being stropped. — Ixnip.
Some men, like wagons, rattle most
when there’s nothing in them. —
In.
Tall men, like tall houses, are usually
ill furnished in the upper story. —
Bacon.
The majority of men are like animals
— they take fright and are reassured
by trifles. — Bauzac.
A Manis like unto a fort in a strange
land, easy to capture, but hard to hold;
but a woman of virtue is like an eel ina
bathtub, not easily to be acquired, but
difficult to lose. — GEeLeTT BurcEss.
Men but like visions are, Time all
doth claime,
He lives, who dies to winne a lasting
name. — WILLIAM DRUMMOND.
Men, like musical instruments, seem
made to be played upon. —
; C. N. Boveg.
An honest man is like a plain coat,
which without welt [fold] or guard,
keepeth the body from wind and
weather, and being well made fits him
best that wears it; and where the
stuff is more regarded than the fashion,
there is not much ado in the putting
of it on. So, the mind of an honest
man, without tricks or compliments,
keeps the credit of a good conscience
from the scandal of the world and the
worm of Iniquity; which being wrought
by the Workman of Heaven, fits him
best that wears it to His service ; and
where Virtue is more esteemed than
Vanity, it is put on and worn with
that ease that shows excellency of the
Workman. — NicuHotas BRETon.
MAN,
Man — continued.
Men are like old ships, easy towed,
but hard to steer. — Ronpert Bripass
(American),
Man is like a book... the com-
monality only look to his binding. —
Bunwer-Lyrron.
A young man is like a fair new house,
the carpenter leaves it well built, in
good repair, a solid stuff; but a bad
tenant lets it rain in, and for want of
reparation fall to decay, ete. Our
Parents, Tutors, Friends, spare no cost
to bring us up in our youth in all
manner of virtuous education ; but
when we are left to ourselves idleness
asa tempest drives all virtuous notions
out of our minds, ete, and nthilisumus,
on a sudden, by sloth and such bad
ways, we come to naught. ~ Rovert
Burton.
Man is like a napkin, the more
neatly the housewife doubles him, the
more carefully she lays him on the
shelf. — Iniv.
We are like billiard balls in a game
played by unskillful: players, continu-
ally being nearly sent into a pocket,
but hardly ever getting right into one,
except by a fluke. — SanugL, Burer
(1835-1902). .
In fact, man ain’t constructed for a
heavy strain of bliss,
Human beings are like boilers, and the
same rules, it would seem,
Have an equal application to affection
and stenm. — Wa. ALLEN BUTLER,
A young man of high talent, and
high though still temper, like a young
mettled colt, ‘breaks-off his neck-
halter’, and bounds forth, from his
peculiar manger, into the wide world ;
which, alas, he finds all rigorously
fonced-in. Richest clover-fields tempt
his eye ; but to him they are forbidden
pasture: either pining in progressive
starvation, he must stand ; or, in mad
exasperation, must rush to and fro,
leaping against sheer stonewalls, which
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he cannot leap over, which only lacer-
ate and lame him; till at last, after
thousand attempts and endurances, he,
as if by miracle, clears his way: not
indeed into luxuriant and luxurious
clover, yet into a certain bosky wilder-
ness where existence is still possible,
and Freedom, though waited on by
Scarcity, is not without sweetness, —
CARLYLE.
Some men are like musical glasses, —
to produce their finest tone, you must
keep them wet. — CoLERIDGE.
Great men, like great cities, have
many crooked arts‘and dark alleys in
their hearts, whereby he that knows
them may save himself much time and
trouble. — C. C. CoLton.
Great men, like comets, are eccentric
in their courses, and formed to do ex-
tensive good, by modes unintelligible
to vulgar minds. — Ini.
A good man, like a well trained
wrestler, ought to struggle against ad-
versity with the whole energy of his
faculties. — DEMorHiLus.
Why do you make such haste to
have done loving me? You men are
like watches, wound up for striking
twelve immediately ; but after you
are satisfied, the very next that follows,
is the solitary sound of a single one. —
DRYDEN.
Men are like Geneva watches with
crystal faces which expose the whole
movement. — EMERSON.
Men are like wine, — not good before
the lees of clownishness be settled. —
FELTHAM.
Such men grew wiser as well as
better, the farther they departed from
home, and seemed like rivers, whose
streams are not only increased, but
refined, as they traveled from their
source. — GOLDSMITH.
Wise men, like wine, are best when
old; pretty women, like bread, are
best when young. — Sam Sick.
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Man — continued.
As no two pots will boil alike, so
with men ; they seethe in trouble with
a difference. — Maurice HEwLett.
A bad man is like an earthen vessel,
easy to break, and hard to mend. A
good man is like a golden vessel, —
hard to break, and easy to mend. —
HITOPADESA.
Men, like peaches and pears, grow
sweet a little while before they begin
to decay. —O. W. Hoimes.
As is the race of leaves, such is that
of men ; some leaves the wind scatters
upon the ground, and others the bud-
ding wood produces, for they come
again in the season of Spring. So is
the race of men, one springs up and
_the other dies. — Homer.
A man whose great qualities want
the ornament of superficial attractions,
is like a naked mountain with mines of
gold, which will be frequented only till
the treasure is exhausted. — Dr. JoHN-
SON.
Good men, like the sea, should still
maintain
Their noble tastes in midst of all fresh
humours, °
That flow about them, to corrupt their
streams,
Bearing no season, much less salt of
goodness. — Brn Jonson.
Like to the falling of a star,
Or as the flights of eagles are;
Or like the fresh spring’s gaudy hue,
Or silver drops of morning dew;
Or like a wind that chafes the flood,
Or bubbles which on water stood :
Ev’n such is man, whose borrow’d light
Is straight call’d in, and paid to-night.
The wind blows out, the bubble dies;
The spring entom’d in autumn lies;
The dew dries up, the star is shot;
The flight is past — and man forgot.
— Henry Kine.
Wise men are like moorlands — ride
as far as you will on the sound ground,
MAN.
you are sure to come upon a soft place
at last. — KInGsLEy.
Man is like a tree which is shaken
that its fruit may drop to the ground.
— LAMARTINE.
Great men stand like solitary towers !
— LoNGFELLOW.
Great men are like meteors: they
glitter and are consumed to enlighten
the world. — NaPoLEon.
Men are like money: we must take
them for their value, whatever may be
the effigy. — Mapamr NeEcKEr.
A man, like a watch, is to be valued
for his manner of going. — WILLIAM
PENN.
‘Man, like the generous vine, supported
lives ;
The strength he gains is from the em-
brace he gives. — Port.
Men like bullets, go farthest when
they are smoothest. — J. P. Ricursr.
Man is like horse-radish : the more
it is grated the more it bites. —
Isp.
Men are weathercocks, which are
never constant or fixed, but when they
are, they are worn out or rusty. —
RoussEav.
Most men are like plants: they
possess properties which chance dis-
covers. — SAINT-REAL.
At ten, Mercury is in the ascendant ;
and at that age, a man, like this planet,
is characterized by extreme mobility
within a narrow sphere where trifles
have a great effect upon him; but
under the guidance of so crafty and
eloquent a god, he easily makes great
progress. Venus begins her sway
during his twentieth year, and then a
man is wholly given up to the love of
women. At thirty, Mars comes to the
front, and he is now all energy and
strength — daring, pugnacious, and
arrogant. — SCHOPENHAUER.
MAN. — MANKIND.
Man — continued.
Men, like butterflies,
Shew not their mealy wings but to the
summer ;
And not a man, for being simply man,
Hath any honour. — SHAKESPEARE.
Man, like this sublunary world, is
born the sport of two cross planets, love
and scorn. — Sir EDwARD SHERBURNE.
If you were to say that man was like
a time glass — that both must run out,
and both render up their dust, I should
listen to you with more attention, be-
cause I should feel something like sur-
prise at the sudden relation you had
struck out between two such apparently
dissimilar ideas as a man and a time
glass. — Sypnry SmITu.
It is in men as in soils, where some-
times there is a vein of gold which
the owner knows not of. — Swirt.
Man, like everything else that lives,
changes with the air that sustains him.
— Talne.
A man, like a book, must have an
index; he is divided into chapters,
sections, pages, prefaces, and appen-
dix ; in size, quarto, octavo, or duo-
decimo, and bound in cloth, morocco,
antique, or half calf; the dress, the
gait, the behavior, are an index to the
contents of this strange book, and give
you the number of the page. — T.
DeWitt TaLMAGE.
Man is like to vanity : his days are
as a shadow that passeth away. — OLD
TESTAMENT.
Great men are like oaks, under the
branches of which men are happy in
finding a refuge in the time of storm
and rain ; but when they have to pass
a sunny day under them, they take
pleasure in cutting the bark and break-
ing the branches. — THEMISTOCLES.
Great men are like great bells ;
every sound they utter strikes our
ears with the noise of thunder. — J.
Prenrorp Tuomas.
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Man, like to Cassia, is proved best
being bruised. — Jonn WEBSTER.
Every man is like the apostle Peter
in one respect, that his tongue betrays
him. — R. G. Warts.
Man’s like the earth, his hair like grasse
is grown,
His veins the rivers are, his heart the
stone.
— “Wrrts Recreations,” 1640.
Man-Worship.
This thing of man-worship I am a
stranger to; I don’t like it ; it taints
every action of life ; it is like a skunk
getting into a house —long after he
has cleared out, you smell him in every
room and closet, from the cellar to the
garret. — DaviD CROCcKETT.
Manageable.
Manageable as chess-pieces. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Manful.
Manful as the man of stone. — A. E.
Housman.
Manfully.
Manfully, like one who speaks the
honest truth. — SouTHEY.
Manifest.
As clear and as manifest as the nose
in a man’s face. — Ropert Burton.
Manifest as day. — ‘‘WARNING FOR
Farre Women,” 1599.
Manifold.
Manifold
As are the passions of uncertain man.
— Samuet DanieE..
Mankind.
The world is like a vast sea ; man-
kind like a vessel sailing on its tem-
pestuous bosom. Our prudence is its
sails, the sciences serve us for oars,
good or bad fortune are the favourable
or contrary winds, and judgment is the
rudder ; without this last, the vessel is
tossed by every billow, and will find ship-
wreck in every breeze. — GOLDSMITH.
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Manners.
Fine manners are like personal
beauty, —a letter of credit every-
where. —C. A. BarTou.
Manners . . . Like a great rough
diamond, it may do very well in a
closet by way of curiosity, and also
for its intrinsic value. — CHESTER-
FIELD.
Manners, like fashions, still from courts
descend,
And what the great begin, the vulgar
end. — Paut WHITEHEAD.
Mantle.
Mantle like a flame of fire. — Lone-
FELLOW.
Cream and mantle, like a standing
pond. — SHAKESPEARE.
Many.
As many lives as a cat. — BUNYAN.
As feele (many) as of leves ben on
trees in somer. — CHAUCER.
As many as the phases of the mind’s
emotion. — HayDEN SANDS.
March.
March like a rough tumbling storm.
— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
March like an endless rhyme. —
Kipiine.
Marriage.
Marriage is like to casting dice. If
chance bring you a virtuous and good-
tempered wife, your lot is happy. If
you gain instead a gadding, gossiping,
and thriftless quean, no wife is yours,
but everlasting plague in woman’s
garb ; the habitable globe holds not
so dire a torment anywhere. — Epi-
CHARMUS.
Like a dog with a bottle fast tied to his
tail,
Like vermin in a trap or a thief in a jail,
Like a Tory in a bog
Or an ape with a clog:
MANNERS. — MARRY.
Such is the man who, when he might go
free,
Does his liberty lose
For a matrimony noose,
And sells himself into captivity.
— Tuomas FiaTMan.
Marriage is not like the hill of Olym-
pus, wholly clear, without clouds. —
THomas FULLER.
Marriage to maids is like a war to
men; the battle causes fear, but the
sweet hope of winning at the last still
draws them on. — NATHANIEL LEE.
It is a signe that nothing will asswage
your love but marriage : for such is the
tying of two in wedlocks, as is the tun-
ing of two lutes in one key, for striking
the strings of one, strawes will stirre
upon the strings of the other, and in
two mindes linked in love, one cannot
be delighted, but the other rejoiceth.
— LyLy.
You know some of our Grub Street.
wits compared marriage to a country
dance, which scheme I extremely ap-
proved, but when I read it I thought
it should have been set to the tune of
“Love forever”; but they say it
never did go to that tune, nor ever
would. — Exiasrru R. Montacu.
Marriage is like a flaming candle-light
Placed in the window on a summer’s
night,
Inviting all the insects of the air
To come and singe their pretty wing-
lets there. — ENGLISH Sona.
Married.
Married people, for being so closely
united, are but the apter to part: as
knots, the harder they are pulled, break
the sooner. — Swit.
Marry.
Every man who marries is like the
Doge who weds the Adriatic sea: he
knows not what he may find therein,
— treasures, pearls, monsters, un-
known storms. — Heinrich HEINE.
MARRYING, —~ MEEK,
Marrying.
Marrying . . . ’tis like going a long
voyage to sea, where after a while even
the calms are distasteful, and the
storms dangerous : one seldom sees
wnew object, ‘tis still a deal of sea, sen ;
husband, husband, every day, — till
one’s quite cloy’d with it. — Arma
Bonn,
Marrying a widow is an easy busi-
ness, like leaping the hedge where an-
other has gone over before. — VAN-
BRUGUL
Marrying to increase love is like
gaming to become rich. — WycuerLey,.
Mars.
Mars like the curse on a woman's
lips. — Epwarp Prvus.
Masculine.
Masculine as 2 fox chase. — Hinny
Mack unzig,
Masterful.
Masterful as the blind instinet that
compels the migration of schools of
fish. -- TIenry AL Cuarr,
Masterful as fate. — SwinBuRNE.
Masterless.
Masterless as
Aq@nes Ruereiisn.
Match.
As evenly matched as two cubes of
the same size. — ANON.
will-o'-the-wisps. —
Mature.
Matured like flowers by the light of
the sun. — ANON.
Maxim.
A maxim is like the seed of a plant,
which the soul it is thrown into must
expand into leaves and flowers and
fruit. — Mapa pe Sawrony.
Manims ... have the same use
with the burning-glass ; to collect: the
diffused rays of wit and learning in
authors, and make them point with
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warmth and quickness upon the reader’s
imagination. — Swirt.
Meagre.
Meager as death itself. — Joun
Bytom.
Mean.
Mean as a miser. — ANON.
Mean as an earth-worm. — Dumas,
PERE.
Mean as falsehood. — Miss Mv-
LOCK.
Mean as dust, and dead as dreams.
— Wiuitam Watson.
Meander.
Meandered . like a lazy brook
among — water-meadows. — Maurice
Tew err,
Meandering... like a silver scarf
outblown
On the fluttering of the gale.
— Frank WATERS.
Meaningless.
Meaningless as shredded hay. —
Frankuin P. AvAwts.
Meaningless as an imprint on a
wornout coin. ~ - ANON,
Meaningless, tke the head of a
corpse, — Joserui Conia.
Meaningless as the boom of waves
in a drowning head. — Evitn Wuar-
TON,
Meditate.
Meditate deeply, like a warning
whisper from Providence. — Hugo.
Meditative.
Meditative, like a girl trying to
decide which dress to wear to the
party. — O. Henny.
Meek.
Meek as a Madonna, — Anon,
Meck as a mouse. — Iprp.
Meek as mustard. — Ibrp.
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Meek — continued.
Meek as a violet. — ANon.
Meek as Moses. — Isip.
Meek as a matron in mantle gray.
— Joanna BaILuie.
Meek as the turtle-dove. — RoBErt
Barr.
Meek as the man Moses. — Cow-
PER.
Meeke as is a mayde. — CHAUCER.
As meke as ever was any lamb. —
Ini.
Asa lamb she sitteth meke and stille,
as leef on lynde [Linden tree]. —
Ipip.
Meek as any baby. — Maurice
HEWLETT.
As Hester meke. — Jonn LypGATE.
Meek as a dove. — GrorcE MERE-
DITH.
Meek as gruel. — Ipip.
Meek as the gentlest of those who
in life’s sunny valley lie sheltered
and warm. — THomas Moore.
Meek as a saint. — Pops.
Meek as May. — Isp.
More meek than lambs. — THE-
OCRITUS.
Meek, like to a bankrupt beggar. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Shee meeker, kinder than
The turtle-dove or pelican.
— GEORGE WITHER.
Leans meekly, like a flower
By the still river tempted from its
stem
And on its bosom floating.
—N. P. WIus.
Meek and patient as a sheathéd
sword. — WorpDsworTH.
Meet. .
As meet as a rope for a thief. —
Joun Heywoop.
MEEK. —- MELANCHOLY.
Melancholy.
Melancholy as a graveyard on a
rainy day. — ANON.
Melancholy as a hearse-plume. —
Isp.
Melancholy as a mourning-coach
in a snowstorm. — Ipip.
Melancholy as a squeezed Jemon. —
Isr. ;
Melancholy as a tailor. — Ipm.
Melancholy as the moon at full. —
P. J. Barey.
Melancholy as a Quaker meeting-
house by moonlight. —J. R. BARTLETT’s
“DIcTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS.”
Melancholy ... like a gamester
that has lost his money. — BEauMontT
AND FLETCHER.
Melancholy as a cow. — GzorcE H.
Boxer.
Melancholy as Monks and Hermits.
— Rosrrt. Burton.
Melancholy as Irish melodies. —
Buss Carman.
Melancholy as an unbraced drum.
— Mrs. CEnrtLivee.
Melancholy sound . . . like the
weeping of a solitary, deserted human
heart. — Guy be Maupassant.
Melancholy as a slighted damsel.
— GOETHE.
Melancholy, like the voice of a child
that was spending its infancy without
playfulness. — HawTHoRNE.
Melancholic as midnight. — Ben
JONSON.
Melancholy as a cat. — LyLy.
A melancholy strain,
Like the low moaning of the distant
sea. — Por.
Melancholy as a gib cat. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Melancholy as a lodge in a warren.
— Ibm.
MELLOW. — MELT.
Mellow.
Mellow as the far-off lute. — ANon.
Mellow, like a plum which has
hung in the sun. — Inn.
Mellow as the anger of waters in
caves of the sea-shore. — Joun W. DE
Forest.
Mellow like the sunlight. — Mary
JOHNSTON.
Mellow, like a peach that is ready
to drop in your lap. — Lover.
Mellow as a lamp in a lighted room.
— Auicre Durr Mier.
Melodious.
Melodious as the strain that floats on
high,
To soothe the sleep of blameless in-
fancy. — Joun, LrypEn.
Wild wordless melodies of love like
murmur of dreaming brooks in Para-
dise. —THropore Wartts-DunTon.
Melt.
Melts like the fitful vapor. — GRANT
ALLEN.
_ Melted away like an image of snow.
— ANON.
Melts like a passing smoke, a nightly
dream. — MaTrHew ARNOLD.
Melt as in a dream. — THOMAS
Boyp.
Melted as a star might do,
Still smiling as she melted slow.
—E. B. Brownina.
Melts in the furnace of desire,
Like glass, that’s but the ice of fire.
— SAMUEL BUTLER.
Melt, like man, to Time. — Byron.
Melted like a phantasm. — CaLDE-
RON.
Melt like two hungry torrents. —
GroRGE CHAPMAN.
Melting, like ghosts before the rising
* sun. — CHARLES CHURCHILL.
2M
Melt like straggling snow that falls
on fire. — Aaron Hitt.
Melted like an image of snow. — O.
W. Homes.
Melting as a lover’s prayer. — JoHN
Hucues.
Melt away into the darkness like a
snowflake in the water. — Huco.
Melt like gold
INGELow.
Melts in, like the smile that sinks
in the’ face of the dreamer. —
EBENEZER JONES.
refined. — JEAN
Sweet Pleasure melteth,
Like the bubbles when rain pelteth.
— Krarts.
Melted, as the rose
Blendeth its odour with the violet.
— Is.
Melts like a pearl in pot of vinegar.
—J. H. McCartuy.
Melting, like mist, away. — THomas
Moore.
Melted like vapor in the sun. —
GrorcEe P. Morris.
Fond duties melt away like April
snows. — Miss Mutocx.
Like frost work in the morning ray,
The fancied fabric melts away.
— Sir Wa.rer Scott.
Melt away,
Like dissolving spray.
— SHELLEY.
Melt, like cloud to cloud. — Ism.
Melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of
spreading day. —Isn.
Melted, as in a crucible. — WILLIAM
W. Story.
He melted like a cloud in the silent
summer heaven. — TENNYSON.
Melt like mist. — Inm.
Melt away as waters which run
continual. — OLp TESTAMENT.
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Melt — continued.
Melted like wax. — OLD TrsTAMENT.
Melt as an iceberg in the tropics.
— TuprPrR.
Melt... like the sun from the
day. — Joun WILSON.
Memorable.
Memorable as the grave.— DE
QUINCEY.
Memory.
Like to a coin, passing from hand to
hand,
Are common memories, and day by
day
The sharpness of their impress wears
away. — Arto Batszs.
Then Memory disclosed her face
divine, that like the calm nocturnal
lights doth shine -within the soul. —
GrorcE Enior.
Memory is like a purse, if it be over-
full that it cannot shut, all will drop
out of it. — Tuomas Furr.
His memory was like a miser’s
pocket, from which you cannot entice
a quarter of a kopek. — NixoLar
V. GocoL.
Sweet is the memory of departed
friends. Like the mellow rays of the
declining sun, it falls tenderly, yet
sadly, on the heart. — WasHINGTON
Irvine.
Memory is like moonlight, the re-
flection of brighter rays from an
object no longer seen. —G. P. R.
JAMES.
Our memory is like a sieve, the holes
of which in time get larger and larger ;
the older we get, the quicker anything
intrusted to it slips from the memory,
whereas what was fixed fast in it in
early days is there still. — ScHorEN-
HAUER.
Memory like books that remain a
long time shut up in the dust needs
to be opened from time to time; it
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MELT, — MERCY,
is necessary, so to speak, to open the
leaves, that it may be ready in time of
need. — SENECA.
Menace.
Swell menacingly like the first whis-
per of a rising wind. — JoszrH Con-
RAD.
Mend.
Mend as sour ale in summer. —
Heywoon’s ‘“PRovERBS.”
Men.
(See Man.)
Mendacity.
We believe that mendacity, like
marriage, is essentially a human con-
vention and that in Heaven there is
neither lying nor giving the lie. —
New York Sun.
Merciless.
Merciless as a male tiger. — ANON.
Merciless as Cxesar. — Inip.
Merciless as the grave. — Inm.
Merciless ... as that of trying
to read the Universal Riddle. — Lar-
caDIO Harn.
Merciless as ambition. — JouBERrt.
Merciless as Othello. — Ouma.
Merciless as waste desire. — Joun
PAYNE.
Mercy.
As freely as the firmament embraces
the world, so mercy must encircle
friend and foe. — ScHILLER.
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth, as the gentle rain from
heaven
Upon the place beneath : it is twice
blessed ;
It blesseth him that gives, and him
that takes. © — SHAKESPEARE.
Mercy is like a rainbow, we must
never look for it after dark. — SAMUEL,
SQUIRE.
MERIT, — MIDDLE.
Merit.
True merit is like a river; the
deeper it is the less noise it makes. —
Ha iran.
Merit is like musk, which although
remaining concealed through the dif-
fusion of its perfume, the nostrils are
apprised thereof. — Prievy.
True merit, like the pearl inside the
oyster, is content to remain quiet
until it finds an opening. — Punen.
True merit, like the light of a glow-
worm, shines conspicuous to all except
the object which emits it. — EuizaBeTu
Ricorp,
Merit, like the show inside the cir
cus, is of comparatively little use as
drawing card; it is the bluff and
buncombe, the banging drum and
megaphone of the barker, which is
the successful magnet. — LESLIE DE
Vaux.
Merry.
Merry as a haystack sleeper. —
ANON,
Merry as a two-year-old. — Ipm.
Merry as cap and can, — Ip.
Merry as crickets in an oven. —
Inip.
Merry as flowers in May. — Ini.
Merry as mice in malt. — Isp.
Merry as spring. — Isr.
Merry as the maids. — Buyyay.
Merry as a kitten. — Burrs.
Merry as a marriage bell. — Brroy.
As merry as a_ fiddler. —‘‘THE
Canistuas Prixcr.”
Merry as the month of May. —
Barry CORNWALL.
Merry as popinjay. — Micwarn
Drartes.
Merry as birds on the bough. —
Freperick THE GREAT.,
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As merry as king in his delight. —
Rowert GREENE.
Merry as an alimony bell. —O.
Henry.
As merry as a pie. —“ Kine’s HaLre-
PENNY-WoRTH oF Wit Ix aA PEnny-
WorTH oF Paper.”
Merry as larks. — W. S. Lanpor.
Merry as spring groves full of birds.
— GERALD Massey.
Merry as it were June. — Miss
Mt Lock.
Merry as singing birds. —C. E.
Norton,
Merry as three beans in a blue
bladder. —'*Poor Rosin’s ALMAN-
ACK.”
As merry as a_ grig. — ENGLISH
PROVERB.
As merry as the maltman. — Scot-
Tish PROVERB.
Merry as the day is long. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
As merry, as when our nuptial day was
done, :
And tapers burned to bedward.
— Isp.
Merry as crickets. — Ipip.
Merry as an ape. — SwIFt.
Meshed.
The red
Is meshed in the brown,
Like a rubied sun in a Venice sail.
— Francis THOMPSON.
Method.
Method is like packing things in a
box ; a good packer will get in half
as much again as a bad one. — SIR
Ricwarp CECIL.
Middle.
Standing exactly in the middle of
his face like the white in the centre of
a target. — Anon.
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Mighty.
Mighty as an ivy-suffocated tower
against a field of johnny-jump-ups. —
Amy LEsLIz.
Mild.
Mild and peaceful as Socrates. —
ANON.
Mild as the ev’ning’s humid ray. —
Tuomas BLACKLOCK.
Mild as an English summer linger-
ing on the brink of autumn. — BuL-
WER-LYTTON.
Mild,
As a mother with her child.
— CoLERIDGE.
Mild as an emulsion. — GEORGE
COLMAN, THE YOUNGER.
Mild as any lamb that ever pas-
tured in the fields. — DicKkEns.
Mild as any maid. — Micwarn
DrayYTON.
Mild as the gentlest season of the
year. — Francis Fawkes.
Mild as the dove ey’d morn awakes
the May. — Enzsan Fenton.
As mild and humble in her thoughts,
As was Aspasia unto Cyprus.
— Rospert GREENE.
Mild as the voice of comfort to
despair. — WALTER Harte.
Mild as summer’s mildest shower.
— RecinaLtp HEBER,
Mild as sighing saints. — AARon
Hit.
Mild as moonbeams crazed with
murderous hates. — O. W. Hotmgs.
Mild,
Like the soft snoring of a child. — Hoop.
Mild as a star in water. — Krats.
Mild
As grazing ox unworried in the meads.
— Isp.
Mild eye like the dawn.—C. J.
Kicknam.
MIGHTY — MILD.
Mild, as the never wrathful dove.
—Joun LANGHORNE.
Mild as a saint whose errors are
forgiven. — WiLLIAM LivINGsToON.
Mild as the zephyr, like zephyr that
throws
Its sweets on the sweet-breathing May.
— Epwarp Lovisonp.
Mild as the call of spring to buried
flowers. — Grorce Mac-HeEnry.
Mild as milk. — James C. Mancan.
Mild as an evening heaven around
Hesper bright. — Grorce MEREDITH.
Mild as the April eve. — WILLIAM
J. Micke.
Mild, as when Zephyrus or Flora
breathes. — Mitton.
Mild, like the hour of the setting
sun. — OSSIAN.
Mild as the moon’s light. — Jonn
Payne.
Mild as
PHIips.
Mild as the moon. — J. R. PLANcHE.
Mild as May. — Pore.
Mild as op’ning gleams of promised
heav’n. — Irn.
Mild as the murmurs of the Bird of
Woe. — Mrs. Mary Rosinson.
Mild as a dove. — SHAKESPEARE.
the lamb. — AMBROSE
Mild as the opening morn of May.
— WILLIAM SHENSTONE.
As Juno mild. — Sir Purp SIDNEY.
Mild as the murmuring of Hymettian
bees
And honied as their harvest.
— SWINBURNE.
Mild as very sleep. — Inn.
All mild and gentle as the silver moon
Sitting heaven’s blue aboon.
— Esaras TEGner.
Mild as the kisses of connubial love.
— Henry Kirke WHITE.
MILD. — MIND.
Mild — continued.
Mild as the murmurs of the moon-
light wave. — Inn.
Mild as the opening morn’s serenest
ray. — Wiuitaat’ WHITEHEAD.
Mild as the close of summer's softest
day. — Imp.
Mild as Mr. Tupper’s precepts. —
Wiwtiaa Winter.
Mince.
Minee like a maiden
Nicuo1as Breroy.
Minced like a nestling’s food. —
Bayard Tar.or.
Mind.
Qld minds are like old horses ; you
must exercise them if you wish to
keep them in working order. — Jouy
ADAMS,
bride. —
Little minds, like weak liquors, are
soonest soured. — Anon.
The mind is like a sheet of white
paper in this, that the impressions
it receives the oftenest, and retains
the longest. are black ones. — Epwix
ARNOLD,
The mind's action is like that of an
engineer who works under water. He
gees down in a diving-bell, and is
hidden. The work progresses, and the
structure rises. but it does not show
above water at all. It is there, but
it is deep-seated and cancealed. — |
Henry Warp BrecHer.
Successful minds work like a gim-
let, to a single paint. — C. N. Bove.
Our minds are like certain vehicles,
—— when they have little to carry they
make much noise about it, but when
heavily loaded they run quietly. —
Eurav Brent.
A wise man’s mind, as Seneca holds,
is like the state of the world above the
Moon, ever serene. — Ropert Ber-
Tan.
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The mind, that broods o'er guilty woes,
Is like the Scorpion girt by fire,
In circle narrowing as it glows,
The flames around their captive close.
So writhes the mind Remorse hath
riven,
Unfit for earth, undoom’d for heaven,
Darkness above, despair beneath,
Around it flame, within it death.
— Byron.
A weak mind is like a microscope,
which magnifies trifling things. but
cannot receive great ones. — CHESTER-
FIELD.
The mind, when imbued with the
lessons of wisdom, is like a charioteer ;
for it restrains the desires implanted
in us, and brings us back to virtue. —
DeMopHILts.
His mind was like a bottle. extended
with the delectable liquor of observa-
tion. — Drypex.
The mind is like a trunk. If well
packed, it holds almost everything;
if ill packed, next to nothing. —JtLivs
C. Hare.
Minds like fine pictures are by dis-
tance proved,
And objects proper, only as removed.
— Wa rer Harte.
Sick minds are like sick men that burn
with fevers,
Who when they drink, please but a
present taste,
And after bear a more impatient fit.
— Ben Jonsey.
The mind of man is lke the sea,
which is neither agreeable to the be-
holder nor the voyager. in a calm
or in a starm, but is se te both when a
little agitated by gentle cules; and
, so the mind, when moved by soft and
easy passions or affections. — CHARLES
Lan.
For as the precious stone Authar-
| sitis beeing throwne into the fyre
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looketh blacke and halfe dead, but
being cast into the water glistreth like
the Sunne beames: so the precious
minde of man once put into the flame
of loue, is as it were vglye, and loseth
his vertue, but sprinckled with the
water of wisdome, and detestation of
such fond delightes, it shineth like
the golden rayes of Phoebus. — Lyty.
The mind is like the eye, for, though
it may see all other objects, it cannot
see itself, and therefore cannot judge
of itself. — Patio.
As land is improved by sowing it
with various seeds, so is the mind by
exercising it with different studies. —
Puiny.
To the mind’s eye things will appear,
At distance through an artful glass,
But bring the flattering objects near,
They’re all a senseless gloomy mass.
— MartrHew Prior.
Our minds are like our stomachs ;
they are whetted by the change of their
food, variety supplies both with fresh
appetite. — QUINTILIAN.
Thy mind is like a mirror swung in
space,
And whirling on a thread. Now it
reflecteth
The heavens, and now the earth.
Now doth the lightning
Write hieroglyphs upon it, and anon
Some deep-sea monster glooms it with
his bulk. =£— Ametie Rives.
As the soil, however rich it may be,
cannot be productive without culture,
so the mind without cultivation can
never produce good fruit. — SENECA.
For ’tis the mind that makes the body
rich ;
And as the sun breaks through the
darkest clouds,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit.
What, is the jay more precious than
the lark,
Because his feathers are more beauti-
ful. — SHAKESPEARE.
MIND. — MIRTH.
The chaste mind, like a polished
plane, may admit foul thoughts, with-
out receiving their tincture. — STERNE.
Mindless.
Mindless as the beasts that browse.
— Vioutet Fane.
Mingle.
Mingled . . . like the fragments of
a couple of broken lantern slides
swept up together. — R. C. Bates.
-Our two spirits mingled like scents
from varying roses that remain one
sweetness, nor can ever more be
singled. — Grorcr Exror.
Mingled in these vulgar controversies
like a knight of romance among caitiff
brawlers. — Henry Hata.
Mingle into one,
Like blended streams that make one
music as they run. — Hoop.
They had mingled their hearts to-
gether as they grew up, as two sap-
lings planted near, mingle their
branches as they become trees. —
Hueo.
Mingle . . . like sunshine and rain.
— Wiuuram Knox.
: Mingling foes,
Like billows dash’d in conflict.
— James MontTcomery.
My soul is commingled with thine,
As water is mingled with wine.
— ORIENTAL.
Meet and mingle like human fear
and hope. — A. J. Ryan.
Mirth.
Mirth is like a flash of lightning that
breaks through a gloom of clouds and
glitters for a moment. Cheerfulness
keeps up a daylight in the mind, fill-
ing it with a steady and perpetual
serenity. — Dr. JoHNSON.
Mirth, like light, will all too often
take its birth mid darkness and de-
cay. — Miss Lanpon.
MIRTHFUL. — MOAN,
Mirthful.
Mirthful as an undertaker’s mute.
— Bauzac.
Mischievous.
Mischievous as a kitten. — ANON.
Mischievous as a monkey. — BaL-
ZAC.
Mischievous as a marmoset. —
Ova.
Miser.
The wealth of misers, like the even-
ing sun sinking below the horizon,
contributes nothing to the enjoyment
of mankind. — DEmopHILus.
The miser swimming in gold seems
to me like a thirsty fish. —J. Perit-
SENN.
Miserable.
Miserable as a frost-bitten apple.
— ANON.
Miserable as the fifth act of a
tragedy. — Ip.
Misfortune.
Misfortunes are like the creations
of Cadmus, they destroy one another.
— BuLwer-LyTron. "
Mishap.
Mishaps are like knives, that either
serve us or cut us, as we grasp them
by the blade or the handle. — LowE1.
Mistress.
Mistresses, like friends, are lost by
letting ’em handle your money. —
VANBRUGH.
Mistresses are like books. If you
pore upon them too much, they doze
you, and make you unfit for company ;
but if used discreetly you are the
fitter for conversation by ’em. —
WititiaM WYcHERLEY.
Misty.
Misty as a shape in a dream. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
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Mix.
Mix, like bards, the useful with the
sweet. — JOEL Bartow.
Mix as mists do. — Rospert Brown-
ING.
Mixed together like jackstraws. —
Irvin S. Coss.
Are mixed as the mist of some
devilish dream. — Kipiine.
Mix them up
Like self-destroying poisons in one
cup. — SHELLEY.
Moan.
Moaned like a chafed spirit warring
with its lot. — ANon.
Moaned like a dismal autumn wind.
— Tr. B. ALDRICH.
Moaned like a drinker in grievous
plight. — AraBian Nicuts.
Moan like the doves. — ASSYRIAN.
Moans like a dying hound. — Henry
H. BRowNeELL.
Moans . . . like wind through ill-
shut casements. — E. B. Brownine.
Moan like nightbirds. — CartyLe.
Moan, like the voice of one who crieth
In the wilderness alone.
— LONGFELLOW.
Moaned like some stricken thing
. strangled with its own despair.
— Don Maravis.
Moaning, like the voices of spirits
departing in pain. —OwrEN MeEre-
DITH.
A wild and desolate moan,
As a sea heart-broken on the hard -
brown stone.
— Joaquin MILLER.
Moans like a tender infant in its cradle,
Whose nurse had left it.
— Orway.
Moan, like me who hath lost the
last and best. — T. BucHanan Reap.
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Moan— continued.
As running rivers moan
On their course alone,
So I moan
Left alone. —C. G. Rossrrtt.
Moan like the waves at set of autumn
days. — Exiza ScuppDER.
The forest moans and vibrates like
a vast AZolian harp. — Joun C. Van
DYKE.
Moaned . . . like a dirge. — Frank |
WatERS.
Mob.
The mob, like the ocean, is very
seldom agitated without some cause
superior and exterior to itself; but
... both are capable of doing the
greatest mischief after the cause which
first set them in motion has ceased
to act. — C. C. Cotton.
Mobile.
Mobile as humanity. — Dumas,
FILS.
Mock.
Mocks as whom the fen-fire leads
By the creed-wrought faith of faith-
less souls that mock their doubts
with creeds. — SWINBURNE.
Modern.
Modern as an are light. —Amy
Lrsir.
Modest.
Modest as a squash. — ANON.
Modest and shy as a nun. — WIL-
LIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
In her modesty, like a star among
earthly lights. — CARLYLE.
Modest as the violet in dewy dell.
—F. A. Fany.
Modest as a maid a-christening. —
Cuartes MAcKLIN.
Modest as justice. — SHAKESPEARE.
Modest as morning when she coldly eyes
The youthful Pheebus. —Ism.
MOAN. — MONEY.
Modest as the dove. — Inm.
Modest as a primrose. — ELIZABETH
S. P. Warp.
Modest as a
WHEELER WILCOX.
flower. — ELLA
, Moist.
Moist as a cold toad’s skin. — ANON.
Moist as a desert with dew. —
SWINBURNE.
Molten.
Molten as lead. — SWINBURNE.
Momentary.
Momentary as a sound. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Monarchy.
Monarchy is like a work of nature,
well composed both to grow and con-
tinue. — Bacon.
A monarchy is like a man-of-war
—bad shots between wind and water
hurt it exceedingly ; there is danger
of capsizing. But democracy is a
raft. You cannot easily upturn it.
It is a wet place, but it is a pretty
safe one. — JosEPH Cook.
Money.
Public money is like holy water :
every one helps himself to it. — ANoN.
Money is like manure; of very
little use unless it be spread. — Bacon.
Munny is like promises, easier maid
than kept. — JosH BILLines.
Money is like the manna of the
wilderness : sweet and wholesome if
it is gathered and used by faith each
day : breeding worms if hoarded by
doubt. — Hucu O. PEnticost.
Money is like whiskey: a certain
quantity of it improves the condition,
but too much brings about bestiality.
— CHannine PoLtock.
A man without money is like a ship
without sails. — Dutcu Provers.
MONEY, ~~ MONTIONLESS,
Money — continued.
fis money comes from him like
drops of blood, —-Joun Ray's “ TLAND}
hook OF Proves.”
A man without money is like a bird
without wings; if he soars he falls
to the ground and dios, — RouMANIAN
Provens.
Monotonous.
Monotonous as the dress of charity
children, — ANON.
Monotonous as mutton, —- Ricianp
Le GALLIENNE.
Monotonous as the sea. — RicHanp
M. Mines,
Mood.
Moody as a poet. — Tomas SiAp-
WiLL,
Mope.
Mope like birds that are changing
feather, — LonarnuLow,
Mopish.
T am as mopish as if T were married
and lived in’ a provincial town,
G. TH. Luwas.
Moral,
Moral as peppermint, — ANON.
Moral ax the tents of Abrahun, —~
W. UU. Manno.
Morals.
In morals as in metals... you
cannot work gold without supporting
it with alloy, — Ouipa.
Mortal,
Mortal as an old man’s life. —
SUAKMSPEARB.
Mortality.
Mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling
sleep. — Kuan.
Motionless.
Motionless ay a corpse. — ANON.
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Motionless as a figure cut in stone.
— Tit,
Motionless as wu monument, -— To.
Motionless, like the sun over Avalon.
— Witiiam Actua.
Motionless as the fixed rock. —
Epwin Annoup.
Motionless as a babe asleep. —
Aurren Austin,
Motionless as in tombstone. — RD.
BLACKMORE,
Motionless ag a statue, — Punnan
CABALLERO,
Motionless, like one who sees but
does not understand, —- Dumas, pti.
Motionless as a king’s mummy in a
ealacomb, -- LAURER.
Motionless, like m woman of wax,
— Maunien Hewnerr,
Motionless, as if thunder-stricken.
~- Huao,
Standing nus motionless as pillar set
To guide a wanderer ina pathless
waste. -- JAN INGELow.
Postured motionless,
Like natural seulpture in cathedral
euveri. — Kars,
Stood motionless... like some ex-
quisite chrys-clephantine statue, all
ivory and gold. — Crates KINGSLEY.
Motionless as a spectre, — Guy DE
MAurassan'.
Motionless as the distant purple hills
On which the shadows of the white
clouds rest.
— RK. Munkrrmic,
As motionless as death, — Tomas
L. Peacock.
Motionless, like a bereaved creature.
— Crarves Reape.
Motionless, nts if she were secking
in her mind the explanation of some
mystery or the key of some riddle. —
Jost SELaas.
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Motionless — continued.
Motionless,
As a stone above a grave.
— WitiiaM W. Story.
Stood motionless, as if transfixed.
—Ivan Vazov.
Motionless as a pool. — Vircit.
Motionless as an idol. — WuIrtIER.
Motionless as rocks. — Ipip.
Mottled.
Mottled and, dappled like an April
trout. — ANON.
Mount.
Mounts as a soul from flesh escap-
ing. — Buss Carman.
Mounting like a flame.—C. G.
RossErvi.
Mourn.
‘Mourned like a turtle. — ANon.
She mourns, like the sweet wind griev-
ing in
The pines on an autumn night.
— Barry CorNWALL.
Mournful and low, like the song of
the tomb. — Oss1an.
Mourn like a turtle-dove but late
robb’d of his mate. — GEORGE SANDYS.
Mourn like a sick child. — ALEx-
ANDER SMITH.
Mourn like a boy beaten. — Swin-
BURNE.
Mourn as a dove.— Op TersTa-
MENT.
Mourn’d
Like a-living thing distressed.
— WHITTIER.
Mournful.
Mournful as the grave. — ANON.
Mournful as the rhythm of the seas.
— Isp.
A voice as mournful as the dying
light in the west —for a vague reminder
: MOTIONLESS. —- MOUTH.
of Death is divinely set in the heavens,
and the sun above gives the same
warning that is given here on earth
by the flowers and the bright insects
of the day. — Bauzac.
Mournful — but mournful of another’s
crime,
She look’d as if she sat by Eden’s doo-,
And grieved for those who could re-
turn no more. Beso
Mournful as . . . Memnon’s: harp.
— Keats.
Mournful as the dancing of dead
leaves. — GERALD Massey.
Mournful as the dead below. —
R. M. Mines.
Mouwrnful, like the voice of one who
raves. — CELIA THAXTER.
Mouth (Noun).
He had a mouth like a whirlpool. —
ANON.
Her mouth turned up voluptuously
like the antique masks of Erigone. —
Isp.
A mouth as it were Solomon’s seal.
— ARABIAN NIGHTS.
That little mouth is like in this,
The rose-bush that so fair is,
For sly envenomed serpents hiss
In dark leaves where their lair is.
— Hervricn HEINE.
A dainty mouth like a crimson rose.
— Inip.
A mouth like the whale that swal-
lowed a whole fleet. — THomas LopeE.
Mouth that looked like a red gash
from a sabre cut. — Guy pre Mav-
PASSANT.
His mouth opened like the end of a
sawmill. - Epcar W. Nye.
Mouth was like a red rose rinsed
with rain. — JamMEs Wurtcoms RILEY.
Mouth tremulous light as a sea-
bird’s motion oversea. — SWINBURNE.
MOUTH. — MULTITUDE.
Mouth — continued.
Her mouth
Was as a rose athirst that pants for
drouth. — Isp.
Red mouth like a venomous flower.
— Isp.
Mouth sweeter than cherries. —
Isp.
A red mouth like a wound. —
ARTHUR SYMONS.
As @ pomegranate, cut in twain,
White-seeded, is her crimson mouth.
— Oscar WILDE.
Mouth (Verb).
Mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a
bone. — CHURCHILL.
Mouthed, like
CHARLES READE.
a chawbacon. —
Move.
Moving constantly, like the spheres.
— ANON.
Gently she moved in the calmness of
beauty,
Moved as the bough to the light breeze
of morning. — ARABIAN.
Moving like heaven still in the self-
same moving. — PHINEAS FLETCHER.
A wizard wind did faintly move,
Like a whisper through a dream.
— Owen MEREDITH.
When everything moves equally,
nothing moves apparently : as on a
ship. — Pascat.
Moving, like a skeptic’s thought,
Out of nowhere into naught.
— James Wuitcoms RILEY.
Moved one like the finest eloquence.
— ALEXANDER SMITH.
Moveless.
Moveless as a worm beneath a stone
Which some one’s stumbling foot has
spurned aside.
—E. B. Brownie.
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Moveless, as a long-forgotten lyre
Suspended in the solitary dome
Of some mysterious and deserted fane.
— SHELLEY.
Muddy.
Muddy as a little pigeon-toed drum-
mer after a long march. — GrorcE
CoLMAN, THE YOUNGER.
Muddy as
Murcer.
sheep-dogs. — HENRI
Muffled.
Muffled and dumb like
dervishes. — EMERSON.
Multiply.
Multiply in swarms, like vermin. —
Hueco.
barefoot
Their forms and features multiplied,
As the reflection of a light
Between two burnished mirrors gleams,
Or lamps upon a bridge at night
Stretch on and on before the sight,
Till the long vista endless seems.
— LonGFELLow.
Multiply in seed like Abraham. —
RaBELAIs.
Multiplied like grasshoppers upon
the face of the land. — Isp.
Multiply as the bud of the field. —
Op TESTAMENT.
Multiply thy seed as the stars of
heaven. — Isip.
Multiply like insects in the sun. —
CHARLES WAGNER.
Multitude.
Applause
Waits on success; the fickle multi-
tude,
Like the straw that floats along the
stream,
Glide with the current still and follow
fortune. — FRANKLIN.
Even as the sand that is upon the sea
shore in multitude. — OLp TESTAMENT.
As the stars of heaven for multitude.
— Isp.
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Multitudinous.
Multitudinous tongues, like the
whispering leaves of a wind-stirred
oak. — HawTHoRNE.
Like coral insects multitudinous. —
JEAN INGELOW.
Multitudinous as the desert sand
Borne on the storm. — SHELLEY.
Mum.
Mum as an oyster. — ANON.
Mumble
Mumble as if he were at his matins.
— Tuomas LopcE.
Murder.
Murder, like talent, seems occasion-
ally to run in families. — G. H. Lewes.
Murderous.
Murderous as a cannon ball. —
ANON.
Murmur (Noun).
A vague and monotonous murmur,
like that of the waves on a shore
where the wind dies away with ap-
proaching night. — Anon.
Murmurs passed along the valleys,
like the banshee’s lonely croon. —
Ipip. f
A murmur like the sough of bees
Hidden among the noon-stilled linden
trees. — Lowe Lt.
A deep sullen murmur... like the
moaning noise that goes before the
whirlwind on the deep. — Macautay.
Murmurs, like the sea’s, dying un-
comprehended. — T. Bucwanan Reap.
A murmur like the winds that break
Into green waves the prairie’s grassy
lake. — WHITTIER.
Murmur (Verb).
Murmurs like a dreaming sea. —
ANON.
Murmuring like bees at honey-time.
— Isp.
MULTITUDINOUS. —- MURMUR.
Murmuring like the sound of the
sea. — Rosert HucH Benson.
Murmured like a shell.—R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Murmur like a hive. — E. B. BRown-
ING.
Murmur like the moan of far-off seas.
— Rosert BucHanan.
They murmureden as dooth a swarm
of been. — CHAUCER.
Murmured like a whispering priest.
— Ausrey DE VERE.
Murmur like the gales of spring. —
Iprp.
Murm’ring they move, as when old
ocean roars. — Homer (Pore).
Murmured like the humming of a
bee. — Hoop.
Murmur like the wind in the leaves.
— Mary JoHNSTON.
Murmur as of waves upon a sea-
shore. — LONGFELLOW.
Murmur like the rustle of dead
leaves. — Ip.
Murmuring to her ears
Like to a falling stream, which, pass-
ing slow,
Is wont to nourish sleep and quietness.
— Sir WattTer RALEIGH.
Murmured like seas that are tem-
pesting. — C. G. Rossetti.
Low like dirge-wail or requiem they
murmured. — D. G. RossErtt.
Murmurs. . . like a bell that calls
to prayer. — JoHN Ruskin.
Murmured like a noontide bee. —
SHELLEY.
Murmuring like the ocean roar. —
Inip.
Murmured . . . like breathings of
a shell. — EizaBera O. SMITH.
Murmur... as when at twilight
hour the summer breeze moves o’er
the elmy vale. — SouTHEY.
MURMUR, — MUTE.
Murmur — coniinued.
Murmur like a_ shell. — Ropert
Louis STEVENSON.
Murmurs as who talks in dreams
with death. — SwINBURNE.
Murmur like the wind among the
trees. — 5. G. TALLENTYRE.
The verse murmurs... like the
moan of doves in immemorial elms. —
TENNYSoN.
A veiled stream murmurs like
thoughts of Heaven in a dream. —
Tuomas WaDE.
Murmurous.
Murmurous as the August bees
That fill the forest deep
Around the roots of trees.
— ARTHUR SYMONS.
Muscle.
Muscles as tense as those of the
tiger waiting for his leap. — ALBION
W. TourceEe.
Muscular.
Muscular as dogmeat. — REx
BrEacu.
Muse.
The muse, like mortal females, mav be
woo'd :
In turns she’ll seem a Paphian, or a
prude ;
Fierce as a bride when first she feels
affright,
Mild as the same upon the second
night ;
Wild as the wife of alderman or peer,
Now for his grace, and now a grenadier.
— Byron.
Music.
Musie at meals is like a carbuncle
set in gold, or a signet of an emerald
highly burnished. — Anon.
The music of Carryl was like the
memory of joys that are past, pleasant
and mournful to the soul. — James
MAacPHERSON,
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Rippling music like the sweet babble
of brook over stones. — Harriet M.
MILLER.
Music as sweet as the music which
seems :
Breathed softly and faint in the ear of
our dreams. — WHITTIER.
Musical.
Musical as brooks that run o’er
yellow shallows in the sun.—T. B.
ALDRICH.
Musical as rain drops on a roof. —
ANON.
Musical as a stream in Bunyan’s
delectable Mountains. — Isp.
Voices musical as birds or brooks.
— Avserey DE VERE.
Musically as the pine cone to the
breeze. — GEORGE GILFILLAN.
Musical as the holes of a flute with-
out the flute. — O. HENRY.
Bells, as musical
As those that, on the golden-shafted
trees
Of Eden, shake in the eternal breeze.
— Tuomas Moore.
Sweet and musical as bright Apollo's
lute strung with his hair. — SHake-
SPEARE.
Mutable.
Mutable as the wind. — Ricuarp D.
STOKER.
Mutable as. sand. — SwINBURNE.
Mute.
Mute as a funeral procession. —
ANoN.
Mute as a poker. — In.
Mute as death. — Ism.
Mute as fate. — Inmp.
Mute as Mumchance, who was
hanged for saying nothing. — IBm.
Mute as the Tiber. — Isp.
Mute as fishes. — Batzac.
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Mute — continued.
Mute as mice. — Emity Bronte.
Mute as snow. — E. B. Browninc.
Mute as the dead. — CAMPBELL.
Mute, like one who pondered on
strange and unaccountable events. —
J., FENIMORE COOPER.
Mute as the grave. — ABRAHAM
CowLey.
Mute as the wine we drink. —
BaRTHOLOMEW DowLING.
As mute as the tomb. — Dumas,
PERE.
As mute and motionless as statues.
— GOLDSMITH.
Stood mute as silence was in Heaven.
— Minton.
Soldiers . . . as mute as on parade.
— Miss Mutocx.
Mute, like a flame.— D. G. Ros-
SETTI.
Mute as if I tongueless were. —
GEORGE SANDYS.
Mute as fox’s ’mongst mangling
hounds. — Sir Water Scorr.
Mute as the grave. — Ipm.
As mute as Pygmalion. — Jamzs
SMITH.
Mute as a maiden. — SwInBURNE.
Mute as the mouth which felt death’s
wave o’erflow it. — Inm.
As mute as Jedorough Tower. —
WorDSWORTH.
Mutely.
Mutely as birds skim through air.
— Bu.wer-Lytron.
Mutter.
Muttering like the murmur of
hurried priest dispatching a prayer. —
Hugo,
MUTE, — MYTH.
Mutter like sullen bulls. — Kines-
LEY.
He sits muttering in his beard. His
voice
Is like a river flowing underground.
— LonGFELLow.
Muttering like smoked bees. —
SWINBURNE.
Mutters like a dim despair. — Frank
WATERS.
Myriad.
Myriad as the leaves by Autumn sent,
Up forest aisles and down. :
— Marearet E. Sanaster.
Mysterious.
Mysterious as a rose leaf. — Anon.
Mysterious as a sphinx. — Isr.
Rivatestous as a star. — Ip.
Mysterious as the sea. — Ipip.
Misterious echo. — JosH
BILLINGS.
ass an
Mystery.
As great a mystery as the serpent-
crest of the king’s crown on the pillars
of Egypt. — Anon.
Mystical.
Mystical . . . like a singing in a
‘dream. — E. B. Brownine.
Mystical as an astrological symbol.
— Ricwarp LE GALLIENNE.
Mystical as some dréamland arched
with unfathomed azure. — JAMES
Wautrcoms RirEy.
Myth.
As much of a myth as Lohengrin.
— ANoN.
Mythical as the glass of blood
quaffed by Sombreuil’s daughter. —
Tuomas Watson.
NAKED. — NATION.
Naked.
Naked as an Indian’s back. — ANon.
Naked as night. — Isp.
Naked as the graces. — Ibm.
Naked as a frog. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETcHER.
Naked as
CawEIN.
As naked . . . as a corowne withe
out stones. — CHAUCER.
a flower. — Mapison
Poor and naked as a fakir. — JoserH
ConrAD.
Like winter-earth, naked.—CowLey.
As naked as Norfolk dumpling. —
Joun Day.
Naked as a worm. — Dumas, PERE.
Naked as a peeled apple. —O. W.
Hoimes.
Naked as a nedle. — LANGLAND.
Naked as my nail. — Massinerr.
The country is naked as the sea. —
JULES SANDEAU.
Naked as the vulgar air. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
As naked as their mothers bore them.
— SwIrt.
Naked as apes. — VOLTAIRE.
Naked as a Tower. — WoRDSWoRTH.
oe Name.
Women’s good name, O my lady,
is like curded milk, the least dust
fouleth it ; and like glass, which, if
it be cracked, may not be mended.
— AraBian Nicuts.
A good name is like a precious oint-
ment ; it filleth all around about, and
will not easily away ; for the odors of
ointments are more durable than those
of flowers. — Bacon.
Names like jewels flashing the night
of time. — JoSEPH CONRAD.
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A man’s name is not like a mantle,
which merely hangs about him, and
which one perchance may safely twitch
and pull, but a perfectly fitting gar-
ment, which like the skin has grown
over and over him, at which one can-
not rake and scrape without injuring
the man himself. — GorTHE.
A great name without merit is like
an epitaph on a coffin. —MapaME
DE PUISIEUX.
A good name is better than precious
ointment ; and the day of death than
the day of one’s birth. — Otp Trsrta-
MENT.
A good name is like sweet-smelling
ointment. — Inrp.
Nameless.
Nameless as God. — Hugo.
Narrow.
The nations narrow and expand,
As tides that ebb, or tides that flow.
—Lorp Dr TasBtey.
Nasty.
Nasty as the opaque whiteness of
boiled veal. — ANon.
Nation.
Nations, like individuals, are power-
ful in the degree that they command
the sympathies of their neighbors. —
C. N. Bovéz.
T have seen some nations like over-
loaded asses,
Kick off their burdens, meaning the
higher classes. — Byron.
Every nation seems to me like a plant,
of which the lower class is the root, the
middle class the stem, and the upper
class the flower. — PiERRE DE COouLE-
VAIN.
Nations, like individuals, live and
die; but civilization cannot die. —
Giuseppe Mazzint.
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Nation — continuéd.
A warring nation, like an orator,
should know when to stop. — NEW
REPUBLIC.
Like men, nations are purified and
strengthened by trials. —SamMueL
SMILES.
Natural.
Natural as the breeze
That stirs amongst the forest trees.
— Saray F. Apams.
Natural as for ivy to climb a tree.
— ANON.
Natural as life. — Ipmp.
Natural as milk to a calf. — Isr.
Natural as nature. — Int.
As natural as that a genius should
wear queer clothes. — Inm.
Natural as the Marseillaise to a
French riot. — Ipip.
Natural as whooping to owls.—
Is.
Tis as natural for women to pride
themselves in fine clothes as ’tis for a
peacock to spread his’ tail. — Ini.
Natural to die as to be born. —
Bacon.
Natural as grinning to a hyena. —
J. R. Bartietrr’s “DICTIONARY OF
AMERICANISMS.”
Natral as the bee tow the flower.
— JosH BILunes.
Natural as dancing bears to a bag-
piper. —Tom Brown.
Natural as to eat, sleep, and wear a
nightcap. — Joun Forp.
Natural as the love of life in the
merest dumb thing that knows noth-
ing of ideas, of Country, realms, and
policies, nothing of war. — Joun Gats-
WORTHY.
Natural as _ bird-notes. — Haw-
THORNE,
NATION. — NATURE.
Natural as daylight. —Isr.
Natural as primping at a looking-
glass. —O. W. Homes.
Natural as dunghill
Grorcre MEREDITH.
steam. —
Natural as sunlight on the sea. —
Oscar WILDE.
Natural as light. — N. P. Wrius.
Natural as dreams to feverish sleep.
— WorDsWoRTH.
Naturally.
Naturally as a bird warbles in May.
— ANON.
As naturally as a chestnut bursts its
pod, and a chicken its shell. — Ism.
Naturally as fungus grows out of a
dying tree. — Im.
Naturally as pigs squeak. — SAMUEL
But ier.
As naturally as the descendant from
a line of suicides thinks of killing him-
self. — HAWTHORNE.
Naturally as the bleating of a sheep.
— Wiiuiam Hazuirr.
Naturally as needles turn to the
loadstone. — Frances LiTTLe.
Asnaturally as bees swarm and follow
their queen. — Henry D. Tuoreau.
Nature.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps
for gladness. — BEACONSFIELD.
Fine natures are like fine poems, —
a glance at the first two lines suffices
for a guess into the beauty that waits
you if you read on. — BuLwer-LytTrTon.
Our nature is like the sea, which
gains by the flow of the tide in one
place what it has lost by the ebb in
another. — Sir Ricuarp CEcIL.
Nature, like liberty, is but restrained
By the same laws which first herself
ordained. — Pops,
NATURE. — NECK.
Nature — continued.
Nature, like oil, will rise uppermost.
— James Rapa.
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever
trying to keep land and sea, mountain
and valley, each in its place, to hush
the angry winds and waves, balance
the extremes of heat and cold, of rain
and drought, that peace, harmony, and
heart may reign supreme. — Exiza-
BETH Capy STANTON.
The finest qualities of our nature,
like the bloom on fruits, can be pre-
served only by the most delicate
handling. — Henry D. THorzav.
Naughty.
Naughty as Gautick, where the devil
struck for shorter hours. — ANON.
Near.
Near as two ha’pennies for a penny.
— ANon.
Near as one second is to another.
— Isr.
Near as the bark to [the] tree. —
Witu1amM CaMpEn’s “REMAINS.”
As neere is Fancie to Beautie, as
the pricke to the rose, as the stalke to
the rynde, as the earth to the roote.
— Lyty.
More near and near,
Like doves about a dovecote, wheeling
round. — TENNYSON.
Nearsighted.
Near-sighted as a mole. — ANON.
Neat.
Neat as a nail. — ANon.
Neat as a new pin. — Isp.
Neat as ninepence. — Inn.
Neat as wax. — Ip.
Neat as fresh
Gerorce ELiot.
Neat as wax-work.—Hrnry J.
FINN.
spring herbs. —
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Neat as a postman’s knock. —
Grorce MERepiTH.
Necessary.
As necessary as breathing is to live.
— ANON.
Necessary as for the butterfly to
escape from the worm to become a
butterfly. — Is.
As necessary as skin to the apple. —
Isp.
As necessary as Churches. —
Rosert Burton.
Necessary ... as friction in me-
chanics. — C. C. Coton.
Necessary as one’s digestion. —
Tuomas Hrywoop.
Necessary . . . as rakehells in an
army. — JoHN WEBSTER.
Necessary . . . as the gargoyle on
the spire and the high altar are neces-
sary parts of a Gothic cathedral. —
H. G. WELLS.
Neck.
Her neck is like the neck of doe. —
ARABIAN NIGHTS.
A neck like an ingot of silver. — IB.
A neck as white as whale’s bone,
Compased with a lace of stone.
— Ropert GREENE.
Her neck like a stately tower,
Where love himself imprisoned lies,
To watch for glances, every hour,
From her divine and sacred eyes.
— Tuomas Lopce.
Thy ‘neck is like the swan, and fair
as the pearl. — Lover.
Her snowie neck lyke to a marble
towre. — SPENSER.
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory.
— Op TESTAMENT.
Thy neck is like the tower of David
builded for an armoury, whereon there
hang a thousand bucklers, all shields
of mighty men. — Inn.
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Need.
Need . . . as pansies need the dew.
— ANON.
Need a wife as much as a dog does
a side-pocket. — Grosz’s “‘ DICTIONARY
oF THE VULGAR TONGUE.”
Needful.
Needful as the sun. — Grant ALLEN.
As needful to the forest-tree as sun
and gentle shower. — TupPER.
Neglected.
Neglected, as the moon by day. —
SwIrt.
Negligence.
Wanton negligence is like a net,
Which for unwary feet the powers have
set. — ANon.
Nervous.
Nervous as a-cat that hears a mouse
in the wall. — Anon.
Nervous as a witch. — Inip.
Nervous as a watch. — F. Marion
CRAWFORD.
Nervous as a mouse.—G. B.
SHAW.
New.
New as day. — Ben Jonson.
New as sight. —Francis THOMPSON.
Newspaper.
A newspaper, like a theatre, must
mainly owe its continuance in life to
the fact that it pleases many persons ;
and in order to please many persons it
will, unconsciously perhaps, tespond
to their several tastes, reflect their
various qualities, and reproduce their
views. — WILLIAM WINTER.
Nice.
Nice as Marie Antoinette playing
milkmaid. — Anon.
As nice as ninepence. — Inm.
Nyse as a nonne’s henne. — Sir
Tuomas WILSON.
NEED. — NOISE.
Nimble.
Nimble as a bee on a tar-barrel. —
ANON,
Nimble as a cow in a cage. — Ip.
Nimble as a lizard. — Inn.
Nimble as an eel. — Ism.
As nimble as a wireless spark, that
hurdles the ether, pole-vaults the
oceans and circles the ends of the earth
in a flash. — Ip.
Nimble as ninepence. — Ini.
Nimble as roes. — CARLYLE.
Nimble as thought. — CeRvANTES.
Nimble as quicksilver. — GzorcE
COLMAN, THE YOUNGER.
Nimble, like a
FLETCHER.
shadow. — JoHN
Nimble as a hare. — Swirt.
Nimble-fingered as a harper. — Joun
TAYLOR.
Nimble as quarrel from a crossbow
shot. — Frangois VILLON.
Nimbly.
Nimbly as juggler’s balls from cup
to cup. — James PuCKLE.
Nod.
Nodded like a plume. —DickEns.
Nodded in bright array, like holly-
hocks heavy with blossoms. — Lone-
FELLOW.
Nodded her head like a mandarin. —
CuarLes READE.
Nodded at each other like a congre-
gation of Anabaptists. — SMOLLETT.
Noise.
To catch a squirrel make a noise
like a nut. — ANon.
As much fuss and noise as a one-
legged man falling down stairs. — Inrp.
Make noises like a drunken Zulu
trying to sing a Swedish folk song. —
Irvin S. Coss.
NOISE, —- NONSENSE.
Noise — continued.
Make a noise like an assessment. —
O. Henry.
The noise was in the beast’s belly
like unto the questyng of thirty couple
hounds. — Tuomas Matory.
Noiseless.
Noiseless as a shadow. — ANON.
Noiseless as a lapwing. — Iprp.
Noiseless as the circulation of the
blood. — Isp.
Noiseless as the gathering storm
before the tempest. — Ini.
Noiseless as the sunlight. — Taomas
ASHE.
Noiseless as a bright mist rolls
down a hill. — CHarLotre Bronvé.
As noiseless as the trail of the swift
snake and pilgrim snail.—T. G.
Haks.
Noiseless as night’s soft shade. —
Aaron Hit.
Noiseless as fear in a wide wilder-
ness. — KEatTs.
Noiseless as the passing mountain
rain. — Im.
Noiseless as a black shadow. —
Kip.ina.
Noiseless ... as the falling dew
— Grorce Mac-HEnry.
Noiseless as sleep. — T. BucHAaNaN
Reap.
Noiseless as the years descend. —
Isp.
Noiseless as the owlet’s wing. —Isp.
Noiseless as if velvet-shod. — Wairt-
TIER.
Noiselessly.
Noiselessly as the daylight comes back
when night is done,
And the crimson streak on an ocean’s
cheek grows into the great sun.
— Mrs. C. F. ALEXANDER.
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Noiselessly as the springtime her crown
of verdure weaves,
And all the trees on all the hills open
their thousand leaves. — Ini.
As noiselessly as fairies’ feet that press
The dewdropt grass.
— Joun Payne.
Glide noiselessly as spirits of the
night. — MicHaEL Scorr.
Noisy.
Noisy as a boiler-shop. — ANon.
Noisy as a menagerie. — Ipmp.
Noisy as a creditors’ meeting. —Ixrp.
Noisy as a flock of crow-blackbirds
in the migration season. — Izip.
Noisy as a cookstove falling down
stairs. — Ini.
Noisy as burial-howlers at full cry.
— In.
Noisy as a living skeleton having a
fit on a hardwood floor. — In1p.
Noisy as a dozen drums. — ‘‘ Founp-
ting Hospirau ror Wirt.”
Noisy as a kettle-drum.—O. W.
Homes.
Noisy as at a fair. — GrorcE
MEREDITH.
Noisy as women bathing in a river.
— Osman. PROVERB.
As noisy as a hen with one chicken.
— Cuartes READE.
Nonsense.
Nonsense : like to the thundering
tone of unspoke speeches . . . like
the fiery tombstone of a cabbage. —
RicwarD Corset.
Nonsense —like swimming on a
carpet. — CHARLES READE.
_ Low nonsense is like that in the Bar-
rel, which is altogether flat, tasteless
and insipid. High nonsense is like that
in the Bottle, which has in Reality no
mere Strength and Spirit than the
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other, but frets, and flies, and bounces,
and by the help of a little Wind that is
got in it, imitates the Passions of much
nobler liquor. —Sir RicHarD STEELE.
Nose.
Flabby nose like a brinjall, or egg-
plant. — Arapian NIGHTs.
Nose like a promontory. — Rosert
Burton.
Sharp nose like a sharp autumn
evening, inclined to be frosty towards
the end. — Dickens.
With angry bottle nose,
Like a red cabbage rose.
— Horace Suita.
Notch.
Notched him like a carbonado. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Novel.
A novel, like a bundle of wood, the
more fagots it contains the greater its
value. — Butwer-LytTon.
A novel is typically as far removed
from a play as a bird is from a fish . . .
any attempt to transform one into the
other is apt to result in a sort of fly-
ing-fish, a betwixt-and-between-thing.
— Buss Perry.
A novel is the world’s truth with a
beautiful woman walking through it.
— Davin Swine.
Nude.
As nude as a raw oyster. — Irvin
S. Coss.
Numb.
Growing numb from the feet up,
Like one stepping deeper and deeper
into a stream of ice.
— Epear Lee Masters.
Numberless.
Numberless as are the dead. — P.
J. BaILey.
As numberless as they that at last
will throng into the valley of Jehosa-
phat. — Siemunp Krasinski.
Numberless as the gay motes that
people the sunbeams. — Mitton.
NOSE. —- NUMEROUS.
Numerous.
Numerous as grains of silver in the
bowels of the Rockies. — ANon.
Numerous as hailstones. — Ip.
Numerous as insects on the banks
of the Nile. — Ini.
Numerous as maggots in a Cheshire
cheese. — Ipip.
Numerous as the breaths a patriarch
has breathed. — Ipip.
Numerous as the heads of Briareus.
— Isp.
Numerous as the holes in the mantle
of Diogenes. — Isr.
Numerous as the leaves of the forest.
— Isp.
Numerous as the mouths of the
Ganges. — Ini.
Numerous as the mouths of the Nile.
— Isp.
Numerous as the pearls of morming-
dew, which hang on herbs and flowers.
— Isp.
As numerous as the stars of heaven
Are the fond hopes to mortals given.
— Ricuarp Dasney.
Numerous as sands upon the ocean
shore. — PHitip FRENEAU.
Numerous as unsold shares in an
over-capitalized mining company. —
F. C. Grirrita.
Num’rous as birds that o’er the
forest play. — Watrer Harte.
Numerous as the fish that sail the
wide sea over. — ITaLIAN Love Sone.
Numerous as shadows haunting fairily
The brain. — Keats.
Numerous as a night of stars. —
GERALD Massey.
Numerous as leaves that strew the
autumnal gale. — SHELLEY.
Numerous as the hairs of his head.
— Pau. Wiaeins.
Numerous as the writings of Ibid.
— Ibi.
OATHS. — OBVIOUS.
Oaths.
Lovers’ oaths are like mariners’ pray-
ers, uttered in extremity ; but when
the tempest is o’er, and that the vessel
leaves tumbling, they fall from protest-
ing to cursing. — JoHn WEBSTER.
Lovers’ oaths are like fetters made
of glass, that glisten fair, but couple no
restraint. — ZENO.
Obdurate.
Obdurate as the grave. — WELSH
Bayan.
Obdurate as a bailiff where his dues
are concerned. — BALzac.
Obedience.
Passive obedience, like jumping off
a castle-roof at the word of a czar. —
EMERSON.
Obedient.
Obedient as the needle to the pole. —
ANON.
Obedient as the yew to the tender’s
will. — Ipip.
Obedient as a puppet. — GEORGE
MEREDITH.
Obedient as the scabbard. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Obediently.
Obediently bent as a willow wand.
— Oura.
Obey.:
Obeyed, as the she-wolf obeys her
mate, with a growl. — Huco.
Obey,
Like children under wise paternal sway.
— SouruEy.
Obligation.
Like an Irishman’s obligation, all
on one side. — F. P. NoRTHALL.
Obnoxious.
Obnoxious as an alligator. —'Tom
TAYLOR.
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Obscure (Adjective).
Obscure as Mallarmé. — IsraEu
ZANGWILL.
Obscure (Verb).
Obscured as with a veil. — ANon.
Obscurely.
Moves obscurely like the hand of
fate. — Aaron HI.
Observations.
His observations are like a sieve,
that lets the finer flour pass, and re-
tains only the bran of things. —
SAMUEL BUTLER.
Obsolete.
Obsolete as a Congress shoe. ~
ANON.
Obsolete as the coalscuttle bonnet
and the hoopskirt. — Isrp.
Obsolete as the Minotaur of Crete.
— ANDREW LaNc.
Obstinate.
Obstinate as a discharged school-
director. — ANON.
Obstinate as a mule. — Ipmp.
Obstinate as death. — DRYDEN.
Obstinate as a pig, will neither lead
nor drive. — THomas FULLER.
Obstinate .. . like the corpse in
the fable, threatening the driver of the
hearse with vengeance dire at every
gate of fatal charnel-house. — Sic-
MUND KRASINSKI.
Obstinate as sin. — STRINDBERG.
Obtrusive.
Obtrusive as violent colors in a sober
woof. — ANON.
Obvious.
Obvious as circus parade. — ANON.
Obvious as noonday sun. — RoBERT
BRownine.
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Obvious — continued.
Obvious as stars on a clear night. —
Atrrep Henry Lewis.
Obvious as the midnight stars. —
WituiramM J. Micke.
Obvious as the gloss upon a new
silk hat. —H. G. WELLS.
Occupation.
As the Oxe is most apt for the plough,
the Horse for the carte, and the hound
for hunting: So ought men to chuse
that occupation, and Trade of life,
wherunto by nature they are most apt.
As he which hath no house of his owne,
wandereth here and there: So he which
followeth no certaine Trade of life,
must foolishly assay many sorts and
chaunces. — RoBeRT Cawpray’s “A
TREASURIE OR STORE-HOUSE OF
Srurues,” 1600.
Odd.
Odd as the gesticulations and antic
motions of the Satyrs. — Bacon.
Odorous.
Odorous as an angel’s fresh-culled
crown. — P. J. Barby.
Odorous as a bouquet. — Huco.
Odorous as incense gathered in the
skies. — RicHARD SAVAGE.
Off.
Off like a snip. — ANoN.
Off, like chimera, glinting, flitting,
gay and light and free. — Inn.
Off like the lid of a pumpkin pie. —
Isp.
Off like a shot. — R. H. Barwam.
Gang off like a squib or a cracker on
a rejoicing night, in a noise and a
stink, and are never heard of after. —
Cuarites Mackin.
Offensive.
Offensive as the sun to weak eyes.
— ANON.
OBVIOUS.
— OLD,
Offensive . . . as a smell of cooking
in the drawing room — Epira Wuar-
TON. .
Office.
High office is like a pyramid: only
two kinds of animals reach the summit,
— reptiles and eagles. — D’ALEMBERT.
Ogle.
Ogle like a provincial tenor. —
Dumas, FILS.
Oily.
Oily as the King’s constable’s lamp.
— Dr. Jonson.
Old.
Old as a serpent. — ANON.
Old as Charing-Cross. — Inn.
Old as circus jokes. — Inrp.
Old as creation. — Isr.
Old as Eve. — Izip.
Old as grey eternity. — Inrp.
Old as Hercules. — Ipip.
Old as Jericho. — Isr.
Old as man. — Ipmp.
Old as Methuselah.— Isip.
Old as Nestor. — Ip.
Old as poverty. — Inm.
Old as Solomon. — Isp.
Old as the age of stone. — Isp.
Old as the hills. — Ini.
Old as the Prophet Ezekiel. — Inin.
Old as the rebuilding of Samaria. —
Isp.
Old as Trilobites. — Inmp.
Old as Zoroaster. — Ip.
Old as Paradise. — BuLwER-LyYTTON.
Old as my little finger. — Jonn Day.
As old as Fate. —Lorp Dr TaBLey.
Old as Time. — Austin Dosson.
OLD. — OPINION.
Old — continued.
Ever old and ever new as love. —
Grorce Du Maurier.
Old as thought. —Etpert Hupparp.
Old as Priam. — LonerELLow.
As old as human nature. — W. H.
Mattock.
As old as heartache. — MrrEpITH
NICHOLSON.
As old as the itch. — Spaniso Prov-
ERB.
Old as Sibylla. — SHaKrsPEare.
Old as the shepherds. —G. B.
Saw.
Old as the earth is old. — ARTHUR
Symons.
Wax old like a garment. — New
TESTAMENT.
Old as hope. — Francis THompson.
One.
In one,
As all the stars found utterance through
the sun. — SWINBURNE.
Oozing.
The damp oozed up through the
thick brick floor like water through
the sides of a Moorish jar. — Bazzac.
Oozing like a leg of mutton on the
spit. —T. F. Mracuer.
Opaque.
Opaque as the sky. — ANON.
Open (Adjective).
Open as a smile. —E. B. Brown-
ING.
Open as shore to the sea. — Ross T.
Cooke.
Open as the mid-day. — R. Daven-
PORT.
Open as the inn gates to receive
guests. — GEORGE GASCOIGNE.
Wide open like the church portals
when the bride and bridgeroom enter.
—O. W. Homes.
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Open as a plate. — Grorce Merz-
DITH.
Minds open as a well-read book. —
CHARLES SANGSTER.
Open as day for melting charity. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Open (Verb).
Opened inertly like the hands of the
dead. — Hugo.
To lay oneself open like an oyster. —
“A Knack To Knowe A KNAvE.”
The dreadful truth was opened like
a gulf. — James S. Know es.
Open-mouthed.
Open-mouthed, like a crow at a wal-
nut. — Bazac.
Open-mouthed as a young child
Wondering with a mind at fault.
— Grorce MEREDITH.
Opera.
Old operas are like old bonnets:
they ought to be remodelled, re-
trimmed from time to time. — A. E.
Housman.
An opera, like a pillory, may be said,
To nail our ears down and expose our
head. — Youne.
Opinion.
Opinions, like showers, are generated
in high places. — C. C. Coron.
Social opinion is like a sharp knife.
There are foolish people who regard it
only with terror, and dare not touch
or meddle with it; there are more
foolish people, who, in rashness or
defiance, seize it by the blade, and get
cut and mangled for their pains; and
there are wise people, who grasp it dis-
creetly by the handle, and use it to
carve out their own purposes. — Mrs.
JAMESON.
Opinions ! — they are like the clothes
we wear, which warm us, not with their
heat, but with ours. — WaLTer Parer,
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Opinion — continued.
Opinion is like a pendulum and
obeys the same law. If it goes past
the center of gravity on one side, it
must go a like distance on the other;
‘and it is only after a certain time that
it finds the true point at which it can
remain at rest. — SCHOPENHAUER.
Opinions, like fashions, always de-
scend from those of quality to the
middle sort; and thence to the vulgar,
where they are dropped and: vanish. —
SwIrt.
Opportunity.
Lost opportunities are like precious
jewels locked in the casket of regret,
whose key is held in the unchanging
past. — ANON.
Opportunitays, like eggs, don’t kum
but one at a time. —Josn BrLLinos.
Opposed.
Opposed as the two poles. — RoBert
Brownina.
Opposite.
Opposite as black and white. —
ANON.
Opposite as fire and water. — Inn.
Opposite as oil and vinegar. — Inrp.
Opposite as the poles. — Inrp.
Opposite as day and darkness. —
Tuomas DEKKER.
Opposite as the spheres. — Huco.
Opposite as men’s thoughts and their
words. — Lyty.
Opposite as heaven and _ hell. —
Worpswortu.
Opposition.
Opposition to a man in love is like
oil to fire. — Ourpa.
Oppress.
Oppressed like foul air. — Dickens.
Oppresses like a crown of gold. —
ALEXANDER SMITH.
OPINION. — OUT.
Oppression.
Ideal oppression . . . something like
a fly serving spiders. — Huao.
Oratory.
Oratory, like the drama, abhors
lengthiness ; like the drama, it must
keep doing. — ButwiEr-LyTTon.
Order.
Ordered as the morning light. —
TUupPER.
Orderliness.
Painful orderliness, like a city pro-
cession under the conduct of the police,
— Grorce Merepita.
Orderly.
Orderly, like fresh veiled nuns. —
Bauzac.
Oriental.
Oriental as a rug. — ANON.
Original.
Original as original sin. — ANON.
Ornamental.
Ornamental as a band-wagon. —
ANON.
Ornamental as the signs of old Lon-
don, — In.
Orthodoxy.
Orthodoxy combined with brilliancy
is like glycerine combined with vaccirie
— it enables a little to go a very long
way. —H. D. Trait.
Oscillated.
The earth . . . oscillated like a thin
crust beneath our feet. — Cuartes R.
Darwin.
Out.
In and out like a needle through
cloth. — ANon.
Come out like beetles when the
lights are out. — J. M. Barrie.
Out like a burnt taper’s flame. —
R. H. Dana.
OUT. — PAINTED.
Out — continued.
Go out, like an untended lamp. —
SCHILLER.
Outpoured.
Abundance is outpoured
Like worship at a shrine adored.
— Bayarp Taytor.
Outrageous.
Outrageous as the sea, dark, waste-
ful, wild. — Mitton.
Outspoken.
Outspoken as a north-wester. —
ANON.
Overcast.
Overcast,
Like a snow-covered pine in the vast
Dim forests of Orkadale.
— LoNGFELLOW.
Overcome.
Overcome us like a summer’s cloud.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Overflow.
Overflowing like a crock of salt-rising
dough in a warm kitchen. — Irvin S.
Coss.
Packed.
Packed like Norfolk biffins. — ANon.
Packed like the leaves in a closed
book. — O. W. Hoes.
Pagan.
Pagan as the Muses. — ANON.
Pain (Noun).
Pain . . . like the bitterness of dis-
solution. — THowas Harpy.
Pain and pleasure, like light and
darkness, succeed each other. —
STERNE.
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My being overflowed,
Wert like a golden chalice to bright wine
Which else had sunk into the thirsty
dust. — SHELLEY.
Overtake.
Overtake ... like sea waves. —
T. Evcar PEMBERTON.
Overturned.
Idols are overturned like new-
mown grass. — SiemuND KrasInskI.
Overwhelm.
Overwhelmed, like the miner upon
whom a roof has just fallen. — Dumas,
PERE.
As when a torrent, swell’d with wintry
rains,
Pours from the mountains o’er the
delug’d plains,
And pines and oaks, from their founda-
tions torn,
A country’s ruins! to the seas are
borne :
Fierce Ajax thus o’erwhelms the yield-
ing throng. — Homer (Pore).
O’erwhelming his fair sight,
Like aid vapors when they blot the
— SHAKESPEARE.
P
They shall be in pain as a woman
that travaileth. — Op TESTAMENT.
Pain (Verb).
Pains like a horrible vulgarism. —
Larcapio HEARN.
Painful.
Painful, as a visit to the dentist. —
Guy pE Maupassant.
Painted.
Painted like the leaves of Autumn.
— LONGFELLOW.
Painted like the sky of morning. —
Isp.
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Painting.
As is painting, so is poetry : some
pieces will strike you more if you
stand near, and some, if you are at a
greater distance : one loves the dark ;
another, which is not afraid of the
critic’s subtle judgment, chooses to be
seen in the light ; the one has pleased
once, the other will give pleasure if
ten times repeated. — Horacz.
Pale
Pale as an Angel of the Grave. —
ANON.
Pale as Banquo’s ghost. — Isp.
Pale as linen. — Ini.
Pale as parchment. —- Isip.
Pale as the gleam of a glow-worm.
— Isp.
Pale as the haggard features of
despair. — Isip.
Pale as the rose-leaves withered in
the northern gale. — Isp.
Pale as turnips were his cheeks. —
Isp.
Pale as with the sickness that
promised death. — Inip.
Grew pale, like a flower that is cut
off. — ASSYRIAN.
Pale as a moon that moves alone
through lonely space. — ALFRED Aus-
TIN.
Pale as snowdrift in the frost. —
C. D. Bett.
Pale as the moon before the solar
tray. — SAMUEL Boys.
Pale as a white stone. — CHARLOTTE
BRonrveE.
Pale as baby carved in stone. —
E. B. Browninea.
Pale ... as one who saw an ec-
stasy beyond a foretold agony.—Izm.
Pale as crocus grows
Close beside a rose-tree’s root.
— Isp.
PAINTING. —- PALE.
Pale as the silver cross of Savoy.
— Isp.
Pale as a spectre. — BULWER-LYT-
TON.
Pale like only lily. — Burns.
Pale as ashes, or a clout. — SAMUEL
But Ler.
Pale as death. — Ism.
Pale...
Like a dede ymage, pale and wan.
— Isp.
as any lead. — CHAUCER.
Palle as asshen colde. — Ini.
Pale as a witch. — Ricwarp Cum-
BERLAND.
Pale as driven by a beating storm at
sea. —R. H. Dana.
Pale as a new cheese. — THOMAS
DEKKER.
Pale as a wreath of Alpine snow. —
Lorp De TABLey.
Pale as a candle. — DICKENS.
Pale as a muffin. — IBm.
Pale as fires when mastered by the
night. — DrypDEn.
Pale as a ghost. — DUMAS, PERE.
Pale as a sheet. — Inm.
Pale
Like a white, bright boat in the sky’s
vast seas.
— Marcaret EwIine.
Pale and thin as an autumn moon.
—F. W. Faser.
Pearly pale,
Like a white transparent veil.
— Isp.
Pale and meagre as a court page. —
FIELpine.
Pale as a moonbeam. — FLAUBERT.
Palé as brow of one on whom the
axe is falling. — GorTHE.
Pale as a petulant star. — HELEN
Hay
PALE.
Pale — continued.
Pale as the tender tints that blush
upon a baby’s cheek. — J. R. Haves.
Pale as wordless grief. —F. W.
Home.
Pale as frosty snow-drops. — Hoop.
Pale, like cheeks that feel the chill
of affright. — Inrp.
Pale as the Champa flowers. —
LavuRENcE ‘Hope.
Pale as a lover dying of despair. —
Arsene Houssaye.
Pale as a trappist. — Ini.
Pale as a corpse. — Huao.
Pale she was
As lily yet unsmiled on by the sun.
— Jean INGELow.
Pale as the moonlight beam. —
Mrs. Ineuis.
Pale as smooth-sculptured stone. —
uals.
Pale as Orithyia when she was borne
away. — W. S. Lanpor.
More pale than the meadows of
Anjou. — ANDREW Lang.
Pale as an unawakened Galatea. —
Amy LESLIE.
Pale as pale November dawn. —
Ini.
Pale as is the face of one
Who sinks exhausted in oblivion after
a night of deep debauchery.
— Georce Cazsot LopGer.
Pale as light. — Ism.
Pale as are the dead. — Macau.ay.
Pale as ascending ghost cast back
to day. — Davin MaLet.
Pale as a lily crowned with moon-
light.— GrRaLp Massey.
Pale as a pearl. — Isp.
Pale as the sister of death. —
Grorce MERepITH.
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Pale as a snowdrop in Cashmere. —
Owen MEREDITH.
Pale...
Morris.
as the icy moon. — Lrwis
Pale as marble. — Rospert Morais.
Pale as the angel of consumption. —
Henri Murcer.
Pale as despairing woe. — ORIENTAL.
Pale as the ended night. — Jouw
Payne.
Pale as Paris
PLANCHE.
Pale like those to whom dead
Lazarus burst the tomb. — CuarLes
READE.
plaster. —J. R.
Pale as a rain-washed rose. — AGNES
REPPLIER.
Pale as blossoms. — James Wuit-
coms RILEY.
Pale
As the fair changing moon.
—C. G. Rossetti.
Pale as whom the Fates astound. —
Isr.
Pale as Parian statues. — Inm.
Pale as transparent Psyche-wings.
—D. G. Rossertt.
Pale as bread. — Sant.
Pale as a whitewashed wall. —
SCHILLER.
Pale and wan, as watchlight by the
bed of some departing man. — Sir
WALTER Scott.
Pale as clay. — Ini.
Pale as any clout in the versal world.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Pale, as if a bear was at his heels.
— Isp.
Pale as milk. — Ism.
Pale lustre like the silver moon. —
Isp.
Pale as his shirt. — Isrp.
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Pale — continued.
Pale as the breath of blue smoke
in far woodlands. — WILLIAM SHARP.
Pale as yonder waning moon. —
SHELLEY.
Pale — like the white shore
Of Albion. —Ism.
Pale and pure as a maiden secluded
in secret and cherished in fear. —
SWINBURNE. ‘
Pale and sweet as a dream’s delight. |
— Is.
Pale as grass or later flowers. —
Ip.
Pale as the duskiest lily’s leaf. —
In.
Pale as the front of oblivion. —
Inn.
Pale as the glimmer of stars on
moorland meres. — IBip.
Pale as the moon in star-forsaken
skies. — Iprp.
Pale . as twilight. — Isp.
Paler than young snow. — Inm.
Skies as pale, as moonlight in a
shadowy sea. — ARTHUR SYMONS.
Pale as a tear. — Joun B. Tass.
Pale as a tablecloth. — THACKERAY.
Pale as Jephtha’s daughter. —
TENNYSON.
Pale as the passing of a ghost. —Ism.
Pale sad faces like faint flames dying.
—G. 8. VierEcK.
Paled.
Paled, as a candle by the sun. —
Ourwa.
Paleness.
A death-like paleness . . . like one
who trembling waits his fatal doom. —
ARIOSTO.
Paleness, like winter. — BEAUMONT
AND FLETCHER.
PALE. —— PAMPER.
A sudden pale,
Like lawn being spread upon the
blushing rose. — SHAKESPEARE.
Pall.
Pall on the temper, like a twice
told tale. — AKENSIDE.
Contemplation palls upon the spirit
Like the chill silence of an autumn sun.
— Kqcs.ey.
Pallid.
Pallid as coffined
BRONTE.
clay: — Emity
Pallid as a saint. —E. B. Brown-
ING.
Pallid as the snow. — EBENEZER
ELuortr.
Pallid as a corpse. — Hoop.
Grew pallid and shrank,
As a taper in sunlight sinks faint and
aghast. — T. Bucwanan Reap.
Pallid and pink as the palm of the
flag-flower that flickers with fear of
the flies as they float. — SwinBuRNE.
Pallid as a ghost. — Worpswortu.
Palpitate.
Palpitating . . . like a white soul
tossed out to eternity with thrills of
time upon it.— E. B. Brownine.
Palpitating at the least emotion like
the nostrils of an amorous tigress. —
GAUTIER.
Like the birch-leaf palpitated. —
LONGFELLOW.
Palpitant as men’s pulses palpitate
Between the flowing and ebbing tides
of fate
That wash their lifelong waifs of weal
and woe
Through night and light and twilight
to and fro. — SWINBURNE.
Pamper.
Pampering of their paunches, like a
monk that maketh his jubilee. —
Hues Latimer.
PANG. — PASS.
Pang.
A pang
As hot as death’s is chill with fierce
convulse. — Keats.
Pant.
Panting like the hounds of summer,
When they scent the stately deer.
—W. E. Ayroun.
Pant like a netted lioness. — E. B.
BROWNING.
Pant like climbers. — Inn.
Pant as in a dream. — COLERIDGE.
Panting like a spent hound. — Sir .
A. Conan DOoYLe.
Panting, like a bird that has often
beaten his wings in vain against his
cage. — DRYDEN.
Softly panting like a bride. —
Rosert HERRICK.
Panted like a forge bellows. — Huco.
Panting, like a run-down hare. —
DovGias JERROLD.
The country was panting like a
wrestler lying under the knees of his
successful opponent. — Guy pe Mav-
PASSANT.
Panting, like an engine with its
steam up. —J. R. PLANcHE.
Panting, and swept as by the sense
of death. — SWINBURNE.
Panted like a sick man’s fitful
breath. — Inm.
Panted hard,
Like one that feels a nightmare on
his bed. — TENNYSON.
As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after thee,
O God. — Otp TESTAMENT.
Parch.
Mouth parched like a shade that
comes to salute friends of former
days. — DuMAS, PERE.
Parch’d like the fallow destitute of
corn. — Francis Fawkes,
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Parch to the peppered palate like a
pea. — Hoop.
Pardon.
God pardons like a mother who
kisses away the repentant tears of
her child. — Henry Warp BEEcuer.
Paris.
Paris — like a pretty woman, has
mysterious fits of ugliness or beauty.
— Batzac.
Parted.
Parted like a scattered flock be-
fore a lion. —Sypnry Dose.t.
Parted like a stone from a sling. —
CHARLES READE.
Parted thence,
As pearls from diamonds dropped.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Parting.
Partings are like postscripts to a
letter —indiscreet utterances that do
as much mischief to the speaker as to
those who overhear them. — Bauzac.
Pass.
Our memory passes like a ripple in
the water, or a breeze in the air. —
AMIEL.
Passes like a mode. — ANON.
Passed like an uncurbed cavalry. —
Ixip.
Time passes like the wind. — Ipm.
Pass like a rolled syllable of mid-
night thunder from the coming day.
—P. J. Barey.
One solitary and foreseeing thought,
passed, like a planet’s transit o’er the
sun. — In.
Passed, like the foam of the wave.
— Jane Bartow.
As shadows cast by cloud and sun
flit o’er the summer grass,
So, in thy sight, Almighty One!
earth’s generations pass.
— Witu1am CuLien Bryant.
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Pass — continued.
Passed away as fairies vanish at the
break of day. — HartLEy CoLERIDGE.
Thy grace must pass
As unremembered things.
—Lorp Dr Tastey.
Time passed away as a tale which is
told. — Dickens.
Passed out as quickly as a sunbeam.
— Isp.
New generations pass,
Like shadows on the grass.
—Juua C. R. Dorr.
Passed like a meteor. — Dumas,
PERE.
Pass away as in vision. — FREDERIC
HARRISON.
The generations pass, like autumn’s
fruits,
Garnered, consumed, and springing
fresh to life.
—James A. HItitHousE.
Passed away like waves. — Huco.
2 Pass away —
As flowers that bloom at morn, at eve
decay. — Francis Scott Key.
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be
proud ?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast
flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the
wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the
grave. — Wituram Knox.
Little troubles pass like little ripples
in a sunny river. — W. S. Lanpor.
Passed like the mournful cry of
sunward cranes. — Lonc-
FELLOW.
When she had passed, it seemed like
the ceasing of exquisite music. — Ir.
sailing
Passed like a dream away. —
Macautay.
They pass like a shade away. —
JAMES MAcPHERSON.
PASS.
They pass
Like a breath from the face of a
glass. — Don Marquis.
Pass away, like a thin cloud that
melts across the moon. — James Mont-
GOMERY.
Passed
Like autumn foliage withering in the
blast. — Isp.
Passed like a day-dream. — THomas
Moore.
All gently pass away,
Like mists that flee
From a summer sea. — Ism.
All my days
Passed like an empty vision.
— Lewis Morris.
Pass’d, like swift clouds across a
windy sky. — A. J. Munsy.
Passed along the waves like the
chariot of Neptune. — MuncHAUSEN.
Passed away, like shadows of the
moon. — ADELAIDE A. PRocTEr.
Passed away,
Like the remembrance of a guest that
tarrieth but a day.
—C. G. Rossetti.
Pass’d by me
As misers do by beggars.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Passed, like a cloud on the blast. —
SHELLEY.
Must pass, as grains of sand must fall,
Beneath the infinite calm sea
Of ages and eternity.
— Harry B. Smrru.
Passed away like summer clouds. —
SOUTHEY.
And pass as love and sorrow pass,
As shadows flashing down a glass,
As dew-flowers blowing in flowerless
grass. — SWINBURNE.
Passes as the grey dew from the
morning mountain grasses. — Ipip.
Pass as the flight of a year. — Inin,
PASS. — PAST.
Pass — continued.
Passed, like a sudden squall that tears
the sea,
Yet leaves a sun to smile the billows
down. — Bayarp Taytor.
Pass like a light. — TENNyson.
Passeth away as a cloud. — OLp
TESTAMENT.
Pass through thy hand as a river.
— Isp.
Passed, like a sweet but transient
dream. — Frank WATERS.
As a cloud of the sunset, slow melting
in heaven,
As a star that is lost when the daylight
is given,
As a glad dream of slumber, which
wakens in bliss,
She hath pass’d to the world of the
holy from this. — WHITTIER.
Pass,
Like shadows through a_ twilight
land. — Oscar WILDE.
Passed like a fancy that is swept
away. — WorpsworTH.
Passion.
Passions are like fire and water,
good servants, but bad masters. —
ANON.
The passions are like fire, useful in
a thousand ways and dangerous only
in one, through their excess. —C. N.
BovEE.
A man without a passion is like a
vessel waiting for wind and not
budging. — ArsENE HovussayveE.
Passions are like roses, the more you
cut them, the more they grow. — Inn.
Passions are cheap things, common as
nuts, and just as often rotten. —
GeorcE W. LovELL.
Passions, among pure thoughts hid,
Like serpents under flowerets sleeping.
— Tuomas Moore.
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Passion, like the sun at noon,
That burns o’er all he sees,
Awhile as warm, will set as soon—
Then, call it none of these. — Inn.
Our passions are like convulsive
fits, which, though they make us
stronger for the time, leave us weaker
ever after. — Port.
Passions are likened best to floods
and streams; the shallow murmur,
but the deep are dumb. — Sir WALTER
RALEIGH.
Passions are like storms which, full
of the present mischief, serve to
purify the atmosphere. — Sir GEORGE
Ramsay.
Our passions, like the seasons turn ;
And now we laugh, and now we mourn.
—Nicuo.as Rowe.
Passionate.
Passionate as young love. — ANON.
Passionate men, like fleet hounds,
are apt to overrun the scent. —
Ism.
Hun. — J. H.
Passionate as the
NEWMAN.
A passionate man is like a weak
spring, that cannot stand long locked.
— Wim Penn.
The passionate are like men stand-
ing on their heads; they see all
things the wrong way. — PLaTo.
Passionate as an April day. — Wit-
t1aM RowLey.
Passive.
Passive as a monument. — ANON.
Passive as a tabby-cat. — IBin.
“Passive —like dead bodies, with
open, fixed eyes. — JosePpH ConraD.
Past.
The Past is like a funeral gone by.
The Future comes like an unwelcome
guest. — Epmunp Gossz.
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Pat.
Truths, as pat as paving stones in
cities. — N. P. Wits.
Pat he comes, like the catastrophe
of the old comedy. — SHAKESPEARE.
Pathetic.
Pathetic as an autumn leaf. —
Grorce Moore.
Pathetic as the violets that bloom
on a grave. — Oscar WILDE.’
Patience.
Patience under misfortunes is like
opiates in a fever ; tossing and tum-
bling only irritate the distemper. —
ANON.
Patience is so like fortitude, that she
seems either her sister or her daughter.
— ARISTOTLE.
Grisilde-like
LypaaTe.
in patience. — JoHN
Patient.
_/Paient as rocks. — ANON.
A poor man without patience is like a
lamp without oil. — ARABIAN PROVERB.
Patient, like a marble man. — E. B.
BRownine.
Patient as a stone. — CHARLES G.
Durry.
Patient as a god. — Dumas, PERE.
Patient as death. — Maurice Hrew-
LETT.
As patient under injury as any
Christian saint of old.—J. G. Hot-
LAND.
Patient as destiny.— Ropert G.
INGERSOLL.
Patient as an ant. — Knrarts.
Patient as a hen-bird. — Inrp,
Gazing patient at the sky ;
Like some marble carven nun,
With folded hands when work is done,
Who mute upon her tomb doth pray,
Till resurrection day. — KINGSLEY.
PAT. — PEACEFUL.
Patient as sheep. — MAcautay.
Patient as earth. — RAMAYANA.
Patient as a gentle stream. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Patient as the female dove. —
Ipip.
As pacient and as styll.
And as ful of good wil.
As fayre Isiphill. — SxeLton.
Patient as the hours. — SWINBURNE.
Patient as the lamb is she. —GEORGE
WITHER.
Patiently.
Patiently as an old worn horse. ~
Grorcre MEREDITH.
Patiently as the spider weaves the
broken web. — BuLWER-LyYTTON.
Patterings.
Patterings like an April’s rain. ~
O. W. Hotmzs.
Pause.
A felicitous pause
A pause as of a thoughtful reasoner.
— BuLwer-Lytron.
Paused.
Paused, like some slow ship with
sail unfurled waiting, in seas by scarce
a wavelet curled. — GEorGE Extot.
Peace.
Like the rainbow,
Peace rests upon the earth, but its
arch is lost in heaven.
— Butwer-LyTron.
Peaceful.
Peaceful as sleep. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
Peaceful as the advance of summer.
—M. D. Conway.
Peaceful as stars at twilight. —
Hueco.
Peaceful as two pups in a basket, —
AtrreD Henry LEwIs.
PEACEFUL. — PEOPLE.
Peaceful — continued.
Peaceful as two six-shooters on the
same belt. — Ini.
Peaceful...
LowEL.
as a virgin lake. —
Peaceful as s::mmer woods. —
Grorce MacDona 1p.
Peaceful as a hired hand. — James
Wurtcoms Riry.
Peaceful as dew-mist from an even-
ing sky. — Bayarp TayLor.
Peaceful as falls the dew. — WiLi1am
WINTER.
Peaceful as the morning. — Worps-
WORTH.
Peacefully.
Sleeping as peacefully as a little
girl tired of playing. — Guy pg Mav-
PASSANT.
Ran the sweet strain peacefully like
a river in its flow. — Exta D. Moore.
Peaked.
Peaked as a pen. — ANON.
Peal.
Peals
Like the eternal thunders of the deep.
— Byron.
Pearls.
Pearls are like girls, they require
quite as much attention. — Bzacons-
FIELD.
Pedantry.
Pedantry in learning is like hypo-
crisy in religion, — a form of knowledge
without the power of it. — ADDISON.
Pedantry and taste are as inconsis-
tent as gayety and melancholy. —
J. C. LA¥ATER.
Peel.
Peel, like slippery elms in spring.
— Evcene Fitce Ware.
Peep.
Peep like Venus rising from her
shell. — James MontaomeEry.
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Countless eyes,
Peeping like stars through the blue
ev’ning skies.
+ Tuomas Moore.
Peep, like moss-grown rocks, half-seen,
Half hidden in the copse.
— Sir Watrer Scort.
Peeps like a star o’er ocean’s western
edge. — SHELLEY.
Peeping like modest virgins from
secluded bowers. — Fanny Fores-
TER.
Peeping and peering like an excited
parrot. — KInesLEy.
Peevish.
Peevish as a sick monkey. — JAMES
Puck.e.
Pellucid.
Pellucid as a pearl. — RoBert
Brownina.
Pendant.
Pendant like berries on the branches.
— MuncHAUsEN.
Penetrate.
Penetrating as fear.— ANON.
Penetrating as the east wind. —
Isp.
Penetrates like a vapor. — Hugo.
Penetrated him like a gimlet. —
Guy pe Maupassant.
Pensive.
Pensive as a sailor in a coach. —
Bawzac.
Pensiv as a wel fed kitten. — Josu
BILLines.
People.
The people in mass are like metal in
the ore; and, as all the iron that ever
came from a Swedish mine would never
hew a block or divide a plank until it
was fashioned into the shape of a
hatchet or a saw, so the strength of a
people can never perhaps be made
capable of producing much effect in
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People — continued.
war, till it is extracted partially and
moulded into that factitious and highly
polished instrument called an army.
— Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON.
Impatient people,. according to
Bacon, are like the bees, and kill
themselves in stinging others. —
Grorce Exiot.
Peoples, like planets, possess the
right to aneclipse. And all is well, pro-
vided that the light returns and that
the eclipse does not degenerate into
night. Dawn and resurrection are
synonymous. — Huco.
It is with narrow soul’d people as
with narrow necked bottles, the less
they have in them the more noise
they make in pouring it out. — Swirt.
‘Perceive.
If a fool be associated with a man
all his life he will perceive the truth
as little as a spoon perceives the taste
of soup. — Buppia.
Perfect.
Perfect as an astronomical chart. —
ANON.
Perfect as the dew-bead. — GrorcE
Euior.
A poem round and perfect as a star.
— ALEXANDER SMITH.
Perfect as a flame
That springs and spreads, till each
glad limb became
A note of rapture in the tune of life.
— SWINBURNE.
Perfection.
Complete in perfection as a great
line in poetry, as the flight of a bird,
as the curve of a falling wave. —
Ricuarp Le GALLIENNE.
Perforate.
Perforated like a civil war battle
flag. — ANoN.
Perforate, like
Tuomas Wapk.
a honeycomb. —
PEOPLE. —— PERMANENT.
Perfumed.
Perfumed like a milliner. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Perilous.
The crisis was perilous, but not
without its charm : such as an Indian,
perhaps, feels when he slips over the
rapid in his canoe. — Hugo.
Perish.
Perish . . . like a microbe in hot
water. — ANON.
Perish, through their over-confidence,
like Icarus. — Bacon.
Perish, as the quickening breath of
God . . . is withdrawn. — BRYAnrt.
They perish as a robe outworn,
As faded leaves they float away.
— Lorp De Tasiey.
Perish like leaves. — EMERSON.
Perish as the summer fly. —H. A.
JONES.
Perisheth, and is past by, like the
Pearle in the Fable. — Ben Jonson.
Perished with him like a rocket which
falls ‘
And quenches its light in earth.
— Epear Lez Masters.
Perishing,
As though they were but things of dust
and ashes. — MontcomeEry.
Perished like the pageant of a dream.
—T. L. Peacock.
Perished like some gift of earth. —
SCHILLER.
Perish, as haze in sunrise on the red
sea-line. — SWINBURNE.
Perish as the snow built up of sleep:
— Isp.
Perish forever like his own dung. —
Op TESTAMENT.
Permanent.
Permanent as marble. — BayarD
TAYLOR.
PERPENDICULAR. — PIERCING.
Perpendicular.
Perpendicular like _ poplars. —
Byron.
Perplexing.
Perplexing as the question: ‘Do
angels ever come back and pay their
debts?” — Anon.
Persistence.
Persistence . .. like the obstinacy
of a rancid odour clinging to the hair.
— Hugo. ,
Persistent.
Persistent as a mosquito. — ANON.
Persons.
Vain and frivolous persons, like
empty vessels, are easily laid hold of
and borne along by the ears. —
DEMoPHILUS.
Persuasive.
Persuasive as the tongue of seraphs.
— Tuomas BiackLock.
Pert.
Pert as a school-girl well can be. —
W. S. GILBERT.
Peart as a circus pony. —JoEL
CHANDLER Harris.
Pervade.
Pervading his frame like a raging
fever. — DUMAS, PERE.
Perverse.
Perverse as a camel, which can
neither be stopped when he is going
nor moved when he is resting. —
ANON.
Perverse as a hog. — SMOLLETT.
Phantasmagoric.
Phantasmagoric, like a mirage be-
yond the horizon.—Ricnuarp Lz
GALLIENNE.
Philosophy.
As swallows give us intimation of
fair weather, so the lessons of phi-
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losophy point out to us the way to
attain tranquility of mind. — Dz-
MOPHILUS.
Physician.
One prompt physician, like a sculler
plies,
And all his art, and all his skill applies ;
But two physicians, like a pair of oars,
Convey you soonest to the Stygian
shores. — ANON.
Physicians, like beer, are best when
they are old ; and lawyers, like bread,
when they are young and new. —
Tuomas FULLER.
Pick.
Picked out like a kernel from a nut.
—R. C. Bares.
Pick as clean as a bone. — SAMUEL
WESLEY.
Picturesque.
Picturesque as the ‘“‘frolic architec-
ture of the snow.” — Anon.
As picturesque,
| As the figures we see in an arabesque.
—R. H. Baryam.
Pierce.
Pierced like pard by hunter’s steel.
— Byron.
Pierce as the lightning flashes. —
Euiza Coox.
Pierced like lightning. — THomas
Nasu.
He pierces like a lady’s needle. —
OsmanLI PROVERB.
It shall as level to your judgment
pierce
As day does to your eye.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Piercing.
Piercing as light. — ANON.
Piercing . . . as the air. — Francis
FawKkgEs.
Piercing as the mid-day sun. —
SHAKESPEARE.
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Piercing — continued.
Piercing, like the morn, now it has
darted
Its lustre on all hidden things.
— SHELLEY.
Piled.
Piled . . . like sacks of wheat in a
granary. — LONGFELLOW.
Pinch.
Pinches like a trap that shuts. —
SWINBURNE.
Pine.
Pines she like to the hyacinth out
on the path of the hill-top ; shepherds
tread it aside, and its purples lie lost
on the herbage. — SaPrHo.
Like an eagle caged I pine
On this dull unchanging shore.
— Epes SARGENT.
Pink.
Pink as the lip of the sea-shell. —
ANON.
Pink as the rose in Galatea’s cheek.
— AtrRepD AUSTIN.
Pink as the cheeks of sweet-and-
twenty. — TEMPLE BAILEY.
Pink as a rose leaf is pink. — Frank
D. SHERMAN.
Pinned.
Pinned to the mire of the murky, the
charnel river
Like fair fresh flowers on the filthy -
breast of a hag. — Aanes Lex.
Pious.
Pious as a broken-kneed post-horse.
— Wituam B. Bernarp.
Pious as a virgin enclosed. — Mavu-
RICE HEWLETT.
Pious as a Pope. — Hoop.
Pipe.
A pipe is like a Christian in many
ways; sure it’s made o’ clay like a
Christian, and has the spark o’ life in
f
PIERCENG.—PITILESS.
it, and while the breath is in it the
spark is alive ; but when the breath
is out of it, the spark dies, and then it
grows cowld like a Christian; and
isn’t it a pleasant companion like a
Christian ? — Lover.
Piquant.
Piquant as the waters of the Scheldt.
— Grorces Erxuoup.
Pirouette.
Pirouetted like a bit of fantoccini. —
Oupa.
Piteous.
Piteous as a spirit wailing in a world
of tears. — GERALD Massey.
Pitiable.
Pitiable, like every ignorant man
who wins a triumph. — Hueco.
Pitiful.
Pitiful as he that’s hired for death
And loves the slaying yet better than
the hire. — SWINBURNE.
Pitifully.
Pitifully as a poor girl of the pave-
ment will pretend to be a clergyman’s
daughter. —G. B. SHaw.
Pitiless.
Pitiless as a Maxim gun. — ANon.
Pitiless as northern night. —J. W.
BarBer.
Pitiless as night. — AMBROSE BIERCE.
Pitiless as the grave. — GERALD
Massey.
Pitiless as driving sleet. — Jonn C.
NEIHARDT.
As pitiless to them as the Hyrcanian
tiger to a lamb chop in the original
wool. — New Yorx Sun.
Pitiless as the strokes of an iron
hammer. — Oumwa.
Pitiles: ae hall trom heaven: =O
C. Fraser-TyTuer.
PITY. — PLAIN.
Pity.
As much pity is to be taken of a
woman weeping, as of a goose going
barefoot. — Roserr Burton.
And pity, like a naked, new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven’s cheru-
bin, hors’d
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every
eye,
That tears shall drown the wind.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Place.
Out of place as a faro layout in a
Sunday school.—A.rrep HENRY
Lewis.
Placeless.
Placeless, as spirits. — COLERIDGE.
Placid.
Placid as a duck pond. — ANon.
Placid as a mill-pond. — Inp.
Placid as a scarecrow in a field of
scoundrels. — Ign.
Placid as a soft-shell crab in a plate
of parsley. — Im.
Placid as Socrates. — Ipm.
Placid as Paradise. —Epwin Ar-
NOLD.
Placid as a hearthstone. — EvucEnrE
FIEL.
Placid as a stone. — Huo.
Placidly ...as waiting to be
sheeted home. — Jean INGELOw.
Placid as a swan that drifts in a
dream. — Lowe...
Plain.
Plain as A. B. C. — Anon.
Plain as a hat on a rack. — Ini.
Plain as a steeple. — Isr.
Plain as a pack-saddle. — Inm.
Plain as the shepherd nymph in
russet weeds. — Isr.
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Plain as two and two make four. —
Ini.
Plain as your own miniken-breeches.
— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
As plain as noon-day. — Grorcr H.
Boxer.
She dresses as plain as the lily that
modestly grows in the valley. —
Patrick Bronte.
Plain as truth. — CHapMAN.
Plain as a demonstration in Euclid.
~~ GrorGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER.
Her dress was as plain as an um-
brella cover. — Jos—ePpH ConraD.
Plain as plainness. — Joan Davigs.
As plain to everybody as the sun. —
Dickens.
As plain as water’s water. — GEORGE
Euior.
Plain as
Foote.
a pikestaff. — Samuen
Plain as a dropped egg on a plate of
hash. — SEWELL Forp.
Plain as the way to market. —
FRANKLIN.
Plain as the sunlight. — Froupz.
As plain as the moral law. — Bret
Harve.
Plain as the man with lantern. —
Hoop.
Plain as whisper in the ear. —
Isp.
Plain as the record on the prophet’s
scroll. —O. W. Homes.
As plain as a hole in a grindstone.
— Isp. .
As plain as the round shield of the -
sun blazing on high. — James Hunz-
KER.
Plain as print. — Lover.
Plaine...
Lyty.
as the high way. —
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Plain — continued.
Plain as the sun in heaven. — Ma-
CAULAY.
Plain . . . as a rudimentary sum in
arithmetic. — Grorcr MEREDITH.
Plain as the light in the sun or as the
man in the moon. — Otway.
Plain as a nose in a man’s face. —
RaBELAIs.
Plain as the plain bald pate of
Father Time himself. — SHAKESPEARE.
Plain as way to parish church. —
Isp.
Plain and smooth like a Quaker’s
meeting. — JAMES SMITH.
Plain as the sun at noonday. —
STERNE.
Plain as the glistening planets shine
when winds have cleared the skies. —
Rosert Louis STEVENSON.
Plain as a weed. — Bayarp TAYLor.
Plainly.
Plainly as heaven sees earth and
earth sees heaven. — SHAKESPEARE,
Plainly as shoulder-straps mark a
soldier. — ANoN.
~
Plastic.
Plastic as potter’s clay. — ANON.
Play.
A bad play is like a caus —all
leaves. — ANON.
A play is like a cigar, it requires
judicious puffing. — Ism.
Most plays are like pills; if you
swallow them whole they are sweet ;
but, if they are chewed, like a pill,
you will, like the critic, find them
bitter. — Isp.
A play is like a cigar ; if it is a fail-
ure no amount of puffing will make it
draw, but if it is a success, everybody
wants a box. — Henry J. Byron.
PLAIN, — PLAY.
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience (
looks :
Plays are like suppers ; 3 peels 2 are the
cooks,
The fotinder’s you: the table i is this
place :
The carvers we: the prologue is the
grace.
Each act a course; each scene, a dif-
ferent dish,
Though we’re in Lent, I doubt you’re
still for flesh.
Satire’s the sauce, high-seasoned, sharp,
and rough.
Kind masks and beaux, I hope you’re
pepper-proof ?
Wit is the wine ; but ’tis so scarce the
true
Poets, like vintners, balderdash and
brew.
Your surly scenes, where rant and
bloodshed join,
Are butcher’s meat, a battle’s a sir-
loin.
Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft
and chaste,
Are water-gruel without salt or taste.
— FarquHar.
A play, like a bill, is of no value
till it is accepted; nor indeed when
it is, very often. — Fie.pine.
A play is like a picture: the actors
are the colors, and they must blend
with one another if a perfect work is
to be produced. — JosEPH JEFFERSON.
Plays are exactly like Portraits
Drawn in the Garb and Fashion of the
time when Painted. You see one
Habit in the time of King Charles I
another quite different from that, both
for Men and Woman, in Queen Eliz-
abeths time; another under Henry
the Eighth different from both; and
so backward all various. — JAMES
Wricut’s “ Hisrorta HistRionica.”
For plays, like women, by the world
are thought,
When you speak kindly of ’em, very
naught. — WYcHERLEY.
PLAYFUL. — PLENTY.
Playful.
Playful as a frolic boy. — ANon.
Playful as a rabbit.— Grorcr P.
Morris.
Playwright.
‘A wise playwright should act like
the man who gives a magnificent feast :
he should seek to delight the spectators,
that each on departing may feel he has
eaten and drunk just.the things he
would chiefly have chosen himself :
not set but one dish for all palates,
one writing for all sorts of tastes. —
ASTYDAMUS, JUNIOR.
Plead.
Plead like angels, trumpet-tongued.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Pleading like a frightened child. —
Rosert Louis STEVENSON.
Pleasant.
Pleasant as youth with all its
blossoms crown’d. — CowPEr.
Pleasant as a wave. —Lorp Dr
TABLEY.
Pleasant as health. — GrraLp GrIF-
FIN.
As pleasant about the house as a
gleam of sunshine, falling on the floor
through a shadow of twinkling leaves,
or as a ray of firelight that dances on
the wall, while evening is drawing nigh.
— HawrTHoRNE.
Pleasant as the shower which falls on
the sunny field. —James MacpHerson.
Pleasant as the thunder of heaven,
before the showers of spring. — Ipm.
Pleasant as the gale of spring, that
sighs on the hunter’s ear. — OssIAN.
Pleasant as budding tree. —C. G.
Rosser.
Pleasant as a scented mouth to kiss.
— SWINBURNE.
Pleasant as roses in the thickets
blown. — WorpswortTH.
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Pleased.
Pleased as Punch. — Anon.
Pleased, as infants are with sleep. —
Sir WILLIAM DaAvENANT.
Pleasure.
But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white — then melts for ever;
Or like the borealis race,
That flit ere you can point their place ;
Or like the rainbow’s lovely form,
Evanishing amid the storm.
— Burns.
Pleasure, like an over-fed lamp, is
extinguished by the excess of its own °
aliment. — Hannan More.
Pleasures like the flow’r,
Frail and fleeting ever ;
Now decks the bow’r,
Now ’tis gone for ever.
— Freprrick RrEyNo1s.
Pleasures are like liqueurs: They
must be drunk but in small glasses. —
RoMAINVILLE.
Plentiful.
Plentiful as bacteria in bad butter.
— ANON.
Plentiful as sage brush in the desert.
— Isp.
Plentiful as shingles on the shore.
— Isp.
Plentiful as wells in the Old Testa-
ment. — In.
Plentiful as plebeians in Oxford
Street. — SAMUEL WARREN.
Plentitude.
Spiritual sweets to plentitude,
As bees gorge full their cells.
— Kzats.
Plenty.
Plenty as the grass. — ANON.
As plenty as blackberries. — SHAKE:
SPEARE.
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Pliant.
Pliant as a glove. — Bauzac.
Pliant as a reed. — CHARLOTTE
Bronte.
Pliant as the torrent flows. — JoHN
G. Cooper.
Pliant as a wand of willow. — Lone-
FELLOW.
Pliable as wax. — JAMES SHIRLEY.
Pliant as the air. — Bayarp TaYLor.
Plod.
Plods on like a steed in a mill. —
Exiza Cook.
Pluck.
Plucked like a berry from a bush.
—R. C. Batzs.
Plumed.
Plumed like a hearse. — ANON.
Plumed like a storm-portending
cloud. —P. J. Barry.
Plump.
Plump as an orange. — ANON.
Plump as plenty. — Isp.
Plump as a peach. — Dickens.
Plump as ripe clusters. — RicHarp
Dvuxe. :
Plump as a pudding. — HawTHORNE.
Plump as a cherry. — Ropert Her-
RICK.
Plump as a partridge. — Lover.
Plump as a melon under a glass. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Plump as mastiffs. — PLautus.
As plump as a miller’s sparrow. —
ScoTTisH PROVERB.
Plump, like tiny skins of wine. —
James Wuitcoms RIxey.
As plump as plump can be. — C. G.
Rosserrt.
Plump as stall’d theology. — Youna.
PLIANT. — POETS.
Plunge.
Plunged like a mad horse. — ANon.
He was plunged in rushing water like
a diver holding on to a stake planted
in the bed of a swollen river. — JosePH
| CONRAD.
Plunging like the sea.—J. G.
Hoan.
Pockets.
Pockets . . . looked like a pool
table’s after a fifteen-ball run. — O.
HENRY.
Poems.
Poems, like rivers, convey to their
destination what must without their
appliances be unhandled: these to
ports and arsenals, this to the human
heart. — W. 8. Lanpor.
Poetry.
Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is
like a tender virgin, very young and
extremely beautiful, whom divers other
virgins — namely, all other sciences —
make it their business to enrich, polish,
and adorn. — CERVANTES.
There is as much difference between
good poetry and fine verses, as be-
tween the smell of a flower garden, and
a perfumer’s shop. — Jutius C. Harr.
Wisdom and poetry are like fruit for
children, unwholesome if too fresh. —
W. S. Lanpor.
Poetry is to philosophy what the
Sabbath is to the rest of the week. —
W. B. Yeats.
Poets.
Poets are like birds: the least thing
makes them sing. — CHATEAUBRIAND.
For party poets are like wasps, who
dart ;
Death to themselves, and to their foes
but smart. — GrorcE CRABBE.
Poets, like Lovers, should be bold and
dare, :
They spoil their business with an over-
care. — DrypeEn.
POETS. — POOR.
Poets — continued.
Poets, like painters, their machinery
claim,
And verse bestows the varnish and the
frame. —O. W. Hoimes.
Poets, like candles, are all puffers,
And critics are the candle snuffers.
— Rosert Lioyp.
Poets, like angels, where they once
appear,
Hallow the place. — Joun Norris.
Fir’d at first sight with what the Muse
imparts,
In fearless youth we tempt the height
of arts,
While from the bounded level of our
mind
Short views we take, nor see the lengths
behind ;
But more advance’d, behold, with strange
surprise,
New distant scenes of endless science
rise.
So pleas’d at first the tow’ring Alps we
,
Mount o’er the vales, and seem to
tread the sky ;
Th’ eternal snows appear already past,
And the first clouds and mountains
seem the last ;
But these attain’d, we tremble to survey
The growing labours of the lengthen’d
way:
Th’ increasing prospect tires our wan-
dering eyes ;
Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps
arise. — Porr.}
Poignant.
Poignant and silent like the terrible
questioning of one’s conscience. —
JOSEPH CONRAD.
Point.
Points like death’s lean lifted finger.
— Rosert BRrownine.
1 Dr, Johnson, in his ‘Lives of the’
Poets,” says that this simile on poets is
‘perhaps the best the English language
affords.”
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Pointed.
Pointed as a wasp’s sting. — ANON.
Pointed as a poniard.— Tuomas |
Nasu.
Poise.
,
Poise as of humming-birds hanging
in air. —F. W. H. Myers.
Poison.
Poisoned his life, as a rusted nail
driven through an oak-tree in its prime
corrodes and kills. — Ova.
Polished.
Polished as the bosom of a star. —
T. B. Awpricu.
Polite.
Perlite as a dancing master. — JosH
BILincs.
Polite as wax. — O. Henry.
Politeness.
Politeness is like an air cushion ;
there’s nothing in it, but it eases the
joints wonderfully. — W. C. Gannett.
Political.
Political men, like goats, usually
thrive best among equalities. — W. S.
Lanpor.
Politicians.
Politicians, like the earth, are flat-
tened at the polls. — Anon.
Pollute.
Polluted as a harlot. — ANON.
Pompous.
Pompous as an _ undertaker. —
THACKERAY.*
Poor.
Poor as a cab-driver in Venice. —
ANON.
Poor as a rat. — Isp.
Poor as skunk’s misery. — Ip.
As poor as winter. —Isp.
Poor as wood. — Jos BiL.ines.
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Poor — continued.
Poor as an owlet. — BUNYAN.
As poor as some church mouse. —
Lorp De TasBtey.
Poorer than a retired Spanish en-
sign. — ForTSERRE.
Poor as Job’s turkey. — Marston.
Poor as a sheep new shorn. —
GeorGcE PEELE.
Poor as virtue and as friendless. —
Ibm.
Poor as a pauper’s pottage. — JoHN
G. SAXE.
Poor as truth. — Francis SEAGER.
Poor as Job. — SHAKESPEARE.
Poor as winter. — Ipip.
Pop.
Popping about like a parched pea.
— ANon.
Popular.
Popular as love. — LAMARTINE.
Popular as a film drama. —G. B.
Suaw.
Populous.
Populous as a hive. — ANon.
Populous as an ant-hill. — Huco:
’ Positions.
High positions are like the summit
of high steep rocks. Eagles and rep-
tiles alone can reach them. — Mapame
NECKER.
Positive.
Positive as a Scotchman. — ANon.
Positive as the earth is firm. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Posture.
Posturing, for all the world just like
the man on the slack rope at our fair.
— Hannan More.
Posturing as proudly as a matador.
— JULIAN STREET.
POOR. —~ POWER.
Potent.
Potent as Irish whiskey. — ANon.
Potent an evil as Shakespeare’s
French fiddle. — W. C. Brann.
Pounce.
Pounced like a kite on a chick. —
ANON.
Pounce like a vulture. — Isp.
Pounced . .. like lightning. — Wi1L-
KIE COLLINS.
Pounced like a falcon. — GEzorcz
MEREDITH.
Pout.
Pout like a disappointed child. —
CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
Pouting.
With laughing eyes and dewy lips,
pouting like the purple tip that points
the rose’s bud. — CaTuLLus.
Pouting lip like the print upon a
pound of butter. — SamuE. Foore.
Poverty.
Poverty is like an upper story, since
the poor take precedency of all. —
Pipay.
Power.
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the
beholder, and also: the wearer; it
dignifies meanness; it magnifies little-
ness; to what is contemptible, it gives
authority ; to what is low, exaltation.
—C. C. Coton.
Power, like the hasty Vine, climbes
up apace to the Supporter, but if not
skilfully attended and dress’d, instead
of spreading and bearing fruit, grows
high and naked, and then, like empty
title, being soon useless to others, be-
comes neglected and unable to sup-
port itself. — Srr WrLtL1am DaveENantT.
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate’er it touches.
— SHELLEY.
POWERFUL. — PRECIOUS.
Powerful.
Powerful as the tyranny of fashion.
—J.H. Sr. J. pz Crevecaur.
Powerful as the sacerdotalism of
Medizval Europe. — Froupr.
Powerful as death. — Popr.
Powerless.
Powerless as an infant. — ANON.
Powerless as grubs. — Inn.
Powerless as stubble exposed to the
draught of a furnace. — CHARLOTTE
BRONTE.
Powerless . . . as a stone. — FE. B.
Brownina.
Powerless as the wind
That passeth idly by. — SHELLEY.
Praise.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes
its value only to its scarcity. — Dr.
JOHNSON.
Praise to a young wit is like rain to
a tender flower. — Pore. ;
Praise is like ambergris; a little
whiff of it, and by snatches, is very
agreeable ; but when a man holds a
great lump of it to his nose, it is a
stink and strikes down. — Swirt.
As the fining pot for silver, and the
furnace for gold ; so is a man to his
praise. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Prance.
Prance like uncurbed cavalry. —
ANON.
Pranced round it like a pair of can-
nibals about to eat a victim. — BaL-
ZAC.
Prancing like a bean-fed horse. —
Kipine.
Prate.
Prate like a parrot. — ANON.
Prating of the stars
Like an old soldier of his scars.
—P. J. Barney.
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Prate like one i’ the stocks. —SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Prattle.
Prattled like a babbling brook. —
C. S. CaLvERLEY.
Prattle like
GREVE.
a magpie. — Con-
Prattlers, like swallows, destroy the
pleasure of conversation by incessant
loquacity. — DEMoPHILUs.
Prattles like a child
— Coventry PatMorE.
at play.
Prayers.
God puts our prayers like rose-leaves
between the leaves of his book of re-
membrance, and when the volume is
opened at last, there shall be a pre-
cious fragrance springing from them.
— C.H. Spurceon.
Preach.
A woman preacher is like a dog
walking on his hind legs. It is not
done well ; but you are surprised to
find it done at all. — Dr. Jonson.
Precept.
Precepts are like seeds; they are
little things which do much good. —
SENECA.
Precious.
Precious as the Sibyl’s leaves. —
ANON.
Precious as enterprise. — Haruz.
Precious as a Grecian vase. —
Ricwarp Le GALLIENNE.
Precious,
As are the conceal’d comforts of a man,
Lock’d in a woman’s love. bs
— Tuomas LopGe.
More precious
Than the rich-jewell’d coffer of Darius.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Precious as is friend. — “Wir Rr-
STORED.”
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Precious — continued.
More precious far
Than that accumulated store of gold
And orient gems, which, for a day of
need,
The Sultan hides deep in ancestral
tombs. — WorDswortTH.
Prejudice.
Prejudice, like the spider, makes
everywhere its home, and lives where
there seems nothing to live on. —
Tuomas PAINE.
Prepared.
Prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband. — New TESTAMENT.
Preposterous.
Preposterous . . . as natural color
upon a fashionable cheek. — JoHN
Brovucuam.
Preserved.
She was well preserved by a tranquil
existence, like winter fruit in a closed
cupboard. — Guy pr Maupassant.
Press.
Pressed it to his heart as holy sinners
press the scapular. — E. W. Hornuna.
Pressed in my heart, like flowers
within a book. — LonGrELLow.
Pressed her like corn that has been
crushed in the mill. — Guy pr Mav-
PASSANT.
Press one as men press a sponge. —
““REPUBLICA: A MERYE ENTERLUDE.”
Presumptuous.
Presumptuous as Haman the halt.
—Joun HeEywoop.
Pretty.
Pretty as a Pingree potato patch. —
ANOoN..
Pretty as a red wagon. — Ip.
Pretty as aSeptember peach. —Ism.
Pretty as a picture. — Izmp.
PRECIOUS. — PRIDE.
She was as pretty as the spring time.
— Batzac.
? Pretty as a peach
Such as school boys always long for
when they’re hangin’ out of reach.
— Pompe Cary.
A little girl, pretty as an angel. —
HENDRIK CONSCIENCE.
Pretty as a seraph. — GAUTIER.
Pretty as a rosebud debutante.—
Amy LEsLiz.
Pretty as a diamond flush. —
Aurrep Henry Lewis.
Pretty as Paint. — NorTHALL’s
“Foik PHRASES.”
Pretty, like a toy cowboy with a
chamois shirt and a nine-dollar som-
brero. — Epgar W. Nye.
Prey.
Prey ... like a fox in midst of
harvest-time. — Mar.LowE.
Prey on itself,
Like monsters of the deep.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Prick.
Pricks like thorn. — SHAKESPEARE.
Pride.
*Tis as natural for women to pride
themselves in fine clothes as ’tis for a
peacock to spread his tail. — ANon.
Pride is like the beautiful acacia,
that lifts its head proudly above its
neighbor plants — forgetting that it
too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.
—C. N. Bovész.
Pride, like the magnet, constantly
points to one object, — self, — self ;
but, unlike the magnet, it has no
attractive pole, but at all points re-
pels. — C. C. Coron.
Pride, like ambition, is sometimes
virtuous and sometimes vicious, accord-
ing to the character in which it is
found, and the object to which it is
directed. — FuLKE GREVILLE.
PRIDE. —— PROFESSION.
Pride — continued.
Pride is like vapour which ascendeth
high, and presently vanishes away.—
PLUTARCH.
Pride, like laudanum and other
poisonous medicines, is beneficial in
small, though injurious in large quan-
tities. Noman who is not pleased with
himself, even in a personal sense, can
please others. — FREDERICK SAUNDERS.
Earthly pride is like the passing
flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms
to die. — H. K. Wuire.
Pride, like anger, builds among the
stars; but pleasure, lark like, nests
upon the ground. — Young.
Prim.
Prim as a Quaker. — G. P. Morris.
Prime.
Prime as a fiddle. — ANon.
Prime as goats. — SHAKESPEARE.
Primitive.
Primitive . . . like the praam and
the canoe. — Hugo.
Prince.
Princes are like to heavenly bodies,
which cause good or evil times; and
which have much veneration, but no
rest. — Bacon.
Princes, like beauties, from their youth
Are strangers to the voice of Truth.
—Joun Gay.
The name of a Prince is like the
sweete deaw, which falleth as_ well
vppon lowe shrubbes, as hygh trees,
and resembleth a true glasse, where-in
the poore maye see theyr faces with
the rych, or a cleare streame where-
in all maye drincke that are drye:
not they onelye that are wealthy. —
Lyty.
Principle.
A good principle was never found
solitary in any breast. — Jane PorTER.
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Principles, like troops of the line, are
undisturbed, and stand fast. — Ricu-
TER.
Print.
He that commeth in print because
he woulde be knowen, is like the foole
that commeth into the Market because
he would be seene. — Ly ty.
Privacy.
No more privacy than a goldfish. —
Irvin S. Coss.
Private.
Love should be as private a senti-
ment as a toothbrush. — O. HEwry.
Privilege.
Kings will lose their privilege, as
stars which have completed their time
lose their splendor. — Dumas, PERE.
Prize.
Prized as a stray gift. — Tuomas N.
TALFOURD.
Probe.
Probing with a cautious touch, like
a treasure-seeker in a dark cavern. —
HAWTHORNE.
Prodigal.
Prodigal as winter rain. — Francis
LEDWIDGE.
Prodigious.
As prodigious, as that of the Sun’s
swift motion of Heavens. — Ropert
Burton.
Prodigious as the pyramid of Cheops.
— Everenr Firtp.
Productive.
Vigorously productive, as _ those
fabulous dragon’s teeth. — MiILTon.
Productive as the Sun. — Pops.
Profession.
In the long run it is with a profession
as with marriage — we come to feel
only the annoyances. — Bauzac.
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Profitless.
Cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Profound.
Profound as an allegory. — ANON.
Profound as an Arctic night. —IBm.
Profound as a genuflection. — Ipip.
Profound as that Serbonian bog. —
Mitton.
Profuse.
As profusely as a raspberry is fur-
nished with seeds. — ANon.
Progress.
A common progress; like vessels on
a common tide. — DanreL WEBSTER.
Progressive.
Progressive as time. — ANON.
Progressive as a stream. — CowPER.
Prologue.
Prologues, like compliments, are loss
of time ;
Tis penning bows and making legs in
rhyme. — Davi GaRRIcK.
Prologues are like a forlorn hope, sent
out
Before the play,-to skirmish and to
scout. —P. A. Morreux.
Prominent.
Prominent as a ten-cent lemon on a
fruitstand. — ANon.
Promise.
Promises are like pie-crust, made to
be broken. — Anon.
Promises are like Adonis’ gardens,
That one day bloom’d and fruitful
were the next. — SHAKESPEARE.
A large promise without perform-
ance is like a false fire to a great piece,
which dischargeth a good expectation
with a bad report. — Artuur War-
WICK.
PROFITLESS. — PROUD.
Prompt.
Prompt as powder to the linstock.
—C. G. Durry.
Property.
Property is like snow ; if it falleth
level to-day, it will be blown into drifts
to-morrow. — CATHERINE SINCLAIR.
Prophetic.
Prophetic as the palm of Parsifal’s
hand. — Amy LEsLiz.
Proportion.
Proportioned like the columns of the
temple. — Byron.
Prosper.
Prosper as gardener’s crops do in
the rottenest ground. — Mipp.eton.
Prosperity.
Prosperity destroyeth the fool ; it
is like poison, like ratsbane. — THomas
Hooker.
Prosperous.
Prosperous as the angels are. — E.
B. Brownine.
Protruding.
Protruding, like the clue to a Lilli-
putian murder mystery. — O. Henry.
Proud.
Proud as a cock. — ANON.
Proud as any prince. — Inm.
Proud as a Government mule. —
Ipw.
Proud as a king. — Inm.
Proud as Lucifer. — Inn.
Proud as a popinjay. — Inn.
Proud as a Spanish Grandee. —
Inm.
Proud as a tiger-lily. — Ipm.
Proud as Juno. — Isp.
Proud as Punch. — Isp.
Proud as Sheba’s queen. —Ipw.
PROUD. — PUFF,
Proud — continued.
Proud as the man who got rich manu-
facturing soldiers’ shoes out of paste-
board instead of leather. — Inn.
Proud as any queen. — GEORGE
Bartow.
Proud as a mulatto in a negro con-
gregation. — J. R. Bartuerr’s “Dic-
TIONARY OF AMERICANISMS.”
Proud as the Pope behind the pea-
cock-fans. — RoBERT BRowNING.
Proud as a freeborn peasant. —
BYRon.
Proud as a peacock. — CHAUCER.
Proud as Gascon. — DuMAS, PERE.
Proud as all the Guzmans put
together. — AnTHony Hamitton.
Proud as a peer. — Bret Harte.
Proud as a young bull. — Ricwarp
Le GALLIENNE.
Proud as a hen with one chicken. —
B. Lows.ey.
Proud as the day is long. — Lyty.
Proud as a lion when passion-stirred.
— Epwin Marxuam.
Proud as waves that on the beach
Lay their war-crests down and die.
— Tuomas Moore.
Proud as an emperor. — Miss Mv-
LOCK.
Proud as a lord’s bastard. — Enc-
LISH PROVERB.
As proud as a Highlander. — Scot-
TISH PROVERB.
Proud as an empress on her marriage-
day. — CHARLES SANGSTER.
Proud as a boy with a brand-new
top. — Joun G. SAxE.
Proud as an enjoyer.— SHAKESPEARE.
Proud as a child who will what he
would. — ARTHUR SYMONS.
Proud as the Bourbons. — THAcK-
ERAY.
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Proudly.
Proudly, like a bold swimmer. —
Hueco.
Flows . . . as proudly as Tiber by
Rome. — Epwarp Lovisonp.
Proved.
Proved like steel in tempering fire.
—— Byron.
Proverb.
Ginowine proverbs ar like good
kambrick needles — short, sharp, and
shiny. — JosH BILLines.
Proverbs are like arrows; they fly
not only fast but straight. —Ipm.
Proverbs, like the sacred books of
each nation, are the sanctuary of the
Institutions. — Emerson.
Provocative.
Provocative of tears as an onion. —
HAWTHORNE.
Prowl.
Prowl, like stealthy cats. — FrEp-
ERICK S. CozzENs.
Public.
The public, like the delicate Greek
Narcissus, is sleepily enamoured of
itself ; and the name of its only other
perfect lover is Echo. — Sir Watrer
Raeies (1861-).
Puff (Noun).
Puff like a paragraph praising a pill.
— oO. W. Hotes.
Puff (Verb).
Puffed himself up like a ship in full
sail. — Hans Curistian ANDERSEN.
Puffing out like canvas in a gale. —
ANON.
Puffing like the bellows of a black-
smith. — Inip.
Puffed like a leaky steam pipe. — O.
HEnRy.
Puffed like aswimmer in the breakers.
— Georce MERepITH.
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Puffy.
Puffy as a cheesecake. — Sir A.
Conan Doyle.
Puffy as a bolster. — THACKERAY.
Pull.
Pulled and hauled like a rag baby
being contended for by a litter of bull
pups. — ANON.
Pun.
People that make puns are like wan-
ton boys that put coppers on the rail-
road tracks. They amuse themselves
and other children but their little
_trick may upset a freight train of con-
versation for the sake of a battered
witticism. —O. W. Homes.
A pun is somewhat like a cherry:
though there may be a slight outward
indication of partition — of a duplicity
of meaning — yet no gentleman need
make two bites at it against his own
pleasure. — Tuomas Hoop.
A pun is like a stumbling-block, that
@ man cannot always avoid without
hitting his shins against it, but the
sooner he clears himself from it the
better. — JAMES QUIN.
Pun...
tongue of a jackdaw, speaks twice as
much by being split. — Swirt.
Punctual.
Punctual as a bride at a wedding. —
Bazac.
Punctual as Springtide. — Rosert
BROWNING.
Punctual — like morning. — JamEs
Wuitcoms Rizey.
Punctual as lovers to the moment
sworn. — YOUNG.
Punster.
A punster is to a humorist what a
burro is to a horse. — ELpert Hus-
BARD.
Pure.
Pure as a Madonna. — ANON.
where a word, like the |
PUFFY. —'PURE.
Pure as a plaster cast mummy with
cement toes. — Inip.
Pure as a virgin’s kiss. — Ipip.
Pure as crystal. — Ipm.
Pure as Heaven’s snowy flake. —
Isp.
Like infant’s slumbers, pure and
light. — Isr.
Pure as love’s heart is. — lpm.
Pure as Memphian skies that never
knew a storm. — Ixrp.
Pure as mountain dew. — Inm.
Pure as purest crystallization. —
Ism.
Pure as the blush of maiden modesty.
— Isp.
Pure as the dream of a child just
descended from the heavens. — Inm.
Pure as the lily. — Inm.
Pure as the saints above. — IBm.
Pure as the pines. — Isip.
Pure as the unsullied wing of a bird.
— Isp.
Pure and pointed as a star. —P. J.
BalIey.
Pure as the dead. — Inp.
Pure as the black of the eye.
— Ixp.
As pure as the flame that burns upon
an altar. — Bauzac.
Pure as the breth of a white male
infant. — JosH BILLines.
Pure az the utterances ov angells. —
Ii.
Pure as the dawn of Heaven’s un-
clouded day. — Tuomas BLacKLock.
Pure as the silver from the crucible.
— Rosert Buarr.
As pure and glad as he whom first
God in Eden
Brinces (English).
placed. — Rosert’
PURE.
Pure — continued.
Pure as the expanse of Heaven. —
Henry Brooke.
Pure as blossoms, which are newly
blowne. — Witu1am Browne.
Pure as the grapes in wine. — E. B.
Brownina.
Pure as chalk. — Rosert Brown-
ING.
Pure as the Arctic fox that suits the
snow. — Ixsrp.
Pure as buds before they blow. —
Micuar. Bruce.
Pure as the sky. — Butwer-LytrTon.
Pure as Psyche ere she grew a wife.
— Byron.
Pure as the prayer which
Childhood wafts above.
— Isp.
Pure as the first blush of day. —
CALDERON.
As pure as gold yfined. — Cuaucer.
Pure as the babe. — CoLERmGE.
Pure as a Saint’s adoring sigh. —
Grorce DarLey.
Pure as fire. — THomas DEKKER.
Pure . . . like aureole round the
forehead of a saint. — AuBREY DE
VERE.
Pure as the stars in yon blue sky. —
Dr. Joun Doran.
Pure as the breath of the fragrant
pine. — Jutia C. R. Dorr.
Pure as the angel forms above. —
J. D. Drage.
Pure as winter snow. — F. A. Fany.
Pure as unwritten papers. — JoHn
Forp.
Pure as consecrated water. — GAu-
TIER.
Pure as the summer sun of Southern
heaven. — W. S. GILBERT.
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Like
GLOVER.
Pure like the heart of water,
You are pure like the core of earth.
— GOETHE.
Diana _ pure. — Ricuarp
Pure as smooth-carven marble. —
Tan Hamitrton.
Pure as the virgin who first led
Agrippa. — HawtTHorne.
Pure as infant’s
Hamitton Hayne.
brow. — Pau.
Pure as the Hindoo’s votive lamp
On Ganges’ sacred tide.
— Mary E. Hewrrr.
Pure as the dew that filters through
the rose. — O. W. Hotmzs.
Pure as the quarry’s whitest block.
— Isp.
Pure as starlight shall their deeds
of daring glow. — W. D. Howetts.
Pure as a burning ember. — Huco.
Pure as spirits. — Ipm.
Pure as the thoughts of infant
innocence. — Dr. JOHNSON.
Pure as the ice-drop that froze on
the mountain. — Keats.
As pure from sin and stain, as his
when Eden held his virgin heart. —
JoHN KEBLE.
Pure as the light of day. — Krnes-
BURY.
Pure as purest vestal virgin. —
Siamunp KrasinskI.
Pure as buds before they blow. —
JoHNn LoGan.
Pure, as the charities of the skies.
— Isp.
Pure as the kiss that waked En-
dymion. — Grorce Mac-Henry.
Pure as the white stars sweeping
through the sky. — MAHABHARATA,
Pure as the wild white rain. —
Epwin Markuam.
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Pure — continued.
' Pure as the first opening of the
blooms in May. — Marston.
She is as pure, as good, and as beau-
tiful as an angel. — Guy pE Mav-
PASSANT.
As pure as April’s snowdrops are.
— Owen MEREDITH.
Pure as the snow-rob’d angel that
guards the holy altar. — Witu1am J.
Mickie.
Pure as sanctity’s best shrine. —
Tuomas MippLeTon.
Pure as the white clouds,
That sail around the moon.
— Miss Mitrorp.
Pure as a wreath of snow on April
flowers. — James MontTcomery.
Pure as angel thoughts. — Tuomas
Moore.
Pure as the young moon’s coronet.
— Isp.
Pure as bright Aurora’s ray. —
G. P. Morris.
Pure as any maid. — Lewrs Morais.
Pure as the pure in heart that shall
see God. — Miss Mutock.
Pure as Cato’s daughter. — Orway.
Pure as the sunbeams gild the placid
deep,
When zephyrs close their wings in list-
less sleep. — ANDREW Park.
Pure as a bride’s blush. — Coventry
PATMORE.
Pure as the permeating fires
That smoulder in the opal’s veins.
— Is.
Pure as the wishes breathed in
prayer. — Por.
Pure as the summer skies. — W. M.
PRAED.
Pure and chaste as the falling snow.
—T. BucHanan Reap.
PURE.
Pure as any gowan [daisy]. — H.
RIDDELL.
As pure and clear as the cherry-
blossoms blow in the land of Thus-
and-So. — James Wuitcoms RILey.
Pure as a joyous prayer. — Isr.
Pure as the dove. —C. G. Ros-
SETTI.
Pure as virgin purity. — Inip.
As pure as a mountain spring. —
Ruskin.
Pure as thoughts that thrill a saint.
—A. J. Ryan.
Pure as grace. — SHAKESPEARE.
Pure as sin with baptism. — sip.
Pure as speechless infancy. — SHEL-
LEY.
Pure as an infant’s thoughts. —
SouTHEY.
Pure and painless as a virgin’s
dreams. — SWINBURNE.
Pure as at the daydawn of the world.
— In.
Pure as faith. — Ipm.
Pure as Eden’s dew. — Isp.
Desire pure as babe’s that nestles
toward the breast. — Isp.
Pure as fire or flowers or snows. —
Ipip.
Pure as heaven. — In.
Pure as love’s heart is. — Ip.
Pure as one purged of pain that
passion bore. — Ixip.
Pure as the dawn and the dew. —
Ibm.
Pure as the depth of pain. — Inrp.
Pure as the wind and the sun. —
Ipip.
Pure as truth. — Ipm.
Pure as morns of Paradise. —
Bayarp Taytor.
PURE. — PUZZLED.
Pure — continued.
Purer than snow.—O.np Trsta-
MENT.
Pure words: as silver tried in a
furnace of earth, purified seven times.
— Isp.
Pure as the breath of dawn. —
CELIA THAXTER.
Pure,
As is the lily or the mountain snow.
— James THOMSON.
Pure as the snowy leaves that fold
Over the flower’s heart of gold.
— Henry Van Dyke.
Pure as meiting dew. — GARCILASO
DE LA VEGA.
Pure as the snowflake ere it falls
and takes the stain of earth. — ALaRic
A. Watts.
Pure as Angel-worship. — WHITTIER.
Pure as the mountains of perpetual
snow. — WILLIAM WINTER.
Pure as nature is. — WORDSWORTH.
Purge.
Purges as with fire of purgatory. —
SWINBURNE.
Purified.
Purified from passion’s stain,
Like the moon, in gentle splendour,
ruling o’er the peaceful main.
— Bernarp Barron.
Purified as by
Copp£E.
fire. — Francois
Purpose.
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be
hatched into action, soon run into
rottenness. — SAMUEL SMILES.
Purposeless.
Purposeless as to give a goose hay.
— ANON.
Purple.
Purpled as with stains of wine. —
T. B. Aupricu.
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Purple as a pansy. — ANON.
Purple as the Nile. — Isr.
Purple like that of a -prelate. —
Joun DENNIS.
Purple . . . like robes of a king. —
Rogert NokE..
Purple like the unplucked plum. —
Eizaspeta D. Stopparp.
Purple, like the blush of even. —
Worpsworta.
Pursue.
Pursue like a shadow. — ANON.
Pursuing like a whirlwind. — Sam-
UEL BUTLER.
The howl pursued me like a ven-
geance. — JoseEPH CONRAD.
Pursued like a June bug by a duck.
—Sam Jones.
Pursued as hawk pursues its prey.
— Epna Dean Procror.
Pursued like raging hounds. — SHEL-
LEY.
Pursued them like the Furies. —
VoLTAIRE.
Pursuit.
‘The pursuit was like Jacob’s ladder
— if it did lead to heaven it was cer-
tainly an awfully long journey, and
very hard on one’s legs. — LEVER.
Push.
Pushed like a fencing master. —
CoLLey CIBBER.
Pushed, like a fish to its native sea.
—Gerorce MEREDITH.
Push on — like ambition. — SYDNEY
MunpeEN.
Puzzled.
Puzzled as a hen when her ducklings
suddenly take to the water. — ANoNn.
A puzzled look, like a foreigner trying
to catch the meaning of words in a
language he does not understand. —
_ Barzac.
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Quail.
Quails like a naughty child. — G. B.
Saw.
Quake.
Quake like an aspen leaf. — ANon.
Quaking like an owl out in the sun-
shine. — BaLzac.
Quaked like river-shaken rush. —
Witi1am Morris.
Quarrel.
Thus love and quarrels (April weather)
Like vinegar and oil together
Join in an easy mingled strife,
To make the salad up of life.
— Rozsert Lioyp.
The quarrels of lovers are like
showers that leave the country more
verdant and beautiful. —Mapame
NECKER. \
Quarrelsome.
Quarrel like the two halves of a
Seidlitz powder. — ANon.
Quarrelsome, like a sparrow. —
DICKENS.
Quarrelous as the weasel. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Queer.
As queer as Dick’s hatband, made
of pea-straw, that went nine times
round, and would not meet at last.
— ANON.
Quench.
Quench in tears like a star in the
sea. — P. J. Batey.
Quenched . . . like torch-flame
choked in dust. — Ropert BRownine.
Quenched like a consumed torch. —
SPENSER.
Quenched as a flame. — SwINBURNE.
Querulous.
Voice was sweet indeed, but it was
thin and querulous like that of a
QUAIL. —QUICK.
feeble slave in misery, who despairs
altogether, yet cannot refrain himself
from weeping and lamentation. —
COLERIDGE.
Question.
I was to my questioning like glass
unto the color which it clothes. —
Dante.
Most questions are like a plank:
have two sides. — SypNry MunDEN.
Quick.
Quick as a flash. — Anon.
Quick as an arrow. — Isp.
Quick as a wink. — Ipm.
Quick as gunpowder. — Inm.
Quick as the flash of a quail’s wing.
— Isp.
Quick as the twinkling of a bed-post.
—Ism.
Quick as you can say Jack Robinson.
— Isp.
Quick as hell can scorch a feather.
— Isin.
Quick as a stab. — J. M. Barnrir.
Quick as greased lightning. — J. R.
Barruert’s “DicrioNARY or AMERI-
CANISMS.”
“Quick, as a darted beam of light. —
R. D. Buackmore.
Quick as a fear. — E. B. Brownina.
Quick as finches in a blossomed
tree. — Ipm.
Quick as
CaREw.
thought. — Tuomas
Quick as an eyelid’s beat. — Cavat-
CANTI.
Quick of scent as a vulture. — Cum-
BERLAND.
Quick as a dart. — GorTHE.
Change quick, like eyes
brighten. — Jupan HaLevi.
that
QUICK. — QUIET.
Quick — continued.
Quick as barrels popping at a bird.
-— GrorcE MEREDITH.
Quick as torrents run. — IB.
Quick as wings. — Ipm.
Quick as an imp. — Apa PaTTrEeRson.
Thy wit is as quick as the grey-
hound’s mouth. — SHAKESPEARE.
Fly as quick to Delia’s arms, as
yonder halcyon skims the stream. —
WILLIAM SHENSTONE.
Quick as the morning ray, or ev’n-
ing beam. — WiLL1iam THoMson.
Quick as the lightning’s flash. —
JuaAN VALERA.
Quick as light. — Henry VaucHan.
Quick as thought.— ‘Wir ReE-
STORED.”
Quickening.
Quickening as sunshine. — Frank
Harris.
Quickly.
Quickly as a cabbage bed produces
snails. — ANON.
Quickly as a scalded cat goes through
a back window. — Isp.
As quickly as iron in the fire passes
through the various stages between
warmth and white heat.—J. M.
Barriz.
Quickly as iron to the magnet. —
Hewen H. Jackson.
Quickly as a dream that dawn de-
vours. — Eugene LrE-Hami.ton.
Quiet.
Quiet as a graveyard. — ANON.
Quiet as a wasp in one’s nose. —
Ipp.
Quiet as death. — Isp.
Quiet as dreaming trees. — Im.
Quiet as murder. — Ism.
Quiet as the hush of evening. —
Isp.
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As quiet as the lighting of a fly on a
feather-duster. — Inn.
Quiet as two kittens. — Ipm.
Quiet fish are talkative in com-
parison. — Iprp.
Quiet as a woman the first day and
a half after she’s married. — BEav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
Quiet as despair. — Ropert Brown-
ING.
Quiet as are quiet skies. — ELLEN
Burrouaus.
Quiet as a sepulchre. — DickENs.
Quiet as a sleeping boa. — HamMuin
GARLAND. :
Quiet as a statue. — W. E. HeniEy.
Quiet as if shod with felt. —
Hoop.
Quiet as a mouse. — ARSENE Hous-
SAYE.
Quiet as a stone. — KEats.
Quiet as a nest of monasteries. —
Amy LESLIE.
Quiet as a heart that beats no more.
— LoNGFELLOw.
Quiet as the tranquil sky. — Isp.
Quiet, as of dreaming Trees. —
GeraLtD Massey.
Quiet as if the finger of God’s will
had bade the human mechanism “‘be
still.”” — Miss Mutock.
Quiet as at anchor in a dead calm.
— MUNCHAUSEN.
As quiet as a settin’ hen. — ScorrtisH
PROVERB.
Quiet as a lamb. — SHAKESPEARE.
Quiet as the sun. — SWINBURNE.
Quiet as a moonbeam. — ELizABETH
S. P. Warp.
Quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration.
— Worpswortu.
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Quieted.
Quieted like love overcoming strife.
— ADELAIDE A. PRocTeER.
Quietly.
Began as quietly as
March. — J. M. Barris.
Float quietly, like Angels winnowing
by. —F. W. Fazer.
Quietly aa a cloud. — Kir.ine.
a roaring
As quietly as spots of sky
Among the evening clouds.
— Worpsworta.
Quietness.
Quietness like the serene glow of a
halo. — JosepH ConraD.
Better is an handful with quietness,
than both the hands full with travail
and vexation of spirit. — OLp Trsta-
MENT.
Quiver.
Quiver like a fiddle string. — Anon.
Quiver like a leaf in the wind. — Inip.
Quiver like jelly. —Ism.
Tremulous quiver, like an arrow full
drawn by the strong. —EuceEne Barry.
Quiver, like a weed in water. —
R. D. Biackmore.
Quivering . . . like a vibrant music-
string stretched from mountain peak
to sky. — E. B. Brownina.
Race.
Races as dust and surf of the sea.—
SWINBURNE.
Radiant.
Radiant . . . as moon that breaks
a stormy night. — AEscHYLus.
Radiant ... like a young moon.
— ARraBIAN Niauts.
QUIETED. — RADIANT.
Quiver, as if they stood upon the
verge of an imminent peril. — GrEorGE
W. Curtis.
Quivers like the tail of swine glad-
dened by a corn feast. — AUBREY DE
VERE.
Quivering . . . like a cunning ani-
mal whose hiding-places are sur-
rounded by swift-advancing flame.
— Grorce Exot.
Quivered like a harp of which the
strings are ready to spring. — Fiav-
BERT.
Quivers as if it were nipped with
frost. — KaALIpAsA.
Quivered . as a breakwater-pile
quivers to the rush of landward-racing
seas. — KIPLING.
Quivering like a man’s hand when
he raises it to say good-bye. — Ini.
Quivered like a willow wand. —
JOAQUIN MILLER.
Quivered like forest-leaves. — D. G.
RossErtmI.
Quiver...
Like weeds unfolding in the ocean.
— SHELLEY.
Quivering as when life is hard on
death. — SwInBURNE.
Quiver,
Like jewels in the river.
— Turopore TILTon.
Radiant as morning. — ALrrep Aus-
TIN.
Radiant like a diamond.—P. J.
BAILEY.
Radiant . . . like paths of the gods.
— CARLYLE.
Radiant as the day. — Sir SaMUEL
FEraGuson.
RADIANT, — RAILROADS.
Radiant — continued.
Radiant as the queen of love. —
Homer (Pope).
Radiant as the blossomed lea. —
PHILANDER CHASE JOHNSON.
Radiant as the starry night. —
“Lays or ANcrent InpiA.”
Radiant as snow. —OwEN MERE-
DITH.
Radiant as summer sun in morn. —
JAMES Wuitcomsp RILEY.
Radiant as a lark. — Owrn SrA-
MAN.
Radiant as the air around a star.
— SHELLEY.
Radiant, like the phantoms of the
dawn. — Isip.
Radiant as the bloom of day. —
Witi1am THomson.
Radiant as Hope, when Hope was
young. — ALaric A. WaTTs.
Radiant as sunlit clustering golden-
rod. — C. P. Witson.
Radiate.
Radiated like the stars. — JAMES
MonTGoMERY.
Rage (Noun).
Heaven has no rage like love to
hatred turned. — CONGREVE.
Rage (Verb).
Raged like Satan with a toothache.
— ANON.
Rage like a lion. — Ropert Bur-
TON.
Immeasurable thirst
Raged as a flame.
—Lorp Dr Tastiey.
Raging like an unexpected fire. —
GOETHE.
Rages .. . like a leopard caged. —
Maurice HEWLeTTr.
Rage like a thirst. — Ism.
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Hector rages like the force of fire. —
Homer (Pore).
Like a wild thing, suddenly aware
That it is caged, which flings and
bruises all
Its body at the bars, he rose, and
raged. —Jran INGELow.
Raging as burning Hercules. —
Witiram J. Mickie.
Raging as Demon of Dante. —
WaLrter Parke.
Rage like a fury. —J.R. Puancué.
Rage, like demons in their Stygian
cage. — JoHN RuskIn.
Rage like an angry bear, chafed with
sweat. — SHAKESPEARE.
Raged within me, like a scorpion’s nest
Built in my entrails. — SHELLEY.
Rage... like boiling liquor in a
seething pot. — Tasso.
Raging like one mad in flight. —
THEOCRITUS.
Rage as old Voltaire at Ferney. —
N. P. WIxtis.
Ragged.
Ragged as the mouth of a Cornish
cave. — G. K. CuEsTERToN.
As ragged and dirty as a Leith
carter’s pony. — ScoTTisH PROVERB.
Ragged as
SPEARE.
Lazarus. — SHAKE-
Rail.
Rail like a rude costermonger. —
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Raillery.
Raillery, like salt, should be used
sparingly. — DEMOPHILUS.
Railroads.
Railroads are like the human race,
they have their stopping places and
their termini ; but unlike the human
race they can make a return journey.
—E. P. Day.
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Rally.
Rally like bees. — ANON.
Rampant.
Rampant, like the split-eagle of the
Austrian Empire. — Butwer-Lytron.
Rampant, like a lion roused to
wrath. — CHarLes Harpur.
Ran.
Tyll the bloode from ther bassonetts
ranne
As the roke doth in the rayne.
— “Tur Batrie or OTTERBOURNE.”
Random.
At random, like Bullies Oaths. —
Rosert WOLSELEY.
Rang.
Rang like a God-swept lyre. —
ANoN.
My head rang like a guard-room
gong. — Kip.ine.
Rang like a musket-butt on flag-
stones. — Isp.
Rang out like hollow woods, at
hunting-tide. — TENNYSON.
Rank.
Rank as any pole-cat.—BEn Jonson.
Rank as pumpkin-pips. —OwEn
SEAMAN.
Rank as a fox. — SHAKESPEARE.
Rank as any flax-wench. — Ini.
Rankle.
Rankle like poisons in the soul. —
TUPPER.
Ransack.
Ransacked like an old workbox. —
WiLu1aAM ARCHER.
Rapacious.
As a vulture rapacious. — SMOLLETT.
Rapid.
Rapid as a charge of Arab horse. —
ANON.
RALLY. — RARE.
Rapid as _ lightning. — WitiiaM
BaRTRAM.
Rapid as the winds of Spring. —
CuCHULAIN.
Rapid as the shadow of a cloud. —
Tuomas Harpy.
Rapid as the ever-wheeling sun. —
Aaron Hitt.
Rapid as the storm-wind. — Hariz
Pasua.
Rapidly.
Rapidly as drummer-sticks. —
Grorce MerrepITH.
Rapt.
Rapt as sleep. — HAMLIN GARLAND.
Rapture.
Rapture like the rage of hate allayed
With ruin and ravin that its might
hath made. — SWINBURNE.
Rare.
Rare as a blue rose. — ANON.
Rare as a snowbird in hell. — Ipm.
Rare as a sunflower in the desert.
— Isp.
Rare as venison in a poor man’s
kitchen. — In.
Rare as a winter swallow. — Bauzac.
As rare almost as hedge-rows in
the wild. — CowPeEr.
Rare as an Albino in Africa. —
W. R. Hererorp.
As rare to see the Sunne with-out
a light, as a fayre woeman with-out
a lover. — LyLy.
As rare as wings upon a cat, or
flowers of air, a rabbit’s horns, or
ropes of tortoise-hair. — ORIENTAL.
Rare as a comet. — JAmES RALPH.
Rare as a play that does not yawn
you, or a woman that does not deceive
you. — Caaries Reape.
RARE, — REACT,
Rare — continued.
Rarer than a phoenix. — AGNES
ReEpPLiER.
Rare to be found as black swans. —
DaniEL Rocer’s “MarTrimoniaLu
Honovr,” 1642.
Rare as the stars upon a clouded
night. — Loutse Morean SIL.
Rare as a dodo. — Rospert Louis
STEVENSON.
Like snow at Midsummer, exceeding
rare. — JoHN TaYLor.
Rare as Homers and Miltons, rare
as Platos and Newtons. — Epwin P.
WHIPPLE.
Rash.
Rash as fire. — SHAKESPEARE.
Rattle.
She rattles away like a woman’s
tongue. — W. H. Arnsworts.
Rattled in his ear like coins dropped
on a barroom floor. — ANon.
Rattled like a parchment drum. —
Isp.
Rattle like peas in a bladder. —
In.
Rattled like a pair of castanets. —
Davpet.
His bones
Rattle in his skin, like beans tossed in
a bladder.
— Purp MASsINGER.
Rattled like shutters in a blast. —
Evita WHEELER WILCox.
Rave.
Raved like a bedlamite. — ANON.
Rave like a madman. — Isr.
Rave like an epileptic dervish. —
Rosert BRowninec.
Rave like beasts
Rosert Burton.
Rave like a man in Bedlam. —
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER.
stupefied. —
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Raved like a fiend. —J. G. Hot-
LAND.
Rave like a fury. — W. S. Lanpor.
Raving like a mad creature. —
JANE PorTER.
Rave like Shakespeare’s
Moor. — CHRISTOPHER SMART.
jealous
Raving . .. like a Maenad start-
ing up at the rattle of the sacred em-
blems, when the triennial orgies lash
her with the cry of Bacchus, and
Citheron’s yell calls her into the
night. — VIRGIL.
Ravenous.
Ravenous as winter wolf. — CoLE-
RIDGE.
Ravenous as the fitful sea. —
SWINBURNE.
Ravenous as a prairie’s fire. —
Frank WATERS.
Ravish.
Ravish like enchanting harmony. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Ravishment.
Ravishments more keen
Than Hermes’ pipe. — Kzarts.
Raw.
Raw as a Lyndhaven on the half-
shell.—Grorce Bronson-Howaprp.
Rayless.
The lack-lustre eye, rayless as a
Beacon-street door-plate in August. —
O. W. Homes.
Reach.
Out of reach of him,
As the sun! As the stars — a million,
million times
Beyond the sun. —J. 5. KNow es.
React.
React like the pendulum. —C. C.
CourTon.
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Reader.
Like the tiger, that seldom desists
from pursuing man, after having once
preyed upon human flesh, the reader,
who has once gratified his appetite
with calumny, makes, ever after, the
most agreeable feast upon murdered
reputation. — GOLDSMITH.
Readily.
Readily as the smith can labor at
his forge. — ANon.
Readily as water rushes into a hol-
low. — Isp.
Met the gale as readily as the butter-
flies meet the sun. — Exiza Cook.
As readily as a child takes sweet-
meats at Mardi Gras. — Oupa.
Readily as condemned men take re-
prieve. — SWINBURNE.
Reading.
Much reading is like much eating,
—wholly useless without digestion.
— Rozsert Sours.
Ready.
Ready like a porcupine for cold
weather. — ANON.
Ready like the golden censer for
the aloes and cassia. — Inmw.
Ready as a primed cannon. — Car-
LYLE.
Ready as bird that sees the sprinkled
corn. — GrorcE Entor.
Ready all,
As Echo, waiting for a call.
— Tuomas Moore.
He stood ready for the battle like
a bull that has whetted his horns. —
PENTAUR.
Ready as
SHAKESPEARE.
a borrower’s cap. —
Real.
Real as man’s wonder what his soul
may be. — Marrua G. Dickinson.
READER. —— RECKLESS.
Real as the violets of April days.
— Isp.
Real as the stars. — RicHarp Lz
GALLIENNE.
Real as a hand. — VANcE THOMPSON.
Reality.
No more to do with reality than the
toy men in a child’s Noah’s Ark. —
H. A. Jones.
Reason.
Reasons are like liquors, and there are
some of such nature as none but strong
heads can bear. — Epmunp BuRKE.
Reason is to faith as the eye is to
the telescope. — JoHN Carrp.
Reason, like virtue, in a medium lies :
A hair-breadth more might make us
mad, not wise.
— Water Harte.
Human reason is like a drunken
man on horseback ; set it up on one
side, and it tumbles over on the
other. — LUTHER.
Reasonable.
As reasonable as to expect that the
tiger will spare the hart, to browse
upon the herbage. — C. C. Cotton.
Rebellious.
Rebellious as the sea. — THomas
Heywoop.
Recede.
Receding as the skies. — Ropert
LEIGHTON.
Recedes as a dream recedes. —
SWINBURNE.
Receding as a cloud in air. —
Bayarp Taytor.
Receded, as mists fade before a
morning sun. — BARRETT WENDELL.
Reckless.
Loud-voiced and reckless as the wide
tide-race
-That whips our harbor-mouth !
— Kopiina.
RECLINED. — RED. ‘ 315
Reclined.
Reclined like some vacuous beauty
lounging in a guarded harem. — O.
HEnry.
Recognition.
About as much chance of recognition
as would the breathings of a lute under
an elevated train. — ANon.
Recoil.
Recoiled as ...he had seen a
snake in his path. — Josep Con-
RAD.
Recoiled as if an unclean creature
touched him. — RicHarp H. Dana,
SENIOR.
Recoiled from its purpose, as from
the verge of a crag. — LONGFELLOW.
Recoiled, as if she had been face to
face with an apparition.— Guy DE
Maupassanr.
Like an over-charged gun, recoil. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Recoils, and climbs and closes,
As a wave of the sea turned back.
— SWINBURNE.
Recreation.
Recreation is intended to the mind,
as whetting is to the scythe; to
sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise
would grow dull and blunt. He, there-
fore, that spends his whole time in
recreation, is ever whetting, never
mowing : his grass may grow, and his
steed starve. As, contrarily, he, that
always toils and never recreates, is ever
mowing, never whetting; labouring
much to little purpose: as good no
scythe, as no edge. Then only doth
the work go forward, when the scythe
is so seasonably and moderately
whetted, that it may cut; and so
cuts, that it may have the help of
sharpening. I would also so inter-
change, that I neither be dull with
work, nor idle and wanton with recrea-
tion. — Josep Hatt.
Red.
Red as any rose in June. —C. F,
ALEXANDER.
Red, _ like
ANDREYEV.
a cardinal. — Leoni
Red as a beet. — ANon.
Red as a blister. — In.
Red as a brick. — Inp.
Red as a cherry. — Inm.
Red as a coal. — Inm.
Red as a danger signal. — Ipmp.
Red as a hunter’s face. — Ini.
Red as a petticoat. — In.
Red as a red wagon. — Inn.
Red as Roger’s nose, who was chris-
tened with pump water. — Isip.
Red as asoka flowers. — Inn.
Red as a turkey-cock. — Isp.
Red as fields of heather on fire. —
—Ism.
Red as the fire of a pipe. — Ism.
Red as the heather bell. — Inm.
Glowed red, like the ishrik seeds,
fresh fallen, unbroken, bright. —
ARABIC.
Red as a plum.—R. D. Buack-
MORE.
Red as with wine out of season. —
E. B. Brownine.
Face of him . . . red as that of the
foggiest rising Moon. — CARLYLE.
Red as the highest colour’d Gallic
wine. — CHATTERTON.
Red as a fox. — CHAUCER.
Rede as blood. — Isr.
Rede as rose. — Isp.
Rede,
As doth where that men melte lede.
— Isip.
Reed as the bristles of a sowes erys.
— Ipp.
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Red — continued.
Red as a tile. — Dante, Deroz.
Red as beetroot. — DickEns.
Red as gore. — MicHar. Fie..
Red as beef. — FIELDING.
Red as the sangaree. — RicHaRD
GARNETT.
Red as deep as bull’s blood. —
GIBBON.
Red as the blood-drops from a
wounded heart.— Frank W. Gun-
SAULUS,
Red as coral.— AntHony HAmILTon.
Dry red, like old blood. — Mavricr
HEWLETT.
With hue as red as the rosy bed:
Which a bee would choose to dream in.
—C. F. Horrman.
Red as the beacon-light. — Hoaa.
Red as an angry sunset. — JEAN
INGELow.
Red as the rose is red. —Omar
KHAYYAM.
Red as slaughter. — Kipiine.
Red as the fire of a furnace. — La-
MARTINE.
Red as a beacon the wind has up-
blown. — Sipney Lanier.
Red as if he were going to choke.—
Grorce MacDona.p.
Nose had got as red with passion as
the protuberance of a turkey-cock
when gobbling out its unutterable
feelings of disdain. — Inm.
Red as murder. — Grorce MERE-
DITH.
Red as the British Army. — Inn.
Red as a dawn. — Henry Mortey.
Red as a lobster. — Tuomas Nasu.
Red as Cupid’s bed of red rose-
leaves shed on Mount Hymettus. —
Mines O’REILLy.
RED. ——- REDOLENT.
Red as a mazer from an alder-tree.
— RaBeELals.
Red as Mont Blanc at morning
glows. — T. Bucuanan Reap.
Red . .
Insp.
Red as from the broken heart. —
D. G. Rossettt.
Red, like a ruby. — Ruskin.
Red as fire. — SHAKESPEARE.
Red as Mars. — Isp.
Red as new-enkindled fire. — Inn.
Red as Titan’s face. — Ipp.
Red, as it had drunk the evening
beams. — SouTHEY.
Red did show like roses in a bed of
lillies shed. — SPENSER.
. as the forge’s mouth. —
Red as dawn. — SwINBURNE.
Red as hate. — Isp.
Red as hot brows of shame. —
Ipip.
Red as love or shame. — Inm.
Lips red as morning’s rise. — Inm.
Red as the rains of hell. — Inp.
Red as a poppy. — THACKERAY.
Red as mountain-ash _ berries. —
ZACHARIAS TOPELIUS.
Red as the Baldinsville
house. — ARTeEMuUS Warp.
Red as the reddest ruby. — THEo-
porE Watts-DunNTON.
Red as the banner which enshrouds
The warrior-dead when strife is done.
— WHITTIER.
Red as the naked hand of doom. —
Isp.
skool-
Red as ruddy clover. — Worps-
WORTH. 7
Redolent.
Redolent . . . as a clover-field of
honey. — GrorcsE W. Curtis.
REEK. — REJOICE.
Reek.
Reeking as if with a cloud of incense.
— Max Norpav.
Reeked as a wet red grave. — Swin-
BURNE.
Reeked as fumes from hell. — Inm.
Reel.
Reeling as a clubbed man reels
before he collapses. — JosepH Con-
RAD.
Reel like masts on ocean’s swell. —
O. W. Hotmes.
Reeling, to and fro, like a reed. —
Hueco.
He reels like a ship that has met
with waves raised by the southeast
wind. — OsMANLI PRovERB.
Reel like a leaf that’s drawn to a
water-wheel. — C. G. Rossetti.
Reels as any reed under the wind.
— SWINBURNE.
Reeled
As waves wind-thwarted on the sea
—Isn.
Reels like a falling cedar. — Tasso.
Reels, as the golden Autumn woodland
reels
Athwart the smoke of burning weeds.
— TENNYSON.
Reel to and fro and stagger like a
drunkard. — Op TESTAMENT.
Refines.
Refines as by fire. — Roperr
BROWNING.
Reflection.
All serious reflections are like reflec-
tions in water — a pebble will disturb
them, and make a dull pond sparkle.
— George E1ior.
Reform.
Reform, like charity, must begin at
home. — CARLYLE.
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Refresh.
Refreshes like the first gush of spring,
or the break of an April shower. —
Donatp G. MircHe..
Refreshed, as men in barren lands
in drought are soothed by hearing the
glad fall of a welcome rain. — Ouma.
Refreshed as by the sight of fresh
grass in midwinter or early spring. —
Henry D. Tuoreav.
Refreshes me like a tonic. — IsRAEL
ZANGWILL.
Refreshing.
Refreshing like a quaff from a crystal
spring to a dying man. — ANON.
Regal.
Regal as Juno. — C. S. CALVERLEY.
Regretted.
Regretted like the nightingale’s last
note. — WorDSWORTH.
Regular.
Regular as sunrise. — ANON.
Regular as military drums. —
DICKENS.
Regular as the private garden of a
Grand Duke. — ArsrnE HoussaYE.
Regular as a lath. — LoweLL.
Regularly.
Regularly as light and shadow on
April days. — J. Firzcrratp Motxoy.
Regularly as clock-work. — Sir
Watter Scott.
Rejoice.
Rejoice
As at our first love’s voice.
—Lorp Dre TABLey.
Like the mother of some victor chief
rejoices. — AuBrEY Dr VERE.
Rejoice like grasshoppers on summer
days. — Homer (Pope).
Rejoicing like a cloud of morn. —
SHELLEY.
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Rejoice — continued. +
Rejoice,
Like Kouli-Kan, in plunder of the
proud. — Young.
Relations.
Relations are like drugs, — useful,
sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken
in small quantities and seldom, — and
the truly wise avoid them. — Mary
A. BEAUCHAMP.
Relax.
Beneath his glance the strong-knit
joints relax
As the weak knees before the heads-
man’s axe. —O. W. Homes.
* Relent.
Relent her
As blooming spring unbends the brow
Of surly, savage winter. — Burns.
Relentless.
Relentless as fate. — ANON.
Relentless as a curse. — GEORGE
Eiot.
As relentless as a Greek tragedy. —
JAMES HUNEKER.
Relentless as an invalid. — Grorcr
MEREDITH.
Reliable.
Reliable as an old whecl-horse. —
ANON.
Religion.
Religion is like the Fashion: one
Man wears his Doublet slashed, an-
other laced, another plain ; but every
Man hasa Doublet. So every man has
his Religion. We differ about Trim-
ming. — SELDEN.
Without a belief in personal im-
mortality, religion is surely like an arch
resting on one pillar, like a bridge end-
ing in an abyss. — Max MULLER.
Reluctantly.
Reluctantly . . . like the steps of a
bride to the altar.— Donat G.
MircHELL.
REJOICE. — RENEW.
Rely.
On Thee let my spirit rely —
Like some rude dial, that, fix’d on earth,
Still looks for its light from the sky.
— Tuomas Moore.
Remain.
Remaining, like’ marten-holes in a
sand-cliff. — Tuomas Harpy.
Remorseless.
Remorseless as an infant’s bier. —
Kaats.
Remorselessly.
Remorselessly as the ocean moves
in upon the shore. —O. W. Hoimss.
Remote.
Remote as a dream. — ANON.
Remote, like echoed voice of one
the tombs among. — AuBREY DE VERE.
Remote, as the dead lords of song,
Great masters who have made us what
we are. — Jan INGELOw.
Remote and minute as the chief
. é
scene of our infancy. —Grorce Mrre-
DITH.
Remote as the stars are. — CHARLES
L. Moore.
As remote in thought as.. the
Apostles or the Czsars. — RoBert
Louis STEVENSON.
Removes.
Two removes are as bad as a fire. —
ANON.
Rend.
Whose rage doth rend
Like interrupted waters.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Renew.
Renewed, like Juno’s virtue. —
ANoN.
As embers touch’d with sulphurs do
renew,
So will her sight kindle fresh flames in
you. — Francis Beaumont.
RENEW. — RESEMBLES.
Renew — continued.
Renew thy youth, as eagle from the
nest. —C. G. Rossetti.
Thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
— Otp TESTAMENT.
Renewable.
Renewable, as some appetites are. —
Cuartes Lams.
Renowned.
Renowned as the sun. —Homer
(Pore). -
Rent.
Is rent as carrion by the vulturous
beaks
That feed on fame and soil it.
— SWINBURNE.
Repeating.
Repeating . . . like a drunken man
with a tune in his head. — Ricnarp
Le GALLIENNE.
Repel.
Repel one like a cudgel. —C. N.
Bovée.
Repellent.
As repellent as a boy’s drum. — J.
M. Barriz.
Repelling.
More repelling than an abyss. —
GrorceE MEREDITH.
Repetition.
To tease by ceaseless repetition ;
like the unvaried continued action of a
bore. — SamueL RiIcHARDSON.
Repose (Noun).
Half-repose, like a shepherd keeping
sheep. — E. B. Brownine.
Repose, like that of a sphinx. —
BuLwer-LytTTon. ©
Repose (Verb).
Repose, as feebler wings do in a
quiet nest. — Grorcr Exior.
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Repose, like birds who nightly
nestle in the trees.—‘‘Hymn to
Time.”
Reposes,
Like relics in an urn.
— Worpswortu.
Reposeful.
Reposeful as a statue. — ANON.
Reproduce.
He could have reproduced like an
echo. — JosePpH ConraD.
Reproof.
Reproof is a medicine like mercury
or opium; if it be improperly ad-
ministered, it will do harm instead of
good. — Horace Mann.
Reputation.
Reputation, like beavers and cloaks,
shall last some people twice the time
of others. — Doucias JERROLD.
The reputation of a man is like his
shadow; it sometimes follows and
sometimes precedes him, sometimes
longer and sometimes shorter than
his natural size. — FRencH PROVERB.
Reputation, like other mistresses, is
never true to a man in his absence. —
WYCHERLEY.
Repute.
Good repute is like fire: once
kindled, it is easily kept alive; but
when extinguished, not easily lighted
again. — PLUTARCH.
. Requisite.
Requisite . . . as steele in a weapon.
— Lyty.
Resembles.
Resembles, as a pastoral resembles a
symphony. — ALFRED AYRES.
Resembles, as bottles bottles. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Resemble .
As much as an apple doth an oyster.
— SHAKESPRARE.
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Resistless.
Resistless as the wind. —’THomas
BLACKLOCK.
Resistless as the spirit of the night.
— CHaRLoTTE Brooks.
Resistless as a cannon ball. —
JEFFERY FARNOL.
Resistless as a flash that ‘strikes
from Heaven. — Ropert JEPHSON.
Resolute.
Resolute as a drunken Irishman. —
ANON.
Resolute as thunder. — Jonn Forp.
Resolute as iron. — HAWTHORNE.
Resound.
Voice, resounding as a brass trum-
pet. — GAUTIER.
Resounds like Sylvan revelry. —
Recinatp HEBER.
Resounding, like the blast of funeral
trumpets. — LoncrELLow.
Resounds like heaven’s thunder. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Resourceful.
Resourceful as D’Artagnan. — ANON.
Respectable.
Respectable as a long face. — BuL-
WER-LYTTON.
Resplendent.
Resplendent as the noonday sun. —
ANON.
Resplendent as the autumn moon.
— Isp.
Resplendent as a_ bridegroom. —
Grecory or Nazranzus.
Resplendent as the summer noon. —
Tuomas Moore.
Resplendent as a beam of the morn-
ing star. —J. T. Trowznrince.
Respond.
Respond as steel answers to the
magnet. — ANON.
RESISTLESS. —- RESTLESS.
Responds like the strings of an
fEolian harp. — Isp.
Responsive.
Like the tun’d string responsive to
the touch. — Ricwarp Jaco.
Rest.
At rest, as the ark in the temple. —
Bacon.
Rested on him as lightly as freckles
on his nose.—ALicE CALDWELL
HeEean.
Rest,
Like beauty nestling in a young man’s
breast. — CuarLes Lams.
Rested in strange wise,
As when some creature utterly outworn
Sinks into bed and lies.
— D. G. Rossetti.
Restless.
Restless as a gypsy. — ANON.
Restless as ambition. — Inm.
Restless as Hamlet. — Inm.
Restless as leaves. — Isp.
Restless as quicksilver. — Ipm.
Restless as the sea. — ALFRED Avus-
TIN.
Restless as a riot. — Rex Braca.
Restless
Apura Brun.
Restless as the nest-deserted bird.
—E. B. Browntnea.
as the winds. —
Restless, like a dog whose master is
absent. — Dumas, PERE.
Restless as the fire that blows and
spreads and leaps from high to higher
where’er is aught to seize or to subdue.
— GeorceE E ior.
Restless as the winter storm. —
REGINALD Hezer.
Restless as water that winds on-
ward through the plains. — Huco.
Restless as butterflies. — Lercu
Hunt.
RESTLESS. — REVEALED.
Restless — continued.
He was as restless as a wild beast in
a cage. — Grorce MacDonaLp.
Restless as if fluttering wings bore
thee on thy wanderings. —C. E.
Norton.
Restless as the desert wind. —
ALBERT BicELow PAINE.
Restless as a brook. — Hiram Ricu.
Restless as hyenas. —Epcar Sar-
TUS.
Restless . . . like the touch’d needle
till it find the star. — Grorce Sanpys.
Restless as Ulysses. — THACKERAY.
Restless as Niagara. — TuppEr.
Restless as a veering wind. — Worps-
WORTH.
Restoration.
A restoration is like an old oil paint-
ing, blackened by time, and re-
varnished. — Hugo.
Restored.
Restored
Like a re-appearing Star.
— WorpDsworta.
Restraint.
This restraint,
Like English mastiffs
That grow fierce with tying,
Makes her too passionately apprehend
Those pleasures she’s kept from.
— Jon WEBSTER.
Retain.
Retained their wonted vigour .. .
as clocks once set in motion do yet
go, the hand being absent. — WILLIAM
CaRTWRIGHT.
Retire.
Calmly retire, like evening light. —
NATHANIEL CoTToON.
Retired . . . like the moon in the
west, when she foresees the shower and
hides her fair head in a cloud. — JAMES
MAcPHERSON.
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Gloomily retired ; like clouds that
long having threatened rain, vanish
behind the hills. — Inm.
Retire within himself, like a tortoise
when attacked. — VoLTarRE.
Retired as noontide dew. — Worps-
WORTH.
Retreat.
Retreated . . . like a panther which
draws back to take its spring. — Dvu-
MAS, PERE.
Return.
Return, like the postman. — ANON.
Return, like a late summer when
the year grows old. — Witu1am CuL-
LEN BRYANT.
Return upon you like pent waters.
— CARLYLE.
Return, like stars replenished at
Joy’s golden urn. — Hoop.
Returned, like the first messenger of
Noah. — Henry Mackenziz.
Returning like dew that hath been
to heaven, dropping in rain. — GEraLp
Massey.
An echo returned on the cold gray
morn,
Like the breath of a spirit sighing.
— Mrs. Norton.
Returned like a leaden shilling. —
Sir Ricwarp STEELE.
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a
fool returneth to his folly. —Onp
TESTAMENT.
Returning like the Patriarch’s dove,
Wing-weary from the eternal sea.
— WHITTIER.
Returning, like a ghost unlaid.—
Worpswortu.
Revealed.
Through the driving mists revealed,
Like the lifting of the Host, by incense:
cloud almost concealed.
— LoneFrELLow.
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Revel.
Revelled in my changefu] dreams,
like petrel on the sea. —Emity Bronte.
Reverend.
Reverend as Lear. — JEAN INGELOw.
Reverential.
Reverential, as though he were
handling sacred vessels. — Irvin 5.
Coss.
Tender and reverential ...as a
nun over her missal. — O. W. HoLMEs.
Reverently.
Reverently as any pilgrim to the
papal seat. — E. B. Brownine.
Reverie.
A certain amount of reverie is good,
like a narcotic in discreet doses. —
Huco. °
Reverie, like a mist, leaves no
trace behind. — Isp.
Revive.
Revive, like a dash of cold water in
the face of the fainting. — Anon.
Revive, like Hector’s body. — E. B.
BRownine.
She was like a fading plant revived
by showers of rain. — CuarLes Reape.
Nature revives, like a dim winking
lamp,
That flashes brightly with parting
light,
And straight is dark forever.
— NicuoLas Rowe.
Sad death, revived with her sweet
inspection,
And feeble spirit inly felt reflection ;
As: withered weed through cruell win-
ter’s tine,
That feels the warmth of sunny beams
reflection,
Liftes up his head that did before de-
cline,
And gins to spread his leafe before the
faire sunshine. — SPENSER.
REVEL. — RICH.
Revive as the corn. — Otp Tes-
TAMENT.
Reviving.
As reviving as a friend’s visit. —
CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
As reviving as an epigram. — A. E.
Housman.
Revolve.
Revolving what I had heard, like a
curious man over a riddle. — ANON.
Rheumatic.
Rheumatic as two dry toasts. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Rhythmic.
Rhythmic as the swish of a swinging
scythe. — ANON.
Rich.
Rich as flakes of virgin gold. —
ANON.
Rich as Golconda. — Ini.
Rich as lords. — Isp.
Rich as mud. — Isp.
Rich as the mint. — In.
Rich in invisible treasures, like a
bud of unborn sweets, and thick about
the heart with ripe and rosy beauty.
—P. J. Bartey.
Rich as Croesus. —Rozert Bur-
TON.
Rich as
Byron.
Stamboul’s diadem. —
Rich and as red as the mellowing
blushes of maiden of eighteen. —
Luiz DE CaMoENs.
Richer than Ormuz bazaars. — Car-
LYLE.
Rich and ripe as Autumn’s store. —
HartTiey CoLeRivce.
Rich as Pluto. — Grorer Corman,
THE YOUNGER.
Rich as Chaucer’s speech. — Syp-
NEY DoBELL.
RICH. — RIDGY.
Rich — continued.
Rich as love. — Emerson.
Rich as the merchant ships that
crowd the strand. — Francis Fawkes.
As feathers do lift up, and carry high,
the foules and birds of the aire: So the
riches and dignities of this world, are
wont to extol and carry men, into the
air and clouds of vanitie. — ANTHONIE
FiercHer’s “CERTAIN VERY - PROPER
AND PROFITABLE SIMILES,” 1595,
Rich as a platter of gravy. —
SEWELL Forp.
Rich as newshorn sheep. — JoHN
Herywoop.
Rich as the rose’s dye. — Mrs.
INnGLIs.
Rich as a Millais in its tint and tone.
— GERALD MAssEy.
Rich as a rose can be. — JOAQUIN
MILLER.
A wise rich man is like the backe or
stocke of the chimney, and his wealth
the fire ; he receives it not for his own
need, but to reflect the heat to others’
good. — Sir Tuomas OvVERBURY.
Rich as an alum seller. — OSMANLI
PRoveERB.
Rich as Job. — RaBELAIs.
As rich with unconscious art as the
first song birds of May. —Jamzs
Waurrcoms RItey.
Rich as the robes of heaven. —
Joun G. SAXE.
And I as rich in having such a jewel,
As twenty seas, if all their sand were
pearl,
The water nectar, and the rocks pure
gold. — SHAKESPEARE.
Rich...
As is the ooze and bottom of the sea,
With sunken wrack and _ sumless
treasuries. — Is.
Rich as Emperor-moths. — TENNY-
SON.
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Rich as for the nuptials of a king. —
Ini.
Rich as the pillars which support the
sky. — WitLiamM THomson.
Riches.
Riches are like muck which stinks
in a heap, but spread abroad, make
the earth fruitful. — Anon.
Riches, like insects, while concealed
they lie,
Wait but for wings, and in their season
fly. — Popr.
Worldly riches are like nuts ; many
clothes are torn in getting them, many
a tooth broken in cracking them, but
never a belly filled with eating them.
— Ratru VENNING.
Riddle.
Riddled like a pepper castor. —
Austin Dosson.
Riddled with thrusts like a sieve. —
DuMASs, PERE.
Riddled like a piece of lace. — Zona.
Ride.
Ride
Like fire on some high errand of the
race. —W. E. Hentey.
Ridiculous.
Ridiculous as a wig on the head of
Apollo. — ANon.
A lord without riches is like a soldier
without arms— very ridiculous. —
Ie.
Ridiculous as
Trios BIKELAS.
a_ lover. — DEME-
As ridiculous as to venture your life
for another man’s quarrel. — Suap-
WELL.
Ridiculous as to imitate the inimi-
table. — Sir RicHarp STEELE.
Ridgy.
Ridgy as backs of mountain-chains.
— Hueo.
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Rife.
Rife as flies at midsummer. — ANoNn.
Right.
Right as a glove. — ANON.
Right as a golden guinea, — Ibm.
Right as a nail. — Ipip.
Right as a pie. — Ibm.
Right as a right angle. — Isp.
Right as ninepins. — Ipp.
Right as rain. — Inp.
Right as the Church of England. —
Tap.
Right as the day. — Inp.
Right as a conquerour. — ENeLisH
Baap.
Right as a trivet.—R. H. Bar-
HAM.
Right as the town clock. — Bracons-
FIELD.
Right as a gun. — BrEauMoNT AND
FLETCHER.
Right as a line. — Joun Heywoop.
Right as a fiddle. — LypeaTe.
Right as my leg. — RaBetais.
Right as right. — “Tue Puritan.”
Right as my glove. — Sir WALTER
Scorr.
As right as a ram’s horn. — SKEL-
TON.
Right as ninepence. — Roperr
Louis STEVENSON.
Righteous.
Righteous as redemption. — Swin-
BURNE.
Righteousness.
Righteousnesses are as filthy rags. —
Bunyan.
Thy righteousness is like the great
mountains; thy judgments are a great
deep. — OLD TESTAMENT.
RIFE. —— RINGED.
Rigid.
Rigid as a rock. — ANON.
Rigid as if chiselled from stone. —
Iz.
Rigid as a sheet of metal. — Baxzac.
Rigid as the will of Fate. — WinL1am
CuLLen Bryant.
About as rigid as a concertina. —
JOSEPH CONRAD.
Rigid as embodied duty. — Dauner.
Rigid as his starched collar. — Ipip.
Rigid as stone.— James B. Ken-
YON.
Rigid as a Greek masque. — Bran-
DER MATTHEWS.
Stood rigid, as if in a trance. —
J. H. McCartay.
Rigid as a prison’s blank stone wall.
— Marcaret E. SancsTer.
Ring.
Ringing like mad. — Anon.
Rings like a bugle in the night. —
Isp.
Ring like Dodonzan brass. — E. B.
Brownine.
Ringing, as if a choir of golden-
nested birds in heaven were singing.
—E. C. Jupson.
My heart rings out in music, like a
lark hung in the charmed palace of
the morn. — GrraLp Massey.
Ring as trumpets blown for battle.
— SWINBURNE.
Rings as the blast of martial mirth
when trumpets fire men’s hearts for
fray. — IBip.
Rings clean as the clear wind’s cry
through the roar of the surge on the
rocks. — Isrp.
Ringed.
Ringed like curtain rods. —JouNn
Davies.
RIPE. — ROAR.
Ripe.
Ripe as the melting cluster. — Joun
Gay.
Ripe as June. — Hoon.
As ripe and rosy . . . as a mellow
little pippin that had tumbled in the
weeds. — James Wurtcoms RILey.
Ripe as the wine. —R. H. Srop-
DARD.
Ripen.
Ripened into speech,
Like the sap that turns to nectar in
the velvet of the peach.
—W. W. Harney.
The peril ripens like a wound o’ the
flesh
That gathers poison.
— SWINBURNE.
Rippled.
Rippled like flowing waters by the
wind. — Byron.
Rippled like an over-fleeting wave.
— TENNYSON.
Rise.
Rises and falls like a swan upon
roaring water. — ANON.
Rise as a vapor. — In.
Rose like a phoenix, from the fires
of time. — Isp.
Rose like sunlight from the sea. —
Isp.
Rise like the white clouds on April
skies. — Isp.
Rising like springs ingathered. —
R. D. Buackmore.
Rising like water-columns from the
sea. — BYRON.
Joy rises in me, like a summer’s
morn. — COLERIDGE.
Rose like a kite. — CowreEr.
Rose like a bewildering strain of
oriental music. — F. W. Faser.
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Rise out of the hearth, like the
garden of Hesperides. — GrBzon.
Rising like pillared fire. — ARTHUR
Henry Haiam.
Rising in the middle of it like a
lump of self-raising dough. —O.
HEnry.
Rising in the air like eagle on the
wing. — Hoop.
Rose like dim fancies when a dream
begins. — Inrp.
Rising like Aphrodite from the
wave. — KINGSLEY.
Rose red as a beacon the wind had
upblown. — Smney Lanier.
Rising like the ruined arch of some
aerial aqueduct. — LoNGFELLow.
Rose like an exhalation. — Mitton.
He (Burke) rose like a rocket, he
fell like a stick. — THomas Paine.
Rise from the ground like feather’d
Mercury. — SHAKESPEARE.
Rises as ocean at the enchantment
of the moon. — SHELLEY.
Rising as a shoreward sea. — Swin-
BURNE.
Rose like dust before the whirl-
wind’s force. — Bayarp TAYLOR.
Rise up as a great lion. — Op
TESTAMENT.
True to rise as leaves on Autumn’s
whirlwind borne. — WHITTIER.
Rise,
Like spring-doves from the startled
wood. — Isp.
Roam.
Roam as wolves in a wolfish horde.
— SWINBURNE.
Roar (Noun).
A single roar like the roar of a
mortar-battery. — KIpLine.
Roar . . . like the sound of a beast
in pain. — IBp.
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Roar — continued.
The roar of battle rose,
Like the roar of a burning forest, when
a strong north wind blows.
— Macautay.
Roaring like thunder borne upon
the breeze. — JoHn Ruskin.
Roar as of an ocean foaming. —
SHELLEY.
Roar,
Like the din of wintry breakers on a
sounding wall of shore.
— Bayarp TAyLor.
Roar (Verb).
Roar as doth the sea. — ANon.
Roared like a burning devil. — Inip.
Roared like a burning lumber yard.
— Isr.
Roars like a demon in torture. —
Ism.
Roars like a lion. — Isp.
Roars like a mad bull. — Inm.
Roared like an angry sea. — Inp.
A roar deep as the murmuring of
AXtna. — Joun Bani.
Roaring like Juno in the Tragedy.
— Rosert Burton.
Roared and murmured like a moun-
tain stream dashing or winding as its
torrent strays. — Byron.
Roared like breakers in the night.
— AuBRey Dr VERE.
Roar as by the evil one possessed.
— GOETHE.
Roaring like a foundered horse. —
Maurice Hew ert.
Roaring like a tempest. — Huco.
Roars in the gloaming
Like an ocean of seething champagne.
— Kinesiey.
Roared like water which rushes
from a lock when the gates are open.
— CamILLE LEMONNIER.
ROAR. —— ROCK.
Roaring like a lion for his food. —
Rosert Lioyp.
Roars like a flame that is fanned.
— LoncrELLow.
Roared as if smitten by some god.
— Lucian.
Roar like a devil with a man in his
belly. — ANDREW MarvELL.
Roared like a battle. — Joun Mase-
FIELD.
Roar like mad waves upon the shore.
— Miss Mutocx.
Roars like a bull. — MuNcHAUSEN.
Roars... like a swift pursuing
hound. — Arruur O'SHAUGHNESSY.
Roar
Like ocean battling with the shore.
—T. Bucwanan Reap.
Roareth like the sea. — Otp TEsTA-
MENT.
Roars like a bull of Bashan. —
THACKERAY.
Rough repetition roars in rudest
rhyme,
As clappers clinkle in one charming
chime. — BonNELL THORNTON.
Roaring like a bear. — WILLIAM
Warp.
Roar like lions for their prey. —
Worpsworta.
Robber.
Robbers are like rane, tha fall on
the just and the unjust. — Josa Bru-
INGS.
Robust.
Robust as ever rural labor bred. —-
Worpswortu.
Rock.
Rocked like a leaf. — Anon.
Rocked like a ship at sea. — Inm.
The earth rocking as a ship borne
over the waves. — SamurEL BEAL.
ROCK, — ROTTING.
Rock — continued.
The burning phrase
Rocked on like ocean’s tidal swell.
—Lorp De Tastey.
Rock’d like Yankee in his chair.
— Hoop.
Rocking like the stately lilies be-
neath the stately sky.—C. G. RossErt1.
Like sea-birds in the sunny main,
rock idly. — SouTHEY.
Rocked like a mass of jelly that has
been invisibly shaken. — HERMANN
SUDERMANN.
Head was on her breast, rock’d like
a nautilus in calm mid-ocean. — N. P.
WILUus.
Roll.
Rolls like a whale in the sea. —
ANoNn.
Rolling like a
ARNOLD.
I rolled myself like a hedgehog
against the sharp points of my own
thoughts. —JoserH von E1cHENDORFF.
sea. — MaTTHEW
Rolled in money like pigs in mud.
— Hoop.
Rolls like a scow-in the wake of a
liner. — ELpert Hupparp.
Rolled up like a scroll.—C. G.
Rossetti.
Rolled like the willowy and tumultu-
ous sea. — SOUTHEY.
Rolling like a wreath of snow. —
Isr.
Roll
As waves that race and find no goal.
— SWINBURNE.
Roll’d about like tumbled fruit in
grass. — TENNYSON.
Romans.
The Romans were like sheep, for
that a man might better drive a flock
of them, than one of them ; for in a
flock, if you could get some few to go
right, the rest would follow. — Caro.
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Romantic.
As romantic as a Bouguereau canvas.
— James HuNEKER.
Romantic as the Alcoran. — Bon-
NELL THORNTON.
Root.
Rooting . . . like pigs arter ground-
nuts. — Benyamin P. SHILLABER
(Mrs. Partineton).
Rosy.
; Rosy-cheeked as a winter apple. —
ANON.
Rosy as a peony. — Isr.
Rosy as pinks. — C. S. CaLVERLEY.
Rosy as the dawn. — FLAUBERT.
Rosy .. . like ripened peaches in
the morning light. — R. H. Horne.
As rosy as a bride. — Huco.
Rosy as a victorious candidate. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Rosy as the morn. — SHELLEY.
Rosy as rifts of dawn. — Cra
THAXTER.
Rosy as the candle-shade. — Eprra
WHARTON.
Rot.
Rot as corn ungarnered.
— SWINBURNE.
Rotten.
Rotten as the poisonous heap the
sea throws up for waste. — SARAH
FLowrer ADAMS.
Rotten as the gills of an old mush-
room. — ANON.
Rotten
As ever oak or stone was sound.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Rotten as dirt. — STERNE.
Rotting.
Rotting in my gizzard, like Sancho’s
suppressed witticisms. — Sir WALTER
| Scorr.
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Rough.
Rough like butter spread over stale
bread. — ANon.
Rough as the back of a hedgehog.
—J. RB. Bartiett’s ‘‘DIcTIONARY OF
AMERICANISMS.”
Rough as hemp. — CARLYLE.
Rough as a Sea Porkypine. —
Dickens.
Rough as a storm. — DryDEN.
Rough as __ bearskins. — RoBERT
HEatu.
Rough as nutmeg-graters. — AARON
Hitt.
Rough as the winds. — Otway.
Were she as rough
As are the swelling Adriatic seas.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Rough as a Russian bear. — Jonn
TAYLOR.
Round (Adjective).
Round as a circus ring. — ANON.
Round as a dish. — IBm.
Round as a dumpling. — Isp.
Round as a juggler’s box. — IBip.
Round as a length of stovepipe. —
Isp.
Round as a pearl. — Ipm.
Round as a rosebud. — Isp.
Round as a turnip. — IB.
Round as a windmill. — Inn.
Round as the full moon. — Inm.
Round as the globe. — Isp.
Rounde as a thymbyll. — Ms. Asa-
MOL. (15th Century).
Round like wells. — Bacon.
Round and sound as a mountain
apple. — Rosert BRownina.
Round as any Jonian jug. — Joan
Byrom.
ROUGH. — ROUND.
Round as Giotto’s O. — CARLYLE.
Rounde as appille was his face. —
CHAUCER. +
A round disc of fire, somewhat like a
guinea. — Havetocx EL1is.
Round as the globe. — Jonn Gay.
Round as Norval’s shield. — Hoop.
Round as platter of delf. — Isp.
Round as a quoit.— CamILie Le-
MONNIER.
Round like pumpkins. — Guy DE
MAuvpaASSANT.
Round as a tun. — MmDLeTon.
Round as the shield of my fathers.
— Ossian.
Round as a dish. — RaBELaIs.
Round as a hoop. — Isp.
Round and perfect as a star. —
ALEXANDER SMITH.
Round as a pearl or tear. — Swin-
BURNE.
Round and pale as a pair of suet
dumplings. — THackKERAY.
Round as a moyn. — “ TOWNELEY
Mysteries AND Mrracie Pays.”
Round as a kettle. —SamuEL WEs-
LEY.
Round as an Orbe. —J. WILKINS.
Round as a_ horn. — ALEXANDER
WILSON.
Round (Adverb).
Round and round like a boiling
potful. —J. M. Barrir.
Round and round, like a dance of snow
In a dazzling drift. — Isp.
Round and round they flew,
As when, in spring, about a chimney-
top,
A cloud of twittering swallows, just
returned,
Wheel round and round, and turn and
wheel again,
Unwinding their swift track.
— Wituiam CuLien Bryant.
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ROUND. —— RULE,
Round — continued.
Round and round in the same circle,
like a dog in a wheel, or a horse in a
mill. — Rospert Burton.
Go round and round like Catherine
wheels. — O. Henry.
Circles round, like the soft waving
wings of noonday dreams. — SHELLEY.
Round-Shouldered.
Round-shouldered as a grindstone.
— ANoN.
Rouse.
Rouses me, as with a cherub’s
trump. — CoLERIDGE.
Roused, like homeward wishes in
wanderer’s heart. — EpmunD GosseE.
Rouse ... like rattling peal of
thunder. — Jonn HucuHes.
Rouse and startle, like a call to
arms. — Grace Kine.
Rous’d like a huntsman to the
chase. — SWINBURNE.
Rousing.
Rousing as a bugle. — Oumpa.
Routed.
Routed . . . like a lost army. —
SWINBURNE.
Rows.
In rows, like figures in a sum. —
DICKENS.
A row, like a Quaker gone delirious.
— Hoop.
Ruddy.
Ruddy as a parson’s daughter. —
ANON.
Ruddy like a winter apple. — JosEPH
ConraD.
Ruddy and fresh as the waking
morn. — EvcEne FIExp.
Ruddy as if baked by heat of sun
or glowing forge. — Hoop.
Ruddy as bimba fruit. — Kauipasa.
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Ruddy as gold his cheek. — Mar-
THEW Prior.
Ruddy read as any chery. — “‘SquirE
' oF Low DEcRrEE.”
His lips waxed ruddy as light. —
SWINBURNE.
More ruddy in body than rubies. —
Otp TESTAMENT.
Rude.
As rude as rage. — ANON.
Rude as a bear. — Swirt.
Ruffles.
Ruffles as a breeze ruffles the sur-
face of a pond. — ANon.
Rugged.
Rugged as a Saracen. — SAMUEL
BUTLER.
‘Rugged as the coat of a colt that
has been bred upon a common. — Isr.
Rugged as burrs.—Joun Hey-
woop.
Rugged as Ailsa crag.—J. S.
Know es.
Ruin.
Fell slowly into ruin, like all dwell-
ings to which the presence of man no
longer communicates life. — Huco.
Ruinous.
Ruinous as guilt. — THACKERAY.
Rule (Noun).
Rules, like crutches, ne’er became
of any use but to the lame. — RoBERT
Lioyp.
He that hath no rule over his own
spirit is like a city that is broken down,
and without walls. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Rule (Verb).
Ruled as straight as a sheet of
music-paper. — Bazac.
Ruled, like a. wandering planet. —
SHAKESPEARE.
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Rumbling.
Rumbling like a restless torrent
lashing the mountain-side. — Aiscuy-
LUS.
Ruminate.
Ruminates like an hostess that hath
no arithmetic but her brain to set
down her reckoning. — SHAKESPEARE.
Rumor.
Rumors fructify about it like the
burgeoning of toad stools on a fat
muck heap. — Anon.
Run.
Run from it as a mendicant friar
from an alms. — Tuomas ApAms.
Running like a high sea. — ANon.
Running like a lapwing. — IB.
Ran like a madman. — Ini.
Run like a millrace. — Isp.
Runs like a spout. — Ibm.
Run like fire through ‘stubble. —
Is.
Run like the devil. — In.
Running like the Devil’s mill. —
In.
Run like the east wind. — Ism.
Running things into the ground, like
a dog after the hare. — Ipm.
Run like wildfire. — Isp.
Run like winking. — Isp.
Runs... as the surge of health
returning to the sick.— ARABIAN
Nicurs.
Runne like a fountayne free. —
EneuisH BALuap.
Running as if they had hot coals in
their shoes. — BsOrNsTJERNE BsdRN-
SON.
Just as a wheel, that’s
* down a hill
Which has no bottom, must keep run-
ning still. — Joun Byrom.
running
— RUSH.
I ran like the drift on the ice low curled
When the winds of Yule are abroad on
the world. — Burss CARMAN.
Ran like hell-hounds. — Hamuin
GARLAND.
Ran ...as a wolfe, that taketh
his praye. — Joun GowzEr.
Running like a hunted deer.
Hoop.
Run like fire in summer furze.
GrorGE MEREDITH.
Runs like the prey of the forest.
Inm.
Ran, as in the terror of a dream.
JAMES MontTGOMERY.
Ran like a shiver. — Max Norpav.
Run like water off a duck’s back. —
Ray’s ‘‘CoLLECTANEA.”
Running like a leaping wave. —
E. R. Sri.
Ran,
Like scatt’red chaffe, the which the
wind away doth fan.
— SPENSER.
Run ravening as the Gadarean
swine. — SWINBURNE.
Run like oil. — Otp TESTAMENT.
Run like the lightnings. — Izm.
Rush (Noun).
Arush somewhat like the opening of an
Oklahoma reservation.— Grorer ADE.
A rushing like the rushing of mighty
waters. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Sullen rush upon the air,
Such as the unseen wings of spirits
make. — WHITTIER.
Rush (Verb).
Rushes . . . like a tempest-troubled
brook. — ANon.
As the billows fling shells on the shore,
As the sun pours light o’er the sea,
As the lark scatters song evermore,
So rushes my love to thee. —Inw.
RUSH. — RUSTLE.
Rush — continued.
Rushed as a storm. —Joun ARM-
STRONG.
Rush, like a rocket tearing up the
sky. —P. J. Baey.
Rush . . . open-mouthed,
crow at a walnut. — Batzac.
The blood rushed like a burning
torrent through his veins. — Isp.
like a
Armies rush’d like warring mighty
seas. — WILLIAM BLAKE.
Like an unruly deluge, rushed on.
— Wit1i1am Broome.
Rush
Like clans from their hills at the voice
of the battle.
—J. J. CaLLanan.
Two souls, like two dew-drops,
rushed into one. — CARLYLE.
Rush like
FREILIGRATH.
rain. — FERDINAND
Rush, like mountain torrent, swollen
by the melted snow. — GoETHE.
Rush like a fiery torrent.— Homer.
Rushed like fairies. — Ipm.
Rushed like a torrid hurricane. —
Hoop.
Rushed upon us like a lava torrent.
—Siemunp KRrasInskI.
Rush like gudgeons to the bait. —
Rozert Luoyp.
Rushed like a man insane. — Lonc- |
FELLOW.
Rushed as a wind that is keen and
cold and relentless. — Inip.
Like prisoners from the dungeon
gloom,
Like birds escaping from a snare,
Like schoolboys at the hour of play,
All left at once the pent-up room,
And rushed into the open air.
— Isp.
Rushes like a boar against the
shouting chase. — Macautay.
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Rushed out upon the wayfarers like
ambushed bandits. —Grorce MErE-
DITH.
Rushed in as rush the waters through
@ cave
That tunnels half a sea-girt lonely
rock. — Witi1am Morris.
Rushed like the hot blood in the
veins of a fever-stricken child. —
Sypney MunpeEn.
As rusheth a foamy stream from the
dark shady steep of Cromla .when
thunder is rolling above, and dark
brown night rests on the hill; so
fierce, so vast, so terrible, rush for-
ward, the sons of Erin. — Ossian.
Rushing like a flood.—E. H.
PLUMPTRE.
Rush . . . like ravenous wolves in
night’s dark cloud, driven abroad by
the blind rage of lawless hunger. —
VIRGIL.
Russia.
Russia, like the elephant, is rather
unwieldy in attacking others, but most
formidable in defending herself. She
proposes this dilemma to all invaders
— adilemma that Napoleon discovered
too late. The horns of it are short and
simple, but strong. Come unto me
with few, and I will overwhelm you;
come to me with many, and you
shall overwhelm yourselves. —C. C.
CoLTon.
Rustle (Noun).
The rustling of their gowns seems
like the crumpling of bank bills. —
Eate Avcrer.
A silken rustle,
Like the meeting of guests at a festival.
—T. Bucuanan Reap.
Rustle (Verb).
Rustling . . . like autumn leaves
that tremble and foretell the sable
storm. — Hoop.
Rustling like the secret darkness of
the soul. — RicHarp Hovey.
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Rustle — continued.
The dead laurels of the dead
Rustle for a moment only,
Like withered leaves in lonely
Churchyards at some passing tread.
— LONGFELLOW.
Rustling like a flock of sea-fowl. —
JAMES MACPHERSON.
Rustling like a summer rain. —Is1p.
Sacred.
Sacred as cats to a priest in Thebes.
— ANON.
Sacred as Hindoo gods. — Inm.
Sacred as a_ shrine. — BULWER-
LytrTon.
Sacred as the crocodiles were to the
ancient Egyptians. — Isr.
Sacred as churchyard turf. — Euza
Cook.
Sacred as an unvoiced prayer. —
GerorcE MEREDITH.
Sacred as the monarch’s hall. —
WHITTIER.
Sad.
Sad as the sunless sea. — FRANKLIN
P. Apams.
Sad as a subpoena. — ANON.
Sad as a wail over the dead. — Inn.
Sad as doom. — Inm.
As sad as Fate. — Inip.
Sad as if steering to dim eternity.
— Isp.
Sad as the eyeball of sorrow behind
a shroud. — Inm.
A song as sad as the wild waves be.
— Isp.
Sad as silence when a song is spent.
— ALFRED AUSTIN.
RUSTLE. — SAD.
Ruthless.
Ruthless as the sea. — Maurice
HEWLETT.
Ruthless as a baby with a worm. —
TENNYSON.
Ruthlessly-
Ruthlessly as you lop a branch. —
Ricnarp Le GALLIENNE.
Sad as death. — Arnra Bran.
Sad as the groans of dying innocence.
—Ism.
Sad as a thousand sighs, when the
dark winds sob through the yews. —
Henry BRooxe.
Sad as wisdom cut off from fellow-
ship. — E. B. Brownine.
Sad as Melancholy. — Rosert Bur-
TON.
Sad as angels for the good man’s
sin. — CAMPBELL.
Serenely sad as eternity. — CARLYLE.
Sad as bull liver. — WILLIAM Carr’s
“Tar DIALECT OF CRAVEN.”
Sad as twilight. — Grorcsr Exror.
Sad as the gust that sweeps the
clouded sky. — O. W. Hotes.
Sad as eve. — Huco.
Sad as an image of despair. — Sic-
MUND JXRASINSKI.
Sad as raindrops on a grave. —
Grorce P. Larurop.
My heart is as sad as a black stone
under the blue sea. — Lover.
Sad as the tears the sullen Winter
weeps. — GrorcE Mac-Henry.
Sad, like the’sun in the day of mist,
when his face is watery and dim. —
JAMES MacPHERSON.
SAD. — SAG.
Sad — continued.
Sad as the wind that sighs
Through cypress trees under rainy
skies. — Puirie B. Marston.
Sad as the shriek of the midnight
blast. — GeraLp Massry.
Sad as wailing winds. — Isp.
Sad as the last line of a brave
romance. — GEORGE MEREDITH.
Sad ...as the ghostly past. —
Owen MEREDITH.
Sad my thoughts as willows bending,
O’er the borders of the tomb.
—G. P. Morris.
Sad as tears to the eyes that are
bright. — A. J. Ryan.
Sad
Like the echo mad
Of some plaintive spirit strain.
— Francis S. Sarrus.
Sad as night. — SHAKESPEARE.
Sad as a lump of lead. — SPENSER.
Sad as twilight on the deep. —
GEORGE STERLING.
Sad as a soul estranged. — Swin-
BURNE. |
Sad as a wintry withering moon. —
Isip.
Bare and sad as banishment. — Ipip.
Sad as doom. — Isp.
Sadder than a banquet skeleton. —
FREDERICK TENNYSON.
Sadness.
A little tinge of sadness floats upon
her eye, like the haze upon a summer
landscape. — Donatp G. MircHELL.
Safe. i
Safe as a tortoise under its shell. —
ALEXANDER ADAM.
Safe as a blockhouse. — ANon.
Safe as a child on its mother’s
breast. — Irv.
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Safe as a crow in a gutter. — In.
Safe as a mouse in a cheese. — Inrp.
Safe as a mouse in a mill. — Ip.
Safe as a rat in a trap. — Ipip.
Safe as a sardine. — Ini.
Safe as Solomon’s birds. — Isr.
Safe as a thief in a mill. — Ip.
Safe as a wall of brass. — Inn.
Safe as caged. — Ipip.
it:
Safe as brandy.— Miss A. E.
Baxer’s “ NORTHAMPTONSHIRE GLOS-
SARY.”
Saif tu take as a fotograph. — JosH
BILines.
Safe from harm as sings the lark
when sucked up out of sight in vortices
of glory and blue air. — E. B. Brown-
ING.
Safe as the Bank of England. —
Butwer-LyTTon.
As safe and sacred from the step of man
As an invisible world. — CoLERIDGE.
Safe as my life. — R. DAVENPORT’s
“New Tricks TO CHEAT THE DEVIL.”
Safe as a stone in a peach. — ALFRED
Heap.
Safe as a fish. — ‘Hep To Dis-
COURSE.”
Safe as a fox in a trap. — KINGSLEY.
Safe as in the bank. — Ricnarp Lz
GALLIENNE.
Safe as in bed. — CHARLES READE.
Safe as Priam is in Ilion. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Safe as thy gold in the strong box.
— WILLIAM SOMERVILLE.
Safe as hunted wolf within his lair.
— Turopore WarTts-DUNTON.
Sag.
Sags like a fisherman’s hat. — Invin
S. Coss.
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Sag — continued.
Sagging down like a Welsh wallet.
— Tuomas Dekker.
Saggy.
Saggy, like a paper bag full of sour
milk. — Rex Bzaca.
Saggy as a sponge full of treacle. —
Ancus McNEILL.
Sagacious.
Sagacious as the Roman. —J. H.
NEWMAN.
Sage.
Sage as Cato. — ANon.
Sail.
Sailed skyward, like burnt onion-
‘peelings. — RoBeRT BRownina.
Sallow.
Sallow as Autumn. — Owen MERE-
DITH.
Salt.
Salt as a sea
MEREDITH.
sponge. — OWEN
Salt as the sea-wind. — WHITTIER.
Salute.
Salute as ceremoniously as lawyers
when they meet after a long vacation.
— MppLeTon.
Sane.
About as sane as a lunatic’s dream.
— ANON.
Sanguine.
Sanguine as the morning skies. —
Lorp Dr TaBLey.
Sanguine, like a globe of blood. —
Francis THOMPSON.
Sank.
Sank into the bottom as a stone. —
Op TESTAMENT.
Sap.
Sapped as weak sand by water. —
SWINBURNE.
SAG. — SAVAGE.
Sarcasm.
A true sarcasm is like a sword-stick;
it appears, at first sight, to be much
more innocent than it really is, till,
all of a sudden, there leaps something
out of it— sharp and deadly and in-
cisive — which makes you tremble and
recoil. — SYDNEY SMITH.
Satire.
Satire should, like a polished razor
keen,
Wound with a touch that’s scarcely
felt or seen.
—Lapy Mary Wortiey Monracu.
Satire is a sort of glass wherein
beholders do generally discover every-
body’s face but their own. — Swirt.
For Satyre, that most needful part
of our Poetry, it has of late been more
abus’d, and is grown more degenerate
than any other; most commonly,
like a Sword in the hands of a Mad-
man, it runs a Tilt at all manner of
Persons without any sort of distinction
or reason; and so ill-guided is this
furious Career, that the Thrusts are
most aim’d where the Enemy is best
arm’d. — RoBert WOLSELEY.
Saucy.
Saucy as the wave. — Euiza Cook.
Sassy ez a jay-bird. — JoEL CHAND-
LER Harris.
Saucy as sin. —AmpBrose BIERCcE.
Saucy,
Like a proudly waving plume.
—Joun T. Trowsrince.
Saunters.
Saunters . . . like an idle river very
leasurely strolling down a flat country
to the sea. — DickENs.
Savage.
Savage as a bear with a sore head.
— Anon.
Savage as an Apache. — Inip.
SAVAGE, —— SCATTER.
Savage — continued.
‘Savage at heart as a tiger chained.
— Epwin Arno.
Sayings.
Great men’s sayings are like silver
gilt ; use wears the gilt off the silver,
and all the sparkle goes out of the
sayings if they are repeated. — Bauzac.
Scald.
Scald like molten lead. — SHaKe-
SPEARE.
Scamper.
Scamper off and disappear like a
flight of partridges. —FernAn Ca-
BALLERO.
Scampering as if the Devil drove
them. — RaBELals.
Fitfully scampered like fireflies over
the waste. — “‘VIKRAM AND THE VaM-
PIRE.”
Scandal.
Scandal, like dirt, will rub out when
dry. — Sir T. Bernarp.
In scandal, as in robbery, the re-
ceiver is always as bad as the thief.
— CHESTERFIELD.
Scandal, like a reptile crawling over
bright grass, leaves a trail and a
stain. — ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.
Scandals are like dandelion seeds,
—they are arrow-headed and stick
where they fall, and bring forth and
multiply fourfold. — Ovuma.
Scandal, like the Nile, is fed by
innumerable streams, but it is ex-
tremely difficult to trace it to its
source. — PUNCH.
Scant.
Scant as hair in leprosy. — RoBert
BRownina.
Scant as winter underwood. —
Grorce MeErREpITH.
Scanty.
Scanty as the gleaning after harvest.
— TUPPER.
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Scarce.
Scarce as feathers on a fish. — ANON.
Scarce as furs in hell. — Isp.
Scarce as orange plumes on St.
Patrick’s Day. — Inm.
Scarce as pin-feathers on a bullfrog.
— Isp.
Scarce as Scotch orators. — In.
Scarce as snakes in Ireland. — Ism.
Scarce as hens’ teeth. —J. R. Bart-
LETT’s “ DicrionaRy oF AMERICAN-
IsMs.”
Scare.
Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Scared.
Scared like a wild bird flies. — R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Scared, like to a man that with a
ghost was marred. — Wittiam Dun-
BAR.
Seared as a jack-rabbit that has
heard the howl of a wolf. — ALFRED
Henry Lewis.
Seared look, like a bird’s driven
right into the fowler’s nest. — Miss
Motock.
Scarlet.
Scarlet as Major Bagstock. — Dr.
JoHN Doran.
Scars.
Hath more scars of sorrow in his heart
Than foeman’s marks upon his batter’d
shield. — SHAKESPEARE.
Scathe.
Love doth scathe
The gentle heart, as northern blasts do
roses. — Kuarts.
Scatter.
Scatters them like a shot in a pre-
serve. — ANON.
Seattered like the bones of dead
bodies torn from one another by wolves
after the battle. — Ism.
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Scatter — continued.
Scattered like chaff before the wind.
— ANON.
Scattered like a flock.—E. B.
BRownine.
Scattered with as little premeditation
as the birds scattered their songs. —
Buiss CARMAN.
The people I love most are scattered
as the sands of the dry river beds fly
before the fall hurricane. —J. Feni-
MORE COOPER.
Scattered like foam along the wave.
— GrorcE CROLY.
Like the Jews, scattered. — THomas
DEKKER.
Scattered like mown and withered
grass. — GOETHE.
Scatter like
HEWLETT.
Scattered all along, like emptied sea-
shells on the sand. — O. W. Hoimzs.
Scattered...
As leaves when wild winds blow.
—Ism.
smoke. — MAvuRICE
She scatters the spray as the chaff
in the stroke of the flail. — Ism.
Scattered like a mad sea. — La-
MARTINE.
Scattering drops like beads of wam-
pum. — LoNGFELLow.
Scattered were they, like flakes of
snow. — IB.
Scattered wide
Like silt and seaweed by the force and
fluctuations of the tide. — Inip.
Scattered, like treasures of the lost
Hesperides. — ADELAIDE A. Procter.
Scatter... as if they had been
balloons in a wind. — Grorce MrErz-
DITH.
Scattered . . . like loose spray be-
fore the wind. — Inm.
They scattered like a brood of
partridges. — OSMANLI PROVERB.
SCATTER, — SCENERY.
Scattering, like hope through fear,
— RicHarp SAVAGE.
Scattered like foam on the torrent.
— SHELLEY.
Like a glow-worm golden
In a dell of dew,
Scattering unbeholden
Its aérial hue :
Among the flowers and grass, which
screen it from the view. — Isp.
Scattered, like a cloud of summer
dust. — Inn.
Like sheep from the wolf, scatter-
ing. — SOUTHEY.
Scattered them as crows. — SwIn-
BURNE.
Scatter as wild swans parting adrift
on the wan green waste. — Isp.
Scatters as leaves blown down the
wind. — ARTHUR SYMONS.
Scattered abroad, as sheep having
no shepherd. — New TESTAMENT.
Scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
— Op TESTAMENT.
Scatter them as the stubble that
passeth away by the wind of the wil-
derness. — Isip.
Scattered upon the hills, as sheep
that have not a shepherd. — Isp.
Scatter like
WEBSTER.
Scattered like dust before the storm.
— Lupwic UHsLanp.
Scattered . . . like chaff before the
winnower’s fan. — WHITTIER.
Scattered like the chaff blown from
the threshing-floor of God. — Inip.
Scattering, like birds escaped the
fowler’s net. — WorDswortTu.
quicksilver. — Joun
Scenery.
Fine scenery is like fine music —
you have to fill it up with your own
fine thoughts or there is no fineness
in it. — ELten T. Fow er.
SCENTED, — SCRUPLE.
Scented.
Sweetly scented as the incense
smoking on Vesta’s altars. — Joun
Forp.
Sceptics.
Sceptics, like dolphins, change when
dying. — Lapy BLEssIncTon.
Science.
The sciences, even the best, —
mathematics and astronomy, — are
like sportsmen, who seize whatever
prey offers, even without being able
to make any use of it. — EMERSON.
Science is, like virtue, its own ex-
ceeding great reward. — CHARLES
‘KINGSLEY.
Scintillate.
Scintillate and snap like sparks
from an electrical conductor. —Ep-
WARD DowDEN.
Scintillate like a human St. Cather-
ine wheel. — RicHarp LE GALLIENNE.
Scintillating as a poet’s rapture. —
Amy LESLIE.
Scold (Noun).
As arrant a scold as Xanthippe. —
Rosert Burton.
Scold (Verb).
Rail and scold like Futtar-wamen,
—Isp.
Seold like a wet parrot. — STEPHEN
CRANE.
Scold like an oyster-woman at
Billingsgate. —Hatuwew’s “ Dic-
TIONARY.”
Scold like shrewish wives at tavern
door. — Hoop.
Scold and rail
Like porters o’er a pot of ale. —Swirt.
Scorch.
Scorched like a drop of fire from a
brandished torch. — RoBert Brown-
ING.
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Scorches like a cave-hid dragon’s
breath. — GzorcE Exior.
Scorched _ like
JAMES O'BRIEN.
lightning. — Frtz- .
Scorn.
Scorn you as old Asop’s bull the
frogs. — TUPPER.
Scornful.
Scornful as spirit fallen, its own
tormentor. — O. W. Homes.
Scornful as honor is. —W. J.
Linton.
Scowl.
Scowled like a thunder cloud. —
Emity Bronté.
Scowling like a winter sky. — Mrs.
Mary Rosinson.
Scramble.
Scrambling like a cat up a wall. —
RaBELAIS.
Scratching.
Seratching like a death-watch-tick.
— Rosert Brownine.
Scream.
Screaming like a pigge half stickt.
— ANon.
Scream, like a trumpet whining
through a catacomb. — P. J. Bartey.
Scribbler.
For the Scribblers are infinite, that
like Mushrooms or Flys are born and
dye in small circles of time ; whereas
Books, like Proverbs, receive their
Chief Value from the Stamp and Es-
teem of Ages through which they have
passed. —Srr Witiiam TEMPLE.
Scruple.
There are less worthy offerings, than
the first scruple of an unscrupulous
life. It is like the first pure drops
that fall from & long turbid and dust-
choked fountain. — Ouma.
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Scud.
Scud like a wild bird. — Kzats.
Scuttle.
Scuttle off . . . like a brace of teal
ducks getting out of a walrus’ way.
— Irvin 8. Coss.
Sealed.
Sealed up, like the valley of Ras-
selas, against the intrusion of the
world. — DE QUINCEY.
Sealed as the voice of a frost-bound
stream. — SWINBURNE.
Seamed.
Seamed as if by a burn. — D’An-
NUNZIO.
Sear.
Seared like hot iron. — ANON.
Sears like a brand. —J. H. NEwMan.
Seasonable.
: Seasonable as snow in summer. —
ANON.
Seasoned.
Seasoned as twin beams of soundest
oak. — Bayarp TAyYLor.
Seclude.
Secluded as an anchorite. — Brer-
NAaRD BARTON.
Secluded as a chimney corner. —
JoHN BuRROUGHS.
Secrecy.
Dissimulation and secrecy are like
the alloy mingled with pure ore:
a little is necessary, and will not de-
base the coin below its proper stand-
ard. — CHESTERFIELD.
Secret (Adjective).
Secret as rocks under sea. — T. L.
BEDDOES.
Secret as the grave. — Byron.
Secret as the head” of Nilus. —
CONGREVE.
SCUD. —— SECRETLY.
Secret as the night. — Inm.
Secret as thought. — Francis
Fawkgs.
Secret as a confessor. — JOHN
Gay. ~—
More secret than a nest of nightin-
gales. — Kuats.
Secreter than the isle of Delos. —
Ip.
Secret as the magnet-stone. — G. P.
LaTHRop.
Secret as your midwife. — Epwarp
SHARPHAM.
Secret as a coach-horse. —R. B.
SHERIDAN.
Secret (Noun).
Secrets are like maidens _ the closer
they are kept locked up, the more
certain they are to escape. — BaLzac.
A secret is like silence : you cannot
talk about it, and keep it. It is like
money ; when once you know there
is any concealed, it is half discovered.
— Pav CHATFIELD.
State secrets are like mortal poison:
as long as that poison is in its box
and the box closed, it is not injurious ;
out of the box, it kills. — Dumas,
PERE.
A secret in his mouth is like a wild
bird in a cage, whose door no sooner
opens, than ’tis out. — Ben Jonson.
Keep your own secrets, as the seed
keeps the color of the flower. — AticE
MEYNELL.
A secret at home is like-a rock
under tide. — Miss Mutock.
Secretly.
Secretly as a lion in his den. — OLD
TESTAMENT.
Lieth secret, as a serpent. — Tup-
PER.
In secret, as a miser tells his gold.
—N. P. Wiuus.
SECURE. — SENSUAL.
/ Secure.
Secure as the grave. — ANON.
Secure as in the cell of a saint. —
SAMUEL Foote.
Secure as
LowE Lu.
happy yesterdays. —
Secure as the firmament. — GEORGE
MEREDITH.
Secure, as evening shuts behind the
day. — T. Bucnanan Reap.
Secure as sleep. — SHAKESPEARE.
Secure as the orchard-turf. — Bay-
ARD TAYLOR.
Secure as a mathematical demon-
stration. — THEOBALD.
Sedate.
Sedate, like Plato. — Tuomas Paring.
Seedy.
Seedy as a raspberry. — ALIcE CaLp-
WELL HEGaNn.
Seedy as a caraway umbrel late in
the season. — O. W. Homes.
Seek.
Seeking, like a bleating lamb
Left out at night in shutting up the
fold. —E. B. Brownie.
Seeks as does an old tailor his
needle’s eye. — DanrE.
As rivers seek the sea,
Much more deep than they,
So my soul seeks Thee
Far away. —C. G. Rossetti.
Seemly.
Seemly as a cow in a cage, a dog
in a doublet, or a sow with a saddle.
— ANON.
Seethe.
Seething, like the waves of an angry
sea. — ANON.
Selfish.
Selfish as a fox. — ANON.
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Self-praise.
Self-praise is like water poured on fire
to make it burn the brighter. — ANon.
Sense.
No more sense than a shoat (young
pig) in pickle. — Tuomas Loner.
Plain good sense, like a dish of solid
beef or mutton, is proper only for
peasants ; but a ragout of folly, well
dressed with a sharp sauce of wit, is
fit to be served up at an Emperor’s
table. — Lorp LyTTELTon.
Senses.
Our senses like false glasses show,
Smooth beauty where browes wrinkled
are,
And make the cosen’d fancy glow.
— Witiiam HarsinerTon.
The senses are like the sun. The
sun makes the heavens invisible and
the earth clear; the senses obscure
heavenly things and open up earthly
ones. — Puito Jup£us.
Senseless.
Senseless as flint. — ANoNn.
Senseless as stones. — THomas Hry-
woop.
Sensibility.
Fine sensibilities are like woodbines,
delightful luxuries of beauty to twine
around a solid, upright stem of under-
standing ; but very poor things, if,
unsustained by strength, they are left to
creep along the ground.—Joun Foster.
Sensitive.
Sensitive as a flower. — ANON.
Sensitive as truth in Heaven. —
Water Harve.
Sensual.
Sensual pleasures are like soap
bubbles, sparkling, evanescent. The
pleasures of intellect are calm, beau-
tiful, sublime, ever enduring and climb-
ing upward to the borders of the unseen
world. —Jonn H. AuGHEY.
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Sensuous.
Sensuous as ether. — ANON.
Sentences.
Sentences are like sharp nails which
force truth upon our memory. —
DDERoT.
His [Bacon’s] sentences bend beneath
the weight of his thought like a branch
beneath the weight of its fruit. —
ALEXANDER SMITH.
Sentiment.
How beautiful is noble sentiment :
like gossamer gauze, beautiful and
cheap, which will stand no wear and
tear. — CARLYLE.
Sentiment, like religion, had its
superstition and its martyrdom. —
Henry MAckEnziz.
Separate.
; Separate them one from another, as
a shepherd divideth his sheep from
the goats. — New TESTAMENT.
Sere.
Sere and dead
As any leaves of summer shed
From crimson bough when autumn
grieves. — W. D. Howe is.
Serene.
Serene and ephemeral as a little
smiling sun. — ANON.
Serene as a star in a bright mist. —
Batzac.
Serene, like a deep, smooth, and
still lake. — Buppua.
Serene as night. — Byron.
Serene ... like envoys from the
skies. — NATHANIEL CoTTon.
Serene and calm, as when the Spring
The new-created world began.
— Drypen.
Serene as the dawn. — Huco.
More serene than Cordelia’s coun-
tenance. — KEats.
SENSUOUS. — SET.
Serene as summer in Arcadian hills.
— Cuanrzes L. Moore.
Serene as a Quaker’s meeting. —
JAMES RALPH.
Serene as a winter sunset. — SAINT-
PIERRE.
Serene, as in armour of faith. —
Marcaret E, SANGSTER.
Serene and pleased a look as Pa-
tience ere put on. — James THOMSON.
Serene as light. — Isaac Watts.
Serene as day. — WorDSWORTH.
Serenely.
Serenely as the stars gaze through
the air
Straight on each other.
—E. B. Brownine.
Serious.
Serious as a philosopher. — MiLEs
P. ANDREWS.
Serious as an owl. — ANON.
Serious as a portmanteau. — Isp.
Serious as a doctor. — Dumas, PERE.
Serious . . . as one would whisper
that a lion’s near. — Hoop.
Serious as the fifth act of a tragedy.
— JoserH JEFFERSON.
Serious as taxes. — GrorcE HENRY
LEWES.
Serious as a pope. — FRANCISQUE
SARCEY.
Serviceable.
Serviceable as his
Grorce Me&reEpITH.
inkstand. —
Set.
Her jaw was set like a steel latch. —
Irvin 5S. Coss.
Set, as a piece of sculpture. —
Dickens.
Set my face like a flint. —Ozp
TESTAMENT.
SETTLEMENTS. — SHAKE.
Settlements.
Settlements between married people
are like throwing oneself out of the
window a second time in order to
discover how it happened the first
time. — BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON.
Sever.
Sever’d, like a flight of fowl
Scatter’d by winds and high tempes-
tuous gusts. _— SHAKESPEARE.
Severe.
Stood severe . like a Greek
temple at mid-day in a southern clime.
— Butwer-Lytron.
Severe as vengeance. — CowPER.
Shabby.
Shabby as a sheepskin book. —
Austin Dosson.
Shade.
Shaded over, like rainy clouds just
ripe for showering tears. — Hoop.
Shadow.
Shadow . . . like a puddle of ink.
— Marx Twain.
Shadowy.
Shadowy, like half-comprehended
notions that float dim through chil-
dren’s brains. — CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
Shadowy as a dream. — Emma Laz-
ARUS.
Shadowless.
Shadowless as Heaven. — RoBert
COLLYER.
Shady.
With a past as shady
As the grove where Dian hides.
— Bert Leston Taytor.
Shake.
(See also Shook.)
Shake like an aspen leaf. — ANon.
Shakes like jelly. — Inm.
Cease those aching sighs,
Which shake the tear-drops from thine
eyes,
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As morning wind, with wing fresh wet,
Shakes dew out of the violet.
—P. J. Battey.
Shake him up like a shirt in a hurri-
cane. —J. R. Bartiert’s “Dicrion-
ARY OF AMERICANISMS.”
Shakes like a tenant recreant. —
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Shakes with passion, like a horse
shaking off a fly.—Jutes Q. DE
BEAUREPAIRE.
Shake like withered leaves. — ALICE
Cary.
Shake like a shadow. — Gumo Cav-
ALCANTI.
Head shaking like one of those
drunken satyrs in‘ the pictures of
Rubens. — Dumas, PERE.
Shaken as if an earthquake passed.
— Micwasn Fix.
Shaken as by a shudder. — FLav-
BERT.
Shaking like an ague. — WILLIAM
HARBINGTON. :
Shaking as with the cold fit of the
Roman fever. — HAWTHORNE.
Shaking like pent up winds. —
Rosert JEPHSON.
Tremulous shake,
As in a palsied Druid’s harp unstrung.
— Kzats.
Shaken like a press of spears. — D.
G. RosseErtt.
Shaked like a coward. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Shake like a field of beaten corn. —
Isr.
Shakes, like a thing unfirm. — Isp.
Shaking . . . like a drunkard after
a debauch. — Rosert Louis STEVEN-
SON.
Shakes like flame. — SwINBURNE.
Shaken like spray from the sea. —
Isp.
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Shake — continued.
Shake,
As winds tall cedars toss on mountains
hoar. Tasso.
Shaky.
Like the magnetic needle, shaky
but steadfast. — CARLYLE.
Shallow.
As shallow as a pan. — Boot Tar-
KINGTON.
Shame (Noun).
Shame sits, like a foul vulture on a
corse. — J. S. KNow Legs.
. Shame (Verb).
Would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Shamed as a Mayflower shames an
autumn leaf. — SWINBURNE.
Shameful.
Shameful . . . as impotence in love.
— Pops.
Shameful as a_ sin. — FRANCIS
THOMPSON.
Shameless.
Shameless as a nude
Sypney Munpen.
Shaped.
Shaped like an olive. — GEORGE
ADE.
A female shaped like a washer. —
CHARLES WAYLAND TowNE.
statue. —
Shapeless.
Shapeless as an old shoe. — ANoNn.
Shapeless as a shadow. — Swin-
BURNE.
Sharp.
As sharp as a razor. — ANON.
Sharp as a steel trap. — Isp.
Sharp as a tiger’s tooth. — Inn.
As sharp as if he lived on Tewks-
bury mustard. — Ipp.
SHAKE. — SHARP.
Sharp as the bristles of a hedgehog.
— Isp.
Sharp as the tooth of time. — Ism.
Sharp as vinegar. — Isp.
Sharp, like the shrill swallow’s cry.
— Isp.
So sharp that you could shave a sleep-
ing mouse without waking her. — Isrp.
Sharp as the little end of nothing.
—J.R. Barriert’s “DIcTIONARY OF
AMERICANISMS.”
Sharp, like the crack of a pistol. —
R. D. BLackmore.
A pang as sharp as ever wrenched
confession from the lips of a prisoner
in the cells of the Inquisition. — But-
WER-LYTTON.
Like the prick of a needle, duly sharp.
— CARLYLE.
Sharpe as brere. — CHAUCER.
Sharp as the gore-soaked lashes
Of men’s whips.
— Euiza Coox.
Sharp as a winter’s morning. —
Ricnarp CoRBEtT.
Sharp-sighted as a hawk. — Ricuarp
CUMBERLAND.
Sharp like the claws of ravening
beasts. — Joun Fox.
Sharp as the bee-sting. — JamEs
GRAINGER.
Sharp like a quince. — WILLIAM
Hazuitt.
Sharp as a handsaw. — Joun Hey-
Woop.
Sharp as her needle. — Inm.
Sharp as a beak. — Huco.
Sharp as truth. — Ism.
Sharp as frost. — Eric Mackay.
Sharp as a sickle is the edge of shade
and shine. — Greorce MEREpITH.
Sharp as the enchanter’s sword. —
Isp.
SHARP. — SHIFT.
Sharp — continued.
Sharp as a ferret at a field-rat’s hole.
— Miss Mvtocx.
Sharp as a sword drawn from a
shuddering wound. — ALFRED NovsEs.
Sharp as thistles are. — Ovi.
Short and sharp, like a donkey’s
gallop. — SAMUEL PEGGE.
Sharp as javelins. — Ruskin.
Sharp as dirk rammed down in its
sheath. — Duncan C. Scott.
Sharp as my needle. — SHaKE-
SPEARE.
More sharp than filed steel. — Inn.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it
is
To have a thankless child.
— Isp.
Nose was as sharp as a pen. —
Isr.
Sharp as his spur. — Isr.
Sharp as a bayonet. — SHELLEY.
Sharp as tenterhooks. — SKELTON.
Sharp as . oyster strumpet.
— Swirt.
Sharp as the north sets when the
snows are out. — SWINBURNE.
More sharp than is the naked side
of war. — Isp.
Sharp as a terrier. — Tom TaYLor.
Sharp as reproach. — TENNYSON.
Sharp as a two-edged sword. — OLD
TESTAMENT.
Sharper than a thorn. — Isp.
' Sharp as a thistle. — ‘“TowNELEY
Mysteries, on Mrracte Piays.”
Sharply.
* Breaking as sharply as the ice blade
that loosens from the eave to slice the
air and splinter into scales of flying
frost. — James Waitcoms RILEY.
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Sharply as the blow which breaks
Prison bolts and chains.
— WHITTIER.
Shatter.
Shattered as if a shell had exploded
inside. — JosePpH ConraD.
Shattered like
Grorce MEREDITH.
Shattered, as though they had stood
a siege at Rome.—T. BucHanan
Reap.
Shattered, like a stranded bark
On the wrathful woful marge of earth
and sea. — SwINBURNE.
Shed.
Sheds gladness like a morn of sweet
sunshine. — ANON.
stormy spray. —
Shed great thoughts as easily as an
oak looseneth its golden leaves in a
kindly largess to the soil it grew on. —
P. J. Barry.
The glory of the morn is shed, like
a celestial benison. — LONGFELLOW.
Shed loose as the petals of roses dis-
crowned
On the floors of the forest.
— SwINBURNE.
Sheer.
Sheer as chaos to the irrevocable
past. — D. G. Rosserrt.
The rays run sheer as fire from the
sun through the dusk of the pine-
wood. — SWINBURNE.
Shelter.
Shelters him
As birds within the green shade of the
grove. —D. G. Rossert.
Shield.
Shields me like an angel’s wing. —
Mrs. Forrester.
Shift.
Shifting as a weathercock. — ANON.
Shift as the sands. ~ Isp.
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Shift — continued.
Shifting as the tints of the rainbow.
— Butwer-LytTon.
Shift,
BuRNS.
Shifting, like the weather. — Cow-
PER.
like fortune’s favours.—
Shifts its scenery like a diorama. —
GrorcE Extor.
She shifts and changes like the moon.
— Rozsert Herrick.
Shifting like the boundaries of a
dream. — CuHarLes L. Moore.
Shifted like restless clouds. — SHEL-
LEY.
Shifty.
Shifty as a huckster’s opening deal
For bargain under smoothest market
face. — George MEREDITH.
Shimmer.
Shimmered like silver. — ARABIAN
Nicuts.
Shimmered like the sun. — ScoTTisH
BALuaD.
Shimmered . . like meteor-fires
that haunt a fairy dell. — Bayarp
TAYLor.
Shimmered like moonbeams on danc-
ing water. — PauL WIaGGENS.
Blue eyes shimmer with angel glances,
Like spring violets over the lea.
— Constance F. Woo.son.
Shine.
Shone like a glowworm’s head. —
ANON.
Shines like a nigger’s heel. — Inm.
Shines like armor. — Isp.
Shines like burnished metal. — Ism.
Shines like fire in cat’s eye. — Inm.
Shines like frost in the moonlight. —
Isp.
Shine like immortals. — Isp.
SHIFT. —— SHINE.
Shone like the bristles of a blacking-
brush. — Isp.
Shines like the gleam of a sword. —
Isp.
Shone like the jetty down on the
black hogs of Hassaqua. — Isp.
Shone like polished ebony. — Isp.
Shone like satin. — Inp.
Shines like shot silk in the sunshine.
— Isp.
Shining like glowing flame. — ARISTO.
Shine at all points like a constella-
tion. — P. J. Baruey.
Shine like a diamond on a dead man’s
hand. — Isp.
Shine through them as live coals
through ashes. — Isp.
Shine as Phcebus doth in a May
morning. — ALEXANDER BaRCLAY.
Shine like dragon’s scales. — Brav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
Shines like a newly lit flame. — Josa
BILiines.
Shone like a cherry by candle-light.
—R. D. Buackmore.
She shines like the birch in the sun-
light’s play. — Hyatmar H. Boyssen.
Shine like
Bronté.
jet. — CHARLOTTE
Shone like flames blown in the wind.
—O. M. Brown.
Shone
Like yealow flowres and grasse farre
off, in one ;
Or like the mixture nature doth dis-
play
Upon the quaint wings of the popinjay.
— Witu1am Browne.
Shine like the sun in the firmament
of heaven. — BuNYAN.
Shone as seraphs shine. — Byron.
Shines like a phosphoric sea. — Izm.
SHINE.
Shine — continued.
Shines like snow. — In.
Shining like a bed of daffodils. —
Auice Cary.
Shine like red buttons set on a holi-
day coat. — In.
Shoon as the burned gold. — Cuav-
CER.
Shine as brighte as sunne. — THomas
CHURCHYARD.
Shining out like the gold that ’ d been
purged of its dross. — Exiza Cook.
Shine like gleams which sparkle in
the crowns of kings barbaric. — J. G.
Cooper.
Shine, like a veil before a holy shrine.
— Mrs. E. M. H. Cortissoz.
Shine with such lustre as the tear
that flows down Virtue’s manly cheek
for other’s woes.— Erasmus Dar-
WIN.
Shine out like the spine of a frosty
hill in the wintry sun. — Auprey Dr
VERE.
Shine out like flowering meads in
spring. — Isip.
Shine _ like
DIcKENS.
cherub’s cheeks. —
Stalks shine
Like the burnished spears of a field of
gold.
— Pau Laurence DUNBAR.
Shines like a beau in a new birthday
suit. — FIELDING.
Shining as a saint on a holy pyx.
— FLAvuBERT.
Shine in heav’n as bright
As doth the sun in his transcendent
might. — Gites FLETCHER.
Shine as bright as smiling day. —
Isp.
The winking buttons on the gown
Shone like the lamps of London Town.
— Norman GALE.
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On prince or bride no diamond stone
Half so gracious ever shone,
As the light of enterprise
Beaming from a young man’s eyes.
— Hariz (Emerson).
The wistful stars -
Shine like good memories.
—W. E. HEentey.
Shone like the evening star. — O. W.
Homes.
Shone like Jove’s own lightning. —
Homer (Pope).
Shone like an aureole round the
bead of some modern saint. — A. E.
Housman.
Their souls shine like living torches.
— James Hunrxer.
Shone like the bubbling foam about
a keel. — Krats.
Shone like a friendly twinkling star.
— Frances ANNE KEMBLE.
Shining as the Alps, when that the sun
Gems their pale robes with diamonds.
— Isp.
The pile of fish . . . shone like a
dump of fluid silver. — K1piine.
A smouldering fire, shining like
lamps through rents in sepulchres—
Siamunp KRrasINsKI.
Shone like an illuminated letter. —
Ricnarp Le GALLIENNE.
Lakes . . shining like polished
mirrors. — LEVER.
Shone beneath, as the fire shines
through the ashes. — Grorce HEnry
Lewes.
Shone like ocean’s snowy foam. —
JoHNn LEYDEN.
Shine as immortal poems. — Lone-
FELLOW.
Shining like the Sunne in earth.
— Lyty.
Shone like Joshua’s sun. — GERALD
Massey.
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Shine — continued.
Shone like love’s eyes soft with
tears. — Joaquin MI.usr.
Shone like a meteor streaming to
the wind. — Miron.
Shine sweetly through the gloom,
Like glimpses of eternal day beyond
the tomb.
— James Montcomery.
Shine,
Like golden ingots from a fairy mine.
— Tuomas Moors.
Shine like Nereid’s hair. — Ip.
Shine like a goldsmith’s shop in
Cheapside. — THomas NaBses.
Shine, like woodland flowers which
paint the desert glades,
And waste their sweetness in unfre-
quented shades.
— AMBROSE PHILIPs.
Shines like rotten wood. — Sir
WALTER RALEIGH.
Gleam and shine
Like jewels in a stream of wine.
—James Wuitcomp RILey.
Shone like a keen Damascus blade.
— Ciinton ScoLLARD.
Shine
As gloriously as the Venus of the sky.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Shone like mountains in the morn.
— SHELLEY.
Shine like obelisks of fire. — Inn.
Shine like pyramids of fire. — Inn.
Shone like the reflex of a thousand
minds. — Inm.
Shone like a sunbeam. — WiLLIAM
SoTHEBY.
Shone like a single star, serene in a
night of darkness. — SourHEy.
Shone like silver in the sunshine. —
Ip.
Shone like the brook that o’er its
pebbled course runs glittering gayly
to the noontide sun. — Ism.
SHINE.
Shone like the waves that glow
around a midnight keel in liquid light.
— Isp.
Shyne as brightest skye. — SpEn-
SER.
Shone as heaven’s light. — Ism.
Shined far away, like glauncing light
of Phebus brightest ray. — Ipm.
Shone and shivered like wings of
angels blown by the sun’s breath. —
SWINBURNE.
Shines as a cloud-constraining star.
— Isp.
Shone like a burning brand. — Ism.
Shone like a drop of dew. — Ism.
Shining like all April in one day. —
Isp.
Shining like a sunbeam-smitten tear.
— Isp.
Shone like the star that shines
down storm. — Ini.
Shine sweet like stars when darkness
feels them strong. — Isp.
Shone like suns aglow. — Inrp.
Shone like isles of tawny gold. —
Bayarp Tayior.
Like a sheathless sabre . .
— Isp.
. shines.
Shines like fires in swamps. —
TENNYSON.
Shone as a wintry sun. — FREDER-
Ick TENNYSON.
Shine as the brightness of the
firmament. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Shone like silver threads in tangles
blown. — Maurice Tompson.
Shone like the robe of a queen. —
Water THORNBURY.
Shin’d like molten glass. — Henry
VAUGHAN.
Shine like fairy flags unfurled. —
THroporE Warrs-DunTon.
SHINE. —- SHOOK.
Shine — continued.
Shines like burnished brass. — Pau.
WIGGENS.
Shines as calmly as some distant
star. — Saran WILLiaMs.
Shine, eminent as a planet’s light. —
N. P. WIus.
Ship.
Ships are like flies in the spider’s
web of the sea. — Hugo.
Shiver.
Shiver as the swimmer when he.
makes his first plunge. — ANON.
Shivered like a tyrant king when
he smelt gunpowder. — Isp.
Shivered as if in a deadly chill. —
J. M. Barris.
Shivered as with an ague-fit. —
Rosert M. Birp.
Shivered in my heart like a suffer-
ing child in a cold cradle. — CHaRLoTTE
BronrTsé.
Shiver
Like the lotus in the river.
—E. B. Brownine.
A shivering thing ;
Like a young bird missing its mother’s
wing. — Exiza Coox.
Shivers, like a signal-flame held
high. — Hugo.
Shivered . . . like tautened wire. —
JoHN MASEFIELD.
Made one shiver unpleasantly, as
when the Espanfia comes to close
quarters with the infuriated brute at
a bull fight. — Guy pe Maupassant.
Shiver’d, like wither’d moss. — JAMES
MonrTGoMERY.
Shivering in the wind like the sails
in the sea song. — JoHN Poo.e.
Shiver’d like
SPEARE.
Shivering as if a bullet had struck
him. — G. B. SHaw.
an egg. — SHAKE-
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Shock.
Shock like tornado tempests. —
CARLYLE.
Shocked me like a bullet. — BapGER
CLARK.
Shock my spirit like the
vibration of a bell. — Covuntry
PATMORE.
Shook.
(See also Shake.)
Shook like a strong oak in a blast.
— ANON.
Shook it like a terrier with a rat.
— Hoop.
Shook as one that looks on death.
— JEAN INGELOW.
Like bullrushes on side of brook,
Or aspen leaf, her joints all shook.
— Wituam Kine.
Shook like windy weeds. — Lone-
FELLOW.
Shook like custards. — Ouma.
Shook as the quivering plumes upon
the hearse. — Por.
Shook like a spied spy. — Ipmp.
Shook . . . like cold
CHARLES READE.
Shook like an autumn leaf. — D. G.
Rossetti.
Shook ... like shingle at the
ocean’s mercy. — JoHN RUSKIN.
Shook, like reeds beside a frozen
brook. — Sir WALTER Scott.
Shook, like the Aspen leaves in the
wind. — Inm.
Shook like
SouTHEY.
jelly. —
a palsied limb. —
Shook like loosened music. — FRAN-
cis THOMPSON.
Her waving hair shook like music.
— Isp.
Shook like a poppy-field. —G. W.
THORNBURY.
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Shook — continued.
Shook, as the blackbird’s throat
With its last big note.
— Oscar Wipe.
Shoot.
Shot like a bullet from a gun. —
O. W. Homes.
Shot like a rabbit in a ride. —
Kipiine.
Shot, like meteors changed from
stars to gleams of lightning. — JamEs
MonrTGoMERY.
Shoot through the sparkling foam like
an ocean-bird set free. —EpEs SARGENT.
Shoots like a meteor through the
storm. — Sir WALTER Scort.
Shoots, as a fire to smite some
towering town. — SWINBURNE.
Shorn.
Shorn as Samson. — TupPER.
Short.
Short as the life of a wave. —
Lronip ANDREYEV.
Short as Mahomet’s
ANON.
Short, thick and round, —like a
suet-pudding. — Inm.
dream. —
Short as a militia drummer-boy. —
J. B. Buckstone.
Short as wash-day-dinner graces. —
Irwin RussELL.
Short as
SPEARE.
any dream.— SHAKE-
Short as a lawyer’s beard. — Jonn
WEBSTER.
Shout.
Universal shout, like a volcano’s
burst. — Epwin ATHERSTONE.
Shout, like the hoarse peals of vul-
tures. — DrypEn.
Shouted and laughed, like a school
full of boys from their benches set
free. —O. W. Hommes.
SHOOK. — SHRIEK.
Shouts like Egypt, when her priests
have found,
A new Osiris, for the old one drowned.
— JUVENAL.
Shout like a storm on hills of pine.
— Bayarp Taytor.
Shout, as they that tread the grapes.
— Op TESTAMENT.
_ Shrew.
As a mushroom is among roses, so
is a shrew in a costly establishment.
—W. S. Downey.
Shrewish.
Shrewish to a jest as a woman to
advice. — BuULWER-LYTTON.
Curst and shrewd as Socrates’
Xanthippe. — SHAKESPEARE.
Shriek (Noun).
A shriek, as of a soul in Hades. —
ANon.
Shriek ... such as might have
risen only out of hell. — Por.
Shrieks like mandrakes’ torn out of
the earth. — SHAKESPEARE.
A shriek and a yell
Like the devils of hell.
— THACKERAY.
Shriek (Verb).
Like one who wakens in a grave and
shrieks,
The still house seemed to shriek.
—E. B. Brownine.
Shriek,
Like a frayed bird in the gray owlet’s
beak. — Hoop.
Shrieks like laughter in the demoned
hills. — Ricnarp Hovey.
Shriek . . . as if a frightful memory
whipped thy soul for some infernal
crime. — H. C. Kenpa.u.
Shriek . . . during shipwrecks, like
the cursed inhabitants of the Bay of
the Dead, who await their prey in the
ships lost at sea. — LAMARTINE.
SHRIEK. — SHRINK. >
Shriek — continued.
Shriek like a storm-wind. — Swin-
BURNE.
Shrieking, like a soul in pain. —
Cra THAXTER.
Shrill.
Shrill
As ever started through a sea-bird’s
bill. — Byron.
Though thy voice be shrill, like
rasping file on steel. — EMERSON.
A cry more shrill than Diana sur-
prised by Acteeon. — GAUTIER.
Shrill . . like the tingling steel of
an elfin gong.— P. H. Hayne,
Shrill as bird on topmost twig. —
C. G. Rossetti.
Shrink.
Shrink as from a haunted place. —
ANON.
Shrinking like an old man into his
shoulders. — Isw.
Shrinks inward like a walnut, —
Ipip.
Shrinks like a Yonkers celebrity
when he hits Broadway. — Isp.
Shrunk like a withered hand. —
P. J. Batey.
Shrink, as if I had been wandering
among volcanic-looking hills, and had
suddenly felt the ground quiver.—
CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
Shrink into a point like death. —
E. B. Brownine.
Shrink up like a crushed snail. —
Rosert Brownine.
Shrunken... like a
branch. — BupDHA.
Shrunk up like a bean in a pod. —
Auice Cary.
Shrinking back, like one that had
mistook. — COLERIDGE,
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Shrink,
As from a precipice’s brink.
— Exiza Cook.
Shrink as a_ snail. — ‘“‘CovEenTRY
Mysterirs.”
Shrinks, like the sick moon at the
wholesome morn.— WiLuIAM Cra-
SHAW.
Shrink like parchment in consuming
flame. —Joun DrypDEn.
Shrinks as some fair tulip by a storm
oppressed
Shrinks up and folds its silken arms
to rest. — Isp.
Shrank
As one who sees a loathed sight.
— Maovrice F. Kean.
Shrank like the snow that watch-
ers in the vale see narrowed on the
height each summer morn. — GEORGE
Eiot.
Shrank like a leaf in Fall. — EucENE
FIEL.
Shrinking like a snail withdrawing
into its shell. — Herman HevERMans,
JR.
Shrunk away as a frost-bitten apple.
— Wasuineton IrvING.
Shrunk away, within him, like a
dried filbert in its shell. — Iprp.
Shrank as from a sudden and mortal
danger. — Mary JOHNSTON.
Shrank, like things with breath,
Whose ripeness feels the touch of
death. —C. F. Kmary.
Shrank as the beetle shrinks beneath
the pin when village children stab
him in their sport. — KipLine.
Shrank, like boys, who, unaware,
Ranging the woods to start a hare,
Come to the mouth of the dark lair
where, ' :
Growling low, a fierce old bea
Lies amidst bones and blood.
— Macavtay.
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Shrink — continued.
Shrink as though Death were pass-
ing in his shroud.—Joun Mass-
FIELD.
Shrank as at prick of steel. —
Gerorce MEREDITH.
Shrank —like parchment at the
touch of flame. — Inrp.
Shrink, as from a serpent in a knot
of flowers. — H. H. Mirman.
He shrinks, as from a viewless blow.
— Ricnarp M. Mites.
Shrinking as violets do in summer
ray. — THomas Moore.
Shrink as though some cowardly sin
were between them. — Ouma.
Shrank,
As a taper in sunlight sinks faint and
aghast. —T. BucHanan Reap.
Shrinks like scorched parchment
from the fiery ordeal of true criticism.
—R. B. Saerman.
Shrinks, as might love from scorn.
— SWINBURNE.
Shrank away tremulously, as fairies
in the story-books, before a superior
bad ‘angel. — THackERay.
Shrinks like a beggar in the cold.
—J. T. Trowprmce.
Shrink . . . like guilty things sur-
prised. — E. P. WuHrppte.
Shrivel.
Shrivelled like belated daisies, before
a north wind. — ANon.
Shrivels like a scroll.—O. W.
Homes.
Shrivelled like a burning scroll. —
H. H. Mian.
Shrivel, like leaves when summer’s
green recedes. — J. H. Newman.
Shrivelling up his face, like an
autumn leaf. — SMoLuert.
SHRINK. —— SHUN.
Shriveled.
Shriveled . . . like the pictures of
mummies you see in books. — Marx
Twain. ;
Shrouded.
Shrouded as a corpse with storm’s
grey shroud. — SwINBURNE.
Imagination shrouded, like the draw-
ing-room furniture. — Epita WuHar-
TON.
Shudder (Noun).
He felt the sort of shudder which
a bull-dog would feel who should
scent a wolf in his master’s clothes.
— Hugo.
A shudder like that of the deer when
he sees the hounds again upon his
track. — Ini.
Shudder (Verb).
Shuddered like some woman’s over-
fat pug when a street dog bristles up
at him. — O. Henry.
Shuddered like 'a man in a fever. —
Mavrice Hew ert.
Shuddered as at a swift cleaving of
cold steel. — Grorce MerepitTu.
Shuddering like a shot bird. —
SWINBURNE.
Shun.
Shun wickedness as swallows shun
pestilent, places. — St. AUGUSTINE.
Shun him like the plague. — Roserr
BRownine.
Shun her like garlic. — Byron. %
Shunned like a viper.— MaTHew
Caney.
Shunned like base praise and hire-
ling’s mart. — Ausrey Dr VERE.
Shunn’d him as a sailor shuns the
rocks. — DrypEn.
Shun as moles shun light. —O.
Henry.
Shun him like the pest. — Epwarp
SHARPHAM.
SHUN. — SIGH.
Shun — continued.
Shun as sullen night-ravens do the
sun. — Henry VAUGHAN.
Shun, like a shattered bark, the
storm. — WorpsworTu.
Shut.
As shut as evening flowers. — ANon.
Shut as the leaves of a white rose may
Ere the wan bud blooms out perfectly.
— James Wartcoms Ritey.
Shut like a purse. — Swirr.
My heart is shut
As a sealed spring of fire.
— SWINBURNE.
Shut from approach like sea-nymph
in a shell. — N. P. Wins.
Shy.
Shy as lightning. — Dz Quincey.
Shy
As some stray fawn that seeks its
mother. — Austin Dosson.
As shy and secret as a maid. —
LowELL.
Shy as
MEREDITH.
Shyer than the forest doe
Twinkling slim through branches green.
— Isp.
the squirrel. — GrorcE
Shy as a wren in the hedgerow. —
Grorce Moore.
Shy as_ the
PHILIPS.
fawn. — AMBROSE
Sick.
Sick as a cat with eating rats—ANON.
Sick as a horse. — J. R. BartLett’s
ce ”
DicTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS.
As sick as a dog. — Ricuarp Jago.
Sick as a Dover packet-boat. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Sick at heart as the mouse, that the
cat lets go a little way, and then darts
and replaces. — CHARLES READE.
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Sick as Lent. — SwINBURNE.
Sickly.
Sickly as faint weather. — Bravu-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
Side.
All on one side, like a bird with one
wing. —F. P. NorTHa..
Sideways.
Sideways, like an amorous dove. —
GerorcE DARLEY.
Spread sideways like a drawing net.
— SWINBURNE.
Went sideways as a big fish flaps
And shoves with head and body.
— Isp.
Side by Side.
Side by side,
Like tombs of pilgrims that have died
About the Holy Sepulchre.
— D. G. Rossertt.
Sift.
Sifted fine as flour. — DicKEns.
Sifted, drifted, like the sun of sands
in wastes Arabian. — ANDREW LANG.
Sifted like great snowdrifts o’er the
landscape. — LoncrEeLLow.
Sift you as wheat.— New Tersta-
MENT.
Sigh (Noun).
A sort of sigh, like the grunt of an
overburdened St. Joseph. — Bauzac.
Sighed with such a sigh as drops
from agony to exhaustion.—E. B.
BROWNING.
A sigh like driven wind or foam. —
Buiiss CARMAN.
My sighs, like silent air, unheeded,
never move her.— Ropert Craw-
FORD.
Profound sigh, like a man unloosed
from the tightest bonds. — Dumas,
PERE.
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Sigh — continued.
Pitiful sigh, like a gust of chill,
damp wind out of a long-closed vault,
the door of which has accidentally
been set ajar. — HAWTHORNE.
A sigh like the long-drawn breath
of a fog-horn. — Epear W. NYe.
A great sigh, like that of a giant
who is stoned. — EpGAR QUINET.
With low, uneasy sigh ;
Like the voice of wandering spirits,
Lamenting through the sky.
— Francis 8. Satus.
A sigh like that of a saint desirous
of dissolution. — Sir WALTER Scort.
Sigh (Verb).
Sighed like the dying gasp of a
syphon bottle. — Anon.
Sighing ...as though the sea
were mourning above an ancient
grief. — Buiss CarMaN.
The sails did sigh like sedge. —
CoLERIDGE.
Sighed like Boreas. — GERALD Grir-
FIN.
Sigh like a dog that hath lost his
master. — THomas LonGE.
He sighs like David’s son for Sheba’s
queen. — Epwarp Lovisonp.
Sighs as men sigh relieved from care.
— LowELL.
Sighing . . . like a tomb-searcher.
— Tyomas Moore.
Sigh,
Like some sweet plaintive melody of
ages long gone by.
— Wituiam MoTHerwet...
Sighed as if a deadly burthen had
been taken from her breast. — Por.
Sighing as April sighs for May. —
T. Bucnanan Reap.
Sighing like
SPEARE.
furnace. — SHAKE-
SIGH. — SILENT.
Sigh, like a school-boy that had lost
his A, B, C. — Isp.
Sigh like Tom o’ Bedlam. — Isp.
Sighed like a man near fainting. —
Rosert Louis STEVENSON.
Sighs
As a voiceless crying of old love
That died and never spoke.
— Artaur Symons.
He sighed like a zephyr. — Marx
Twain.
Sighs, like a spirit, deep along the
cheerless waste. — H. K. Wuire.
Silence.
Silence . . . like an adoring host in
ecstasy. — LAURENCE BInyon.
Silence sank
Like music on my heart.
— COLERIDGE.
A silence like that of dreams. —
O. W. Hotmes.
Silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.
— Isp.
We rest in silence, like two gems up-
curl’d :
In the recesses of a pearly shell.
— Keats.
A deep silence, like the fearful calm
That slumbers in the storm’s porten-
tous pause. — SHELLEY.
Silence . . . like a flower closed in
the night. — CHaRLES WELLS.
Silenced.
Silenced with a scorn as bitter to
the taste as myrrh. — CLINTON Scol-
LARD.
Silent.
Silent . . . like a forgotten melody. °
— Hamitron Apr.
Silent as a man being shaved. —
Niccoto ALBIzzi.
Silent as a catacomb. — ANON,
SILENT.
Silent — continued.
Silent as a father confessor. — Ipm.
Silent as death. — Inm.
Silent as Fate. — Inm.
Silent as Messina during a. sirocco.
— Isp.
Silent as the day gives way to night.
— Isr.
Silent as the lips of “Memnon.—
Ipp.
Silent as the Sphinx. — Insp.
Silent men like silent waters are
deep and dangerous. — Isp.
Silent as the foot of time. — A. L.
BaRBAULD.
Silent as the growth of flowers. —
ApHra Bran.
Silent as thought. — BERANGER.
The living seemed as silent as the
slain. — AMBROSE BIERCE.
Silent as a church. — CHARLOTTE
BRONTE.
Silent as an Indian. — Inn.
Silent as a ghost.—W. H. Bur-
LEIGH.
Silent as night. — THomas Carew.
Silent . . . like Sleeping Beauty’s
Castle. — CARLYLE.
Silent as snow falls on the earth. —
CHINESE.
Silent as your shadow. — CoLLEY
CIBBER.
Silent and pure as the heaven above.
— D’ANNUNZIO.
Silent as a saint.—AuBrREY Dr
VERE.
Silent as a flame that fails. —
DICKENS.
Silent as the elves. — Grorcs Exiot.
Silent and troubled, like a man
who feels he hath done that which he
shall one day rue. — F. W. Faser.
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Silent as
Fawkes.
evening. — FRANCcIS
Silent as shut cups
And windless reeds.
— Zona GALE.
Silent as a Japanese. — GOLDSMITH.
Silent like a glacier bed. — Epmunp
GossE.
Silent as midnight’s falling meteor
slides into the stillness of the far-off
land. —O. W. Hotmes.
Silent as a mummy. — Hoop.
Silent as a stone. — Isp.
Glide as silent as a Dryad
That disappears among the trees.
— Ricuarp Hovey.
Silent as sleep or shadow. — JEAN
INGELOow.
Silent as at the gentle Lethe’s tide.
— Wittiam Irvine.
Silent as a consecrated urn. —
Kats.
Silent as a tomb. — Inm.
Silent as a sentinel on an outpost.
— Hucw Ke ty.
Silent as the Trafalgar Square lions.
— Amy LESLIE.
Silent as the ev’nings
Ricuarp LovELace.
ayre. —
Silent as a country churchyard. —
Macau.ay.
Silent as a hound at fault. —
Cuartes MACKLIN.
Silent as the sleeping seas. — GER-
ALD Massey.
Silent as the evening sky. — GEORGE
MEREDITH.
Silent as the moon. — MItTon.
Silent as the depth of night. —
JAMES MoNTGOMERY.
Silent, like a sundial in the shade.
— Sypngey MunpEn.
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Silent — continued.
Silent as a tree. — JOSEPHINE P.
PEABODY.
Silent as the silence where men lie
slain. — C. G. Rossetti.
Silent and slight as the fall of a
half-checked tear on a maiden cheek.
— RuskIn.
Silent as the grave. — SCHILLER.
Silent as a corpse. — SHELLEY.
Silent as a noonday sky when larks
with heat are mute. — ALEXANDER
SMITH.
Silent as a steam calliope with a
broken boiler. — New York Sun.
Silent as a politician. — SwiFt.
Silent as a mountain lawn. — SwIn-
BURNE.
Silent as time. — Inip.
Silent as a stooping cloud. — Isp.
Silent as a cloud that sleeps in mid-
day on a mountain peak. — BayarpD
TayYLor.
Silent in conversation as a country
lover. — VANBRUGH.
Silent as the mighty marching
Of earth and all the planets round the
sun. — Tuomas WapzE.
Silent . . . as the hush’d grouping
of a dream. — WHITTIER.
Silent as despair. — Ip.
Silent as a picture. — WorpDsworTu.
Silent as a standing pool. — Ipm.
Silent as the skies. — Iprp.
Silently.
Silently as a snail slips over a
cabbage leaf on a dewy morning. —
J. R. Bartierr’s “ Dicrionary oF
AMERICANISMS.”
Silently as a dream. — Cowper.
Silently as a fish in a stream. —
Sir A. Conan Dov e.
SILENT. — SIMILE.
Fall silently like dew on roses. —~
DRYDEN.
Silently, like thoughts that come
and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a
gem. — W. H. Grsson.
Silently . . . as colours steal into
the pear or plum. — Rosert Herricx.
F’en like the passage of an angel’s tear
That falls through the clear ether
silently. — Keats.
Silently as a cloud rolls out of the
mouth of a valley. — Kreiine.
Silently as the winds of the desert
sweep upward and northward over the
plains. — Ouma.
Eat his dinner as silently as a
brother of La Trappe. — TaackeEray.
Silently as bubbles burst. ~— WI-
uiaM R. THAYER.
As the water follows the moon,
silently, with fluid steps, anywhere
round the globe. — Watt WuHrITman.
Silly.
Silly as calves. — ANon.
Silly as an old maid at a marriage.
—— CONGREVE.
You look . . . as silly as a tumbler
when he’s been upside down and has
got on his heels again. — GrorcE
Euior.
Silly as an owlish roysterer’s glazed
stare at the young aurora. — GEorGE
MEREDITH.
Silly as a booby.— Mason L.
WEEMs.
Silvery.
Silvery as a song.— Grratp Mas-
SEY.
Simile.
And similes in each dull line,
Like glow-worms in the dark should
shine. — Epwarp Moore.
What liuely similitudes & compari-
sons, as the righteous man to a baie
SIMMER. — SINFUL.
tree, the Soule to a thirstie Hart,
vnitie to oyntment and the dew of
Hermon. — Henry Pracuam.
Similes are like songs in love ;
They much describe; they nothing
prove. — Prior.
Similes prove nothing, but yet
greatly lighten and relieve the tedium
of argument. — SourTu.
Simmer.
Simmer like a sea pent volcano. —
O. W. Hoimzs.
Simper.
She simpers as a mare when she eats
thistles. — ANON.
Simper like a porrage pot in the fire
when it first begins to seethe. —
Tuomas Nasu.
Simper like a bride on her wedding
day. —Joun Ray’s “HANDBOOK OF
PROVERBS.”
Simple.
Simple as A. B. C. — ANon.
Simple as a Greek temple. — Isr.
Simple as a nun’s prayer. — Isp.
Simple as a schoolboy’s logic. — Isp.
Simple as a squash. — Ip.
Simple as rolling off a log. — Isp.
Simple as the choice of Hercules
between virtue and vice. — Iprp.
Simple as a child. — Bauzac.
Simple as the flowers in the field. —
R. D. BuackMoRE.
Simple as milking. — Isp.
Simple as playful lamb. — Ropert
BLOOMFIELD.
Symple as byrde in bouer. — Caav-
CER.
Symple as dowve of tree. — Isp.
As simple as a saint might bathe in
lakes of prayer. — Ricuarp Hovey.
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Simple as miracles always are after
they are wrought. —F. W. H. Myers.
Simpler than the infancy of truth.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Simple as breath. — ArTHUR
Symons.
Simple as a snow-drop. — Exiza-
BETH S. P. Warp.
Simply.
Simply as Augustus went on foot to
the Capital. — Emits Bourczois.
Simply as breathing. — LowE tt.
Heart-whole, and simply as a bird
that feels the onset of the spring. —
F, W. H. Myers.
Sin.
Sin is like a mountain with two as-
pects according to whether it is viewed
before or after it has been reached :
yet both aspects are real. — SAMUEL
Butter (1835-1902).
Sins are like circles in the water
when a stone is thrown into it — one
produces another. —Matraew Henry.
Sincere.
Sincere as sunlight. — ANoN.
As truth, sincere. — Davip MALLeT.
About as sincere as the look upon
the face of an undertaker conducting a
nine-hundred dollar funeral. — Henry
L. MENCKEN.
Sincerity is like travelling on a plain,
beaten road, which commonly brings
a man sooner to his journey’s end than
byways, in which men often lose them-
selves. —JoHn TILLOTSON.
Sinew.
Sinews like a vine. — ALFRED AUS-
TIN.
Sinful.
Sinful as sin. — FIeLpIne.
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Sing.
Sing like a bird called a swine. —
ANON.
Sing like a cobbler. — Ism.
Singest like an angel in the clouds.
— COLERIDGE.
Sing like a swan, as if thou went’st
to bliss. — Sir Joun Davis.
Sing like an angel.—Joun Eve-
LYN.
Singing as sweetly and making as
heavenly a noise as doth an arbour of
nightingales in a calm-winded night.
— JoHN GRANGE.
Sing-song like a stiff puffet on a
humdrum barrel-organ. — Leicu Hunt.
Sings like the sighing of a tempest
spent. — Dr. JoHNSON.
Singing . . . like the shouting of a
backstay in a gale. — Kipuine.
Sings, like an inspired young Sibyl.
— Tuomas Moors.
He sings like an empty water jar. —
OsMANLI PROVERB.
She sings
As if a choir of spirits swept
From earth with throbbing wings.
—C. G. Rossetti.
About the caldron sing,
Like elves and fairies in a ring.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Sang like sirens. — VoLTAIRE.
Single.
Single as the sun. — SwINBURNE.
Singly.
The good things of life are not to be
had singly, but come to us witha
mixture, — like a schoolboy’s holiday,
with a task affixed to the tail of it. —
CuaRLes Lamp.
Sinister.
Sinister as murky midnight pools. —
JaMES HuNEKER.
SING. — SINK.
Sink.
Sink like a lark falling suddenly to
earth. — ANon.
Sinks like a plummet. — Isp.
Sinks, like a seaweed, into whence
she rose. — Inm.
Sunk
Like a blade sent home to its scabbard.
— Rospert BRownine.
Sink lower than the grave.— Bunyan.
Then sinks, as beauty fades and passion
cools,
The scorn of coxcombs, and the jest of
fools. — James CAWTHORN.
Sunk like lead into the sea. —
COLERIDGE.
Sinks like a lily from the storm. —
Eiza Cook.
Sink like fall of summer eve. —
REGINALD HEBER.
The erect body sank like a sword
driven home into the scabbard. —
Kipiine.
The nerves of Power
Sink, as a lute’s in rain.
— W. S. Lanpor.
Sank
As one that kneels before a virgin
shrine. —Joun Payne.
Sinks eclipsed, as at the dawn a star
when cover’d by the solar ray. —
PETRARCH.
Sinks, like a strain of vesper-song.
— Frank SEWALL.
I sank under it like a baby fed on
starch. — G. B. SHaw.
Sink down as a sunset in sea-mist.
— SWINBURNE.
Sink as the pausing of music. —
Bayarp TayYtor.
They sank into the bottom as a
stone. — OLp TESTAMENT.
Sank as lead in the mighty waters. —
Isp.
SINLESS. — SLEEK.
Sinless.
Sinless as Eden. — SHEetiey.
Sinless as the spring. — SWINBURNE.
Sit.
Sits careless of wave’s ebb and flow,
Like a love beacon on a desert coast,
Showing where all her hope was
wrecked and lost. — Hoop.
Sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. — SHAKESPEARE.
Sit up all night like a watching
candle. — THomas TomkIs.
Skeptic.
The skeptic, when he plunges into
the depths of infidelity, like the miser
who leaps from the shipwreck, will
find that the treasures which he bears
about him, will only sink him deeper
in the abyss. — C. C. Cotton.
Skilless.
Skilless as unpractis’d infancy. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Skim.
The little man skimmed down the hill,
Like a swallow down the wind.
—Joun Hay.
Lightly skimming. . . .
Like winds which gently brush the ply-
ing grass. — AMBROSE PHILIPS.
Skinny.
Skinny as an anchorite. — CHARLES
Mackay
Skip.
Skip like a young kid. — ANon.
He skips like hail on a pack-saddle.
— Isp.
Skip like a calf. — Otp TesTaMENT.
Mountains skipped like rams, and
the little hills like lambs. — sip.
Skulk.
Skulk like the dishonor’d. wretch,
whose hireling steel, in secret lifted,
reeks with human gore. — SMOLLETT.
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Skulk . . . like a dog shivering. —
SWINBURNE.
Slacken.
Slacken like a bow-string slipped. —
Epwin ARNOLD.
Slain.
Slain and lost,
Like a sweet flower nipp’d with un-
timely frost. — Tasso.
Slam.
Door slam like the smacking of an
iron lip. — Irvin. 8. Cops.
Slander.
Slanders are like flies, that pass all
over a man’s good parts to light on his
sores. — ANON.
Slander, like the pestilence, which
rages at noonday, sweeps all before it,
levelling without distinction the good
and the bad. — STERNE.
Slanderous.
Slanderous as Satan. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Slash.
Slash,
Like to a censer in a barber’s shop.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Slaughter.
Slaughtered like cattle
shambles. — PREscort.
in the
Slay.
Slay like thunderbolts. — ANon.
Slay, as folk that nae defence might
ma. — JoHN BaRBour.
like
Slays lightning. — GrorcE
ELioT.
Slays as plague’s blind breath. —
SWINBURNE.
Sleek.
Sleek and round as a German sausage.
— Peter C. ASBJORNSEN.
Sleek as a dray horse. — GEORGE
CoLMAN, THE YOUNGER.
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Sleek — continued.
A skin as sleek as a maiden’s cheek.
— Euiza Cook.
Sleek as Mr. Pecksniff. — DickEns.
Sleek as a mouse. — Gay.
Sleek as a cat.— Mavricze Hew-
LETT.
Sleek as silk. — Hoop.
Sleek as a horn-book.— Ben Jon-
SON.
Sleeker than Night-swollen mush-
rooms. — KrEats.
Sleep (Noun).
My sleep was like a summer sky
that held the music of a lark. —
GEORGE STERLING.
Sleep (Verb).
Never bothered — sleeps like a hall-
boy. — FRANKLIN P. ADAms.
Sleep like a bud. — Anon.
Sleep like a dead man. — Isp.
Slept like a log. — Isp.
Sealed sleep as water-lilies know.
— Epwin ARNOLD.
Sleep like a top. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
Sleep as soundly as a constable. —
RosBert BRATHWAITE.
Dante sleeps afar,
Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding
shore. —Byron.
Sleep like a jewel on the breast of
faith. —J. H. Hotuanp.
Time
Slept, as he sleeps upon the silent face
Of a dark dial in a sunless place.
— Hoop.
Sleep, like wrecks in the unfathom’d
main. — Miss Lanpon.
Like a lull’d babe she slept, and
knew no fear. — Orway.
Sleeps like a dream in a grave. — A.
J. Ryan.
SLEEK. — SLICK.
‘Sleep she as sound as careless in-
fancy. — SHAKESPEARE.
She slept, as sleeps the blossom,
hushed amid the silent air.—E. O.
SMITH.
Sleep as a slain man sleeps. — Swin-
BURNE.
As a pearl within its shell, the happy
spirit sleeps in me. — Bayarp TaYtor.
Sleep . . . like sinless flowers that
heed not the world and its maddening
din. — E. W. Watson.
Sleeping, like the darkness at noon-
tide. — Lapy Wipe.
Sleeps, like a caterpillar sheathed in
ice. — WoRDSWORTH.
Sleepless.
Sleepless as owls. — ANON.
Sleepless of soul as wind: or wave or
fire. — SWINBURNE.
é Slender.
Slender as a cat’s elbow. — ANON.
Slender as a lath. — Isp.
Slender as a reed. — Isp.
Fair and slender as the pine tree. —
SERVIAN BALLAD.
Slender as a young poplar. — BaL-
ZAC.
How slender a tract, as scant as
Alcibiades his land in a Map.—
Rosert Burton.
As slender in the middle as a Cow
in the waist. — Ipm.
Like the hazel-twig
Is straight and slender.
— SHAKESPEARE.
A girl tall and slender as a palm. —
Heinrich ZSCHOKKE.
Slick.
Slick as a ribbon. — ANon.
Slick as greased lightning. —J. R.
Bartietr’s “DIcTIONARY OF AMERI-
CANISMS.””
SLICK. — SLIPPERY.
Slick — continued.
Slick as sin. — Inm.
Slick as a whistle. — Inm.
Slick as grease. — Ipm.
Slick as a butterfly’s
Tuomas Daviss.
wing. —
Slick as soap grease. — O. Hrnry.
Slide.
Slid like water.—Jonn G. Hot-
LAND.
Slide off them like July rain off a
duck’s back feathers. — Tuomas
HucuHEs.
Slid like an evil dream. — Kipiine.
Slid like a corpse afloat.—D. G.°
Rossettt.
Around him slid like a wave. —
Bayarp Tayior.
Slideth back as a backsliding heifer.
— Op TESTAMENT.
Slight.
Slight as a dew-drop. —
Dickens.
Slight as a crescent moon at night.
— THEODOSIA GARRISON.
Slight as a vagrant plume
Shed from some passing wing.
— Laura R. Srarine.
Slight as indeed a dew-drop. —
SWINBURNE.
Slight as the sea’s sight of the sea-mew,
Slight as the sun’s sight of the star.
— Isp.
Slighted.
Slighted and betrayed ;
And like a rose, just gathered from the
stalk,
But only smelt, and cheaply thrown
aside,
To wither on the ground.
— DRYDEN.
Slighted like a rivalled toy. —
Rosert U. JoHNSoN.
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Slink.
Slinking ... like a sad and hu-
miliated man. — Hugo.
The stars slink off like thieves, in
company with Night. — Frrepricu
RUcKERT.
Slink like spectres. — Jouw C. VAN
Dyke.
Slip.
Slip away like shadows into shade.
—P. J. Batuey.
Slips on like the lapse of. water. —
Butwer-LyTTon.
Slip frae me like a knotless thread.
— Burns.
Slipped from his fingers, like drops
of quicksilver. — F. Marion Craw-
FORD.
Time slipping by you, as if it was an
animal at rustic sports with his tail
soaped. —~ DICKENS.
Slippes as a dew-drop slips from some
flower-cup _o’erweighted. — Epwarp
DowvEn.
Slip like bending rushes from your
hand. — DrypEn.
Slipped like a
Harte.
Slips like water through a sieve. —
Hoop.
shadow. — Bret
Slipp’d me like his greyhound,
Which runs himself and catches for
his master.
— SHAKESPEARE,
All earthly things are doomed to fall
away and slip back into Chaos, like a
boatman who just manages to make
head against the stream, if the tension
of his arms happens to relax,-and the
current whirls away the boat headlong
down the river’s bed. — Virai.
Slippery.
Slippery and smooth as a serpent. —
ARNE GARBOG.
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Slippery — continued.
Slippery as an eel’s tail. — Joun
Herywoop.
As slippery as the Gordian knot was
hard. — SHAKESPEARE.
Slippery as ice. — THEODORE WarTTs-
DunrTon.
Slope.
Sloped, as if leaning on the air. —
CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
Sloping like a roof. — JosmpaH Con-
RAD.
Sloped,
As slopes a wild brook o’er a little
stone. — TENNYSON.
Sloth.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than
labor wears, while the key often used
is always bright. — FRaNnkKLIN.
As the door turneth upon his hinges,
so doth the slothful upon his bed. —
Op TESTAMENT.
Slow.
Slow as a plumber going for his tools. .
— ANON.
Slow as cold molasses. — IBip.
Slow as molasses in January. —
Isp.
Slow as the hand on clock’s face. —
Rospert BucHANAN.
Slow as the white cloud in the sky.
— Isp.
Slow, like water-lilies floating down
a rill. — Byron.
A voice as soft and slow
As might proceed from angel’s tongue
If angel’s heart were sorrow-wrung,
And wish’d to speak its woe.
— Ropert CHamBeEnrs.
Slow as minor friars on sacred
errands go. — DANTE.
Slow-swelling like God’s thunder
underground. — Euriprprs.
. — SLOW.
Slow as at Oxford, on some gaudy day,
Fat beadles, in magnificent array,
With big bellies bear the ponderous
treat
And heavily lag on, with the vast loady
meat. — Francis Fawxgs.
Slow as old Saturn through prodig-
ious space. — Inmp.
Slow as an oak
To woodman’s stroke.
— Ricuarp GARNETT.
Slow, like the tired heaving of a
grief-worn breast.— O. W. Hotmes.
Slow, as the strokes of a pump. —
Hoop.
Slow, like a bell. — Huao.
Slow as a worm. — KIpuine.
Exact and slow,
Like wooden monarchs at a puppet
show. — Rosert Lioyp.
Slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
— LoNGFELLow.
It goes slow, comes slow, like a big
mill-wheel i
On some broad stream, with long green
weeds a-sway,
And soft and slow it rises and it falls,
Still going onward.
— Wituiam Morris.
Slow as lawyers mount to heaven. —
CHARLES READE.
Slow as the snail. —SamuEL RocErs.
Hobbled slow as a broken-winded
mare. — Str WALTER Scott.
Seldome and slowe, like the scantye
droppes of a fountaine neare a drye. —
CAROLINE SOUTHEY.
Slowlier than life into breath . . . it
moves. — SWINBURNE.
Slowly.
Slowly, as a man in doubt. — E. B.
BROWNING.
SLOWLY. — SMART.
Slowly — continued.
Slowly like one impelled by an un-
seen force. — AGNES AND EGERTON
CasTLE.
It came on slowly, like a cloud when
there is no wind. — Dickens.
Slowly as shadows creep at set of
sun. — Juuia C. R. Dorr.
Works as slowly as old Doctor Time
in curing folly. — Grorex Euior.
Her heart beat more and more
slowly, more gently and uncertainly,
like a spring which is growing ex-
hausted, like an echo which is sinking
away. — FLAUBERT.
Slowly, as falls a tear that slowly starts
From some great agony.
— NorMan GALE.
Slowly filling with life as a moon
with silver. — RicHarp Lz GALLIENNE.
Slowly, as when walking-beam first
feels the gathering bead of steam. —
O. W. Hotes.
Sail, slowly as an icy isle
Upon a calm sea drifting.
— Karats.
He slowly moves, like a cloud of
thunder, when the sultry plain of sum-
mer is silent and dark. — Ossian.
As slowly, as sadly, as a hare that the
greyhounds have coursed drags itself
through the grasses and ferns. —Ovua.
Slowly like the heave and roll of a
glassy sea. — Joun C. Van Dyke.
Sluggish.
Sluggish as “‘the dull weed that rots
by Lethe’s wharf.” — Anon.
Sluggish . . . like a greasy bog. —
JOSEPH CONRAD.
Sluggish as liquid pitch. — W. C.
RUSSELL.
Slumber.
Slumbers as in a grave.
BRowNING.
— RoBErt
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Slumbered like Goldsmith’s Madam
Blaize, bedizened and _ brocaded. —
Austin Dosson.
Slumbers like a beam of moonlight.
— Henry Ex.ison.
Slumber like a stone. — Emrrson.
Slumber like the leaves of a lily at
nightfall. — O. W. Homes.
Slumbering quietly,
Like forms which sculptors carve.
— SHELLEY.
Slumberest here like a caged bird
that never knew its pinions. — N. P.
WILLIS.
: Sly.
Sly as a fox. — ANon.
Sly as old boots. — Inm.
Sly as submarine. — Is.
Sly as a ring-dove.— Miss Mrr-
FORD.
Slyly.
Slyly as a wild deer. — HawTHorne.
Smack.
Smack like a tight cork from a
bottle. —O. W. Homes.
Smail.
Small as tiny stars lighting some
ruined world. — Anon.
Smaller than the point of a fine
needle. — Inm.
Small as atoms. — MassIncEr.
Small as minced meat. — RABELAIS.
Small as the dust before the wind.
— Otp TESTAMENT.
Beat them as small as the dust of
the earth. — Inip.
As small as the hoar frost on the
ground. — Isp.
Smart (Adjective)
Smart as a whip. — Anon.
Smart as a sixpence. — DICKENS.
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Smart (Verb).
Smart as lizards’ stings. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Smashed.
Smashed like a cocoa-nut by a sledge-
hammer. — ANON.
Smashed, as glass when it encounters
adamant. — pip.
Smell.
Smells like a fertilizer factory on a
sunny afternoon. — ANON.
Smellynge as the rose ay fresh and
redolent. — ALEXANDER Barciay.
Smells as sweet as any posy. —
Tomas KILLIGREW. .
Smells worse than a tallow-chandler’s
shop in the dog-days. — CHARLES
Mackin.
He smells like a fish ; a very an-
cient and fish-like smell. — SHAKE-°
SPEARE.
Smells of gunpowder like a soldier’s
pouch. — R. B. SHeripan.
Smile (Noun).
The smiles of his dark-blue eyes
sparkle like the sea when first lighted
up by the rays of the sun. — ALcI-
PHRON.
Smiles and tears, like sunshine and
rain, are necessary for the development
of life. — Anon.
Smiled, as mountains smile to see the
spring. — ANCIENT BaLLap or Hin-
DUSTAN.
Her smiles were like the glowing
sunshine. — SERVIAN BALLAD.
Her smile was like a summer morn.
— Burns.
Smile as gay as th’ sun o’ th’ May.
— Aticr Cary.
Charming smiles thy beauteous face
adorn,
As May’s white blossoms gaily deck the
thorn. — CHATTERTON.
SMART, — SMILE.
Smiles . . . sweet as the flow’rs in
bloom of spring array’d. — Ini.
Asmile as fine as wine. — FREDERICK
S. CozzEns.
*Twould force a misanthrope to hang
a smile upon his lip, as dewdrop on a
thorn. — MicHar. Frei.
Smile like the bloom of the morning.
— Epwarp Octavus F.ace.
Smiles, like meteors of the night,
Just give one flash of momentary light.
— Water Harte.
Smiles as thick on rosy lips as ripples
on the sea. — O. W. Hommes.
A grim smile, like lion that has
found a way of exit. — Hueco.
Smile like morning gold. — Isp.
Her smile was such as a sultan
might, in a blissful and fond moment,
bestow on a slave his gold gems had
enriched. — Izin.
Her smile grateful as the dissolution
of the ice. — Dr. JoHNSON.
Wan smiles flickered, like the north-
ern dawn, across her worn cheeks’ ice-
field. — KinGs.ry.
He strove to clothe his agony in smiles,
Which he would force up in his poor
pale cheeks,
Like ill-timed guests that had no proper
dwelling there.
— Cmar.es Lamp.
The smiles which play on my cheek
in public are to my heart as moon-
beams falling on some rock of ice;
they shine, but warm not.—M. G.
Lewis.
Capacious . . . smile, like the ex-
aggerated reflection of a concave mirror.
— Lover.
A half smile, like the moonlight of
laughter, dawned on her face. —
GrorceE MacDonatp.
Her smile as sunshine on a ripening
land. —Grratp Massey.
SMILE.
Smile — continued.
Its smile is as a thankful hymn. —
Isp.
Her smile —it was like the golden
wine
Poured in the spirit, as in a cup.
— Owen Mereniru.
Thy. smiles, like sunflowers in the
golden light they love. —H. H. Mr-
MAN.
Childhood . . . smiles, like glimpses
of heaven. — Donarp G. MrrcHett.
Smile like sunlight in a rippling sea.
— Lewis Morris.
Her smile is like the noon-splendor
of a day of June. — James WHITCOMB
Riney.
As a meteor bright,
As a comet bright,
Was her smile of pearl and spray.
— Francis 8. Saurus.
How like the dewdrops on a drooping
flower are smiles from gentle eyes.—
Joun G. Saxe.
Smiles, which spread like radiance
from the cloud-surrounded moon. —
SHELLEY.
A half smile hovering round her
happy lips like a bright butterfly
around a flower. — ALEXANDER SMITH.
Smile... like sunshine opening
through a shower in vernal skies. —
SouTHEY.
A smile
Sweet as good Angels wear when they
present
Their mortal charge before the throne
of Heaven. — Isp.
Smile, it was like sunshine in a shady
place. —Rosert Louis STEVENSON.
Crimson smile,
Like seas hid by a meadow-land.
— TRUMBULL STICKNEY.
Smiles more sweet than flowers. —
SWINBURNE.
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A smile that was like sunrise on a
sea strewn with wreckage. — EpITH
WHARTON.
Her smile is as a listening child’s
Who hears its mother’s call.
— WBSITTIER.
A smile which cheered — like the
breaking day. — Isp.
A smile as joyous, frank, and innocent
As that with which a babe awakes
from sleep.
— Saran WILLIAMS.
Around the lips a smile played like
the shadow of a silver cloud upon a
sunlit stream. — J. C. WILSON.
Asmile . . . as sleeps a sunbeam on
a stone. — WILLIAM WINTER.
An innocent smile, like a sunbeam
kissing a velvet rose. — Ipip.
Smile (Verb).
She smiled as though somebody
were talking to her inside. —Marcusr-
ITE AUDOUX.
Like the wine and roses, smiles. —
ANACREON.
Smiling like a star on the darkest
night. — ANON.
Smiles like a sweet June rose. —
Ii.
Smiling triumphantly the while like
one who had discovered a cure for
duty. —J. M. Barriz.
Smiling as a basket of chips. —
J. R. Bartiett’s ‘“DIcTIONARY OF
AMERICANISMS.”
Smile like a cherub. — WILLIAM
BLAKE.
Smiled like a siren. — Inm.
Smiled like the flowers of Eden. —
Patrick BRontT#.
Smiled like Italy. —E. B. Brown-
ING.
Smiling like a fiend who has deceived
God. — Rozert BRownina.
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Smile — continued.
Smile, as infants at a sudden light.
— COLERIDGE.
Smiling, like a sickly moralist. —
Ini.
Smiling like a child in the grass,
dreaming deep of the flowers, and their
golden beguiling. — Isa Craita.
Smiles like clockwork. — DIcKENs.
The singer smiled, as doubtless
Orpheus smiled, to see the animals
both great and small, the mountainous
elephant and the scampering mouse,
held by the ears in decent audience.—
George Exot.
Smiling free as a rose in summer
air. — Dora GREENWALL.
Smiling like a cherry. — THomas
HeEywoop.
Smiling like a new-blown flower. —
R. H. Horne.
Faint-smiling like a star
Through autumn mists.
— Keats.
Smiled like a paradise. — GERALD
Massey.
Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter
On Juno smiles, when he impregns the
clouds
That shed May flowers. — Mitton.
Smiling like heaven. — Wini1AM
Morris.
Smile, like the sun in his glory on
the bud. — W. M. Pragn.
Smiles like a May morning. —
ALLAN Ramsay.
Smile like summer after snow. —
C. G. Rossertt.
Smiled, as all the world were his. —
Tuomas SACKVILLE.
Smiling, as some fly had tickled slum-
ber,
Not as death’s dart, being laughed at.
— SHAKESPEARE.
SMILE. — SMITE,
Smiling as smiles the fowler when
flutters the bird to the gin. — Rosrrr
Louis STEVENSON.
Smile like an Oil Trust. — New
York Sun.
Smiled as dawn on the spirit of man.
— SwINBURNE.
Smiled as one living even on craft
and hate. — Inm.
Smiling dim
As the smile on a lip still fearful.
— Isp.
Smiled,
As though the spirit and sense unrecon-
ciled
Sank laughing back, and would not ere
its hour
Let life put forth the irrevocable
flower. — Isp.
Smiled . . . like song’s triumphant
breath. — Ibm.
Smiling, like a star in the blackest
night. — Inm.
Smiling as a master at one
That is not of his school, nor any school
But that where blind and naked
Ignorance
Delivers brawling judgments, un-
ashamed, — TENNYSON.
Smiling . . . like beauty waking
from a happy dream. — Joun Wixson.
Smirk.
Smirk . . . like a dog scratching his
ear. — Ametie Rives.
Smite.
Smiting like a cry. — MarTHinpe
Bump.
Smites it as acid smites the red rust.
— Samue.t Horrenstein.
Smote him like a judgment from
above. — James MontcomEry.
Smiteth as a staff. — Tupper.
Smote on my ears like a tocsin. —
Tuomas Westwoop.
SMOKE. — SMOOTH.
Smoke.
Smoked like a herring. — Ropert
BRownine.
Smoking like a crater. — DaupEt.
Smoked like a gammon of bacon. —
AnTHony HamIron.
Smoked like a chimney. —R. H.
BarHAM.
Smoking like a boiler at the heat.
—J. S. Kyow gs.
Smoking like an iron works. — Tom
TAYLOR.
Smoky.
Smoky as an Irish hut. — James
HowEL.
Smooth.
Smooth as the surface of a pebble.
— ADDISON.
Smooth like a china cup. — W1-
mam ALLINGHAM.
Smooth as the stem of a young palm.
— AMRIOLKaIS.
Smooth as a bowling green. —
ANON.
Smooth as a bulrush. — Isp.
Smooth as a carpet. — Isr.
Smooth as a die. — Insp.
Smooth as a door knob. — Isp.
Smooth as an oil’d thunderbolt. —
Isp.
Smooth as a perfect peach. — Inm.
Smooth as a poker table. — Ipm.
Smooth as a rose leaf. — Im.
.Smooth as the mirrors in the Palace
of Peace. — Inip.
Smooth as the palm of one’s hand.
— Isp.
Smooth as wax. — Insp.
Smooth as a snow cloud. — Isip.
Smooth as a spirit’s wing. — Bul-
WER-LYTTON.
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Smothe it was as it were late shave.
— CHAUCER.
Smooth as smoothest beaver hat. —
Joun Davizs.
Smooth as a new laid egg. —
Dickens.
Smooth as sheet of polished brass.
— Joseru R. Drake.
Smooth as the back of a razor. —
Grorce Du Maurier.
Smooth as the dusky down on the
elk. — Ancient Ersz.
Smooth as fungus, daughter of the
rain. — Francis Fawkes.
Smooth as the surface of well
polish’d brass. — Inrp.
Smooth and shining; as a sword out
of a sheath. — FLAUBERT.
A skin as smoth as silke. — GzorcE
GASCOIGNE.
Smooth as glass. — Joun Gay.
Smooth as a billiard-table: — Any
THoNY HaMILToNn.
Smooth as ice. — THomas Hey-
woop.
Smooth as the pond can be. —O.
W. Ho.mes.
Smooth as a file. — Lean Hunv.
Smooth as a road in Venice. —
Mary JOHNSTON.
Smooth as a billiard ball. — Bren
JONSON.
Skin as smooth as any rush. — Inm.
Smooth as a silver shield. — Grorcu
Casot LonpcE.
Smooth as jet. — Lyzy.
Smooth as the gliding stream.—
JAMES MACPHERSON.
Smooth as velvet. — CHARLES
READE.
Smoother than the fur of cats. —
JAMES WHITCOMB RILey.
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Smooth — continued.
Tones as smooth as honey. — C. G.
RosseEtvi.
Smooth as a _ mirror. — SAINT-
PIERRE.
Smooth as oil. — SHAKESPEARE.
Smooth as monumental alabaster. —
Ipm.
Smooth as the elephant’s new
polished tooth. — Sir Epwarp SHER-
BURNE.
Smooth as Pan. — Sir Pari SIDNEY.
Smooth as a billow. — ALEXANDER
SMITH.
As Parian marble smooth. — Wi-
LIAM SOMERVILLE.
Smooth as the level lake, when not a
breeze
Dies o’er the sleeping surface.
— SouTHEY.
Smooth as the liquid passage of a
bird. — TRUMBULL STICKNEY.
Smoother than butter. — Otp TEs-
TAMENT.
Smooth as the flight of a dream. —
Epita M. Tuomas.
Smooth as a floor.— Mary A.
TINCKER.
Smooth as a mole.—Joun
WitHats’ “Dictionary IN ENGLISH
AND LATIN.”
Smooth as marble or a waveless sea.
— WorDsworrTu.
Smoothly.
When things went smoothly as a
baby drugged. — E. B. Brownina.
Smoothly glide
As ships drop down a river with the
tide. — Jean INGELow.
Smoothly . . . like the noiseless flow
of a river of oil. — Puato.
Smothered.
Smothered like a whisper in a storm.
— Herman Grorcre ScHEFFAUER.
SMOOTH, — SNIFF.
Smudged.
Smudged, like a shopkeeper’s ac-
count-book. — OsMANLI PROVERB.
Smug.
Smug as April.— BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
Snap.
Snapped like a fiddle string. — ANon.
Snap like a pipe stem. — Isp.
Snap like the lash of a whip. —
Ipip.
Snapping like too high-stretched
treble strings. — Donne.
Snapping like a mad dog. — Grorcr
Exror.
Snapped up—like a steel gin. —
Maurice Hew ett.
Snapped like the threads of a lyre. —
ADELAIDE A. PROCTER.
Snappy.
Snappy as a fresh string bean. —
ANoN.
Snarl.
Snarl at pleasure, like a stoic. ~
CHESTERFIELD.
Snarl like a monster at meat. —
HaMuin GARLAND.
Snarled like an old dog. — Maunricz
HEWLETT.
Snarling like the hound a wolf has
checked. — Hugo.
Snarled like Malemutes over a
mildewed bone. — Rozert W. SEr-
VICE.
Snarl like Guthrie for the public
weal. — SMOLLETT.
Sniff.
Looked at it and sniffed at it daintily
— like a reluctant patient going under
the ether. — Irvin S. Coss.
Sniffing like a dog after game. —
Guy pe Maupassant.
SNIGGER. — SOB.
Snigger.
Snigger, like a yokel’s smile. —
Grorce MErepira.
Snobbishness.
Snobbishness is like death in a
quotation from Horace, which I hope
you never have heard, “‘beating with
equal foot at poor men’s doors, and
kicking at the gates of Emperors.” —
‘THACKERAY.
Snore.
Snoring like a pig. — Anon.
Snored like an organ. — AMBROSE
BIERCE.
A groaning intermitting sound like
Gog and Magog snoring. — Hoop.
Snore like a porc-pisce (porpoise).
— Ben Jonson.
Snore like over-gorged humans. —
Kupiine.
Snores like sawin’ planks. — ALFRED
Henry Lewis.
Snoring like old boots. — Moire.
Snores like the base-pipe of an Organ.
— SHADWELL.
Snort.
Snorting like an under-sea volcano.
— SAMUEL FERGUSON.
Snorting like a horse. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Snug.
As snug as a pig in pea-straw. —
Ricnarp DAVENPORT.
Snug as a parson. — FLAUBERT.
Snug
As a bug
In a rug. — FRANKLIN.
I’m as snugly shut
As a glad little worm in the heart of a
nut. — James Wuitcoms RILEy.
As snug as a snag in a hog. —
Eugene Firch Ware.
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Fitted as snugly as bits in a puzzle.
— Epira Waarton.
Snug as a child that hides itself in
sport
*Mid a green hay-cock in a sunny field.
— WorDsworTu.
Soar.
Soars like a bird on the wing. — ANON.
‘Soars like a cloud. — Ism.
Soars like smoke. — Eurremes.
Soaring like pride. —Jutia Warp
Howe.
The burthened heart should soar in
mirth like Morn’s young prophet-
lark. — GeraLtp Massey.
Soars like a seraph. — OwEn MERE-
DITH.
Up, like a kite made of foolscap, it
shall soar, with along tail of rubbish be-
hind, to the skies. — Tuomas Moors.
Soar like white-winged sea-birds into
the Infinite Deep. — Miss Mutocx.
Soars, like a wild bird from a cypress
bough, into the poets’ heaven. —
Mrs. Norton.
Soared like incense to the skies. —
C. G. Rossertt.
My fancy soars like a kite and
faints in the blue infinite. — Roprrtr
Louis STEVENSON.
Sob.
Sobs like an Aolian. — ANon.
Sobs like a child in a dream. —
JAMES BALLANTINE.
Sobbing, as if the body and soul
were torn. — BULWER-LYTTON.
Sobbing like a lover by his false
one left in sorrow and in pain. — J. 8.
GUTHRIE.
Sob, like ocean’s tremor when it
turns to ebb. — CHartes L. Moors.
Sobbed like tears at the heart of
May. — D. G. Rossetti.
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Sober.
As sober as an ice-cream soda on
New Year’s Eve. — ANON.
Sober as if he had supped with
Diogenes. — BuLwer-LyTTON.
Sober as a judge. — FreLpine.
Sober as a hymn. — W. E. HENLEY.
Sober as is the tender voice of home.
— Lewis Morris. :
Sober as a vicar. — JoHN G. SAXE.
Sociable.
Sociable ez a basket er kittens. —
JoEL CHANDLER Harris.
Society.
Society is like air; very high up,
it is sublimated — too low down, a
perfect choke-damp. — ANON.
Society, like the Roman youth at
the circus, never shows mercy to the
fallen gladiator. — Bauzac.
Man in society is like a flow’r,
Blown in its native bed; ’tis there
alone
His facilities expanded in full bloom
Shine out, there only reach their
proper use. — CowPER.
Society as cold as the glacier of an
unsunned cavern. — O. W. Hommes.
Society is like a lawn, where every
roughness is smoothed, every bramble
eradicated, and where the eye is de-
lighted by the smiling verdure of a vel-
vet surface. — WASHINGTON IRVING.
Society is like a large piece of frozen
water ; and skating well is the great
art of social life. — Miss LANDON.
Society, like a woman, requires a
special painter to delineate it in ac-
cordance with its own taste. —
SaintTE-BEvuveE.
Society is like the air — necessary
to breathe but insufficient to live on.
— GEoRGE SANTAYANA.
SOBER.
— SOFT.
Society is in this respect like a fire
—the wise man warming himself at a
proper distance from it; not coming
too close like a fool, who, on getting
scorched, runs away and shivers in
solitude, loud in his complaint that
the fire burns. — SCHOPENHAUER.
Society is like the echoing hills. It
gives back to the speaker his words ;
groan for groan, song for song. —
Davip Tuomas.
Soft.
Soft as the satin fringe that shades
the eyelids of thy fragrant maids. —
T. B. Atpricu.
Soft as the broken solar beam,
That trembles in the solar stream.
— ANACREON.
Soft as misted star. — Mary Louisa
ANDERSON.
Soft and creamy as a charlotte russe.
— ANoN.
Soft and supple as lady’s glove. —
Isp.
Soft as a Dartmoor bog. — Im.
Soft as a flute. — Inm.
Soft as a government job. — Isp.
Soft as a jelly fish. — Inm.
Soft as a shadow. — Inn.
Soft as foot can fall. — Ipw.
Soft as marshmallows. — Ini.
Soft as mush. — Ip.
Soft as pudding. — Ism.
Soft as sad music. — Iprp.
Soft as showers that fall on April
meads. — Ipm.
Soft as soap. — Inm.
Soft as the evening wind murmuring
among willows. — Inip.
Soft as the hands of indolence.—Izm.
Soft as the murmurs of a virgin’s
sigh. — Inm.
SOFT.
Soft — continued.
Delicately soft as the sand that has
been trod on by dainty seraphs. —
ANON.
Soft as the snow on the sea. —
Insp.
Soft as zephyr of a summer sky. —
Isp.
Softly as a milk tooth leaving a
baby’s gum. — Isp.
Softly as on ice that will scarcely
bear. — Ipm.
Softly . . . like the footfalls of de-
parted spirits. — Ipip.
Soft as silk in her touch. — ARABIAN
NIGHTS.
Soft as threaded pearls. — Isp.
Softer than zephyr’s wing. — Isr.
Soft as the breath
Harriet AUBER.
of even. —
Thy sweet words drop upon the
ear as soft as rose leaves on a wall.
—P. J. Battzy.
Softly sublime like lightnings in
repose. — Isp.
Soft as the
BENNETT.
sunlight. — W. C.
Softly like a stream of oil. — Wi-
L1aM BRowNE.
Soft voice as a laughing dream. —
R. D. Buackmore.
Soft as the breeze flitting over the
flowers. — Ini.
Soft as the dew on flowers of spring,
Sweet as the hidden drops that swell
their honey-throated chalicing.
— Rosert Briwpeces (English).
Soft as Muses’ string. —E. B.
BRowNIne.
Soft as a mother’s kiss. — Inr.
Soft as a silent hush. — Ipm.
Softly, as the last repenting drops
Of a thunder-shower. — Isp.
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Soft as a sofa. — Butwer-Lytton.
Soft as wool. — Roserr Burton.
Soft as the murmurs of a virgin’s
sigh. — Wituiam Byrp.
Soft as the callow cygnet in its nest.
— Byron.
Soft as the gentler breathing of the
lute. — Isp.
Soft as harp that houri strings his
long entrancing note. — Isp.
Soft as the melody of youthful days.
— Isp.
Soft as the memory of buried love.
—Ism.
Soft as the unfledged birdling when
at rest. — IBip.
Soft as the eyes of a girl. — WiL-
FRED CAMPBELL.
Soft as a bed of roses blown. —
Tuomas CaREw.
Soft as duffel. — CARLYLE.
Soft as sunset. — Ipp.
Soft as snow that falls on snow. —
Alice Cary.
Soft as a bank of moss. —CawDRaAyY’s
“TREASURIE OR STOREHOUSE OF
Smiuies,” 1600.
Soft as love. — JaMES CAWTHORN.
Soft as silence. — W. E. CHANNING.
Soft as the breath of morn in bloom
of spring. — CHATTERTON.
Soft as the cooing of the turtle
dove. — Isp.
Soft as the moss where hissing adders
dwell. — Isp.
Softe as the sommer flowrets. —
Insp.
As soft as honey-dew. — CoLERIDGE.
Soft as the passing wind. — Cow-
PER.
Soft as the breath of a sleeper. —
Isa Craia.
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Soft — continued.
Soft, his accents fill, like voices of
departed friends heard in our dreams,
or music in the air, when night-spirits
warble their magic minstrelsy. —
Ricnarp CUMBERLAND.
Soft as pity. — Grorcr DaRLEy.
Soft as the murmurs of a weeping
spring. — Srr WittiaM DAvVENANT.
As soft and sleek as girlish cheek. —
Austin Dosson.
Soft as a baby’s breath. — JuLia
C. R. Dorr.
Soft as spirit’s sigh. — Isp.
Soft as summer. — Ernest Dow-
SON.
Soft as prayer. — Ipm.
Skin as soft as Naples silk. — |.
Micuart Drayton.
Soft as Lempster wool. — In.
Soft and caressing as a melody. —
DuMAS, PERE.
Soft as a whisper. —GrorcE Du
Mavrier.
Soft . . . like a whispered dream of
sleeping music. — Grorce Exior.
Soft as pattering drops that fall
from off the eaves in fancy dance when
clouds are breaking. — Inin.
Soft and fluid as a cloud on the air.
— Emerson.
Soft as the songs of some shy hidden
bird
From the low fields of woodlands
nightly heard.
— F. W. Faner.
Soft as the voice of summer’s even-
ing gale. — Wituiam Fatconen.
Soft as love. — Ism.
Soft as the breath of distant flutes at
hours
When silent evening closes up the
flowers. — Joun Gay.
SOFT.
Soft as when Venus stroked the
beard of Jove. —Ism.
Soft as the stringed harp’s moan. —
GERALD GRIFFIN.
Soft as is the falling thistle downe.
—JosrrH Hatt.
Cheeks, soft as September’s rose
Blushing but faintly on its faltering
stem.
— P. H. Hayne.
Soft as silkworms. — STEPHEN
Hawes.
Soft as the whisper shut within a
shell. — W. E. Henry.
Soft as jelly. —'THomas Heyrwoop.
Soft as sleep. — Heston.
Soft as pity, and as blest. — AARON
HI.
Soft as upper air. — Inm.
Soft as rain. — O. W. Homes.
As soft as swan’s down. — Ism.
Soft as the moonbeams when they
sought Endymion’s fragrant bower. —
Isp.
Soft as a flute. — Hoop.
Soft as flowers. — Ism.
Sounds upon the air most soothing soft,
Like humming bees busy about the
brooms. — Isp.
Soft as a dream of beauty. —
Ricuarp Hovey.
Soft as the division in the wool of
a sheep. — Hugo.
Soft as love’s first word. — JEAN
INGELow. ‘
Soft...
SON.
Soft as cream. — Ism.
as cob-webs. — Ben Jon-
Soft as Memnon’s harp at morning.
—Joun Kesie.
Soft as imprison’d martyr’s deathbed
calm. — Inip.
Soft as the face of maid. — FrEDERIC
L. Know es.
SOFT.
Soft — continued.
Soft as a dying violet-breath. —
Sripney LANIER.
Soft and still, like birds half hidden
in a nest. — LONGFELLOW.
Soft as velvet. — Joun Lypeate.
Soft as silke. — Lyty.
Soft as the swan-down where Sum-
mer sleeps. — GeorcE Mac-HEnry.
Soft as the sighings of the gale, that
wakes the flowery year. — Davip
Matter.
Soft as dew-drops when they settle
In a fair flower’s open petal.
— Pau B. Marston.
Soft as light-fall on unfolding
flowers. — GERALD Massey.
Soft and thick as a feather bed. —
Guy pE Maupassant.
Soft as a kiss. — Joaquin MILter.
Soft as moonlight. — Miss Mitrorp.
Soft as evening o’er the ocean,
When she charms the waves to rest.
— James MontTcoMeEry.
Soft as in moments of bliss long
ago. — THomas Moore.
Soft as lightning in May. — Inm.
Soft as the back of a swan. —
Tuomas Nasu.
Soft as angels. — Orway.
Soft as a baby’s cheek. —T. N.
Paae.
Soft as twin-violets moist with
early dew. — ANDREW Park.
Her voice . . . soft as Zephyr sighs
on morning’s lily cheek. — RoBErt
PoLLox.
Soft as yielding air. — Matraew
Prior.
Soft as a pillow. — W. B. Ranops.
Soft as angels’
Wartcoms Rizey.
wings. — JAMES
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Soft as a sunny shadow
When day is almost done.
—C. G. Rosserri.
Soft as music’s measure. — Isrp.
Soft as spring. — D. G. Rossrtt1.
Soft as the gleam after sunset
That hangs like a halo of grace
Where the daylight had died in the
valley. —A. J. Ryan.
Soft as air. — SHAKESPEARE.
Soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
— Ip.
Soft as dove’s down. — Izip.
Soft as the parasite’s silk. — Ism.
Soft as young down. — Inn.
Soft as an Incarnation of the Sun.
— SHELLEY.
Soft as sleep. — Isp.
Soft as thoughts of budding love.
— Isp.
Softer than the West wind’s sigh.
— Isp.
Soft as the wild duck’s tender
young, that floats on Avon’s tide. —
SHENSTONE.
Soft as a spirit prayer. —SEBA
SMITH.
Soft as a man with a dead child
speaks. — CARL STANBURG.
Whispering soft, like the last low
accents of an expiring saint. — STERNE.
Soft like the waxe, each image shall
receive. — EARL OF STIRLING.
Soft as pap. — Swirt.
Softer than the dawn. — Isin.
Soft and listless as the slumber-
stricken air. — SWINBURNE.
Soft as a low long sigh. — Ini.
Soft as lip is soft to lip. — Im.
Soft as at noon the slow sea’s rise
,and fall. — Ini.
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Soft — continued.
Soft... as desire that prevails
and fades. — SWINBURNE.
Soft as fire in dew. — Inm.
Soft as hate speaks within itself
apart. — Imp.
Soft as heaven the stream that
girdles hell. — Inm.
Soft as lips that laugh. — Inm.
Soft as o’er her babe the smile of
Mary. — Isp.
Soft as a weak wind blows. —
Ip.
Soft as sleep sings in a tired man’s
ear. — Ii.
Soft as snow lights on her snow-soft
flesh. — Isp.
Soft as swan’s plumes are. — Isp.
Borne soft as the babe from the
bearing-bed. — Ini.
Soft...
As the clouds and beams of night.
— Isp.
Soft as the least wave’s lapse in a
still small reach. — Ipm.
Soft as the loosening of wound arms
in sleep. — Inn.
Soft
As thoughts of beauty sleeping.
— ARTHUR SYMONS.
Soft, as Heaven’s angelic messenger
might touch the lips of prayer, and
make them blest. — Bayarp Taytor.
Soft as lonely maiden’s thoughts on
him she loves. — Esaras TEGNER.
There is sweet music here that softer
falls
Than petals from blown roses on the
grass. — TENNYSON.
Softer than oil. —Oxtp TEsTaMeEnr.
Soft as satin. — THACKERAY.
Soft as a sleeping cat. — Tuxoc-
RITUS.
SOFT. — SOFTLY.
Soft as the nightingale’s harmonious
woe,
In dewy even-tide, when cowslips drop
Their sleepy heads, and languish in
the breeze.
— Wiitiuam THomson.
Soft as the blowbell. — Tuomas
TICKELL.
Soft, like summer night. — Marx
Twain.
Soft as a peacock steps. — Fazio:
DEGLI UBERTI.
The air as soft as lovers’ jest. —
EMANUEL Von GIEBEL.
Soft as summer breeze. — SAMUEL
Warp.
Soft as the wind of spring-tide in
the trees. — RosamMunD Marriotr
Watson.
Soft as
WHITTIER.
Soft as the flow of an infant’s
breath.—_Ism. —
fall of thistle-down. —
Soft as the landscape of a dream.
— Isp.
Soft as a lady’s , hand. — Ena
WHEELER WILCOX.
Soft as a cloud. — Worpsworts.
Softly.
Tread softly, — softly, like the foot
Of winter, shod with fleecy snow.
— Barry CoRNWALL.
Softly as if over a pavement of
down. — DavupeEt.
Walked as softly as the ghost in
Hamlet. — Dickens.
Softly as moonlight steals upon the
skies. — Jutta C. R. Dorr.
Softly ... as music that floats
through a dream. — Minnie GILMoRE.
Softly as
HEnry.
a burglar goes. —O.
Stepping softly like a scout. — Isp.
SOFTLY. —'SOLID.
Softly — continued.
More softly than the east could blow
Arion’s magic to the Atlantic isles.
— Keats.
Softly among the pines as a young
witch gathering simples. — RicHarp
LE GALLIENNE.
Softly as full-blown flower
Unfolds its heart to welcome in the
dawn. — Henry Van Dyke.
Softly ... like low aérial music
when some angel hovers near. —
Lapy WILDE.
Softness.
A softness like the atmosphere of
dreams. — Mrs. Norton.
Soil.
Soil’d, like the soil’d tissue of white
violets left, freshly gather’d, on their
native bank, by children whom their
nurses call with haste indoors from
the sun’s eye.— Matraew ARNOLD.
Soilless.
Soilless as pearls. — Ouma.
Soldier.
Though a soldier in time of peace
is like a chimney in summer, yet
what wise mat -would pluck down his
chimney because his almanac told
him it was the middle of June. — Tom
Brown.
A good soldier, like a good horse, _
cannot be of a bad color.—O. W.
Homes.
Soldiers are like cloaks, — one thinks
of us only when it rains. — MarsHAL
SAXE.
Solemn.
Solemn as a judge. — ANON.
Solemn as a slate gravestone. —
Isp.
Solemn as a thunderbolt. — Isp.
As solemn as any catafalque. — Isip.
Solemn as organ music. — In.
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Solemn as a king on a five-franc
piece. — Bauzac.
Solemn, as a thought of God. —
E. B. Brownina.
Solemn as despair. — BuLWER-Lyt-
TON.
Solemn, like the cloudy groan of
dying thunder on the distant wind.
— Byron.
Solemn as the long stops upon an
organ. — DRYDEN.
Solemn as an owl. — GorTHE.
Solemn as a dying nun. — Maurice
HEWLETT.
Solemn as putty. — Kipiine.
Solemn as a parson’s clerk. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Solemn as a monkey after com-
mitting a mischief. — RaBELals.
Solemnly.
Moved as solemnly as a dowager
when she condescends to complete a
quadrille at the close of a ball. — Bat-
‘ZAC.
Solemnly as Gargellis (gargoyles)
on a wall gryn and stare. — ‘Ruin
oF A Ream.”
Solid.
Solid as old times. — ANon.
Solid as the eternal rocks. — Ini.
Solid like -a_ principle. — JosrrH
ConraD.
Solid as glass. — Hoop.
Solid as a sod house. — A. H. Lewts.
Solid as the Pyramids. — BRanDER
MatTruews.
Solid as a haystack. — Ruskin.
Solid, like a cactus stem. — Ipp.
Solid as bricks. — G. B. Saw.
As solid as a landed estate. —
Rosert Louis STEVENSON.
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Solid — continued.
Solid as a wall. — Tupper.
Solid as a globe of mud, — Marx
TwaIN.
Solitary.
Solitary ... like some colossal
Pillar of the Cyclops. — CaRLYLE.
Solitary ... like a lighthouse
keeper above the sea. — JosErH Con-
RAD.
Solitary . .. like a- swallow left
behind at the migrating season of his
tribe. — Isp.
Solitary as a tomb. — Huco.
Solitude.
Solitude, like some unsounded bell.
— Mary A. TowNsEnp.
Sombre.
Sombre as sorrow. — ANON.
Sombre as the night. — DANTE.
Sombre as Othello. — Icnatius
DONNELLY.
Sombre like a cathedral. — Hugo.
Song.
Songs are like painted window-panes !
In darkness wrapped the church re-
mains,
If from the market-place we view it ;
But let us now inside repair,
And greet the holy chapel there!
At once the whole seems clear and
bright,
Each ornament is bathed in light,
And fraught with meaning to the sight.
— GoETHE.
Sonorous.
Sonorous as a fountain’s notes. —
ANON.
Sonorous as the inside of a violin.
— Octave Mrrseav.
Soothe.
Soothes the ear like the echo of
distant music. — EpMonDo DE AmICciIs.
SOLID. —— SORROW.
Soothed like the music of a tom-
tom. — O. Henry.
Soothes like a caress of angels. —
Donato G. MitcHe...
Soothing.
Soothing as the gospel. — ANON.
Soothing as the breath of spring.
—F. W. Faser.
More soothing than the pretty hummer
That stays one moment in an open
flower
And buzzes cheerily from bower to
bower. — Keats.
Soothing as the wash of the sea.
— Krrtine.
Soothing as the gale of eve.—
H. H. Mitman.
Soothingly.
Soothingly as childhood pressed to
bosom. — WHITTIER.
Sophistry.
Sophistry is like a window curtain
—it pleases as an ornament, but its
true use is to keep out the light. —
ANON.
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone,
And hides the ruin that it feeds upon,
So sophistry cleaves close to and pro-
tects
Sin’s rotten trunk, concealing its
defects. — CowPeER.
Sophistry, like poison, is at once
detected and nauseated when pre-
sented to us in a concentrated form ;
but a falsity which, when stated barely
in a few sentences, would not deceive
a child, may deceive half the world
if diluted in a quarto volume.—
WaatTELy.
Sore.
Sore as a mashed thumb. — Irvin 8.
Coss.
Sorrow.
Youth’s sorrows, like April showers,
are transitory. — ANON.
SORROW. — SOUND,
Sorrow — continued.
Sorrow for a husband is like pain
in the elbow, sharp and short. — Ism.
Sorrowful as death. — Outwa.
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp’d,
Doth burn the heart to cinders.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell,
Once set on ringing, with his own
weight goes ;
Then little strength rings out the
doleful knell. — Ism.
Sorrow, like cloud that flies,
Like a cloud in clearing skies,
Passed away. — SWINBURNE.
. Soubrette.
A soubrette is like a bottle of
vinegar, — mother is always there. —
Epita M. HupNa..
Soul.
The humble soul is like the violet,
which grows low, hangs the head
downward, and hides itself with its
own leaves. — FREDERIKA BREMER.
Souls fly forth, like sparks of light
From clear white fires by whirlwinds
fanned. — Wiiu1am J. Dawson.
My soul is like those sieves in which
gold-washers of Mexico gather bits
of the pure metal in the torrents of
the Cordilleras. The sand falls
through them, the gold remains. —
LaMARTINE.
My soul is like the oar that momently
Dies in a desperate stress beneath the
wave,
~ Then glitters out again and sweeps the
sea =
Each second I’m new-born from some
new grave. — SmNeEY LANIER.
As the waifs cast up by the sea
change with the changing season, so
the tides of the soul throw up their
changing drift on the sand, but the
sea beyond. is one for ever. —D. G.
RossErti.
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An evil soul, producing holy witness,
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ;
A good apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Body and Soul like peevish man and
wife, united jar, and yet are loath to
part. — Epwarp Young.
Soulless.
Soulless as the fragments of a broken
statue. — ANON.
Soulless as is the brute. — Lewis
Morris.
Sound (Adjective).
Sound as an acorn. — ANon.
Sound as a trout. — Isp.
Sound as a watch. — Inm.
Heart as sound as an oak. — Brav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
Sound as old wine. — Inn.
Sound as a rock. — BuLWwER-
Lytton.
Sound-hearted to the core, like some
perfect fruit ripened in a sunny nook of
an English garden. — Henry A. CLapp.
Sound as a biscuit: — ConcREvE.
Sound as a nut. — Emerson.
Sound as a roach. — Jon Gay.
Sound as a fish. — Martin LUTHER.
Sound as json. — CHartes READE.
Sound as an honest man’s conscience
when he’s dying. — Witi1am Row ey.
He hath a heart as sound as a bell,
and his tongue is the clapper. —
SHAKESPEARE.
‘Sound as a top. — THACKERAY.
Sound (Verb).
No one was at the organ, yet it
went on sounding — sounding like the
songs of the archangels in their bursts
of mystic ecstasy. — Gustavo A. Brc-
QUER.
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Sound — continued.
The voice sounds as a prophet’s
word, — Firz-Greene HAtieck.
Sounded like a felon’s heart in
skeleton ribs. — Gzorcr MEREDITH.
Soundless.
Soundless as a tomb. — THOMAS
Hanpy.
Soundless as light.— Miss Mv-
LOCK.
Sour.
Sour as Melancholy. — Ropert
Burton.
Sour as verjuice. —THomas DEKKER.
As sour as though he had swallowed
A sloe-bush. — Marta Lowe tt.
Sour as a rotten orange. —J. H.
McCarruy.
Sour as lees in wine. — BRIAN
MELBANCKE.
Sour as sorrel. — THOMAS SACKVILLE.
Sovereign.
As sovereign as the blood of hearts.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Spacious.
Spacious as the element. — JoHn
Davipson.
Spangle.
Spangled . . . like leaves that laden
are with trembling dew. — Roperr
‘HERRICK.
Sparkling spangles . . . like morn-
ing sunshine tinselling the dew. —
Isp.
Sparkle.
Sparkles like a fresh glass of cham-
pagne.— ANON.
Sparkle like a ruby. — Inm.
Sparkle like a seething caldron. —
Isp.
Sparkled as a sword-blade in the
sunshine. — Inm.
SOUND. — SPARKLE.
Sparkled as a bubbling spring. —
We so BaLuaD.
Sparkling like the dancing of new
stars. — R. D. BLACKMORE.
Sparkling like an ocean flower. —
Horatius Bonar.
Sparkle like brooks in the morning
sun. — WILLIAM CULLEN Bryant.
Sparkling like snow-wreaths in the
early sun. — Isp.
Sparkled like a garnet in the light.
— Fernan CABALLERO.
Sparkling like a star. — In.
The sea sparkled as if it smiled. —
Buss CARMAN.
Sparkling . . . like creatures in whose
sunny veins
The blood is running bright.
— Barry CorRNwALL.
Sparkle . . . like iron that comes
molten from the fire. — Dants.
Sparkling all over, like a harlequin.
— Dickens.
Sparkle like half-seen fairy eyes. —
8. H. Dickson.
Sparkling as Mercutio. — Dr. Joun
Doran.
All sparkling, like a goddess. —
Dryden.
Sparkles . . . like the glimmer of a
lance. — Francis M. Finca.
Sparkles like a lusty wine new
broached. — Jonn Forp.
Sparkles like the sea, whose wave
at Algiers breaks upon the shore. —
FERDINAND FREILIGRATH.
Sparkling, as if a Naiad’s silvery feet
In quiet and coy retreat,
Glanced through the star-gleams on
calm summer nights.
— P. H. Hayne.
Sparkles like Ariadne’s crown. —
Ropert Herrick.
SPARKLE. — SPEECH.
Sparkle — continued.
Sparkle like the celestial mountains
in the visions of the saints. — RoBERT
HICHENS.
Sparkling and roseate as the dewy
fingers of Aurora. — O. W. Homes.
Sparkle like fairy boon. — Hoon.
Sparkling like diamond rocks in the
sun’s rays. — Frances ANNE KEMBLE.
Eye sparkled, like the wine-cup’s
brim. — Miss Lanpon.
Sparkling as dewdrops.—C. G.
LELAND.
Sparkled like white bait in the
meshes of a net.— CamILLE LeEmo-
NIER.
Sparkle like the sea round the boat
at night. — James Macruerson.
Sparkling like lightning on a dusky
sky. — MAHABHARATA.
Sparkling . . . like a man’s thought
transfigured into fire. — Joun Masz-
FIELD.
Sparkling . . . like a coquette in a
vaudeville. — Oua.
Sparkled like a jewel in the light. —
Isw.
Sparkling like a son of morning. —
SCHILLER.
Sparkle like the beaten flint. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Sparkled like falling tears. — Bay-
ARD TAYLOR.
Sparkles like a grain of salt. —
TENNYSON.
Sparkled like the colour of bur-
nished brass. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Sparkling like young wine which
has ceased to ferment. — TURGENEV.
Sparkling like all the stars of heaven
had fallen down. — Marx Twain.
Sparkle as a gold mine. — Hengy
Watterson.
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Spasm.
No spasms are like the spasms of
expiring liberty, and no wailing such
as her convulsions extort. — Lyman
BEECHER.
Spasms are like waves, they cannot
go down the very moment the wind
of trouble is lulled. — Cuartes Reape.
Spattering.
Spattering off in a steady stream,
like a buck-shot spilling from a canister.
— Irvin S. Coss.
Lightning spattered the sky as a
thrown egg spatters a barn door. —
Kiriina.
Speak.
Parliamentary speaking, like play-
ing on the fiddle, requires practice.
— BEACONSFIELD.
Speak as if he would jump down
your throat. — JoHN SKELTON.
Spake
As who bids dead men wake.
: — SWINBURNE.
Speak like a capon that had the
cough. — Nicnoxas UDALL.
Speck.
Many a speck,
Like the water-snake’s belly and the
toad’s back. — SHELLEY.
Speckled.
Speckled like a toad. — SHELLEY.
Speech.
Long and curious speeches are as
fit for dispatch as a robe, or mantle,
with a long train, is for a race. —
Bacon.
Considered as the last finish of educa-
tion, or of human culture, worth and
acquirement, the art of speech is
noble, and even divine ; it is like the
kindling of a Heaven’s light to show
us what a glorious world exists, and
has perfected itself, in a man. —
CARLYLE.
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Speech — continued.
As a vessel is known by the sound,
whether it be cracked or not, so men
are proved by their speeches whether
they be wise or foolish. — Drmos-
THENES.
Her artless speech, like chrystal,
shows the thing it would hide, but
only covers. — J. S. KNOWLES.
Solon used to say that speech was
the image of actions; .. . that laws
were like cobwebs, —for that if any
trifling or powerless thing fell into
them, they held it fast; while if it
were something weightier, it broke
through them and was off.—
Diogenes Larrtius.
A printed speech is like a dried
flower : the substance, indeed, is there,
but the color is faded and the perfume
gone. — Prosper Lorain.
Speech is like the cloth of Arras,
opened and put abroad, whereby the
imagery doth appear in figure, while
in thoughts they lie but in packs. —
PLuTaRcu.
His speech was like a tangled chain ;
nothing impaired, but all disordered.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Swift with speech like fire in fiery
lands
To melt the steel’s edge in the heads-
man’s hands. — SwINBURNE.
Speech was like to tapestry ; and
like it, when it was spread it showed
its figures, but when it was folded up,
hid and spoiled them. — THeEmis-
TOCLES.
Speechless.
Speechless as a stone.—E. B.
BRownine.
Speechless as a mummy. — Hoon.
Like some sad statue, speechless.
— Porr.
Speed.
Sped, like a phantom.—P. D.
Gray.
SPEECH. — SPIN.
Sped like meteors through the sky.
— Byron.
Like a shaft dismissed I sped away.
— RicHarp GARNETT.
Speeding . . . like
Tuomas Harpy.
an arrow. —
Sped like plagues and pestilences.
— Ropert JEPHSON.
Speeds from the earth like a bird
on the wing. — Wittiam Knox.
He sped as speeds the wind. — Lewis
Morris.
Speed, like yellow leaves before the
gale,
When Autumn winds are strongest.
— T. L. Peacock.
Speeds like the horseman who
travels in haste. — THomas PRINGLE.
As a swallow chases the summer,
we sped. — T. Bucnanan Reap.
Sped, like some swift cloud that
wings the wide air’s wilderness. —
SHELLEY.
Speedy.
About as speedy as a steam-roller.
— GrorceE ApDE.
Spellbound.
Spellbound as in a vice. — ANON.
Stood spellbound, like a child to
whom his nurse is telling some wonder-
ful story. — Bazac.
Spent.
Past and spent,
Like stars extinguished in the firma-
ment. — Hoop.
Spicy.
Spicy as a cinnamon bear. — ANON.
Spin.
Spin like a dervish. — Anon.
Spins like a top. — Inm.
Spin round like a withered leaf
blown from the tree. — Iprp.
SPIN. —— SPOTTED.
Spin — continued.
Spinning like a plummet down
Into the spacious gulf of deep blue air.
—Lorp Dr Tastey.
Spinning like water flung from a
top. — Lorp Dunsany.
Spinning like bubbles in a river.
— Emerson.
Spins like a fretful midge. — D. G.
Rossetti.
Spinning like mill wheels. — Jutran
STREET.
Spineless.
Spineless as a chocolate eclair. —
ANON.
Spineless as a jelly-fish. — Ipmp.
Spirit.
Spirit is like the thread whereon are
strung the beads or worlds of life. —
P. J. Barey.
A healthy spirit like a healthy frame
craves aliment in plenty. — RoBEert
BRownine.
Spiritual.
Spiritual as a bunch of roses. —
C. M. S. McLean.
Spirituality.
- Spirituality . . . asrefined and spot-
less as the Jungfrau’s silvery peak. —
Marx Twain.
Spit.
Spit like fire. — Aon.
Spitted them like larks. — GrLBERT
Axssott A. BECKETT.
Spit like hump-back’d cats. — Hoop.
Spiteful.
Spiteful as an old maid. — ANon.
Spiteful as a monkey. — Batzac.
Spiteful as the light. — ABRAHAM
Cow Ley.
Splashed.
Splashed like a sweet star-spray. —
D. G. Rossetti.
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Splendid.
Splendid as the sun. — FLAUBERT.
Splendid as a general’s plume at the
gallop. — Grorce Merepitu.
Splendid as
Epe@ar SALrus.
trembling gems. —
Splendid as the limbs of that supreme
incarnate beauty through men’s
visions gleam,
Whereof all fairest things are even
but shadow or dream.
— SWINBURNE.
Cold and splendid as death if dawn
be bright. — Ipm.
Splendid and strange as the sea
that upbears as an ark. — IBip.
Splendor.
Splendor like an angel’s love. —
Lorp Dr TaBLey.
In fearful splendor, like the Northern
Lights’ red glare. — Lupwic UHLAND.
Splinter.
Splinter’d like an icicle. —TENNYSON.
Split.
Split like a fired shell. — Dickens.
Split,
Like fields of ice rent by the polar
wind, — Worpswortu.
Splotched.
Splotched like a brandy drunkard’s
face with red stains. — Irvin S. Coss.
Spontaneous.
Spontaneous as a crystal fountain.
— Anon.
Spontaneous as... a tree resign-
ing its leaves to the wind. —Sir
Watter Scott.
Sported.
Sported like gilded insects on the
wing. — JAMES MonTGOMERY.
Spotted.
Spotted like a pack of cards. —
ANON.
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Spotted — continued.
Spotted, as thickly as the leopard’s
dappled skin. — Hoop.
Spotted, like the field-bean’s flower.
—R. H. Horne. {
Spotless.
Spotless as snow. — RoBert Bioom-
FIELD.
Spotless as the flow’ring thorn. —
Burns.
Heart as spotless as the doves. —
J. G. CooPER.
Spotless as an angel.— THoMAs
HeEywoop.
Spotless as the noon. — Isip.
Spotless as a Glastonbury nun.—
Ricuarp Hovey.
Spotless as Saint Dorothy. — Ism.
Spotless as lilies. — LonarELLow.
Spotless and sincere, as the chaste
vows of the holy vestals are. — Otway.
Spotless as a lily’s leaf.—A. J.
Ryan.
Spouting.
Spouting like a sperm-whale. —
Irvin S. Cozs.
Sprawl.
Sprawl like a toad. — ANon
Sprawling . . . like a cowherd tak-
ing a siesta. — FLAUBERT.
Spread.
Spread out like a circus parade. —
ANON.
Spreads like an inflammation. —
Isp.
Spreads like ivy. — Inm.
Spreads like gossip. — Inp.
Spreads like honeysuckle in Vir-
ginia. — Inm.
Spreads like a lie. —Ipp.
SPOTTED. — SPREAD.
Spread like a rushing torrent. —Ism.
Spreads like measles in a country
school. — Isw.
Spread like a drop of oil on a pool.
— Isr.
Spread like a cinder shower from
Vesuvius. — Isp.
Spreads .. . like the great voice
of the sea. — Bauzac.
Spread like fingers. — R. D. BLack-
MORE.
Spreads like fire. — Butwer-Lyr-
TON.
Spreading his hands and all of his
fingers, like the threads of a spider’s
web. — Isp.
Spread like wild-geese. — CHAPMAN.
The conflagration spread like a
flaming garland. — CHATEAUBRIAND.
Spread like fire among stubble. —
Sanrorp Cox.
Spreads like a memory. — Giosuz
CaRDUCCI.
Spread like fog. — DrypEN.
An innumerable crowd spread like a
black robe over the shore. — Hamun
GARLAND.
Roots ... spreading like huge
creeping snakes over the surface of
the evil. — Ernst H. Harcke..
Spread, like distant morning in the
skies. — Joun Hucues.
Calumny spreads like an oil-spot :
we endeavor to cleanse it, but the
mark remains. — MADAME DE LeEsPI-
NASSE.
The fancy of this exclusion spread
immediately, like a gangrene, over
the whole body of the monarchy. —
Siz Rocer L’Estrance.
Spreads like a snow-ball. — WiLL1AM
J. Locke.
Spread like an ocean. — EDWARD
LovIBoNnD.
SPREAD. — SPRING.
Spread — continued.
Spreading like a mighty flock of
sheep. — Watter MALone.
Spread out, wide as the width of
mind. — Lewis Morris.
Spreads like a surface. — Joun Pom-
FRET.
Spread like wildfire. — Ray’s
“COLLECTANEA.”
Spread like a contagion. — Mrs.
Mary Rozerts RINEHART.
As the delicate rose
To the sun’s sweet strength
Doth herself unclose,
Breadth and length ;
So spreads my heart to thee.
—C. G. Rossertt.
Silence spread . . . like water that
a pebble stirs. — D. G. Rossrrtt.
Spreads like scandal after a sewing
bee. — WILLIAM SaGE.
Spread like evil ulcers. — SEnEca.
Spread like a quenchless fire. —
SHELLEY.
Spread
Like radiance from the cloud-sur-
rounded morn. — Isp.
Spreads, like the round ocean, girdled
with the sky. — SouTHEY.
Her rich locks spread like sunbeams
on the wind. — Tasso.
Spread ... abroad as the four
winds of heaven. — OLD TESTAMENT.
As the valleys are they spread forth.
— Isp.
Spreading himself like a green bay
tree. — Isp.
Spread like a halo round a misty
moon. — WorDSWORTH.
Spread like a sea. — Inv.
Spread like plagues. — Isr.
Spread like day. — Ini.
The slaughter spread like flame. —
Ini.
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Sprightly.
As sprightly as a jumping-jack in
the hands of a man with St. Vitus
dance. — ANON.
Sprightly, as a hayfield.—R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Sprightly as
Ricnarp Duxks.
unyok’d heifers. —
Sprightly as light. — Witu1am Pat-
TISON.
Spring (Verb).
Springs like a hunted deer. — ANon.
Sprang to his feet like one recalled
to life. — Isp.
Spring up like mushrooms. — Inp.
Spring up as weeds in neglected
soil. — Ip.
Springing up like dandelions after
a spring shower. — Isp.
Sprang to his feet like a startled
roebuck. — Bazac.
Sprang, like an uncaged beast. —
Rosert Browninec.
Sprang like sparks from an anvil. —
Butwer-LytTTon.
Sprang as from a sudden trumpet’s
clang. — Byron.
Sprang forward like a courser for
the goal. — J. Fenmmore CooPer.
Sprang, like the twin fountains of
Benasji, from a divided source. —
Dr. JoHn Doran.
Spring like a stag. — A. L. Gor-
DON.
Springeth up as doth a welle. —
JoHN GOWER.
Sprang like a wave
In the wind.
—W. E. HeEntey.
Spring
Like an arrow released from the strain
of the string.
—T. W. Hicacinson.
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Spring — continued.
Spring up like mushrooms in a
September night. —G. B. Hr.
Springeth like Neptune. — Homer.
Oh never despair, for our hopes often-
time
Spring swiftly as flows in some
tropical clime,
Where the spot that was barren and
scentless at night
Is blooming and fragrant at morning’s
first light. — Lover.
Sprang like a lily from the dirt of
poverty. — Grratp Massey.
Sprang, as smitten with a mortal
wound. — JAMES MontTGoMERY.
Spring as at the shout of war. —
SaMuEL RocErs.
Springest like a cloud of fire. —
SHELLEY.
Springs like a mettled steed when
the spur stingeth. — M. E. STEBBINS.
They shall spring up as among the
grass, as willows by the water courses.
— Op TESTAMENT.
Spring as the grass. — Inn.
Spring forth like spectres starting
from the storm-swept earth. — Wurr-
TIER.
Sprang like an arrow shot straight
from the bow. — ELLA WHEELER Wiz-
cox.
Spring (Noun).
The coming of spring is like the
creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and
the realization of the Golden Age. —
Henry D. Tooreav.
Sprinkled.
Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne’s
tiar. — Keats.
Sprout.
Sprout like saplings on French soil.
— Batzac.
Sprout like rose-buds. — DrypEn.
SPRING. — SQUAT.
Spruce.
Spruce and shining like a new sabre.
— Epmonp AxzovtT.
Spruce as an onion. — ANON.
Spry.
Spry as a Sparrow. — Gzorae Apr.
Spry as a cat. — ANON.
Spry as the chaff in the stroke of the
flail. —O. W. Hotmgs.
Spry as a life-long Dimmycrat. —
Ase Martin.
Spry as a_ cricket. — SYLVESTER
JUDD.
Spunky.
As spunky as a growin’ flea. —
GrEorGE OvuTRAM.
Spurn.
Spurned like any reptile. — Dick-
ENS.
I spurn thee like a cur out of my
way. — SHAKESPEARE.
Sputter.
The words came sputtering out of his
mouth like the beer from a barrel with-
out a bung. — Frreprich Ruckerr.
Squabble.
To pass life in squabbling thus is to
bear on the collar without relaxing,
like the luckless remount horses at
the rivers, who do not rest even when
they stop, and who always draw
though they cease to march. — BEav-
MARCHAIS.
Squabble like brother and sister. —
Sim Ricwarp STEELE.
Squalid.
Squalid, like the traveler when he
emerges from his bath of dust. —
VIRGIL.
Squat (Adjective).
Squat as the figure of bronze upon a
Chinese drawing. — CAMPBELL.
SQUAT. — STALE.
Squat — continued.
Squatting things like toads. — Hoop.
Squat as a flounder. — RaBELals.
Squat (Verb).
Squat like a toad. — Mitton.
Squat like a hermit on a tree stump
lonely. — NiETzScHE.
Squat into the ground like moles. —
RaBeEtais.
The soul squats down in the flesh,
like a tinker drunk in a ditch. —
SWINBURNE.
Squeak.
Squeaks like a rusty hinge. — Anon,
Squeaked like guinea-pigs. — Ipip.
As Pokers do, whose tails are
Squeaked. — Austin Dosson.
Squeak like a Bart’lemew fiddle. —
CuHartes Lams.
Squeaking like a metal banner on a
tower. — HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ.
He squeaks out like a hurt chicken.
~- ALEXANDER WILSON.
Squirm.
Squirming like a scorched moth. —
G. VERE TYLER.
Squirm like a speared Eel. — Artr-
mus Warp.
Stable.
Stable as earth. — THomas BLAckK-
LOCK.
Stage (sce Theatre).
Stagger.
Staggered away as a defeated man
staggers away from the field of battle.
— JoserH ConrapD.
Staggered . . . like a child that is
just allowed to go alone. — Huco.
Staggers, like a sinking mast. —
Isp.
Staggering like a quivering aspen
leaf. — MartowE.
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Staggers like a starveling cripple. —
Donato G. MrtcHE.t.
Like an old oke, whose pith and sap is
seare,
At puffe of every storm doth stagger.
— SPENSER.
Stagger like a drunken man. — OLp
TESTAMENT.
Staggering . . . like tiplers answer-
ing Father Mathew’s call. — Wuir-
TIER.
Stain.
Stains, like sunshine falling through
heraldic panes that rise between the
altar and the sky.— Bayarp Tay-
LOR.
Stained.
Stained like pale honey oozed from
topmost rocks
Sun-bleached the lifelong summer.
— Rosert Brownina.
Stained, like meerschaum, through
and through. — O. W. Homes.
Stain’d, as meadows yet not dry,
With miry slime left on them by a
flood. — SHAKESPEARE.
Stainless.
Stainless as a star. — ANON.
Stainless as driven snow. — Inip.
Springing stainless, like some moun-
tain stream.— Constance C. W.
Nave.
Stainless as the air of Heaven. —
Ruskin.
Stainless white,
Like ivory bathed in still moonlight.
— WHITTIER.
Stale.
Stale as the hot rolls dug out of
Pompeii. — ANON.
Stale as old beer. — Isp.
Stale as a black velvet cloak. —
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
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Stale — continued.
Unspeakably stale
Like vats in desuetude shrunk.
—Joun Davipson.
Stale as custom. — “Srr THomas
Mors” (Pseudo-Shakespearean).
Stale as sea-beef. — Tuomas Nasu.
Stalk.
Stalk like an imperial peacock. —
ANON.
Their words, like stage processions,
stalk along. — Ropert Lioyp.
Stamp.
Stamping her feet like an Italian
actor representing anger. — EpMonpDo
DE AMICIS.
Stamp themselves upon his con-
sciousness as the signet on soft wax.
—O. W. Hommzs.
Stand.
Stands as firm as Gibraltar. — ANON.
Stands forth like morning from the
shades of night. — Ism.
Stands like Mumphazard, who was
hanged for saying nothing. — Iprp.
Stands where he did, like Scotland.
—Ism.
Stood like some erring angel that
had lost his radiance. — Bauzac.
See! There is Jackson standing like
a stone wall. — Bernarp E. Brz.
Stands at gaze
As might a wolf just fasten’d on his
prey. — CaALDERON.
Grenadiers . . . stand there, like a
fixed stone-dam in that wild whirl-
pool of ruin. — CARLYLE.
Stood like the Law and Gospel, one
with the sanction of earth and one
with the blessing of heaven. — Lonc-
FELLOW.
Stood like a sentinel under inspec-
tion. — Grorce Murepritu.
STALE. — STARE.
Stand like statues cut in stone. —
GEORGE SANDYS.
Stood, like veteran, worn, but un-
subdued. — Str Water Scott.
Stand at your door like a sheriff’s
post. — SHAKESPEARE.
Stand
Like wonder-wounded hearers.
— Izv.
Stood like a man at a mark with a
whole army shooting at me. — Isp.
Stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
— Ism.
Stand like flame transformed to
marble. — SHELLEY.
Starch.
Starched as a formal City Matron.
— James Rawpu.
Stare (Noun).
The stare, like that of a child who
begins to see for the first time. —
Bauzac.
Stare (Verb).
Stare like a glass eye. — ANON.
Stare like a mad bull. — Inp.
Staring like an idiot. — Isp.
Staring like a sick face. — Inm.
Stared in my face like a flash of
light. — Bauzac.
Mortals stare aghast
As though heaven’s bounteous win-
dows were slammed fast
Incontinent.
— Rozsert Brownine.
Stared like a pig poisoned. — BEN-
JAMIN FRANKLIN.
Stared . . . like a detected thief. —
HAWTHORNE.
Staring like Pythoness possessed. —
Hoop.
Staring at her as if she had been an
angel out of Heaven. — KINGSLEY.
STARE. — STARTLE.
Stare — continued.
Stare, like wild things of the wood
about a fire. — Lowe...
Stares as he had seen Medusa’s
head. — Massincer.
Stared, as one who would command
Sight of what has filled his ear.
— Grorce MEREDITH.
Stared listlessly,
Like those who walk in sleep.
— Witi1am Morris.
Eyes staring like a dead pig’s. —
RaBELals.
Like dumb statues, or breathing stones,
Stared each on other.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Stared . .. as professional critics
do at a new poet. —JosepH V. von
SCHEFFEL.
Stared like the Gorgon’s head. —
SMOLLETT.
Staring like a stuck pig. — SwiFt.
Stared aghast at her a minute, as
Macbeth might on beholding Banquo’s
sudden appearance at his ball-supper.
— THACKERAY.
Stared like a dead body. —H. G.
WELLS.
Stark.
Stark, as the soul of sin. — FRANKLIN
R. ApAms.
Stark as a statue. — T. B. ALDRICH.
Stark as a gust of the sea. — Buss
CARMAN.
Stark,
Like the sea-rejected thing
Sea-sucked white.
— Georce MEREDITH.
Stark as the winter snow. — D. G.
RossETtmt.
Start.
Start like sparkles from a fire. —
GEoRGE CHAPMAN.
Start as from some dreadful dream.
— Drypen.
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Starting as at the sight of an enemy.
— Dumas, PERE.
Start, like a frightened roe. — W. S.
GILBERT.
I started as one startles from a
dream. — J. G. Honianp.
Starts like a ghost. — Hoop.
Start like lightning greased. — Ipm.
Start as
LONGFELLOW.
flames from ashes. —
Start and quiver, as when some
ignorant hand touches the barb hid
in a long healed wound. — Miss
Motock. ‘
Started, like a greyhound from the
slips when the sportsman cries halloo.
— Sir Water Scott.
Starts, like one that spies an adder.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Start like a shying horse. — Strrnp-
BERG.
Started like a guilty thing. — Mrs.
TROLLOPE.
She starts like a sleeper who wakes
from dreaming. — Etta WHEELER
WILCox.
Startle.
Startles . . . like a blasphemy. —
ADDISON.
Startled like shying steeds. — ARra-
BIAN NIGHTS.
Startle like a wound in the flesh.
— ConFucius.
Startled like a moon-caught ghost.
—Joun Davison.
Startle, like a call to arms. —
Grace Kine.
Startles like a pistol shot at a wed-
ding. — Sypnry MunpEN.
Startled, as if some new-created thing
Enriched the earth, or Faery of the
woods
Bounded before him.
— WorpsworTH.
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State.
States, as great engines,
slowly. — Bacon.
move
A great modern state is like a gigantic
vessel built without any watertight
compartments, which, if it be unskil-
fully steered, may perish when it
strikes
Bryce.
a single rock. — ViscouNT
It is with states as with clocks,
which must have some dead weight
hanging at them to help and regulate
the motion of the finer and more useful
parts. — Swirr.
Stately.
Stately as a column. — ’scHyLus.
Stately as a Roman legion. — ANon.
Stately as an oak. — Isp.
Stately as a steeple. — Ipm.
Tall and stately as a pine. —Izrp.
Stately as a forest, monarch. —
Isp.
Stately and pure as the swan on the
lake. — Sir SAMUEL FERGUSON.
Stately as a deer with antlers. —
LoNGFELLOw.
Stately as a palm-tree standing before
the moon. — Grorce Merrepitu.
Stately as a ship under full sail. —
Owen MEREDITH.
Stately like the stars. —C. G. Ros-
SETTI.
Stately as a queen. — THACKERAY.
Stately as a King. — Watrer
THORNBURY.
Statesman.
A statesman, we are told, should
follow public opinion. Doubtless . . .
as a coachman follows his horses ;
having firm hold on the reins, and
guiding them. — J. C. Hare.
STATE. — STEADFAST.
I look upon an able statesman out
of office like a huge whale, that will
endeavor to overturn the ship unless
he has an empty cask to play with. —
Sir Ricwarp STEELE.
An honest statesman to a prince,
Is like a cedar planted by a spring.
The spring bathes the tree’s roots, the
grateful tree,
Rewards it with its shadow.
—Joun WEBSTER.
Stationary.
I am somewhat like the weather-
cocks, which only become stationary
when they are rusty. — VoLTAIRE.
Staunch.
Staunch as a bloodhound. — Anon.
Staunch as steel. — Iprp.
Stay (Noun).
Stand at a stay; like a stale at
chess, where it is no mate, but yet the
game can not stir. — Bacon.
Stay (Verb).
Stay, like fairies, till the cock crow
them away. — Donner.
Stay . . . about as long as a tender-
foot would stick on an untamed bronco.
—O. Henry.
Steadfast.
Steadfast as the steered-by star. —
ALFRED AUSTIN.
Steadfast as the light of a diamond.
— Butwer-Lyrtron.
Steadfast as the sun. — CARLYLE.
Steadfast as the eternal throne. —
ALICE Cary.
Steadfast as a wall. — CHaucer.
Stands steadfast, like tower which
blast of wind can never shake. —
Dante.
Steadfast, as the throne of God. —
Ausrey Dr VERE.
Steadfast as a principle. — Keats.
STEADFAST.
Steadfast — continued.
Steadfast as the
Hannan More.
Steadfast as a fixed star. —C. G.
Rossetti.
pole-star. —
Steadfast as the everlasting rocks.
— SourHeEy.
Steadfast as a sea-mew’s wing. —
SWINBURNE.
Steadfast as clouds or hours in flight.
— Isp.
Steadfastly.
Steadfastly as look the twin stars
down into unfathomable wells. — N.
P. WILus.
Steady.
Steady as a church. — ANoN.
Steady as a clock. — Isp.
Steady as a rock. — In.
Steady as Old Time. — Ism.
Braced and steady, like a game man
facing a firing squad. —TIrvin S.
Coss.
Steady,
Like eyes suffused with rapture.
— COLERIDGE.
Steady
As if our footsteps had begun
To print the golden streets already !
—O. W. Homes.
Steady as a church. — ALFRED
Henry Lewis.
Steady as clock-work. — Miss Mv-
LOCK.
Steady as the ocean waves.—
CHARLES SANGSTER.
Steady as tramp of marching feet. —
Ceti THAXTER.
Steady as a mill. — Marx Twain.
Steady as a hay wagon. — JUAN
VALERA.
Steady as the pole. — Isaac Warts.
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Steadily.
Like the drip from a loose faucet...
steadily. — Margaret DELAND.
Burned steadily, like a candle set in
a window. — Mary JoHNSTON.
Steadiness.
T looked with steadiness, as sailors look
On the north star, or watch-tower’s
distant lamp. — WorDsworTH.
Steal.
Steal o’er my soul in sweetness
As the moonlight steals over the sea.
— ANON.
Steals lingering like a river smooth
along its grassy borders. — CAMPBELL,
Steal along like an Argus. —
CuarLes Haock.
Stealthily.
Stealthily, as if on shoes of felt, as
if on paws of velvet. — CARLYLE.
Stealthily like rocks that tear a ship’s
life out under the smooth sea. —
JOSEPH CONRAD.
Stealthy.
Stealthy as a cat. — Bauzac.
Steep.
Steep, like the ladder of a hay-mow.
—R. D. Biackmore.
Steep as a house-side. — DANIEL
DEFOE.
Steep as a sheet of glass. — EMILy
LAWLEss.
Steaming.
Steaming like a brewer's vat. —
Hoop.
Stern.
Stern as a stone bust of Augustus
Cesar. — ANON.
Stern as block of bogwood oak. —
R. D. Buackmore.
Stern as
LytTTon.
Vengeance. -— BuLWER-
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Stern — continued.
An iron Queen,
Stern as her flinty judgment seat of
doom.
—Lorp De Tastey.
Stern as Richard in Bosworth Field.
— Pierce Eean.
Stern as Pluto’s sceptre. — Keats.
Stern as a mailed knight that had
been grappling death. — GrrRaLp
Massey.
Stern as the noon of night. — Isrp.
As stern as e’er was knitted in the
folds of rancorous discontent. —
RicHarD SHEIL.
Stern and still
As hours and years that change and
anguish fill. — SWINBURNE.
Stern as Medea in her dragon car.
— Isp.
Stick.
Sticking as close together as two
dried figs. — ANON.
Sticks like a cockle burr to a sheep’s
coat. — Isr.
Stick like a leech. — Inm.
Sticks like a porous plaster. — Iprp.
Sticks like fly paper. — Inm.
Stick like wax. — Isr.
Stick like a Comanche on a mus-
tang. The worse it jumps, the tighter
he sticks. —J. R. Barruerr’s ‘“Dic-
TIONARY OF AMERICANISMS.”
Stick to it, like a clenched nail. —
R. D. Blackmore.
Stick to her point like a fox to his
own tail. — Dion Boucicavtt.
Stick like burrs. — Bunyan.
Sticks as close . . . as a shadow to
a body. — Roserr Burton.
Stick like pitch. — Concreve.
Sticks like a weasel. — GoLtpsmrru.
STERN, — STIFF.
Stuck together like a sheet of buns.
—O. W. Hotes.
Sticks to me like a bobolink on a
sapling, in a wood. — SYLVESTER Jupp.
Stick as close as my shirt does to my
back on a sultry, sweating day. —
“‘Lonpon CHANTICLEERS.”
Like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Stick like rust. — Cyrriz Tourneur.
Stick . . . as a country postmaster
to his offiss. — ArTemus WARD.
Stiff.
Stiff as a board. — ANon.
Stiff as a fakir in a box left too long
buried. — Isp.
Stiff as a frozen shadow. — Inm.
Stiff as a plaster mask. — Ipm.
Stiff as a poker. — Ini.
Stiff as a post. — Isp.
Stiff as hedge-stakes. — Ip.
Stiff as steel. — Ipm.
Stiff like a
DICKENS.
state coachman. —
Sitting stiffly by, like a functionary
presiding over an interview, previous
to an execution. — Ini.
Stiff as a dead body. — JonaTHan
Dickinson.
Stiff as the corpse of a hanged man.
— Dumas, PERE.
Stiff like a side of coarse leather. —
J. T. Frerps.
He stood...
statue. — GoETHE.
stiff as a marble
Stiff as a pointer’s tail. — Maurice
HEWwLerr.
Stiff as a rubbing brush. — Tuomas
HeEYwoop.
Stiffly, and like one slain and cold.
— EBenezer Jones.
STIFF. — STILL.
Stiff — continued.
Stiff as coat of mail. — W. S. Lan-
DOR.
Stiff as a ramrod. — Lever.
Stiff as
Mackin.
a turnpike. — CHARLES
Stiff as iron bars. — Guy pe Mav-
PASSANT.
Stiff as oak-leaves after frost. —
Grorce MerepitTa.
Stiff as logwood. — Ipm.
Stiff like a soldier on parade. —
CHARLES REapE.
Stiff as a stone. — Jonn Ruskin.
As stiff as a brick-built-wall. — J.
K. STerHen.
Stiff as a viper frozen. — TENNYSON.
Stiff as Lot’s wife. — Isp.
Stiff as a dry Quaker. — Tuomas
WaDE.
Still (Adjective).
Still as a church mouse. — ANON.
Still as a sheltered place when winds
blow loud. — Isp.
Still as a tomb. — Ipp.
Still as the stump of a tree. — Ism.
Still as a cat in a gutter. — “‘Ap-
PIUS AND VIRGINIA.”
Great thoughts are still as stars. —
P. J. Batuey.
Still as one in sleep. — ALEXANDER
BaRcLay.
Still as a crow’s nest, in the ded ov
winter. — JosH BILLINGs.
Still as a log. — R. D. Biackmore.
Still as a mouse. — CHARLOTTE
Bronte.
Still as a prostrate column. — In.
Still as a vision. — E. B. BRownine.
Still as when a silent mouth in frost
Breathes. —Ism.
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Still as if spell-bound, — Butwér-
Lytron.
Still as the moonbeam. — Inm.
Still as a statue. — Byron.
Still as a summer noon. — Buiss
CARMAN.
Stille as any stoone. — CHaucer.
Sat stille, as if he were in a traunce.
— Ism.
As stille as the dede were. — Inp.
Still as a slave before his lord. —
CoLERmDGE.
Still like leaves forged of heavy
metal. — JoszpH ConraD.
Still as old Chaos, before Motion’s
birth. — Cow ey.
Still as if struck with death. —
Juuia C. R. Dorr.
Still like a clock worn out with eating
time,
The wheels of weary life at last stood
still. — Drypen.
Still as a graveyard. — O. Henry.
Still as tombstone. — Homer.
Still as salt. — W. D. Howe ts.
Still as a pool. — Hugo.
Still as a rock set in the watery deep.
— JEAN INGELOw.
Dead-still as a marble man. —
Krats.
Still as children’s
Tuomas KILLIGREW.
Still as a chimney. — KINGSLEY.
thoughts. —
Still as beggars at the gate of great-
ness. — KIpLine.
Silence stiller than the shore
Swept by Charon’s stealthy car.
—F. L. Know es.
Still as the moonlight. — Grorce
MacDona1p.
Fall still as oak-leaves after frost. ~
Grorce MEREpITH.
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Still — continued.
Still as an island stood our ship. —
Ricuarp M. MILnes.
Still as the Spring-tide comes. —
Lewis Morris.
As still
As snowflakes fall upon the sod.
— JoHN PIERPONT.
Still as a sow in beans. — PEDRO
Prinepa’s ‘SPANISH DICTIONARY.”
Still as the hour of death. — T.
BucHANAN Reap.
Still, as one who broods or grieves. —
D. G. Rossetti.
Still as the gleam of a star through
the dark. — A. J. RYAN.
Still as a shadow. — Duncan C.
Scort.
Still as the grave. — SHAKESPEARE.
” Still as a wavelet in a pool. —
WILLIAM SHARP.
Still as some far tropic sea where no
winds murmur, nor waves be. — Ipm.
Still as a brooding dove. — SHELLEY.
Still as clapper in a mill. — SKEL-
TON.
Still as the gentle calm, when the
hush’d wave no longer foams before
the rapid storm. — SMOLLETT.
Still as any stake. — SpENnsER.
Still as a ghostly lake. — Howarp
V. SUTHERLAND.
Still as fair shapes fixed on some won-
drous wall
Of minster-aisle or cloister-close or hall
To take even time’s eye prisoner with
delight. — SWINBURNE.
Still as a stone. — OLD TresTAMENT.
Still, like Sunday. — Mark Twain.
Still as an image of a boy in stone. —
TuHEopore Watts-DunTON.
Still as the dawn. — ELLA WHEELER
WILcox.
STILL. — STINK.
Still as a picture. — WHITTIER.
Still as Eden ere the birth of man.
—N. P. WItuis.
Still as starlight. — Isp.
Still
As the mute swan that floats adown
the stream. — Worpswortu.
Still (Verb).
Stilling her spirit like the waving of
a wand of peace.—JamMes Lane
ALLEN. a
Stimulating.
About as stimulating as a mouthful
of sawdust and water. — ANON.
Stimulating as ginger cordial. — G.
B. Suaw.
Sting.
Sting like a hornet. — ANon.
Stung like a nettle. — Isp.
Stung like bees unhived. — Ropert
BRownine.
Sting like a
Burton.
serpent. — RoBERT
Care stings like pois’nous asps to
fury wrought. — NATHANIEL CorTon.
Stung like amber asp. —
MartrHew GREEN.
Stinging, like the wind when frosts
are keen. — Henrix Herrz.
Stings like fire. — Lucrettus.
Stung like a bee in the warm core of
a rose. — OUIDA.
He stings like a scorpion. — Os-
MANLI PRovERB.
Stung like fire. — SwinBuURNE.
Stingeth like an adder. — Oxp Tzs-
TAMENT.
Stink.
Stink like a polecat. — ANon.
Stink like carrion. — Ini.
Stinks like a poison’d cat behind a
hanging. — BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
STINK. — STOP.
Stink — continued.
His memory stinks like the snuff of
a candle when it is put out. — Roserr
Burton.
Stank as the pitte of helle. — CHav-
CER.
Stynken as a goot. — Inm.
Stinks and shines, and shines and
stinks, like a dead mackerel in the
moonlight. — JoHN RANDOLPH.
Stunk like wash-polluted pigs. —
WILLIAM TENNANT.
Stir.
Stirs the blood like trumpet-blast.
— WILLIAM ARCHER.
Stirr’d, like a
MatrHew ARNOLD.
clarion-blast. —
Stirred her soul like organ music.
— Bauzac.
Stirring like the sight of glorious
triumph. — JosepH CONRAD.
Stir as with hope and bliss. — Mrs.
E. M. H. Cortissoz.
Stir like tide-worn
Fannig STEARNS Davis.
That dream is in my heart, stirring,
like spring within the unconscious
earth setting the unborn summer in
array. —F. W. Faser.
sea-weed. —
Stirs one like a martial tune. —
Ricuarp Lz GALLIENNE.
Stirring as music. —J. H. GARDINER.
Stirred like drifted snows. — THomas
G. Hake.
Stirred . . . as thedive of a kingfisher
stirs a quiet pool. — Tuomas Harpy.
. Divinely stirred,
As if the vanished soul of Keats,
Had found its new birth in a bird.
—P. H. Hayne.
Stirred as tempest stirs the forest
branches. — Hoop.
Stirred, like insects settled on a
dancing leaf. — Ism.
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Stir like the hail of musketry in
fight. — Sie¢munp Krasinsk1.
Love’s sweet mystery stirring at
their hearts, like first spring motions
in the veins o’ the flowers. — GERALD
Massey.
My heart is stirred,
Like childhood’s when it hears the
carol of a bird.
— Rosert NIco.t.
Stirred him up like the tap of a drum.
—James Wuitcoms RILEy.
Stirred like springtide waters. —
SWINBURNE.
And with such song the hollow ways
were stirred
As of a god’s heart hidden in a bird,
Or as the whole soul of the sun in spring
Should find full utterance in one flower-
soft word. — Isrp.
Stirs my spirits like a raging sea. —
CuaRLES WELLS.
Stirs, like the trumpet’s call to
strife. — WHITTIER.
Stirr’d like the ocean when a tempest
blows. — Wittiam WILKIE.
Stolid.
Stolid as a Dutchman. — ANon.
Stolid as an ox. — IB.
‘Stoop.
Stoop
Like timid silence shrinking from the
breeze. —R. H. Bet.
Stoops like a bow. — Butwer-Lyt-
TON.
Stooped like sprinters before a signal.
— STEPHEN CRANE.
Stooped, like a bird with a broken
wing. — Dumas, PERE.
Stop.
Stop progress, like a block in the
pit entrance to a theater. — GEORGE
MEREDITH.
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Storm.
Storm like a caged lion. — ANon.
Storm like a mad thing. — Ouma.
Stormed like a perfect hurricane.—
SMOLLETT.
Stormy. ‘
Stormy as a multitude. — Huco.
Story.
A good story is like a bitter pill
with the sugar coating inside of it. —
O. Henry.
Stout.
Stout of fibre as hemp. — CARLYLE.
Stout: as bergs of Arctic ice. —
Gzorce Merepits.
Stout as death. — Orway.
Straight. :
Straight as a candle. — Hans
CuRISTIAN ANDERSEN. ,
Straight as an angel’s flight. —
ANON.
Straight as an Indian’s hair. — Ipmp.
Straight as a lance. — Ini.
Straight as a pine. — Isp.
Straight as a ramrod. — Ip.
Straight as a rush. — Isp.
Straight as a string. — Ipm.
Straight as columns of fire. — Inm.
Straight, as if he had swallowed a
stick. — Inn.
Straight as the backbone of a herring.
— Isp.
Straight as a
NIcutTs.
cane. — ARABIAN
Straight as a temple-shaft. — Ep-
WIN ARNOLD.
Straight as a shooting star. — WIL-
LIAM AUSTIN.
Straight as a die. — ALEXANDER
BaRcLay.
STORM. — STRAIGHT.
Straight as a loon’s leg.—J. R.
Bartiett’s ‘‘DicTioNARY OF AMERI-
CANISMS.”
Straight as a shingle. — Inm.
Straight as truth. — Beaumont AND
FLETCHER.
Straight as poplars. — CHARLOTTE
Bronte.
Straight . . . like graves dug side
by side at measured lengths. — E. B.
Brownine.
Straight to its aim as the aim of the
rifle-ball of a Tyrolese. — BuLwer-
Lytron.
Straight as a rule. — BuNYAN.
Straight as a beadle’s wand. — C. S,
CALVERLEY.
Straight as a bull’s back against the
white sky. — Buiss CaRMAN.
Straight as line. — CHaucEr.
Straight as a lily on its stem.—
WILKIE COLLINS.
Straight as a tower. — T. O. Davis.
Straight as any plummet line. —
Dickens.
Straight as a crow flies. — Ipm.
As straight as a beggar can spit. —
Kortine.
Go as straight as a schoolboy at
Christmas. — LEan’s “‘CoLLECTANEA.”
Straight as a spear. — NATHANIEL
LEE.
Straight like a
HABHARATA.
Straight as Circe’s wand. — Mar-
LOWE.
Gleams straight like the glow which a
ploughing keel doth break
From the grim sea around, with light
on her bow and light in her raging
wake. — WrstLanp Marston.
sala-tree. — Ma-
Straight like vine poles. — Guy DE
Maupassant.
STRAIGHT. —— STREAM.
Straight — continued.
Fly straight as the emissary eagle
back to Jove. — Grorce Merepitu.
Straight as the flight of the dove. —
Isp.
Straight, — like a webfoot to water.
— Isp.
Straight as a dart. — Pinpay.
Straight as the palm tree. — Prior.
Straight as a Seer’s thought into the
blue of the immaculate heavens. —
RicHarD REALF.
Straight as thought could span. —
SWINBURNE.
Straight as bolt from crossbow sped.
— Marx Twain.
Straight as a wall. — Ivan Vazov.
Straight as a Sioux chief. — Booker
T. WasHINGTON.
Straighten.
Straightened himself up like a liberty-
pole. — Marx Twain.
Straightforward.
As straightforward as a tile falling
on your head. — JoszPpH ConraD.
Strain.
A faint strain,
As if some echo, that among
‘Those minstrel halls had slumber’d long,
Were murm’ring into life again.
— Tuomas Moore.
One great strain of joy.as the sea
breaking. — SwINBURNE.
Strange.
As strange as a wedding without a
bridegroom. — ANON.
Strange
As Hindostanee to an Ind-born man
Accustomed many years to English
speech. —E. B. Brownine.
Strange as death. — Isp.
Strange to me as dreams of distant
spheres. — Isp. ;
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Strange as the stars. — G. K. Curs-
TERTON.
Strange as a vision. — Aenes M. F.
DaRMESTETER.
Strange as a dream. — Lewis Mor-
RIS.
Strange as a dreamer’s mad imag-
ings. — SHELLEY.
I feel as new and strange as a free
spirit which had shaken off the wrap-
pings of this life. — ALEXANDER SMITH.
Strange as the curlew’s song. — R.
H. Sropparp.
Strange . . . like a fine lady swap-
ping her moles for the mange. —
SwIrt.
Strange as are night and morning,
stars and sun. — SWINBURNE,
Strange as chance or doom. — Inip.
Strange as hope’s green blossom
touched with time’s harsh rust. —
Ipip. a
Strange as life. — Inn.
Strange as light
That cleaves in twain the shadow of
night
Before the wide-winged world takes
flight
That thunder speaks to depth and
height
Aud quells the quiet hour with sound.
— Isp.
Strange as sleep. — Isp.
Strange as heaven. — Ini.
Strange as fate. — Inrp.
Strange as the sea. — Inp.
Strange as a wild flower. — THOREAU.
Strangely.
Strangely there, as would a bower
of roses in Siberia. — Mrs. TROLLOPE.
Stream.
Streaming like feathers of a shuttle-
. cock. — AMBROSE BIERCE.
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Stream — continued.
Branches stream like the dishevelled
hair
Of women in the sadness of despair.
— Witiiam CuLLEN Bryant.
Streamed o’er his memory like a-
forest’s flame. — O. W. Hotmes.
Streaming like a flag of battle. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Streamed like curtain-rents
Fluttered by a wind. — Isp.
Her locks streamed like the torch
Borne by a racer at full speed,
Or like the mane of horses in their
flight
Or like an angel when she stems the
light
Straight towards the sun,
Or like a caged thing freed,
Or like a*flying flag when armies run.
—C. G. Rossetti.
Stream like a comet’s flashing hair
-— SHELLEY.
Stream, like a sunset. — FREDERICK
TENNYSON.
Strengthening.
As strengthening to the mind as
drinking sweetened wind out of a toy
balloon. — W. C. Brann.
Strengthless.
Strengthless as a noon-belated moon,
Or as the glazing eyes of watery
heaven,
When the sick night sinks into deadly
swoon. — Francis THompPson.
Strenuously.
Strenuously as ever Cavalier strove
for the White Rose. — Ouma.
Stretch.
Stretch away, like the perspective of
a dream. — Paut Bourcet.
Stretch . . . like a bow-string by
the forceful arm of some bold archer
strained. — Lucran.
STREAM. — STRIKE.
Stretched as far as doth the mind of
man. — MARLOWE.
Stretching out his hand like the
wings of a bird. — RaBE.ais.
Laura stretched her gleaming neck.
Like a rush-imbedded swan,
Like a lily from the beck,
Like a moonlit poplar branch,
Like a vessel at the launch
When its last restraint is gone.
—C. G. Rossertr.
Stretched along, like a wounded
knight. — SHAKESPEARE.
Stretch _ like
Bayarp TAY or.
imploring arms. —
Stretched out the heavens as a cur-
tain. — OLp TESTAMENT.
Strew.
Strewn round as like a dead world’s
shroud in ghastly fragments torn. —
E. B. Brownine.
Strewed like the leaves that vanish
in the soil. —O. W. Homes.
Strewn . . like bridal chamber
floors. — SHELLEY.
Stricken.
Stricken down as a broken pillar. —
Ruts Putnam.
Stride.
Fortune striding, like a vast Colos-
sus. — DRYDEN.
The strides of the lame are like the
glances of the one-eyed ; they do not
speedily reach their aim. — Hugo.
Strife.
Dark with strife,
Like heaven’s own sun that storming
clouds bedim. — SwInBURNE.
Strike.
Strike like a battering ram. — ANON.
Strike like a trip-hammer. — Ism.
Strikes like
Burton.
lightning. — RoBERT
STRIKE. — STRONG.
Strike — continued.
The ocean strikes like a lion with
its heavy paw, seizing and dismember-
ing at the same moment. — Huco.
Striped.
Striped like a viper’s loins. — R. D.
BLACKMORE.
Striped like a zebra. — Kzats.
Strive.
Strive not as doth a crocke (pitcher)
with a wall. — CHaucrr.
Strove
As toward the sundawn strives the
lark. — SWINBURNE.
Strove as in toils. — Isp.
Strove . . . like song’s triumphant
breath. — Inm.
Strong.
Strong as the mainstay of the labor-
ing bark. — A’scHyLus.
Strong as Zeus. — Aiscuyus (E. B.
BROWNING).
Strong as an eagle. — ANON.
Strong as a Filander’s mare. —
Isp.
Strong as hate. — Inn.
Strong as Hercules. — Isr.
Strong as mustard. — Isp.
Strong as an ox. — Isp.
Strong as the voice of Fate. — But-
WER-LYTTON.
Strong as the spirit of the storm. —
W. Witrrep CAMPBELL.
Strong as beechwood in the blast. —
CAMPBELL.
Strong as bulls. — CaRLYLE.
Strong as the Harz-rock, rooted in
the depths of the world. — Imp.
Strong as an host of armed Deities.
— COLERIDGE.
Strong as brandy. — Farquyar.
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As the
Fawkes.
lion strong. — Francis
Strong in silence as mysteries locked
up in Jove’s own bosom. — JouHN
Forp.
Strong as earth’s first kings.— Frrz-
GREENE HALLEcK.
As strong as_ instinct. — Haw-
THORNE.
Strong as the enginery that works
the world. —J. A. HILLHouse.
Stronger than thunder’s winged
force. — Horace.
Strong as the wind. — Mary Joun-
STON.
Strong as fire. — KINGSLEY.
Strong as a jail. — Lever.
Strong as iron bands. — Lonc-
FELLOW.
Strong as a storm. — James Mac-
PHERSON.
Strong as a sea-swell. — GERALD
Massey.
Strong as God. — NreTzscHE.
Strong as a young goat. — Ouma.
Strong, like an iron chain. — PILpay.
Strong as the devil himself. — Ra-
BELAIS.
Strong as Sampson. — Inm.
Strong . . . as young Desire. — T.
Bucuanan Reap.
Strong as strong Ajax’s red right
hand. — C. G. RosseErrt.
Strong as necessity. — RICHARD
SAVAGE.
Confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Strong as Pluto’s gates. — Iprp.
Strong as the axletree. — Isp.
Strong as... rash gunpowder. —
Isp.
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Strong — continued.
Strong as a wild swan’s pinions. —
SWINBURNE.
Strong as grows the yearning of the
blossom toward the fruit. — Isr.
Strong as love. — Inrp.
Strong as the seas. — IBrp.
Strong as the worldwide sun. — In.
Strong as sheer truth. — Isp.
Strong as time. — Isp.
Strong like fate. — Isp.
Strong, and bold, and free as the
milk-white foal of the Nedjidee.—
Bayarp TAyLor.
Strong as death. — OLp TESTAMENT.
Strong as iron. — Ini.
Strong as an oaken staff. — Henry
Van Dyke.
As the
Watts.
deluge strong. — Isaac
Strong as a Monarch’s signet. —
N. P. Wits.
Strong as guilty fear. — Worps-
WORTH.
Struggle.
Struggling like a flower towards
Heaven. — ANon.
Struggling like a man led towards
death and crucifixion. — CARLYLE.
Struggled, like an old lawyer be-
tween two fees. — CONGREVE.
Struggled instinctively like an ani-
mal under a net. — JosePpH CONRAD.
Struggles, like a living creature
making its way from under a great
snowdrift. — GrorcE Exior.
Struggling like a captive dove which
wishes to resume its flight. — Fiav-
BERT.
Struggled, like a dragon-doubt
glooming a lonely spirit. — Cuarizs
Harpur.
STRONG. — STUBBORN.
She struggled against silence like
soda-water against the cork. — An-
THONY Hope.
Struggle, like a wild, frantic bird
that is rending its plumage in its des-
peration. — Hugo.
Struggling like black spirits in hell.
— Ism.
Struggled together like foes in a
burning city. — LoNGFELLow.
Struggle, like a stricken hare
When swoops the monarch bird of air.
— T. BucHanan Reap.
Struggling like an animal in an air
pump. — Sir RicHaRD STEELE.
Struggling . . . like a wild beast
tangled in a net. — RaBINDRANATH
Tacore.
Struggled like a bird chained and
restive. — WALTER THORNBURY.
Strut.
Strut like a new church warden. —
Tuomas ADAms.
Struts like a cock o’ the walk. —
ANON.
Strut like a peacock. — Inn.
Struts like a Thespian. — Ism.
Strutted through hell, and pushed
the devils by,
Like a magnifico of Venice.
— Grorce H. Boker.
Strutting like a turkey cock. —
FIeLpine.
Struts like a juggler. — Joun Forp.
Struts like a crow. — SMOLLETT.
Stubborn.
Stubborn as a mule. — ANON.
As stubborn as the will of kings. —
AMBROSE BIERCE.
As stubborn as Muirkirk iron. —
Hoae.
Stubborn as a stone. — Huco.
STUBBORN. — SUBDUED.
Stubborn — continued.
Stubborn people are like reproaches,
and we have a right to laugh at them.
— Isp.
Stubborn as the Rocky Mountains.
— Ricuarp Le GALLIENNE.
Stubborn as an elephant’s leg, no
bending in her. — Witt1am Row ey.
More stubborn-hard than hammer’d
iron. — SHAKESPEARE.
Stuck.
Stuck on like burrs. — Beaumont
AND FLETCHER. ‘
Stuck to me like cobbler’s wax. —
R. D. BLackmore.
Stuck like leeches. — Inm.
Stuck there like a curious seal. —
MicHaeL Drayton.
Stuck as close ter ole Marster’s heel
as de shadder sticks to de tree. — T. N.
PaGeE.
Studded.
Studded with I’s as a boiled ham is
stuck full of cloves.— Lyman F,
GEORGE.
Study.
Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun,
That will not be deep-search’d with
saucy looks. — SHAKESPEARE.
Stuff.
Stuff up his lust, as minutes fill up
hours. — SHAKESPEARE.
Stumble.
Stumbling, like a cat shod with wal-
nuts. — ANON.
Stumbled like fat sheep. — STEPHEN
CRANE.
Stunning.
Stunning as a shock of electricity.
—Joun BroucHam.
Stupid.
Stupid as an excuse. — ANON.
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Stupid as a sloth. — Isp.
Stupid as a fact. — Bauzac.
Stupid as astone. —RosBrert Brown-
ING.
Loftily stupid, like dumb idols. —
CARLYLE.
Stupid as a coot. — Cowan’s “Dic-
TIONARY OF SEA PROVERBS.”
Stupid as a little downy owl. —
Grorce Du Maurier.
Stupid . . . like Falstaff in his old
age. — Tuomas H. Huxtey.
Stupid as a log. — Isaac JacKMaN.
Stupid as hounds chasing an iron
deer. — Sypney Munpen.
Stupid as a post. — CLEMENT RoBin-
SON.
Stupid as the swine. — Hans Sacus.
Stupid as a hog. — TotsToy.
Sturdy.
Sturdy as a wild ass colt. — Cow-
PER.
Style.
Our style should be like a skeine of
silke, to be carried and found by the
right thred, not ravel’d and perplex’d ;
then all is a knot, a heape. — Brn
JONSON.
Gibbon’s style is too uniform ; he
writes in the same flowing and pompous
style on every subject. He is like
Christie, the auctioneer, who: says as
much of a ribbon as of a Raphael. —
Ricuarp Porson.
Subdued.
Subdued like some strong
stream made placid in the fullness of
the Jake. — Anon.
Subdued like Argus by the might of
sound. — Hoop.
Subdued and grave,
Like schoolboys when the master’s in
a passion. —Ism.
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Sublime.
Sublime as Niagara. — ANon.
Sublime as the cliffs and the clouds,
—Ism.
Sublime as the sky overhead. —
Bauzac.
Sublime as a fact. — GrorGE Can-
NING.
Sublime, like a gilt crockery Idol. —
CARLYLE.
Sublime as Milton’s immemorial
theme. — SypnEY DoBELL.
Sublime ...as the combats of
Homer. — Hueco.
Sublime, as tropic storm. —H. C.
MERIVALE.
Sublime . . . like the sun’s fir’d
flame. — Joun Scorr.
As faith sublime. — SwINBURNE.
_ Sublime and triumphant as fire or as
lightning. — Isp.
Sublime,
As God were man, to spare or to forget.
— Isp.
Sublime as storm or sorrow. — Isip.
Sublime as truth. —Isw.
As Liberty,
THoMson.
sublime. — WILLIAM
Sublime as heaven. — Isp.
Submissive.
Submissive as a neophyte. — ANon.
Submissive as clay. — Ipm.
Submissive as putty. — Inn.
Submissive as earth. — HaMLIn
GARLAND.
Subside.
Subside like a lanced boil. — ANon.
Subside, like a swollen bubble on the
ocean tide. — GrorGE DaRLey.
Substance.
Substance is like a river in a con-
tinual flow, and the activities of things
SUBLIME. — SUCCESSIVE.
are in constant change, and the causes
work in infinite varieties. — Marcus
AURELIUS.
Substantial.
Substantial as the shadow of a shade.
— CALDERON.
Subtle.
Subtle as a serpent. — ANON.
About as subtle as a sidewalk-
worker for a second-hand clothing
store. — Ism.
Subtle as the tone of the voice or
the glance of the eye. —Joun Bur-
ROUGHS.
Subtle as a snake. — Lorp LytrTe1-
TON.
A point as subtle
As Ariachne’s broken woof.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Subtle as the fox for prey. —
Isp.
Subtle as
BURNE.
thin water. — Swin-
Subtle as a serpent. — Bayarp Tay-
LOR.
Subtle as light. — CrLia THAXTER.
Subtle as a dead pig. — T. Wricut.
Subtly.
Subtly as a failing of the sight. —
C. L. Hiwrers.
Success.
Success is like the sunshine, —it
brings the rattlesnakes out. — PauL
Morron.
Succeed.
Succeed each other, like monster de-
vouring monster in a dream. — Car-
LYLE.
Successive.
Successive, as the seasons to the sun.
—P. J. Battey.
SUDDEN. — SULLEN.
Sudden.
Sudden, like a Fate. —T. B. At-
DRICH.
Sudden as an April shower. — ANoN.
Sudden as a meteor’s flight. — Ibi.
Sudden and swift as a raging cyclone.
— Isp.
Sudden as a sunbeam’s ray. — Isp.
Sudden as a tidal wave on a sum-
mer sea. — Ini.
Sudden as the babbling brook or
robin’s whistle. — Isp.
Sudden as the call of spring to buried
flowers. — IB.
A sudden brightness, as when
meteor swift opens the darkness. —
Isp.
Sudden, as creation burst from
naught. — CAMPBELL.
Sudden as conscience. —G. K.
CHESTERTON.
Sudden as the crack of rifle. —
EMERSON.
Sudden as kindling flames arise. —
Water Harte.
Sudden as a snap. — Hoop.
Sudden as lightning. — Ben Jonson.
Sudden sound as of a bowstring
snapped in air. — LONGFELLOW.
Sudden as a stab. — LowELt.
Sudden as Aphrodite from the sea.
— Grorce MacDonatLp.
Sudden as the slapping of a wave. —
Spencer Moore.
A sudden flash, as from a sunlit
jewel. — Lewis Morris.
Sudden like a pool that once gave back
Your image, but now drowns it and is
clear
Again. —D. G. Rossertt.
Sudden like a hamadryad before a
dull fawn. — HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ.
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Sudden as a flame. — SWINBURNE.
Suddenly.
As suddenly as sudden death. —
ANON.
Rise up suddenly like the dry corpse
which stood upright in the glory of
life when touched by the bones of the
prophet. — Isin.
Suddenly, like a thunder-bolt. —
R. D. Buackmore.
Flashed suddenly ... as love of
youth at first sight. — Bunwer-Lyt-
TON.
Suddenly as a rain sound can pass
from your ear. — JoHN Forp.
More suddenly than doth a moment
go. — Kzats.
Suddenly . . . like a ghost from the
tomb. — Ruta Putnam.
Broke as suddenly as a widow’s
saving bank. — Water TRUMBULL.
Sue.
Beggars sue as king with king
Before the Throne of Grace on high.
—C. G. Rosser.
Suffer.
Suffers like a snipe shut up in a snuff-
box. — Henry P. Le.anp.
Suicide.
Every suicide is like an awful poem
of sorrow. — Bauzac.
Sulk.
Sulking like Achilles in his tent. —
ANON.
Sulky.
Sulky as a ghost. —E. B. BRownine.
Sulky as a bear. — THACKERAY.
Sullen.
Sullen, like lamps in sepulchres. —
Rosert Buarr.
Sullen as an Algerine colt. — Os-
MANLI PROVERB.
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Sullen — continued.
Sullen as a storm. — NICHOLAS
Rowe.
Sullenly.
He looks as sullenly as a routed
general. — ArpHra Brun.
Sultry.
Sultry . . . asif the air had fainted,
and the pulse of, Nature had run
down, and ceased to beat.—N. P.
WILLIS.
Sunburnt.
Sunburnt as the leaves of autumn.
— ANON.
Sunday.
A world without a Sabbath would
be like a man without a smile, like a
summer without flowers, and like a
homestead without a garden. — H. W.
BEECHER.
Sunday is like a stile between the
fields and toil, where we can kneel and
pray, or sit and meditate. — Lone-
FELLOW.
Sunken.
Sunken as Atlantis. — G. K. Cuzs-
TERTON.
Hopes deep sunken like anchors under
the ice. — J. T. TRowpripas.
Sunlight.
Sunlight is like the breath of life to
the pomp of autumn. — HawTHorne.
Superfluous.
Superfluous as a fifth wheel. — ANon,
Superfluous as bells on idle horses.
— Ricuarp C. TRencu.
Supernatural.
Supernatural as the
Florence. — LAMARTINE.
Dante of
Superior.
As superior . . . as a peak of the
Alps to a highland of the Hudson. —
WasuIncton Irvine.
SULLEN. — SURE.
Superstitious.
Superstitious as sailors. — ANON.
Supper.
Your supper is like the Hidalgo’s
dinner; very little meat and a great
deal of tablecloth. — LoNGFELLow.
Supple.
Supple as a young panther. — ANon.
Supple as the neck of a swan. —
Isp.
Supple as tobacco pouches. — Bat-
ZAC.
Supple ...as a young cat.—
Wikre CoLLins.
Supple as water. — Hugo.
Supple as a snake. — Guy pz Mav-
PASSANT.
Supple as if they were on springs. —
Isr.
Supple as the Scythian’s bow. —
Grorce MEREDITH.
Supple as a peau de Suéde glove. —
Octave Mirpeau.
Supple as Damascus steel. — Ouma.
Suppliant.
Suppliant . . . like a white-spotted
heifer on the lofty rocks, where trust-
ing for aid she lows, telling to the
herdsman her troubles. — AscuHy Lvs.
Support.
Support themselves as swarming bees
do, hang on by each other. — Ruskin.
Supreme.
Supreme as a pope. — MItron.
Sure.
Sure as monument of brass,
Their fame to future time shall pass.
— Artuur ACHESON.
Sure as a club. — Anon.
Sure as a stone drops from the hand
which lets it go. — Isp.
SURE.
Sure — continued.
Sure as birth and death. — Anon.
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Sure as day and night succeed each
other. — Izrp.
Sure as eggs in April. — Isp.
Sure as gravity. — Inip.
As sure as Heaven. — In1p.
Sure as God’s in heaven — Inip.
Sure as I’m standing here. — Inrp.
Sure as March in Lent. — Izip.
Sure as needles point to the north.
— Isp.
Sure as Silas Wegg is to drop into
poetry. — Ini.
Sure as tares. — IBrp.
As sure as that bubbles are in the
form of a hemisphere. — Inip.
As sure as that wild goose never laid
a tame egg. — Inip.
As sure as that the world is turned
upside down every twenty-four hours.
— Insp.
Sure as the coat’s on your back. —
Ini.
Sure as the foot of a mule. — Isp.
Sure as the opportune arrival of the
detective on the final curtain of a
melodrama. — Isip.
Sure as the sun shines. — Inm.
Sure as the steeple bears the bell.—
Ipip.
Sure as two and two make four. —
Isp.
Sure as water is water. — Inn.
Sure as you’re alive. — Inn.
Sure as shootin’. — Isp.
As sure as eggs and bacon. —
Isip.
Sure as an obligation sealed in the
butter. — Joun Barer.
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Sure as a gun. —J. R. Bartiert’s
“DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS.”
Sure as wedlock. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
Sure as stars of hope.—R. D.
BLackmore.
‘ Sure as sunrise. — Inm.
Sure as you are there. — BUNYAN.
Sure as death. — CaLDERON.
Sure as the wold gulls make sea-
ward. — Buiss CARMAN.
Sure... as the witch-hazel to-
wards treasure. — GrorGE W. CurTIS.
Sure as a rock. — Joun Davies.
Sure as sun-up. — DIcKENs.
Sure as the gospel. — Dumas, PRE.
Sure as roundness in the dewdrop.
— Grorce E jor.
Sure as the devil’s in London. —
FIELDING.
Sure as the fishes swim and birds do
fly. — GrrHart HavuPTMANN.
Sure as a juggler’s box.—W. C.
Hazurr’s “ENGLISH PROVERBS AND
PRovERBIAL PHRASES.”
Sure as Dover stands at Dover. —
Hoop.
Sure as a horse when he knows his
rider. — RicHarp Hovey.
Sure as Time. — Kip.ine.
Sure as the shaft that leaves the
Parthian bow. — Lucan.
As sure as Heaven rained manna for
the Jews. — MarLoweE.
Sure as the date on a bill. —Grorcre
MEREDITH.
Sure as earth lives under snows, and
Love lives under pain. —Miss Mv-
LOCK.
Sure as fate. — NorTHALL’s “FoLk
PHRASES.”
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Sure — continued.
Sure as God made little apples. —
NortTHAL’s “FoLtk PHRASES.”
Sure as I’m alive. — Isp.
Sure as you are born. — Isp.
As sure as Christmas comes. —
GEORGE OuUTRAM.
Sure as is the march of doom. —San-
poR Perort.
Sure as death and taxes are. —
“Poor Ropin’s ALMANACK.”
As sure as cold engenders hail. —
Pore.
Sure as key of lock. —Matrarw
Prior. ;
As sure as a gun is iron. — OPIE
READ.
Sure as the sun rolls up the morn,
Or twilight from eve is born.
— CHAr.Les SANGSTER.
Sure as bark on a tree. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Sure as day. — Ini.
Sure as I live. — Ipm.
Sure as J have thought or soul. —
Inrp.
Sure as God made Moses. — Sam
SLIck.
Sure as eggs is eggs. — Ipm.
As ‘sure as any gun. — Horace
SMITH.
As sure as wax-candles have wicks.
— Izm.
Sure as I hobble on ten toes. —
JAMES SMITH.
Sure as night is known from day. —
SWINBURNE.
Sure as present pain is. — Im.
Sure as truth. — Ini.
Sure as sense of beast or bird.—Inrp.
Sure as comes the postman and the
sun. — THACKERAY.
SURE. — SURELY.
Sure as creed. — IzAak WALTON.
Sure as the most certain sure. —
War WHITMAN.
Sure as brook to run to river. — A.
C. WILKE.
As sure as there’s a moon in Heaven.
— WorpswoRrTH.
Sure-footed.
Sure-footed as a goat. — Ouma.
Surely.
Surely as night is the shadow of the
earth. — ANON.
Surely as oxygen eats iron. — Inrp.
Surely as that if two men ride a
horse, one must ride behind. — Izip.
Surely as the earth is moving in the
spheres. — Iprp.
Surely as the sea-gull loves the sea,
and the sunflower loves the sun.—Izp.
Surely as a fallen stone must fall
to its mother earth. — Izrp.
Surely as we wish the joys of Heaven.
— Isp.
Surely as fame belongs to earth. —
R. D. Biackmors.
As surely as the internal motions of
the watch are indicated on its face. —
Marie G. Brooks.
Surely as the starry multitude
Is numbered by the sailors.
— Rozsert Brownine.
Surely as a blind man is pulled by
his dog into the butcher’s shop. —
Maurice Hew err.
Surely as the same sunshine of
heaven is on the mountain tops of east
and west. — Leigh Hunt.
Surely as musical ears are pained by
a discord. — Grorce Merepriru.
Surely as the heavens are mirrored
in the quiet seas. — Ipmp.
Surely as there is hope in man. —
Donatp G. MrrcHe it.
SURELY. — SWAY.
Surely — continued.
Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
There are Spring violets under the
snow. —R. H. Newe tu.
Surely as Winter taketh all. — T.
BucHanan Reap.
Surely as the hours came round. —
SAMUEL RoGErs.
Surely as the day-star loves the sun.
— SWINBURNE.
Surely and as certainly as the haw-
thorn must blossom in spring and the
corn burn to gold at harvest time,
and the moon in her ordered wander-
ings change from shield to sickle, and
from sickle to shield. — Oscar WILDE.
Surge. :
Surge, like hope upon a deathbed.
— Byron.
Surging as a sea. — TUPPER.
Surly.
Surly as a butcher’s dog. — ANON.
Surpass.
Surpasses, as a teal does a gander ;
as a coach does a wheelbarrow, or a
game-cock a sparrow. — ANON.
Suspense.
Suspense .. . like the irresolution
of the sea at turn of tide.—P. J.
BalIey.
Suspicion.
Suspicions amongst thoughts are like
bats amongst birds, they ever fly by
twilight. — Bacon.
Suspicion, like the fabled upas, blights
All healthy life.
— Grorce W. Love...
Suspicious.
Suspicious as a cat. — BALZAC.
Swallow.
Can... swallow down sin like
water. — BuNYAN.
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Swallowed her steps like a pursuing
grave. — Hoop.
Swallow .. . as easily as a great pit
a small pebble. — Lyzy.
Swallowed Persia, as the sand does
foam. — SHELLEY.
Swarm.
Swarmed like an ant-hill. — Anon.
Swarmed like bees. — Izip.
Swarming after, as a tail follows a
comet. — Inp.
As wasps, provok’d by children in their
play,
Pour from their mansions by the broad
high-way,
In swarms the guiltless traveller en-
gage,
Whet all their stings, and call forth all
their rage :
All rise in arms, and with a gen’ral cry
Assert their waxen domes, and buzzing
progeny.
Thus from the tents the fervent legion
swarms, :
So loud their clamours, and so keen
their arms. — Homer (Pops).
Place swarmed like a fair. — ScHIL~
LER.
Swart.
Swart as the night. — LonereLLow.
Swart as the smoke from raging fur-
nace. — Sir WALTER Scott.
Swart, like my shoe. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Sway.
Swayed like a column in an earth-
quake. — ANON.
Swaying like a lily. — Isp.
Like a branch she sways with supple
ply. — Arabian NIGHTS.
Swayed like a flower stalk in a gale.
—Joun D. Barry.
Swayed like a bird on a twig. —
ArnotpD BENNETT.
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Sway — continued.
Swayed and bent as gracefully as
doth a lily-bell, when by the summer
zephyr gently kissed. — CarTwricHt.
Sway, like a water-plant in a wave.
— Auice Cary.
Swayed at the top like a tree. —
JosEPH CONRAD.
Swayed rhythmically in one direc-
tion like a wheatfield in a squall. — Sir
A. Conan Dov.e.
Sway, like a trim galley, at her
anchorage between two seas. — F. W.
FaBer.
Swayed like a river weed. — THomas
Harpy,
Swayed like a pole in the tideway. —
Maurice HEewtert.
Swayed . . . as the sling swings its
projectile. — Huao.
Swaying like a reed. — Ism.
‘Swayed, like grain-fields when the
wind breathes over them. — SigmuND
KRrasInskI.
Swaying like wind-swung bell. —
Grorce MacDona.p.
Swaying about like a fat goose with
enormous legs and yielding knees. —
Guy DE Maupassant.
Sway, as the calm joy of flowers, and
living leaves before the wind. —
SHELLEY.
Sway’d
Like those long mosses in the stream.
— TENNYSON.
Swayed as the reeds sway in the
blast. — WuittiEr.
Swear. ,
Swear like a freighter. — ANon.
Swear like a costermonger. — Inn.
Swore like a Tartar. — Bauzac.
Swear like a tinker. — Tuomas Cor-
YATE.
SWAY. —— SWEEP.
Swear like a drunken tapster. — Dr.
JoHN Doran.
Swear like a lord. — Srr T. Etyor.
Swears like an imp. — Huco.
Swore like a porter. — Macautay.
Swore like a preacher’s son. —
Henry L. MEncKeEn.
Swears like a printing-office foreman
and yearns for close quarters with a
knife. — Inm.
Swear like a comfit-maker’s wife. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Swore like any trooper. — SourHEy.
Sweat.
Sweat like Cits in May-day Coaches.
— Apura Brun.
Sweating like a porous pitcher. —
Maurice Hew ert.
Sweating like a pitcher with ice-
water in it. — Witu1amM T. Porter’s
“TALES OF THE SOUTHWEST.”
Sweep.
Sweep like a simoon. — ANon.
Sweeps... along, like the broad
volume of the insurgent Nile. —
Matraew ARNOLD.
Sweep around... like angered
eagles cheated of their prey. —P. J.
Barney.
Swept .. . like sullying cloud from
pure blue sky. — CHar.LotTre Bronté.
Sweep like wolves on a lambkin. —
T. D. Brown.
Swept in like tides of Fundy. —
F. T. Browne.
Sweep like a sea, barred out from
land. — Rosert Brownine.
Swept like surge, i’ the simile
Of Homer. — Isp.
Sweep, like currents journeying
through the windless deep. — Wiu1AM
CuLLen Bryant.
SWEEP. — SWEET.
Sweep — continued.
Swept ... like leaves before the
autumn gale. — Ini.
Swept . . . like ocean-tides uprising
at the call of tyrant winds. — Inm.
Sweeping along like the Huns. —
STEPHEN CRANE.
They swept him out of the street,
as a fire-hose flushes the gutter. —
Ricnarp Harpine Davis.
Like chain-shot, sweeps all things
in its way. — DRYDEN.
like
Sweeps spectral
GoETHE.
Swept like a tempestuous sea. —
HaAwTHoRNE.
Sweeping like rivers that seek the
main. — Hoop.
Sweeping the country like locust-
swarm. — Ouma.
Sweep like a wing’d will. — Emity
PFEIFFER.
Sweep like bitter Nor’land gales.
— T. Bucuanan Reap.
Sweep as the tempest o’er the deep.
— SCHILLER.
Swept the lists like an Egypt’s
plague of locusts. —OwEN SEAMAN.
Sweep it away like a leaf before a
hurricane. — G. B. Saw.
Swept
Like waves before the tempest.
— SHELLEY.
Swept
As storm across his soul that kept
Wild watch, and watched not well.
— SWINBURNE.
Swept like a torrent. — TENNY-
SON.
Swept like a conquering army
through my blood. — Louis UNTER-
MEYER.
Swept
As by a plague. — WorpsworTu.
shade. —
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Sweet.
Sweet as odorous white lilies are. —
Oscar Fay Apams.
Sweet as new-blown rose. — THomas
ADAms.
Sweet as fresh fount to thirsty
wanderer. — AESCHYLUS.
Sweet as a girl graduate. — ANON.
Sweet as a nut. —Ipm.
Sweet as the infant spring. — Isip.
Sweet as a rose. — Ipm.
Sweet and wholesome as a sprig of
mignonette. — Ipm.
Sweet as a sugar plum. — Ipp.
Sweet as a vial of rose oil. — Inm.
Kiss as sweet,
As cool fresh stream to bruised and
weary feet. — Isp.
Sweet as honey bee. — Iprp.
Sweet as honeysuckle. — Ism.
Sweet as lilies in May. — Ipm.
As sweet as spring’s first song heard
in the grove’s retreat. — Inn.
Sweet as sugar. — Ip.
Sweet as the cup of Circe. — Im.
Sweet as the harmonies of Spring.
— Isp.
Sweet as the liquid notes of a plover.
— Isp.
Sweet as the notes of a fountain. —
Isp.
Sweet as the perfume of roses. —Ipm.
Faintly sweet as the reapers hear a
lark afar in the sky. — Isp.
Sweet as the solemn sounds of
cherubs, when they strike their golden
harps. — Isp.
Sweet as unblown hawthorn buds.
— Isp.
Sweet as maidens deckt and dight.
— ARABIAN NIGHTS.
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Sweet — continued.
Sweet as that which is forbidden. —
ARABIC.
Sweet as the last smile of sunset.
— Enwin Arno.
Sweeter than the comb its sweetness.
— Ism.
Sweet as the honeyed dews that
drip from the budding lotus-flower.
— Grorce ARNOLD.
Sweet and calm as is a sister’s kiss.
—P. J. Bartiey.
Sweete as the infant spring. —
Scortish BALLAD.
Sweet as the joy which sorrow
hushes. — Bauzac.
Sweet as new wine. — JoHN Baret.
Sweet
As where smooth Zephyrus plays on
the fleet
Face of the curled streams.
— Francis BEAUMONT.
Sweet as applause to the actor. —
BraumMont AND FLETCHER.
As sweet as April. — Inm.
Sweet as the Spring. — Isp.
Sweet as the moonlight sleeping on
the hills. — Sir Witiiam 8S. BENNETT.
Sweet as the light of the stars. —
Rosert Hucu Benson.
Sweet as the look of a lover saluting
the eyes of a maid. — AmMBRosE
BIERcE.
Sweet as odour of the upland thyme.
— Marais Burp.
As sweet as perfumed shroud which
the gay Roman maidens sewed for
English Keats. — E. B. Brownina.
As sweet as window-eglantine. —
Isp.
Sweet, as when winter storms have
ceased to chide. — Bryant.
SWEET.
Sweeter than all perfumes. — Bun-
YAN.
Sweet as the dewy milk-white
thorn. — Burns.
Sweet as yon hawthorn’s blossom. —
Isp.
Sweet
Burton.
as matrimony. — Ropert
‘Sounds sweet as if a sister’s voice
reproved. — Byron.
as May. — THomas Carew.
as the
- Sweet
Sweet sundown. — Biss
CARMAN.
Sweet as the song of the wind in
the rippling wheat.— Mapison Ca-
WEIN.
Sweet as the warbles of the vocal
woods. — JAMES CAWTHORN.
Sweet as the voice of thraslarks
[Thrushes] in the spring. — CHATTER-
TON.
Sweete as is the brembul-flour
That bereth the rede hepe [Fruit of
the dog rose]. — CHAUCER.
Sweet as pity.— Harriey Co.n-
RIDGE.
Sweet as the whispered breeze of
evening. — CoLERIDGE.
As sweet as Western wind breathes
from the violets’ fragrant beds. —
J. G. Cooper.
Sweet as the hopes on which starv’d
lovers feed. — Str WILLIAM DaVENANT.
‘ Sweet as aerial chimes
Of flower-bells.
— Joun Davison.
Sweet as sails in summer sky. —
Lorp Dr Tas ey.
Sweet as some immeasurable rose,
expanding leaf on leaf. — AusRrEY DE
VERE.
Sweet as Anadyomene rising from
the sea. — Dr. Joun Doran.
SWEET.
Sweet — continued.
Sweet as are the orchards, when
the fruit is hanging ripe. —Paun
LavuRENCE DUNBAR.
Sweet as the murmur of the brook
and the rustle of the corn. — EMERSON.
Serenely sweet as vernal air. —
FALCONER.
As sweet as a violet. — Joun Forp.
Sweet . .. as the new-mown hay.
— W. S. GILBERT.
Sweet as the vernal flow’r in early
prime. — RicHarp GLOVER.
Sweet as the rosy morn in May.
— GEORGE GRANVILLE.
Sweet as a youthful poet’s dream.
— CHARLES GRAY.
Sweet as the harps that hung by
Babel’s stream. — Jupan HaLxvi.
Sweet as summer days that die
when the months are in the bloom. —
W. W. Harney.
Sweet as tropic winds at night. —
P. H. Hayne.
Sweet as the blossoms of the vine.
— Rosert Herrick.
Sweet as vestry of the oracles. —
Isp.
Sweet as the sweetest song of bird
on summer’s eve. — D. M. HEervey.
As sweet as dewy turf to wayworn
feet. — Emity H. Hickey.
Sweet as new-blown breath of open-
ing flow’rs. — Aaron Hi.
Sweet
As a meadow at noon.
—Karuerine Tynan Hinxson.
Sweet as the breath from an oda-
lisque’s fan. — O. W. Hommes.
Sweet as the dawn star. — Inp.
Sweet as the first snow-drop, which
the sunbeams greet. — Inn.
Sweet as honey. — Homer (Pope).
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Sweet as scarlet strawberry under
wet leaves hidden. — Nora Hopper.
Sweet as the hills. — Ricnarp
Hovey.
Sweet as a rosebud crowned with
moss. — Hugo.
Sweet as music. — Inn.
Sweet as the twilight notes of the
thrush. — Heten H. Jackson.
Sweet as jasmine. — Jami.
Sweet as the morning of life. —
Isp.
Sweet as drops of balme. — BEN
JONSON.
Sweet as a muskrose upon new-
made hay. — Knrats.
Sweet as blue heavens o’er enchanted
isles. — Inm.
Sweet as love. — Inm.
Sweeter than the rill
To its old channel. —Ipm.
Sweet as a cat with syrup in its
paws. — VAUGHAN KESTER.
Sweet as mountain honey. — Kines-
LEY.
Sweet as the sigh of the spring gale.
— Miss Lanpon.
As sweet as a woman’s flashing eye.
— “Lays or Ancient Inpia.”
Sweet . . . as the sad spirit of the
evening breezes. — Emma Lazarus.
Sweet as the sound of bells at
evening. — Ricuarp Le GALLIENNE.
Sweet as a bell in the woods. —
Amy LESLIE.
Sweet as morning dew upon a rose.
— Tuomas Lover.
Sweet as the cadence of a poet’s
song. — JoHN LoGan.
Sweet was her breath as the breath »
of kine that feed in the meadows. —
LoncGreLLow.
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Sweet — continued.
Sweet as the songs of Sappho. —
Cartes B. Loomis.
Sweet as heaven’s image in an un-
rippled lake. — Grorce W. Lovett.
Sweet as over new-born son the
croon of new-made mother. — LowELL.
Sweet as the sweet tooth of a calfe.
— LyLy.
Sweet as the dew-drops of a wild
rose. — Epwarp Lysacut.
Sweet as summer’s showers. —
Grorce Mac-HEnry.
Sweet as seraph’s bliss. — WALTER
Matone.
Sweet as first love. — Geratp Mas-
SEY.
Sweet as first spring violets. — Inm.
Sweet as Eden. —Grorce MERE-
DITH.
Sweet as victory half-revealed. —
Inp.
A secret sweet as songs of dawn
That linnets sing when mists are gone.
—R. M. Mies.
Sweet as Angel accents. — JAMES
MonrTeomeEry.
Nothing half so sweet in life as
Love’s young dream. — THomaS
Moore.
As sweet as the rose-scented zephyr
those do meet who near the happy is-
lands of the blest. — Witt1am Morais.
Sweet as every-day sunshine. —
Joun Murr.
Sweet, like an angel’s
Mary R. Murray.
Sweet as the shepherd’s pipe upon
the mountains. — Orway.
sigh. —
Sweet, like a silver whistle. —
Ouwa.
Sweet as the morning
BenJAMIN F. Parker.
air. —
SWEET.
Sweet and white
As the most heretofore sin-spotted
Soul. — Coventry Patmore.
Sweet as violet-borders growing over
fountains over-flowing. — AMBROSE
Pui.ies.
As sweet as mown grass in the even.
— STEPHEN PHILuirs.
Sweet as the melody of swans, that
lave their nestling pinions in the silver
wave. — PRATINAS.
Music sweeter than the sweetest
chime of magic bells by fairies set
a-swinging. — T. Bucaanan Reap.
Sweet as blossoms after rain. —
Lizette W. REEsE.
Sweet as the dew’s lip to the rose’s.
— James Waurtcoms RIxey.
As sweet as the life of the lily.— Isp.
As sweet as the soul of a babe.—Ism.
Sweet as smiles to the lips that are
pale. — A. J. Ryan.
Sweet as the dew-drops that fall on
the roses in May. — Isp.
Sweet as the Summer’s birds. — Ip.
Sweet as the dreamings of the
nightingales. — CHARLES SANGSTER.
Sweet as the note of a nightingale.
— SANSKRIT.
Sweet as Flora’s favorite flower. —
JAMES SCADLOCK.
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and ven-
omous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Sweet as balm. — Ipp.
Sweet, and musical,
As bright Apollo’s lute. — Isp.
Sweet as damask roses. — Inm.
Sweet as ditties highly penn’d,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer’s
bower. — Isp.
SWEET.
Sweet — continued.
Sweet as spring-time flowers. —IBm.
Sweeter than the lids of Juno’s
eyes,
Or Cytherea’s breath.
Sweet as a summer night without a
breath. — SHELLEY.
— Isp.
Sweet as if angels sang. — Inm.
Her looks were sweet as Heaven’s
when loveliest in Autumn eves. —
isp.
Sweet as the blossom is sweet. —
F. D. SHERMAN.
More sweet than the honey of the
Hybla bees. —- SMOLLETT.
Sweet as the songs of homestead
birds. — E. C. STEDMAN.
Sweet-hearted as a bird that takes the
sun
With clear strong eyes and feels the
glad god run
Bright through his blood and wide
rejoicing wings,
And opens all himself to heaven and
sings. — SWINBURNE.
Sweet as April-clouded skies. —
Ipp.
Sweet as a child’s heart-lightening
laugh to hear. — Isp.
Sweet-souled as a dove. — Inp.
Sweet as all the wide sweet south.
— Isp.
Sweet as death-annihilating song. —
Isp.
Sweet as dream’s delight. — Inn.
Sweet and comely as a dove’s throat
strained out to sing. — Isp.
Sweet as early kisses of a mouth
Scented like honey. — Isp.
Sweet as hope’s first note of jubila-
tion. — Isr.
Sweet as life or death can be. —
Ipp.
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Sweet as rest. — Inm.
Sweet
As running streams to men’s way-
wearied feet. — Isp.
Sweet as sleep on sorrow shed. —
Isp.
Sweet as sound the moving wings of
night. — Inm.
Sweet and good as summer air. —
Isp.
Sweet as forgiveness. — Iprp.
Sweet as night’s dim dawn to weari-
ness. — IIb.
Sweet as the balm of sleep. — Im.
Sweet as the change that leaves the
world in flower when spring laughs
winter down to deathward. — Ism.
Sweet as the dewfall. — Isp.
Sweet as the flower that itself is
May. — Isip.
Sweet as the kiss wherewith sleep
kisses pain. — Ipm.
Sweet as the spasm of erotic emo-
tional error. — Isp.
Sweet as the winds that beat
Round banks where Tyne is born.
—Ism.
Sweet as when earth was new. —
Is.
Sweet as when
Laughs a child of seven.
—Ispm.
A sound more sweet than April’s
flower-sweet rain. — Ipm.
Sweeter than joy-bells ringing. —
Isp.
Sweet as the voice of a mountain
brook. — ARTHUR SYMONS.
Sweet as the blushing planet of the
dawn. — Inp.
Sweet as a vesper chime. —B. F.
TAYLOR.
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Sweet — continued.
Songs of love are sweeter than Bas-
sora’s nightingales. — BayarD TaYLor.
Sweet as a morn of Paradise. —
Inn.
Sweet as children’s prattle. —
PaMELA TENNANT.
Sweet as new buds in spring. —
TENNYSON.
Sweet as honey.— New Tersta-
MENT.
Sweeter than honey to my mouth.
— Isr.
Sweet as the
Cra THAXTER.
apple-blossoms. —
Sweet and fresh
As the flower-skirted streams of Staf-
fordshire. —Ism.
Sweet as the music of Apollo’s lyre.
— Is.
Sweet, as when Venus and Love
went hand in hand. — Maurice
‘THOMPSON.
Sweet as the early pipe along the
dale. — Witt14m THomson.
Sweeter than the waters of the Nile.
— TupPEr.
Sweet as the dawn star. — WILBUR
UNDERWOOD.
Sweet as
Vorst.”
regret. — Marie Van
Sweet is your strain to my ears,
heavenly poet, as is sleep to tired
limbs on the grass, as is the quenching
of thirst in mid-day heat in the stream
where sweet waters play. — VIRGIL.
Tinkling bell-notes falling sweet and
cold as a stream’s cadence, while a
skylark sings high in the blue. —
Rosamunp Marriorr Watson.
Sweet as the maiden’s dream of love.
— WHITTIER.
Music as sweet as the music which
seems
SWEET. — SWELL.
Breathed softly and faint in the ear
of our dreams. — Isp.
Sweeter than the song of birds,
Is the thankful voice. — Isp.
A voice sweet as an angel’s, —N, P.
WILLIs.
_ Sweet and joyful as the earliest
note of the brown brilliant harbinger of
spring. —C. P. Witson.
Sweet as the faint, far-off, celestial
tone of angel whispers, fluttering from
on high. — WiLtiam WINTER.
Sweet as the lips that once you
pressed. — Izrp.
Sweet as morning fragrance shed
From flowers.
— Worpswortu.
- Sweet as the head of your cane. —
WYCHERLEY.
Swell.
Swells as the poised ocean to the
attracting moon obedient swells. —
AKENSIDE.
Swells like an angry hen ruffling her
feathers. — ANon.
Swelling like a tragic organ note. —
Isp.
Swells like mushrooms. — Inm.
Swelled like the gourd. — Isp.
Voice swells up like mutter’d. thun-
der. — Byron.
Hearts swelling in presence of the
Queen of Hearts ; like the sea swelling
when once near its moon. — CARLYLE.
Swellynge like bubbles in a boillynge
welle. — CHATTERTON.
His voice swelled like a sanctus rising
from the choir of a cathedral. — Ds
QUINCEY.
Swell like a corporation which has
been attached to a hose. — GEORGE
Fircs.
Swelled like a sail by the sea-breeze.
— FuavuBert.
SWELL. — SWIFT.
Swell — continued.
Swell like bubbles, shine and break.
— Joun Gay.
Swells like a filthy toad with secret
spite. — WILLIAM GIFFoRD.
Swelling like a torrent. — GrorGE
GRANVILLE.
Swelled, like toad that meets dis-
aster. — LemuEL Hopkins.
Swell like a boil. — Ben Jonson.
Swells like the chant of serenader or
the chimes of silver bells. —A. B.
MEEK.
Swelling on
Like the waves of eternity.
— Tuomas Moors.
Swell up like a stock company lead-
ing man. — Grorce JEAN NATHAN.
Swelled like a psalm. — J. N. Paton.
Swell, like round and orient pearls.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Swells like a sail before a favouring
breeze. — SHELLEY.
Swell like a shirt bleaching in high
wind. — Jonn Tosin.
Swells like the bosom of a man set
free. — WORDSWORTH.
Swerve.
Swerved as from a blow. — Byron.
Swift.
As the breezes swift. — THomas
AIRD.
Swift as the lightning flash. —
AKENSIDE.
Swift as a cannon ball. — ANon.
Swift as fate. — Ipm.
Swift as kindling flames arise. —
Isp.
Swift as the glance of a falling star.
— Ism.
Swifter than fleeing Daphne’s
twinkling feet. — Inrp.
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Swift as the steed that feels the
slackened rein. — Ini.
Swift like a simoon of the desert.
—Ism.
Swifter than the falcon. — Max
BEERBOHM.
Swift as a sun-beam. — THomas
BLAcKLock.
Swift as the summer lightning. —
R. D. Biackmore.
Swift as arrow. — Wrttzam BLAKe.
Swift as the eye can mark. — H.H.
BROWNELL.
Swift as Jove’s lightning. — WILLIAM
Byrp.
Swift almost as a human smile may
chase
A frown from some conciliated face.
— CALDERON.
Swefte as descendeynge lemes [rays]
of roddie lyghte plonged to the hulstred
[secret] bedde of loveynge [washing]
seas. — CHATTERTON.
Swefte as a feether’d takel [Arrow].
—Isn.
Swefte as my wyshe. — Isr.
" Swift: as the flying clouds distilling
rain. — IBrp.
Swefte as the rayne-storme toe the
erthe alyghtes. — Inn.
Swefte, as the rayne uponne an
Aprylle daie. — Ini.
Swefte as the roareynge wyndes. —
Isp.
Swift as fowel in flight. — Caaucrr.
As swifte as pelet out of gonne. —
Isp.
Swift as a spirit. — CoLERIDGE.
Swift as dreams. — Isr.
Swift as a sun ray. — Exiza Cook.
Swift as a lover’s dreams. — BARRY
CoRNWALL.
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Swift — continued.
Swift as Care. — NaTHANIEL Cort-
TON.
As swift and fierce as tempest from
the north. — ABRAHAM CowWLEY.
Swift as the wings of Morn. — Inm.
Swifter than a shadow flee. — Cow-
PER.
Swift as a star falls through the
night. — GeorGE DaRLEY.
Swift as a sunshot dart of light. —
Isp.
Swift as a whirlwind. — Tuomas
DEKKER.
Swift as dead leaves by tempest
borne. — AuBREY DE VERE.
Swift as the scattered clouds on
high. — ALrrep Domett.
As swift as the glance of the arrowy
lance
That the storm spirit flings from high.
—JoszpH R. Drake.
Swift as the wings of sound. —
GrorcE Exior.
A swift movement, which was like a
chained up resolution set free at last.
— Isp.
Swift as fate. — Partie FRENEAU.
Swift as vision. — GOETHE.
Swift as the flight of lightning
through the air. — Witi1am Harpinc-
TON.
Swift as a flood of fire. —HomER
(Pore).
Swift as the vulture leaping on his
prey. — Ism.
Swift as the wind. — Ip.
Swift as a swallow heading south. —
Laurence Hopr.
Swifter than the rush of wind
That lifts the sea-gull off the lake.
— Dovetas Hype.
Swift as a star. — Sir WILLIAM JONES.
SWIFT.
Swift as a fathoming plummet down
he fell. — Keats.
As swift
As bird on wing to breast its eggs
again. — Isp.
Swift as fairy thought. — Isr.
Swifter than centaurs after rapine
bent. — Ini.
Swifter than sight. — Isp.
Swift as the cloven tongues of
Pentecost. —H. E. Hamiuton Kina.
Flies as swift as shafts the bowmen
pour. — ANDREW Lane.
Swift as the lightning’s rapid flame
darts on the unsuspecting sight. —
JoHN LANGHORNE.
Swift as a flash. — LoNGFELLOw.
Swift as the thunderbolt. — RicHarp
LOVELACE.
Swift as the sea-bird’s wing. — Lover.
Swift as runs a wind-wave over
grass. — GERALD Massey.
Swift as a blush in the cheeks of
seventeen. — GEORGE MEREDITH.
Swift as the lightning glance. —
MILron.
Swift as the sparkle of a glancing
star. — IBID.
Swift as Death’s own arrows dart.
— James MontTcomEry.
Swifter than the frighted dove.
—Ism.
Fly swifter than light. — Miss Mv-
LOCK.
Swift as mercury. — THomas Nasu.
Swift, like some fierce bird of prey.
— Rogpert Po.tox.
Swift as an arrow soaring from the
bow. — ALEXANDER Pops.
Swift as a cloud gust-driven from
the sun. — T. BucHanan Reap.
Swift as a shadow o’er the meadow
grass chased by the sunshine. — Inmp.
SWIFT.
Swift — continued.
Swift as signal fires. — Ism.
Swift as memory. — Epovarp Ron. |
Swift as the fleeting shades upon the
golden corn. — Nicuotas Rowe.
Swift as a hawk. — Cuarves SANG-
STER.
Like a sunbeam, swift. — Sir Wat-
TER Scott.
Swift as a shadow. — SHAKESPEARE.
Swift as breathed stags. — Inim.
Swift as frenzy’s thoughts. — Isr.
Swift as lead. — Ini.
As swift
As meditation, or the thoughts of love.
— Isp.
Swift as quicksilver. — Isp.
Swift as stones
Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
— Isp.
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar’s
bow. — Ixip.
Swift as thought. — Isp.
Swift in motion as a ball. — Inm.
Swifter than he that gibbets on the
brewer’s bucket. — Isp.
Swifter than the moon’s sphere. —
Isp.
Swift as a cloud between the sea
and sky. — SHELLEY. ,
Swift as fire. — Isp.
Swift as greyhounds. — Isp.
Swift as leaves on autumn’s tempest
shed. — Inm.
Swift as smoke from a volcano
springs. — Iprp.
Swift as twinkling beams. — Ism.
Swifter than summer’s flight. — Isp.
Swifter than youth’s delight. —Ism.
Swift as a beam of morning. —
Evizasetu S, SHEPPARD,
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Swift as an arrow in its flight. —
SouTHEY.
Swift as a falling meteor. — Ipip.
Swift as the bittern soars on spiral
wing. — Ipp.
Swift away like fabrics in the
summer’s clouds. — Isr.
Swift as any bucke in chace. —
SPENSER.
More swift than Myrrh’ or Daphne in
her race. — Isr.
Swift as the flame devours the
crackling wood. — STatius.
Swift as the headlong torrents of a
flood. — In.
Swift as a passing bird. — RoBErt
Louis STEVENSON.
Swift and steadfast as a sea-mew’s
wing. — SWINBURNE.
Swift as a shadow. — Isp.
Swift as eternity.— ARTHUR Sy-
MONS.
As swift as fiery lightning kindled
new. — Tasso.
As swift as the eagle flieth. — OLD
TESTAMENT.
As swift as the roes upon the moun-
tains. — Inrp.
Swift as the waters. — Ip.
Swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. —
Izip.
Swifter than the eagles of the
heaven. — Ini.
Now my days are swifter than a post :
they flee away, they see no good. —
Isp.
Swift as desire. — THomas TICKELL.
Swift as the motions of desire. —
Isaac Warts.
Swift as the Polar breeze. — H. K.
WHITE.
Swift as the eagle’s glance of fire. —
WHITTIER.
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Swift — continued.
Swift as a rocketing woodcock. —
Harry Leon WI1son.
Swift as a Thracian Nymph o’er
field and height. — Worpsworrtu.
Swift as darted flame. — Youne.
Swiftly.
As swiftly as a reach of still water
is crisped by the wind. — Anon.
Swiftly like a cloud scud on a breezy
day. — Str A. Conan Doyte.
Swiftly as the explosion of a rifle
cartridge follows the falling of the
hammer. — Rosert EpGrEn.
Swiftly as smiles are caught in
looks that meet. — GzorcrE Exior.
Swiftly as the dolphins glide.— Hoop.
Swiftly as a bright Phoebean dart.
— Kzrats.
Swiftly, like birds that skim the
air. — MAHABHARATA.
Swim.
Swim like a _ cork. — INcREASE
Martue_r.
Swims, like an eagle, in the eye of
noon. — JAMES MonTGoMERY.
Swim like a duck. — SHAKESPEARE.
Swim like beams through floating
clouds. — SHELLEY.
Swimmingly.
Go on as swimmingly as old Noah’s
Ark. — Hoop.
Swing.
Like rudder to the ripple veering,
When nobody on board is steering.
— Hoop.
Swinging like a reed in the air. —
Huco.
Swing like the compass in its brazen
ring. — LoNGFELLow.
Swish.
Swished his tail,
As a gentleman swishes a cane.
— SouTHEy.
SWIFT. — SYSTEMATIC.
‘Swollen.
Swollen as the cheeks of jubilant
cherubim. — O. W. Hotmzs.
Swollen immensely, like that of a
man who has been drowned and lain
under water for many weeks. — Por.
Swollen like a bladder. —R. B.
SHERIDAN.
Swoon.
Sickly swoon, like lillies ’mid the
blaze of noon. — Sara COLERIDGE,
Swoon like spring’s daffodillies.
—Irauian Love Sone.
Swoon
Into the silence languidly
As a tune into a tune.
—D. G. Rossetti.
Made my blood burn and swoon
Like a flame rained upon.
— SWINBURNE.
Swoop.
Swooped down upon the kitchen,
even as a vulture swoopeth upon
carrion. — Boccaccio.
Swooped into the fray like a sea-
eagle into a school of mackerel in a
shallow. — Maurice HEw1err.
Sympathetic.
A sympathetic heart is like a spring
of pure water bursting forth from the
mountain side. — ANON.
Sympathetic as sentiment. — La-
MARTINE.
Sympathetic as chameleons. — Amy
LESLIE.
Symphony.
Delicious symphonies, like airy flowers,
Budded and swell’d, and, full-blown,
shed full showers
Of light, soft, unseen leaves of sounds
divine. — Keats.
Systematic.
Systematic as a country cemetery.
— LoweLL.
TALENT. — TALL.
Talent.
A man of great talents, but void of
discretion, is like Polyphemus in the
fable, strong and blind, endowed with
an irresistible force, which for want
of sight is of no use to him. — App1-
SON.
Talent, like gout, sometimes skips
two generations. — Bauzac.
Men of talents are variable as ther-
mometers : genius alone is essentially
good. — Ism.
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned,
must be obscure and unostentatious. —
Lapy BLEssINcTon.
Talk.
(See also CONVERSATION.)
Fish are talkative in comparison. —
ANON.
Talkative as a magpie. — Im.
Like a bagpipe, he never talks till
his belly’s full. — Ipm. .
All talking and no listening, after the
manner of a Woman’s Rights Conven-
tion. —J. R. Barrietr’s ‘“Diction-
ARY OF AMERICANISMS.” 7
Talk like poor Poll [Goldsmith].
— Davip GarRIck.
Talking is like playing on the harp ;
there is as much in laying the hand on
the strings to stop a vibration as in
twanging them to bring out their
music. — O. W. Hotes.
Writing or printing is like shooting
with a rifle ; you may hit your reader’s
mind or miss it;—but talking is
like playing at a mark with the pipe
of an engine ; if it is within reach, and
you have time enough, you can’t help
hitting it. — Inw.
There are men of esprit who are
excessively exhausting to some people.
They are the talkers that have what
may be called jerky minds. Their
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thoughts do not run in the natural
order of sequence. They say bright
things on all possible subjects, but
their zigzags rack you to death.
After a jolting half-hour with one of
these jerky companions, talking with
a dull friend affords great relief. It is
like taking the cat in your lap after
holding a squirrel. — Inm.
Talk without truth is hollow brass ;
talk without love is like the tinkling
cymbal, and when it does not tinkle
it jingles, and when it does not jingle,
it jars. — Mrs. JaAMEsoN.
He talks as a piano-organ grinds
out music — steadily, strenuously, tire-
lessly. —J. K. JEROME.
Talking away like a mill-clapper. —
Saran ORNE JEWETT.
Talks like music set on fire. —
Ricnarp LE GALLIENNE.
His talk is like a stream which runs
With rapid change from rocks to roses ;
It slipped from politics to puns ;
It passed from Mahomet to Moses ;
Beginning with the laws that keep
The planets in their radiant courses,
And ending with some precept deep
For dressing eels or shoeing horses.
— Praep.
Great talkers are like broken
pitchers, everything runs out of them.
— Persian PROVERBS.
Talks like a knell, and his hum is a
battery. — SHAKESPEARE.
A talkative person is like an English
sparrow, —a bird that cannot sing,
and will, and ought to be persuaded
not to try to sing. — Henry Van
Dyke.
Tall.
Tall and slender like an ode in
quinary verses. — EpMONDO DE AmIcis.
Tall as a steeple. — ANon.
Tall as a May-pole. — Swirt.
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Tall — continued.
Tall as a figure lengthened on the
sand. — TENNYSON.
Tall as a grenadier. — THACKERAY.
Tame.
Tame as a kitchen cat on a house-
boat. — ANon.
Tame as tepid milk. — Arto Batzs.
Tame and humble, like a child that’s
whipp’d. — Ropert Buarr.
She lies in my hand as tame
As a pear late basking over a wall.
— Rosert BRownine.
Tame, as an lilye whyt. — CHAUCER.
Tame as a sheep. — THomas Frost.
Tame as a cat. — Wituiam Kina.
Tamer than sleep. — SHAKESPEARE.
Tangle.
Tangled in the Past, like a bird in a
snare. — Huco.
Tantalize.
The rattling of dice is as tantalizing
to a penniless man as the sound of
drums to a dethroned monarch. —
SANSKRIT.
Tap.
Tapping like woodpeckers. — Hoop.
Taps light
As the hand of my heart’s delight.
— SWINBURNE.
Taper.
Tapering, like an icicle. — ANon.
Tapering like a lizard’s tail. — O. W.
HoLmes.
Tarry.
Tarries . .
mould of lapis lazuli. — Puupay.
Tart.
Tart and crisp . . . as the autumn
butter that creams the sumac berry.
— Marx Twain.
. like quicksilver in a_
TALL. — TEAR.
Taste (Noun).
As bad taste as a wig from the
barber’s on the head of a marble
statue of Apollo. — Butwer-Lytton.
Left a taste in his mouth like a tin-
type factory. — Irvin S. Coss.
A fastidious taste is like a squeamish
appetite ; the one has its origin in
some disease of the mind, as the other
has in some ailment of the stomach. —
SouTHEY.
Taste (Verb).
Mouth tasted as if a Chinese family
had just moved out. — ANON.
My mouth tastes like a rusty cent.
— “KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE.”
Taunts.
Taunts, like Vulcan out of heaven.
— Worpswortu.
Taut.
Taut as a fiddle string. — ANon.
Taut as a forestay in a gale.—
ALBERT Epwarps.
Teacher.
The teacher is like the candle, it
lights others in consuming itself. —
Hosea BAutov.
Tear.
Tears of joy, like summer raindrops,
are pierced by sunbeams. — Hosea
BaLov.
Pearly tears, like rose’s dew, wept
she. — EManuaL Von GEIBEL.
Sheds ceaseless tears, like dew on
Hermon’s hill. — Jupau HaLevi.
Tearful and trembling as a dewy rose
The wind has shaken till it fills the air
With light and fragrance.
—O. W. Homes.
Tears like pears. — Hugo.
Tears herald smiles, as weeping
April does this sunny May. — JAMES
M. Morton,
TEAR. — TEETH.
Tear — continued.
From his eyes a stream of tears
descended like a broken necklace of
pearls. — ORIENTAL.
Shining through tears, like April-
suns in showers, that labor to o’ercome
the cloud that loads them. — Orway.
Tears as big as ostrich’s eggs. —
RaBeEtais.
- Then fresh tears
Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-
dew
Upon a gather’d lily almost wither’d.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Tears . . . shone as the dew on a
lily, at the rising of the sun. — HEr-
SART DE LA VILLEMARQUE.
Her tears, like drops of molten lead,
With torrents burn the passage to my
heart. —Epwarp Youne.
Tedious.
Tedious a task for the mind as
oakum-picking or stone-breaking can
be for the body. — ArTHUR ACHESON.
Tedious as a_ twice-told tale. —
Homer.
Tedious and dull as truth. — Henry
MACKENZIE.
Tedious as dull sorrows. — Mas-
SINGER.
Tedious as a king. — SHAKESPEARE.
Tedious
As a tired horse, a railing wife.
— Isp.
So tedious is this day,
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child, that hath new
robes,
And may not wear them. — Iz.
As tedious as a guilty conscience.
— Cyrit TouRNEUR.
Teeth.
Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of orient pearl a double row ;
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Which when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rosebuds filled with
snow. — Ricwarp ALIson.
Teeth, as the gourd’s white seed. —
ANoN.
Teeth like string pearls in carceneto
of gold. — AraBian Nicuts.
Teeth like the tusks of jinni who
frightened poultry in henhouses. —
Ini.
Teeth
Like pearls a merchant picks to make
a string. — Epwin ARNOLD.
Her teeth were like pearls array’d
in order. — Servian Ba.waD.
Her teeth are like a flock of sheep,
With fleeces newly washen clean,
That slowly mount the rising steep.
— Burns.
Teeth like falling snow
For white, were placed in a double
row. — Cow Ley.
A girl with teeth like the pieces
of broken glass people put on their
walls. — EpMoND AND JULES DE Gon-
COURT.
White teeth showing like pearls
dropped in a rose. — Apams S. Hitt.
Thy teeth like rows of Kunda-petals.
— JAYADEVA.
Red like lips disclosing
Twin rows of fairy pearl.
— Lewis Morris.
Teeth serve as a fence to the mouth.
— West AFRICAN PROVERB.
Teeth like ivory mixed with pearl.
— CaarLes Reape.
Thy teeth resemble stringed jewels ;
but how can I liken them to lifeless
pearls ? — ‘‘RoMANCE or ANTAR.”
Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep
that are even shorn, which came up
from the washing; whereof every
one bear twins, and none is barren
among them. — OLD TESTAMENT.
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Teeth — continued.
Her teeth like pomegranate grains.
— “VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE.”
Tell-Tale.
Tell-tale as a register of birth. —
Ba.zac.
Temper.
Good temper, like a sunny day,
sheds a brightness over everything ;
it is the sweetener of toil and the
soother of disquietude. — WASHINGTON
Irvine.
Temperate.
Temperate as the morn. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Tempestuous.
Tempestuous as a hurricane out of
heaven. — EpMonD SCHERER.
Temple.
Thy temples are like a piece of a
pomegranate within thy locks. — Op
TESTAMENT.
3 Tempt.
And as a bird each fond endearment
tries,
To tempt its new-pledg’d offspring to
the skies,
He tried each art, reprov’d each dull
delay,
Allur’d to brighter worlds, and led the
way. — GOoLDsmMITH.
Temptations.
Temptations, when we meet them at
first, are as the lion that roared upon
Samson ; but if we overcome them, the
next time: we see them we shall find a
nest of honey within them.— Bunyan.
Temptations, like misfortunes, are
sent to test our moral strength. —
MarcueErite DE VALOIS.
Tempting.
Tempting as a barmaid. — ANon.
Tempting as a paradox. — Is.
Tempting as a baked apple dump-
ling. — Ini.
TEETH. — TENDER.
Tempting as Eve without a fig leaf.
— Isr.
Tempting as any fresh cowslip of
spring. — E1iza Cook.
Tenacious.
Grasp tenacious as a viper’s.
— SwINBURNE.
More tenacious than birdlime or
than the pitch of Phrygian Ida. —
VIRGIL.
Tender.
Tender as a bud. — ANon.
Tender as a capon. — Ii.
Tender as a woman. — Isp.
As tender as the murmur of the rain
when great clouds gather. — Epwin
ARNOLD.
Tender as the midnight moon. —
ALFRED AUSTIN.
Buds tenderly ... Like a smile
striving ‘with a wrinkled face. —
Rosert BROWNING.
He is as tender of his clothes, as a
coward is of his flesh, and as loath
to have them disordered. — SAMUEL
But er.
Tender light, like the first moonrise
of midnight. — Byron.
Tender as April twilight. — Buiss
CARMAN.
Tendre
CHAUCER.
as dewe of flouer.—
Tendre as is a chicke. — Inp.
Tender as a fond young lover’s
dream. — JoHN CUNNINGHAM.
Tender as a lamb. — Dickens.
Tender as russet crimson dropt on
snows. — JEAN INGELOw.
Tender as the breast of a mother. —
R. G. INGERSOLL.
Tender as a summer night. — Lone-
FELLOW.
TENDER. — TERRIBLE.
Tender — continued.
Tender, as if it twinned with sorrow.
— Henry Mackenzie.
Tender as a summer heaven. —
GERALD Massey.
Tender, like a mother’s dream of her
child. — Grorce MEREDITH.
Tender as a woman when wounds
should be staunched for the broken and
ruined and routed. — RicHarp REAtr.
Tender as dawn’s first hill-fire. —
C. G. Rossetti.
Tender as infancy and grace. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Tender as a youthful mother’s joy.
— SouTHEY.
Tender as a hurt bird’s note. —
SWINBURNE.
Tender as tears. — Isr.
Tender as sun-smitten dew. — Inrp.
Tender as the inside of the eyelid.
— Isp.
Tender as love’s tear when youth
and beauty die. — Wi1LLIaM WINTER.
Tenderly.
Tenderly, as round the sleeping in-
fant’s feet,
We softly fold the cradle-sheet.
— Witiiam CuLien Bryant.
Tenderly as lovers may
Who know the breaking dawn will be
their wedding day.
— Mary A. De Vere.
Tenderly as Robin Redbreast covered
the dead babes with forest leaves. —
HawTHorne.
Tenderly, as a mother might kiss a
hot, impulsive child trying to still a
restless spirit within. — Ropert Hrr-
Rick (American).
Tenderly . . . like the song of the
robin in the tree. — W. D. Hower 11s.
Tenderly, like one that leads the
blind. — Wittuam C. Roscoe.
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Tenderly be led by the nose,
As asses are. — SHAKESPEARE.
Tenderly as a bee that sips,
Your kisses settle on my lips,
— ARTHUR SYMONS.
Tense.
Tense as that cartilage which we
have seen attaching the two Siamese.
— Emerson.
Fibres tense like a greyhound’s
sinews after a race. — CHARLES READE.
Tense as a war-steed girth. — SwIn-
BURNE.
Tense as wire. — Inip.
Tensely
Tensely as the drawn wire rope of a
suspension bridge. — K1pLine.
Terrible.
Terrible as a Cerberus. — ANON.
Terrible as the curse of a dead man’s
eye. — Ipm.
Terrible as Jove. — Isr.
Terrible as the god of war. — FLav-
BERT.
Terrible ... something like the
shriek of a giant in pain. — Tuomas
A. JANVIER.
Terrible as a meteor of fire. —
JAMES MACPHERSON.
Terrible ‘as hell. — Mitton.
Terrible as torrents in their fall. —
JAMES MonTGOMERY.
Terrible as war. — Hannan More.
Terrible . . . like flames of death.
— OSSIAN.
Terrible as the sea. — Ruskin.
Terrible as fire. — SWINBURNE.
His countenance was like the coun-
tenance of an angel of God, very
terrible. — Otp TESTAMENT.
Terrible as an army with banners.
— Isp.
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Terrifying.
Terrifying as the monologue of a
storm. — Hugo.
Terror.
In terror . . . like a child that has
lost its mother and sees a maatiff
coming. — CARLYLE.
Testimony.
Testimony is like an arrow shot
from a long bow ; the force of it de-
pends in the strength of the hand
that draws it. Argument is like an
arrow from a cross-bow, which has
equal force though shot by a child.
— Dr. Jonnson.
Theatre.
(See also Stace).
A theatre, unfortunately, is like a
stage-coach : empty or full, it starts
at the same time. — Bauzac.
The stage is more beholding to love
than the life of man; for as to the
stage, love is ever matter of comedies,
and now and then of tragedies ; but
in life it doth much mischief, some-
times like a siren, sometimes like a
fury. — Bacon.
Theatrical Favour, like Publick
Commerce, will sometimes deceive the
best Judgements by an unaccountable
change of its Channel; the best Com-
modities are not always known to
meet with the best Markets. — Cottry
CrsBER.
The Theatre is like a Turkish
seraglio : the critics are the eunuchs.
— Farquaar.
Thick.
Thick as ants. — ANON.
Thick as beans in a pod. — Ism.
Thick as blackberries in July. —
Isp.
Thick as blanks in a lottery. — Inn.
Thick as Charon’s ferry boat is
with phantoms. — Ip.
TERRIFYING. — THICK.
Thick as dust in vacant chambers.
— Isp.
Thick as gutter mud. — Isp.
Thick as hair on a dog’s back. — Inm.
Thick as lichens on marble slab. —
Isp.
Thick as molasses in December. —
Insp.
Thick as peas in summer weather.
-~ Isp.
Thick as pea soup. — Isp.
Thick as pitch. — Ipm.
Thick as strings on a harp. — Ipm.
Thick as the bark on a tree. — IBm.
Thick as the spawn of a fish. — Inm.
Thick as thistles. — Isr.
Thick as wax. — IBID.
Stars which stand out as thick asdew-
drops on the field of heaven. —P. J.
BaILey.
Thick as burning stones that from
the throat of some volcano foul the
benighted sky. — Im.
Stand thick as dewdrops on the
bells of flowers. — Ropert Buarr.
Thick as starlings in a fen. —
WitLiam Browne.
Thick like a glory round the Stagi-
rite. — RoBerT Brownine.
Thick
As stars which storm the sky on
Autumn nights. — Isp.
Thick as hail. — Bunyan.
As thikke as is a branched ook. —
CHAUCER.
As thikke as motes in the sonne
beem. — Inm.
Thick like two hungry torrents.
— CHAPMAN. .
Thick as spray. — H. F. Cuarke.
Thick, like wool. — Euizaseta B.
CUSTER.
THICK.
Thick — continued.
Thick as scarecrows in England. —
Dickens.
His Pills as thick as Hand Granadoes
flew,
And where they Fell, as Certainly they
slew. — WentwortsH DILLon.
Thick as bees. — Austin Dosson.
The air was as thick as the main
deck in a close-fought action. — Sir
A. Conan Dov Le.
Thick as Egypt’s locusts. — DrypDEN.
Thick as stars above. — GEORGE
Eiot.
Thick as stars that gem the Dol-
phin’s brow. — Sanskrit Epic.
As thick as the sands of the wide
wilderness. — F. W. Faxner.
Thick as two body-snatchers. — O.
Henry.
Thick as autumn leaves or driving
sand. — Homer (Pope).
Thick as in spring the flow’rs adorn
the’land,
Or leaves the trees; or thick as in-
sects play. — Isp.
Thick as London fog. — Hoop.
Thick as a swarm of bees. — JEAN
INGELow.
Thick as butter. — KipLine.
Thick as swallows with the summer.
— GeorcE W. LovELL.
Thick as flakes of snow. — Macav-
LAY.
Thick
As starry mysteries written on the
night. — GeraLtp Massey.
Thick as feathers. — GrorcE MERE-
DITH.
Thick as the gems on chalices
Kings keep for treasure.
— Owen MEREDITH.
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow
the brooks
In Vallombrosa. — MILTon.
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Stood thick as stars. — Ip.
Thick as oatmeal. — Tuomas Nasu.
Thick as the fleeces of the winter
snows. — OumpA.
Thick as the violets cluster round
the spring. — JouHN Payne.
Thick as onions on a string. —J. R.
PLANCHE.
Thick as hops. —‘‘Poor Rosrn’s
ALMANACK.”
Thick as lotus flowers in Paradise.
—J. Hamppen Porter.
Thick as rain-drops. — Prescott.
As thick as thieves. — OLp ENGLISH
PROVERB.
Thick as the daisies blown in grasses
fanned by odorous midsummer breezes.
—James Wuitcoms RItey.
Thick as the schemes of human
pride. — Sir WattTer Scott.
Thick as
SPEARE.
honeycomb. — SHAKE-
Thick as Tewksbury mustard. —
Isp.
Thick as thought could make ’em.
—Ism.
Thick as the snowflakes. — SoUTHEY.
Thick as the stars that stud the
wintry sky. — Imp.
Thick as corn-blades in a field. —
SPENSER.
Lay scattered over all the land,
As thicke as doth the seede after the
sower’s hand. — Isp.
Thick as swallows after storms. —
E. C. STEDMAN.
Thick as a mob. — Rosert Lous
STEVENSON.
Thick as a snow fall. — Inm.
Thick as driving rain. — Inn.
Thick as the stars at night when the
moon is down. — Isip.
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Thick — continued.
Thick and silent like ants. — RoBERtT
Louis STEVENSON.
Thick as buds in April. —Swin-
BURNE.
Thick as the darkness of leaf-
shadowed spring is encumbered with
flowers. — Inip.
Lie thick as the blades of the grasses
The dead in their graves. — Ism.
Thick as grave-worms. — Isp.
Thick as Autumn rains. — TENNY-
SON.
Thick as dust in vacant chambers.
—Ism.
Thick as hail. — THERSITES.
Thick as sparks above the rushing
train. — J. T. TRowBRIDGE.
Thick as three rats in a little boy’s
stocking. — Inm.
The air is thick as incense-wreaths
That waver in the candles’ gleam.
—G. 8. VimREcx.
Thick as the hail with which the
storm-clouds rattle on the roof. —
VIRGIL.
Thick as seagulls. — VoLTAIRE.
Thicke, as shining lights, which we
call starres. — Sir Tuomas Wyatt.
Thick as hasty pudding. — ““YANKEE
Doon.”
Thin.
Thin as a groat. — ANon.
Thin as a rail. —Ipm.
Thin as a snake. — Ipm.
Thin as a wafer. — Inm.
Thin as famished rats. — Inm.
Thin as gold leaf. — Inm.
Thin as wall paper. — Inn.
Thin as a reed. — Inm.
Thin as a spindle. — Inm.
Thin as a toothpick. — Ibm.
THICK. — THINLY.
Thin as the shadow of a hair. —
Ipip.
Thin as a pair of shears. — ARABIAN
Niauts.
His poor body is as thin as a nail. —
Bawzac.
Thin as the petal of the cotton
blossom. — Henry A. CLAPP.
Thin as a lath. — ‘‘Founp1iine Hos-
PITAL FoR Writ,” 1748.
So thin that he was obliged to put
lead in his shoes so as to not be blown
away by the wind. — Huco.
Thin as a Ritz-Carlton sandwich. —
STEPHEN LEACOCK.
Thin as a carriage painter’s arm. —
ABE Martin.
Thin as a weasel. — GrorcE MERE-
DITH.
Thin as mist. — Isp.
Thin as the shell of a sound. —Ism.
Thin as a brief forgotten dream. —
R. M. Mies.
A Spectre, thin as that dismal flame
That burns and beams, a moving lamp,
Where the dreary fogs of night en-
camp. — T. BucHanan ReaD.
Her body thin and bare as any bone.
— SACKVILLE.
Thin as a skeleton. — THomas SHap-
WELL.
Thin of substance as the air. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Thin as Fraud. — SHELLEY.
Thinned, as the shades in a vision
of spirits that sinned. — SWINBURNE.
Thin as a costume worn by a
Salome dancer. — WALTER TRUMBULL.
Thinly.
The early judicial circuits of Indiana.
like the young gentleman’s whiskers.
—extensively laid out, but thinly
settled. — Sanrorp Cox.
THIRST. —— THOUGHT.
Thirst.
Thirst for them as Tantulus for in-
accessible water, and the fruit that the
wind blew away from him. — ANON.
My soul thirsteth after thee, as a
thirsty land. — Otp TESTAMENT.
Thirsty.
Thirsty as a fish. — ANON.
Thirsty as a sponge. — Ipip.
Thirsty as a dry road. — Crrin
Harcourt. ‘
Thirsty as Tantalus. — SYDNEY
MunbpEn.
Thought.
Thoughts, like snowflakes on some
far-off mountain side, go on accumula-
ing till some great truth is loosened,
and falls like an avalanche on the
waiting world. — ANon.
Great thoughts, like great deeds,
need no trumpet. — P. J. BaiLry.
Dark wretched thoughts, like ice-
isles in a stream, choke up my mind,
and clash. — Ism.
Thoughts, like nuns, ought not to
go abroad without a veil. — BuLweEr-
Lyrron.
Thoughts, like waves that glide by
night, are stillest when they shine. —
Ism.
Thoughts are like persons met upon
a journey ; I think them very agree-
able at first but soon find, as a rule,
that I am tired of them. — SAMUEL
Butier (1835-1902).
Our thoughts, like the waters of the
sea, when exhaled towards Heaven,
will lose all their bitterness and salt-
ness, and sweeten into an amiable
humanity, until they descend in gentle
showers of love and kindness upon our
fellow-men. — C. C. Couron.
Curran’s airy thoughts, like purple
birds that shine and soar.-—C. G.
Durry.
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Human thought is like a monstrous
pendulum : it keeps swinging from one
extreme to the other. — Eucrne Frexp.
A thought would wander like a free
bird over his features, flutter in his eyes,
light on his parted lips, hide itself in
the wrinkles of his brow, then utterly
vanish away. — Ivan A. GoncHaRov.
Some kinds of thoughts breed in the
dark of one’s mind like the blind
fishes in the Mammoth cave. We
can’t see them and they can’t see us ;
but sooner or later the daylight gets
in and we find that some cold, fishy
little negative has been sprawling all
over our beliefs, and the brood of
blind questions it has given birth to
are burrowing round and under and
butting their blunt notes against the
pillars of faith we thought the whole
world might lean on. — O. W. Homes.
A little thought in life is like salt
upon rice. — KipLinae.
Thoughts, common as clay, and the
trodden earth. — Grorce MacDona.p.
My thoughts, like birds, were fright-
ened from their nest.— Otway.
Beautiful thoughts that fall like rain
Are droughts for pleasure or balm for
pain. — D. G. Rossetti.
The presence of a thought is like
the presence of a loved one. We
deem that we shall never forget this
thought and that the loved one can
never become indifferent to us. But
out of sight, out of mind! The most
beautiful thought runs the risk of
being irrevocably forgotten if it is not
written down, and the loved one to be
torn from us if she has not been
wedded. — ScHOPENHAUER.
A thought unknown is as a thought
unacted. — SHAKESPEARE.
An old thought turns with the old
tune in my head
As a windmill turns in the wind on an
empty sky.
— ARTHUR SYMONS.
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Thought. — continued.
Sweet thoughts, like honey-bees,
have made their hive of her soft bosom
cell, and cluster there. — Ametia B.
WELBY.
Thoughtful.
Thoughtful and dark, like the sun
when he carries a cloud on his face.
— James MacpHerson. (
Thoughtless.
Thoughtless as a lark. — Knats.
Thoughtless as if dead already. —
““DHAMMAPADA.”
Thrash.
Thrash invaders rash, like barley
with a flail. — Hoop. :
Thrashed him like a wheat-sheaf. —
W. S. Lanpor.
Threadbare.
Threadbare as a lazzarone’s velvet
coat. — Lewis RosENTHAL.
Threatening.
Threatening as a porcupine. —
ANON.
Threatening . . . like precipices. —
Burns.
Threatening, like a storm, just
breaking on our heads. — DrypEN.
Thrill.
Thrilling as the meteor’s fall through
the depths of lonely sky. — ANon.
Thrilled like the juice of the purple
vine. — In.
Thrilled like the string of a lyre. —
Ipip. :
Thrilled as was Rome when Cesar
returned laden with the spoils of
conquest. — Isrp.
Thrills in leafy tremblement,
Like a heart that after climbing
Beateth quickly though content.
—E. B. Brownrna.
Thrill like his lyre-strings. — Byron.
THOUGHT. — THRILL.
Thrilled like a revelation. — JosErH
ConraD.
Thrilled in ecstasy, like an Oriental
saint. — DAUDET.
Her timbers thrilled as nerves,
When through them passed the spirit
of that shock.
— Sire Francis H. Dove.
Thrilling her as with fire of rage divine
And battling energy.
— GrorceE Enior.
Thrill in your veins like shouts of
victory. — Isp.
Thrill like the nightingale’s song. —
Epwarp Octavus Fiaae.
Thrills... like a thing of song
and gladness. — W. S. GILBERT.
Thrill with sound like a harp. —
KENNETH GRAHAME.
Thrilled like witch-notes. — ARTHUR
Henry HAuiaM.
Thrill like some fanciful land of
romance. — Bret Harte.
Thrills
As if the Enchanted Castle at the heart
Of the wood’s dark wonderment
Swung wide his valves, and filled the
dim sea-banks
With exquisite visitants.
—W. E. HENLEy.
Thrill like a battle shout. — Mary
E. HewIrr.
Memories thrill,
Like a breath from the wood, like a
breeze from ‘the hill.
—O. W. Homes.
A leap and a thrill like the flash of a
weaver’s shuttle,
Swift and sudden and sure.
— Ricwarp Hovey.
Thrilling like the trump of battle. —
Water MALoNnrE.
Thrill,
Like sounds upon the wind-harp’s
chords when all the winds are still.
— Grorce D. PRENTICE.
THRILL. — TIGHT.
Thrill — continued.
My heart like a touched harp-string
thrilled. — ALEXANDER Srru.
Thrill as a theatre thronged at ap-
peal of an actor’s appalled agitation. —
SWINBURNE.
Thrilled as by the clangorous call
Of storm’s blown trumpets from the
core of night. —Ism.
Thrill,
Like the whole world’s heart, with
warm new life and gladdening
flame. — Isp.
Thrilled . . . like Memnon waking
from his marble dream. — Saran H.
WHITMAN.
Thrive.
Thrives like sin. — ANon.
Thrives like evil weeds. — ANDREW
MARVELL.
Throat.
Her throat is like the swan. — WIL-
uiaM Dovue.as.
Throb.
Throbbed like some branch against
some river swift. — AUBREY Dr VERE.
Throbbed
As with some spiritual ecstasy.
— Lewis Morris.
Throbbed, as by sudden fever stirred.
— Bayarp Taytor.
Throbbing like a wounded bird. —
Francis THOMPSON.
Throng.
Thronged like a shower of gold
king-cups in meadows sunny. —GER-
ALD MAssEy.
Thronged, as to storm sweet heaven’s
triumphal gate. — SWINBURNE.
Through.
Through like a shot. — ANON.
Goes through ’em like the grace of
heaven through a camp meeting. —
Isp.
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To go through me like water through
a sieve. — ALEXANDER Barclay.
Through you, as through a breast of
glass, I see. — Ropert BRrownina.
Through me like a flash of lightning
through a gooseberry bush. — BENga-
MIN WEBSTER.
Throw.
He threw me from his breast, like a
detested sin. — Orway.
Thunder.
Thunder like a whole sea overhead.
— Rosert Brownine.
Thunder like the ocean when in
strength and breadth and length it sets
to shore. — C. G. Rosser.
Thunder as Jove himself does. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Thunder as of earthquake coming.
— SHELLEY.
Thundering.
Thundering like ramping hosts of
warrior horse. — GrorcE MEREDITH.
Thunderous.
Thunderous, like some Gregorian
chant. — SaraAH WILLIAMS.
Tick.
Tick,
Like the death-watch, within our ears
the ills
Past, present, and to come.
— Byron.
Ticking like the love-making of a
grasshopper. — Tuomas Harpy.
Tidy.
Tidy as a candy shop. — ANon.
Tied.
Mutual hate tied,
Like two dark serpents tangled in the
dust. — SHELLEY.
Tight.
Tight as a drum head. — ANon.
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Tight — continued.
Locked tight as an oyster. — ANON.
Tight as a wad. — Ini.
Tight as Dick’s hatband. — Inin.
Tight as the skin of a gooseberry. —
Ibrp.
Tight as a bow-string. — BuLWER-
Lytron.
Tight as a bottle. —Josera Con-
RAD.
Tight as a gooseberry. — DIcKENs.
Skin tight like a bursting vest. —
Amy Lowe Lt.
Tight like teeth. —Grorcre MERE-
DITH.
Time.
Time is like a river made up of the
events which happen, and a violent
stream; for as soon as a thing has been
seen, it is carried away, and another
comes in its place, and this will be
carried away too. — Marcus AURE-
LIUS.
Time is like money ; the less we
have of it to spare, the further we
make it go. — JosH BILLiNes.
Time, like a brilliant steed with
seven rays, and with a thousand eyes,
imperishable, full of fecundity, bears
all things onward. —“‘Hymn To Time.”
Time’s shadows, like the shuttle,
flee. — D. M. Morr.
Time, like a seven-wheeled, seven-
naved car, moves on. His rolling
wheels are all the worlds, his axle is
immortality. — Frreprich RUckert.
For time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest
by the hand,
And with the arms outstretch’d, as he
would fly,
Grasps in the comer: welcome ever
smiles,
And farewell goes out sighing.
— SHAKESPEARE.
TIGHT. — TINGE.
Time is like the peacefulness of
grass, which clothes, as if with silence
and deep sleep, deserted plains that
once were loud with strife. — ALEx-
ANDER SMITH.
Time is as wind, and as waves are
we. — SWINBURNE.
Time, like the earth with flowers be-
spread
In youthful spring, is dark and
Dead when age and cares come on
And friends and pleasures are all
gone.
— WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE.
Timid.
Timid as a child deserted by its
nurse. — ANON.
Timid as a falling snowflake. — In.
Timid as a mouse. — IBmp.
Timid voice, like a baby afraid of
punishment. — HerMANN Baur.
As timid, touching and inquiring, as
she who charmed the gods from the
threshold of Olympus. — Dr. Joun
Doran.
Timid as a youth can be. —Ma-
HABHARATA.
Timid as a doe. — Roperr Nogt.
Timid as a sheep. — Oumpa.
Timid as a fawn. — THACKERAY.
Timorous.
Timorous as a bird. — ANON.
Timorous ... as the first chirrup
of a callow bird. — OWEN MEREDITH.
Timorous as a truant child. — Bay-
ARD TAYLOR.
Tinge.
Tinged like the face of the rainbow.
— Anon.
The crimson stream, as if flowing
from the dark-tinted rose, tinged her
fair hand as with the purple current.
— ADELBERT VON CHaMISso.
TINGLE. —— TOGETHER.
Tingle.
Tingling, like cords of shaken lyres.
— F. W. Faper.
Tingled in my veins like streams of
liquid fire. — Apams S. Hi.
Tingled like a lute that is tuned too
high. — J. H. McCarruy.
Tingle like fagots. —F. D. Suer-
MAN.
Tinkling.
Tinkling . . . like armourers at work
upon their anvils. —Srr WALTER
Scorr.
Tiny.
Tiny as the temple of Nike. —
ANON.
Tipple.
Tippled like a fish. — CAMPBELL.
Tip-tilted.
Tip-tilted, like a thirsty duckling’s bill
After much guzzling in a pool.
— Oscar Fay Apams.
Her slender nose
Tip-tilted like the petal of a flower.
— TENNYSON.
Tip-toe.
On tip-toe like escaping murderers.
—E. B. Brownine.
Tired.
Tired as old Nick. — Anon.
Tired as the dickens. — Isrp.
Tired as twilight. — Isip.
Tired as
BROWNING.
tombstones. — RoBERT
Tiresome.
Tiresome as when poor Sisyphus
reaches the top of the mountain vainly
to feel his burden go rolling back from
his shoulders. — SENECA.
Titter.
A titter
Like the skipping of rabbits by moon-
light. — RosBert BRowNING.
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Title.
The title of knight, on the back of
a knave, is like a saddle upon a sow. —
ALEXANDER Brown.
Titles of honor are like impressions
on coin, which add no value to gold
and silver, but only render brass cur-
rent. — STERNE.
Titles and birth, like diamonds from
the mine,
Must by your worth be polish’d ere
they shine.
— Wituiam WHITEHEAD.
Together.
Stick together like birds. — ANon.
Together like birds of prey watching
a carcass. — Isr.
Come in together like dinner and
wax tapers. — Inip.
We all live together like two wanton
vines, :
Circling our souls and loves in one
another.
— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Grow together like tares and wheat.
—E. B. Browning.
Hang together like bees or Scotch-
men. — BuLWER-LYTTON.
Cluttered together like so many
pebbles in a tide. — Ropert Burton.
Together unavoidably, like two ships
becalmed near each other. — JosEPH
ConraD.
Together, like meeting rivers. —
JoHN HucuHEs.
Gathered herself together like a
watch spring. — KIpPLine.
Paths now lie together, as our foot-
| prints on the strand. —T. BucHanan
Reap.
So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming
parted,
But yet an union in partition ;
Two lovely berries moulded on one
stem ;
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Together — continued.
So, with two seeming bodies, but one
heart,
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,
Due but to one and crowned with one
crest. — SHAKESPEARE,
Join they all together,
Like many clouds consulting for foul
weather. — Inn.
Gathered together, as prisoners are
gathered in the pit. — Op TEsTaMENT.
Together like the two kings of Brent-
ford smelling at one nosegay. — Bon-
NEL THORNTON.
Toil.
Toiled like a dog in a wheel.— ANon.
Toiled like branded — slaves. —
GERALD Massey.
Tolerant.
One who does his duty is tolerant
like the earth .. . he is like a lake |
without mud. — BuppHa.
Tolerate.
Tolerate as lions tolerate lice. — G.
B. SHaw.
Toll.
Deep bells toll,
Like a last knell over the dead world’s
soul. — Hoop.
Tongue.
Your tongue is like a jaded nag.
When the spurs prick its flanks it can
only switch its tail.—Lzonip AN-
DREYEFF.
His tongue is like any kind of car-
riage, the less weight it bears, the faster
and easier it goes. — SaMUEL BUTLER.
His tongue is like a Bagpipe Drone,
that has no Stop, but makes a continual
ugly Noise, as long as he can squeeze
any Wind out of himself. — Inrp.
Their tongue was like a mellow turret
bell
Yo toll hearts burning into wide-lipped
hell. —Lorp De Tastey.
TOGETHER. — TONGUE.
All tongue, like the lily. — Harz.
His tongue, like the tail of Sam-
son’s foxes, carries firebrands, and is
enough to set the whole field of the
world on a flame. — JoserH Hatt.
The tongue of a louer should be like
the poynt in the Diall, which though
it go, none can see it going, or a young
tree which though it growe, none can
perceiue it growing, hauing alwayes
the stone in their mouth which the
Cranes vse when they flye ouer moun-
taines, least they make a noyse, but to
be sylent, and lyghtly to esteeme of his
Ladye, to shake hir off though he be
secreat, to chaunge for euerything
though he bewray nothing, is the onely
thing that cutteth the heart in peeces
of a true and constant louer, which
deepely waying with my selfe, I pre-
ferred him that woulde neuer remoue,
though he reueiled [reveal] all before
him that woulde conceale all, and euer
be slyding, thus wasting to [o] and fro,
I appeale to you my good Violet,
whether in loue be more required,
secrecie, or constancy. — LyYLy.
Whose tongue, like the dart of
death, spares neither sex nor age. —
CuarLes MAcktin.
A fool’s tongue is like the buye of an
anchor, you will find his heart by it
where soever it lyes. —Srr Tuomas
OVERBURY.
His tongue is like a biscuit-seller’s
shovel — long tongued. — OsMANuI
PROVERB.
Her tongue, which rosily
Peeped as a piercing bud between her
lips. — D. G. Rossetti.
With tongue is like a sword’s point.
— SWINBURNE.
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs ; like
a sharp razor, working deceitfully. —
Op TESTAMENT.
Your tongue is like a scarlet snake
that dances to fantastic tunes.
— Oscar WILDE.
TONGUELESS. — TOUCH.
Tongueless.
Tongueless as she whom a man-
snake stung. — SWINBURNE.
Tooth.
The dentist pulled her tooth just
like a serial, every day another piece.
— BENJAMIN Kovner.
Top.
Everything at the top and nothing
at bottom, like a midshipman’s chest.
— W. C. Russet.
Topple.
Toppled like a descending kite. —
Owen WISTER.
Tore.
Steamer .. .
Tore its way out like a savage sawfish.
— O. Henry.
Torn.
Torn,
* Like the remainder tatters of a dream.
— Hoop.
Torpid.
Torpid as a toad in marble. — Dr.
JOHNSON.
Tortuous.
Tortuous — like byways of despair.
— JosrEPH ConraD.
Tortuous as a labyrinth. — Guy DE
Maupassant.
Torture.
Torture . . . like poisoned sword.
— Ancient BaLuap or HinpusTan.
Torture, like a stoical fly on a pin. —
ARNOLD BENNETT.
Toss.
Millions of grass blades that tossed
like an emerald sea in the sunshine. —
Oscar Fay ApAms.
Aside I’m tossed,
As an old sword whose scabbard’s lost.
— ANON.
Tossing like an awakened conscience.
—Isp.
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Tossed like a peanut at sea. — Ipip.
Tossed like a feather in a whirlwind.
—Ism.
Tossed like a plebe in a blanket. —
Isp.
I’ve been tossed like the driven foam.
— EMERSON.
Tossed ... like a cork on the
waves. — THomas Harpy.
Tosses you about like cork crumbs in
wine opened by an unfeed waiter. —
O. Henry.
Tossed it just like a haymaker at
work. — Hoop.
Tossing like field-flowers in Spring.
— Grorce MEREDITH.
Tost like the bearded and billowy
wheat by the winds of the mountain
driven. — Owen MEREDITH.
Tossing like a flower’s head. —
Oura.
Tossed like a fretted shallop-sail
Between ocean and the gale.
—T. Bucuanan Reap.
Like a frail bark thy weakened mind
is tost. — Ricwarp SAVAGE.
I am tossed up and down as the
locust. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Tossed about like a few potatoes in
a wheelbarrow. — Mrs. TROLLOPE.
Toss like a ship at anchor, rocked by
storms. — WORDSWORTH.
Totter.
Tottering like a man on a tight rope.
— ANon.
Tottered away like a corpse set
moving. — CHARLES READE.
Tottering . . . like lean herds pur-
sued by gadflies. — SHELLEY.
Touch.
Her touch was as warm as the tinge of
the clover
Burnt brown as it reached to the kiss
of the sun. — Joaquin MILLER.
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Tough.
Tough as any bough. — ANon.
Tough as leather. — Isp.
Tough as nails. — Isp.
Tough as shoe-leather. — Ibm.
As. tough as whit-leather. — Inip.
Tough as old hickory. — J. R. Barr-
Letr’s ‘“‘DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN-
ISMS.”
Tough as an India-rubber ball. —
CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
Tough as a Cape Cod fisherman. —
Rosert EpGren.
Tough as a telegraph wire. —
Ricuarp Le GALLIENNE.
Tower.
Towering above mortality,
Horace’s swan. — ANON.
like
Towered above them as the eternal
firmament above the ephemeral butter-
fly. — Isp.
Towers like another Saul. — Isp.
Towering, like the keel-compelling
sail that takes the topmost tempest.
— AuBrey De VERE.
Towering above the common level
of days, as cathedrals above houses. —
J. J. JUSSERAND.
Towers like an ocean-cliff. — Kats.
Towering like rocks of jet
Crowned with a diamond wreath.
— SHELLEY.
Traceless.
Traceless as a thaw of bygone snow.
— C. G. Rossettt.
Trackless.
Trackless as the desert. — ANON.
Trackless as the sea. — In.
Trackless as a sound. — Bauzac.
Trackless as the immemorable hour
When birth’s dark portal groaned and
all was new.
—D. G. Rossertt.
TOUGH. — TRANQUILIZING,
Tractable.
Tractable as a Sheepe. — Lyty.
Trailing.
Trailing like a wounded duck. —
Korine.
Traitor.
Traitors in their fall are like the sun,
Who still looks fairest at his going
down. — Orway.
Trample.
Trample like dust under his feet. —
ANON.
Trampled as the filth in the street.
— James W. Watson.
Tranquil.
Tranquil as night. — ANon.
Tranquil as a star. — ALFRED AUs-
TIN.
As tranquil and unmoved as Fate.
— AmpBrosE BIErce.
Tranquil like a summer cloud
Which, having rained itself to a tardy
peace,
Stands still in heaven as if it ruled the
day. —E. B. Brownine.
Tranquil as a child who goes to
gather flowers. — FERNAN CABALLERO.
Tranquil as a marble statue. —
Tueopore S. Fay.
Tranquil as the clear moonlight,
that woos the palms on Orient shorcs.
—P. H. Hayne.
More tranquil than ja musk-rose
blowing in a green island. — Kzats.
Tranquil as a
WoRrDSWORTH.
summer sea. —
Tranquil as a dreamless sleep. — Isip.
Tranquilly.
Rest tranquilly like lilies under
leaves. — Ernest Dowson.
Tranquilizing.
Tranquilizing, like oil in the water.
— Gawain Douctas.
TRANSFORM.
Transform.
Transform like magic. — ANoN.
The power of beauty will sooner
transform honesty from what it is to
a bawd, than the force of honesty can
translate beauty into his likeness. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Transformed as night or as day by.
the kindling year. — SwInBURNE.
Transforming.
Transforming sleep, like that of the
chrysalis. — Ipm.
Transient.
Transient as the summer storm. —
ANON,
Transient as the inconstant sigh.
— Byron.
Transient . . . asis the fleeting hour.
— CowPEr.
Transient as breath shaking a flame.
— Groree Eniort.
Transient as lightning. — Taomas
Harpy.
Transient as vapours glimm’ring
thro’ the glades. — WaLTEeR Harte.
Transient as the dew. — RusKIN.
Transient as faith or as terror that
bows men’s knees. — SWINBURNE.
Transient as the glance
Of flying sunbeams.
— WorpDswortu.
Transitory.
Transitory as April showers. —
ANON.
Translation.
Translations are like busy match-
makers: they sing the praises of some
half-veiled beauty and extol her charms,
and arouse an irresistible longing for
the original. — GoETHE.
Translucent.
Translucent as the pearly Wave ;
Of that fair star that rules the night,
With an internal glory bright.
—Joun Payne.
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Translucent as
CHARLES SANGSTER.
pure crystal. —
Translucent, like a virgin’s veil. —
THEODORE Warts-DunTON.
Transmitted.
Transmitted, like the Lord Mayor’s
barge,
To the next comer. — Byron.
Transparent.
Transparent as a_ veil. — Hans
Cristian ANDERSEN.
Transparent as a young sardine. —
ANON.
Transparent as crystal. — Ipm.
Transparent as gossamer: — IBrp.
Transparent as light. — Ini.
Transparent . . . as a ruby smitten
by the sun. — Dante.
Transparent as a rock of solid
crystal. — DRYDEN.
Transparent as a
Gerorce ELtot.
rock-pool. —
Transparent as mica. — O. Henny.
Transparent as pure water. — Sic-
MUND KRASINSKI.
Transparent as glass. —Guy DE
Maupassant.
Transparent as air. —SaIntT-PIERRE.
Transparent as __ barricadoes.—
SHAKESPEARE.
Transparent as the soul of innocent
youth. — WorpDsworTu.
Trapped.
Trapped like a rat. — ANon.
Trapped like bears in a pit. — Huco.
Traveler.
I am of this minde with Homer, that
as the Snayle that crept out of hir
shell was turned eftsoones into a Toad,
and thereby was forced to make a stoole
to sit on, disdaining hir own house: so
the Trauailer that stragleth from his
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own countrey, is in short tyme trans-
formed into so monstrous a shape, that
hee is faine to alter his mansion with
his manners, and to liue where he canne,
not where he would. — Ly ty.
Treacherous.
Treacherous as the memory. —
ANON.
Treading.
Treading warily, like one on the top
of a tower. — HERBERT QUICK.
Treason.
Treason is like diamonds; there is
nothing to be made by the small
trader. — DoucLas JERROLD.
Treason, like spiders weaving nets for
flies,
By her foul work is found, and in it
dies. — Joun WEBSTER.
Tremble.
Trembled as though she were going
to commit a wicked action. — Hans
CurisTIAN ANDERSEN.
Trembled as a flame blown by the
wind. — ANon.
Trembled like a hymn. — Isp.
Trembling like needle to the pole. —
Isp.
Trembled . . . like some high oak
by a fierce tempest shaken. — Ism.
Tremble like the body of a guitar.
— Isw.
Trembled like cold jelly. — Isr.
Trembled like the devil. — Inm.
Trembled like the strings of a violin.
— Is.
Trembles .. .
As the distracted herd, when they the
lion meet. — ARaBIc.
She trembled, like the stem of a
reed. — ASSYRIAN.
Trembling like a man with the palsy.
—J. M. Barris.
TREACHEROUS. — TREMBLE,
Trembles like the luv-smitten harte
ov a damsell. — JosH BILLines.
Trembling, as sunshine comes
through aspen-leaves. — R. D. Biack-
MORE.
Trembled like a folded sheep at the
bleating of her lamb. — Inn.
Tremble, like the trembling of an
arch ere the key-stone is put in. —
Isp.
Trembling, like water after sunset.
— Isp.
Tremble . . . like a netted lioness.
—E. B. Brownine.
Trembling like a tub of size. —
Rosert BRownine.
As a fish taken from his watery
home and thrown in the dry ground,
our thought trembles all over in order
to escape the dominion of Mara [the
tempter]. — Buppna.
Trembling like an ague. — BuLWER-
LytTTon.
Trembled as at an earthquake. —
Grosuz Carpucct.
Trembling like a frightened deer
which is seeking a place of refuge. —
Lewis CaRROo.LL.
Tremble like a fragile reed. — Exiza
Cook.
Tremble like dew on violet’s leaves.
— Isp.
Tremble,
Like the loose wrack in the sky,
When the four wild winds assemble.
— Barry CorNnwaL.L.
Trembling, as if eternity were hung
In balance on his conduct.
— CowPEr.
Tremble, as the creatures of an hour
Ought at the view of almighty pow’r.
— Isp.
Trembling like an Eastern slave
before the pasha. — Wituiam E. Cur-
TIS,
TREMBLE,
. Tremble — continued.
Trembling like a bridal veil. —
Ausrey De Vers.
Trembling like a little child. —
Dumas, PERE.
Trembling as the dewy rose the
wind has shaken. —O. W. Homes.
Tremble like the stars in the sky. —
Hoop.
Trembles like a reed in flower. —
Hueco.
Trembled in the social anxiety like
leaves at the approach of the storm.
— Isp.
Trembling, like Paris, on the brink
of an obscure and formidable revolu-
tion. — Inm.
Trembled like a thing about to die.
— Jean INGELow.
Tremble as a trembling leaf. — Jay-
ADEVA.
Trembling like a falcon’s game. —
Rosert U. JoHnson.
Trembling like an aspen-bough. —
Kaarts.
Trembles like a harp full strung. —
Swney Lanier.
A-tremble like a new-born thing. —
Ip.
Fell a-trembling like as the lips of
lady that forth falter yes. — Ip.
Tremble like a shot pigeon. — AL-
FRED Henry LEwIs.
Trembling . . . like beauty shining
through a tear. — JoHn LEYDEN.
Trembling like a steed before the
start. — LONGFELLOW.
Trembling, like a man that loves to
be a soldier, yet is afraid of a gun. —
Cartes MAckiin.
Lips trembled like those of a man
caught in the act of doing wrong. —
Guy DE Maupassant.
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Trembled as a man in fear. — Wiz-
uAM Morris.
Trembling like a hunted prey. —
Otway.
Trembling like a leaf in a hurricane.
— Oura.
Trembling like a coward. — SamuEL
RicHARDSON.
Trembled like a frightened child. —
C. G. Rosserti.
Trembled like a freezing man. —
W. C. Russe.
Tremble like aspen leaves. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Trembled
Like ten thousand clouds which flow
With one wide wind. — SHELLEY.
Like a clipp’d guinea, trembles in the
scale. —R. B. SHERIDAN.
Trembled like a lambe fled from prey.
— SPENSER.
Tremble as with love that casts out
fear. — SWINBURNE.
Trembled like a stricken thrall. —
Ipm.
Tremble like lute-strings. — Ism.
Trembling, like fiery light on crisped
streams. — FREDERICK TENNYSON.
Tremble, like the light that strikes
the zenith when the sun is down. —
Isp.
Trembling, like those battlements of
stone
That fell in fear when Joshua’s horns
were blown.
— Henry Van Dyke.
Trembling like a storm-struck tree.
— THEoporE Watts-Dunton.
Trembles like a tender spark. —
Isr.
Tremble in the sunny skies,
As if, from waving bough to bough,
Flitted the birds of paradise.
— WHITTIER.
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Tremble — continued.
Tremble like a guilty thing surprised.
— Worpswortu.
Trembling, as if with fear of some
unconfessed peril, which she felt to be
near at hand. — Zoua.
Tremendous.
Tremendous, as that of trying. to
read the Universal Riddle. — Lar-
caDIO HEARN.
Tremor.
A slight tremor in thy tone,
Like that of some frail harp-string blown
By fitful breezes, faint and low.
— WHITTIER.
Tremulous.
Tremulous the voice .. . like any
one’s when jesting with a subject not
a joke. — Hoon.
Tremulous as a nest. — Hugo.
Tremulous as the mimosa leaf. —
Lyvia H. Sigourney.
Tremulous like fire. — SWINBURNE.
Tremulous as brook-water. — Os-
caR WILDE.
Tremulous as a leaf forsaken of the
summer. — N. P. WI.is.
Trepidation.
Eternal trepidation — like the tick-
ing of a death watch to patients lying
awake in the plague. — ANon.
Trickles.
Trickles down as from a wound. —
Epwarp Hake.
Tricky.
Tricky as a concierge. — ANON.
Tricky as a clown. —Isrp.
Tricky as an ape. — Izip.
Tried.
Tried us as silver is tried. — OLp
TESTAMENT.
TREMBLE, — TRIUMPH.
Trifles.
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Trifling.
Trifling as hobby-horses. — ADDISON.
Empty and trifling, like little dogs
biting one another, and little children
quarreling, laughing, and straightway
weeping. — Marcus AURELIUS.
Trill.
Trilled at the rising sun almost like
a stag which inhales the universal love
and feels the April sap mounting and
boiling in his veins. — Hugo.
Trim.
Trim as a lady of gentle degree. —
JOANNA BAILLIE.
Trimmed like Alexandrine verses.
— Hueco.
Trimm’d like a younker prancing to
his love. — SHAKESPEARE.
Trip.
Tripping like winsome fairy through
the woods at break of morn. — ANON.
Tripped . . . as light’s a bird upon
a thorn. — Burns.
Tripping light as a sandpiper over
the beach. — LowEL..
Tripp’d, like a lamb playful and
void of fear, through daisied grass and
young leaves. — Lewis Morris.
Trippingly.
As trippingly as a_shepherdess’s
feet in a pastoral. — Ouma.
Trite.
Trite as Priam’s tale, and twice as
old. — Water Harve.
Triumph.
Triumph like a king. — WiLLIAM
Byrp.
TRIUMPH
Triumph — continued.
Triumph like the bitterness of death.
— SWINBURNE.
Triumphant.
Triumphant like a God. — SouTHEy.
Triumphant as the sun. — SwIn-
BURNE.
Triumphantly.
Triumphantly ride,
Like foam on the surges, the swans of
the tide. — James MonTGoMERY.
Trivial.
Trivial as a parrot’s prate-—CowPeEr.
Trivial as to attempt to blow out the
stars. — Grorce W. Curtis.
As trivial as if a painter should put
real gold upon his canvas instead of
representing gold by means of paint.
— Isp.
Trivial as the giggle of a housemaid.
— Henry JAMEs.
Trivial as the tears of infancy. —
JoHN RANDOLPH.
Trodden.
Trodden as grapes in the wine-press
of lust. — SWINBURNE.
Shall be trodden down under him,
even as straw is trodden down for the
dunghill. — Otp TEsTaMENT.
Trot.
Trot like a doe. — ANON.
Trot, like a servile footman, all day
long. — SHAKESPEARE.
Trouble.
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by
nursing. — Lapy Houianp.
Troubles are like babies — they only
grow by nursing. — Doueias JERROLD.
Troubled, like a fountain stirr’d. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Troubled, as Cretan seas when vext
by warring winds. — EpMuND SMITH.
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Troubled, as if with anger or pain.
— TENNYSON.
Troublesome.
Troublesome as a wasp in one’s ear.
— THomas Futter, M.D.
Troublesome as
THOMAS SHADWELL.
a monkey. —
Troublesome ... as a young cox-
comb-rhyming lover. — WYCHERLEY.
Trudge.
Trudge like a poor pedler. — Anon.
Trudge
Like a circuit-beast, plagu’d with a
gouty judge.
— Henry VAUGHAN.
True.
True as that an apple is a fruit. —
Frankxun P. Apams.
As true as God’s own word is here.
— Gustavus ADOLPHUS.
True as the faithful watchdog of the
fold. — Aiscuy us.
True as the helm, the bark’s pro-
tecting guide. — Isr.
‘True as a die. — ANON.
True as God is in heaven. — Isp.
True as gold. — Inrp.
True as holy writ. — Ini.
As true as that nothing is but what
is not. — Isp.
True as that a man who has shaved
has lost his beard. — Izrp.
True as that is is. — Ipmp.
About as true as that the cat crew,
and the cock rocked the cradle. —Ipip.
True as that the king has an egg in
his pouch. — Ip.
True as that the world is turned
upside down every twenty-four hours.
— Ini.
True of his promise as a poor man
of his ‘eye. — Izrp.
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True — continued.
True as the gospel. — Braumontr
AND FLETCHER.
True as written gospel. — RoBErT
B. Brovuau.
True
And pauseless as the pulses.
—E. B. Brownina.
True as that heaven and earth exist.
— Rosert BRownina.
True as the dial to the sun. —
SAMUEL BUTLER.
As true as a shepherd to his flock.
— Byron.
True as truth. — Mapison CawEIn.
Trewe as any bonde. — CHAUCER.
Lovers be as trewe,
As eny metal that is forged newe.
— Isp.
True as turtill dove. — Inm.
As trewe as ever was any steel. —IBmrp.
True as a needle to the pole. —
CowPeER.
A clock so true, as might the sun
control. — Donne.
True as an arrow to its aim. — SIR
Francis H. Doy.e.
As true as Tristram and Isolde were.
— DryDeEN.
True as the College clock’s unvarying
hand. — Georce ELLs.
True as thy coat to thy back. —
GEORGE GASCOIGNE. :
True as the sun. — W. S. GiLBErT.
True as swallow to the roadless blue.
— Emity H. Hickey.
As true as God. — J. G. Hottann.
True as the dial’s shadow to the
beam. — O. W. Hotes.
True as the watchman to his beat.
— Hoop.
True as time. — Jean INGELOW.
TRUE.
True as a gun. — Ben Jonson.
True as innocence. — Kzats.
True as the magnet is to iron. —
W. S. Lanpor.
True as the Apocalypse. — Amy
LEsLIz.
True as death. — Martowe.
True to one as a beggar to his dish,
— Brian MELBANCKE.
True as a barber’s news on Satur-
day night. — MmpLeton.
True as stars. — THomas Moore.
True as the lute, that no sighing
can waken. — Isp.
True as the homing-bird flies with
its message. — JOHN Boye O’REILLY.
True as the Pentateuch. — Por.
True as Heaven. — Ear or Rocues-
TER.
She kept in time without a beat
As true as church-bell ringers.
— C. G, Rossert.
True as steel, as plantage to the
moon,
As sun to day, as turtle to her mate,
As iron to adamant, as earth to the
centre. — SHAKESPEARE.
As true as truth’s simplicity. — Isp.
As true as truest horse, that yet
would never tire. — Isr.
Keep as true in soul
As doth that orbed continent the fire
That severs day from night. — Ism.
True as I live. — In.
Is as true as black is blue. — SKEL-
TON.
Trewe as the gospell. — Ipip.
True as truth’s own heart. — SwiIn-
BURNE.
A friend: as true as guardian-angels
are. — WILLIAM THomson.
True it is, as cow chews cud. —
Tuomas Tussrr.
TRUMPET. — TUMBLE.
True — continued.
True as the Stock-dove to her shallow
nest
And to the grove that holds it.
— Worpswortu.
Trumpet.
‘Frumpeted like figures of Fame. —
Hueco.
Trustful.
Trustful as Don Juan’s famous Mon-
sieur Dimanche. — Dauner.
Trustful as innocence. — W. S. GiL-
BERT.
Truth.
Truth like a torch, the more it’s
shook, it shines. — ANON.
Truth and falsehood ... are like
the iron and clay in the toes of Ne-
buchadnezzar’s image, they may cleave,
but they will not incorporate. —
Bacon.
Moral truths, like human beings,
change their aspect according to their
surroundings, to the poimt of being
unrecognizable. — Bauzac.
Truth, like the sun, submits to be
obscured ; but, like the sun, only: for
a time. — C. N. Bovee.
Catch truth and wisdom unawares,
As men do health in wholesome airs.
— Samueu Butier.
The use of truth is like the use of
words ; both truth and words depend
greatly upon custom. — SAMUEL But-
LER (1835~1902).
Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in
small quantities, calms men ; in large,
heats and irritates them, and is at-
tended by fatal circulation, because men
have discovered that it is far more in-
convenient to adulterate the truth than
to refine themselves. — C. C. CoLtTon.
He who will tell the truth appears
at times like a hen on a perch in windy
weather. — OLor von Datin.
Truth itself is sometimes like aruddy
apple which requires to be cut in halves
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before we can tell which portion con-
tains the worm. — Francis GRIERSON.
Truth, like beauty, varies in its
fashions, and is best recommended by
different dresses to different minds. —
Dr. JoHNson.
The advent of truth, like the dawn of
day, agitates the elements, while it dis-
perses the gloom. — E. L. Macoon.
Truth . . . shines like the sun, and
like the sun it cannot perish. — Na-
POLEON.
Truth, like a single point, escapes the
sight,
And claims attention to perceive it
right. —Jonn Pomrrer.
Truth that has been merely learned
is like an artificial limb, a false tooth,
@ waxen nose; at best, like a nose
made out of another’s flesh; it ad-
heres to us only because it is put on.
— ScHOPENHAUER.
Truthful.
Truthful as the genial spring. —
NatuanieL Corton.
Truthful as a knight of old. —
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Tug.
Tug as a flag in the wind. — Lowe 11.
Tumble.
Tumbled and jumbled, as in Titan
wars. — Lorp Dr TaBLey.
“Squatter Sovereignty” squatted
out of existence, tumbled down like
a temporary scaffolding. — ABRAHAM
Lincoun.
Tumbling about in her head like a
world in disruption. — Grorcr MEre-
DITH.
Time eftsoon will tumble
All of us together like leaves in a gust,
Humbled indeed down into the dust.
— Joaquin Minter.
Tumbling .. . like rolling empty
barrels down stairs. — Marx Twain.
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Tuneful.
Tuneful as woods with the music of
love. — WILLIAM MILLER.
Tuneless.
Tuneless as a bag of wool. — GEorGE
Eior.
Tuneful, like a caged canary. —
Ricuarp BurTLeR GLAENZER.
Turbid.
Turbid as passion. — WILLIAM Wat-
SON.
Turbulent.
Turbulent as a children’s ball at
Christmas. — BuLWEeR-LyYTTON.
Turbulent as is the ocean. — Huco.
Turn.
Turned upon me, as the lion turned
upon the hunter’s spear. — ANON.
Turn’d, as a vessel holds to sea, when
near a Siren strand. — THomas ASHE.
Turn it, as a nose of wax, to their
own ends. — Rosert Burton.
Doubling and turning like a hunted
hare. — DrypDeEn.
Turn, as upon pivots. — Hueco.
Turned like a weather cock with
every wind. — Guy pE Maupassant.
Turned me about as did Lot’s wife.
— RaBeELals.
Turns as a bucket turns in a well.
—D. G. Rosserti.
Turn him off,
Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears,
And graze in commons.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Turn o’ the toe like a parish-top. —
Isp.
Turning as a turning wave
Against the land-wind.
— SWINBURNE.
Turned, like a panther in his lair. —
WHITTIER.
Turning like a windmill sail. — Ism.
TUNEFUL. — TWINKLE.
Turned, like Lot at Sodom. — Izm,
Turn
Like sunflowers to the pure and best.
— Isp.
Twilight.
Twilight is like death; the dark
portal of night comes upon us, to
open again in the glorious morning of
immortality. — James ELLs.
Twine.
My thoughts twine and bid about
thee, as with vines, about a tree. —
E. B. BRrownina.
Twined in Memory’s mystic hand,
Like pilgrim’s withered wreath of
flowers plucked in a far-off land.
— Lewis CaRROLL
Twineth, like a lover’s arm,
With sweet devotion.
— Exiza Cook.
Twine, like pole ivy round the
polished bark. — CUMBERLAND.
Sweet thoughts are twining in with
bitter ones, as roses twine with rue. —
James M. Morton.
Twines round it as the ivy does the
ash. — MuncHAUsEN.
Like the tendrils of the vine,
Do her auburn tresses twine.
— AmBRosE PaIips.
Twinge.
Twinged like a hollow tooth. —
Ricnarp Le GALLIENNE.
Twinkle.
Eyes twinkled like diamonds. —
T. B. Atpricu.
Twinkled like a candle flame where
salt is sprinkled. — ANon.
Twinkling as the morning’s tremu-
lous gloss of balmy dew. — Isp.
Sharp eyes twinkled,
Like a candle-flame where salt is
sprinkled. ,
— Rosrert Brownine.
TWINKLE
Twinkle — continued.
Twinkling like the stars. — Bunyan.
Twinkled
Like a smooth golden lake breeze-
wrinkled. — F. W. Faper.
Twinkling like fireflies in the emerald
grass. — Fanny Forester.
Lamps twinkled like stars along the
water’s edge. — CAMILLE LEMONNIER.
Twinkle like lanterns in a sepulchre.
— SCHILLER.
Twinkling like a dawn out of a
speckled cloud. — SHELLEY.
Twinkling . . . like a sullen star
Dimly reflected in a lonely pool.
— Worpswortu.
Twirl.
Twirling like a Dervish. — ANON.
Twirling like a weather cock in
March. — Isp.
Twirling like a top. — CHARLES
READE.
Twist.
Twisted as an Egyptian cripple. —
ANON.
Twisted as Dick’s hatband. — Ism.
Twisting like a mop. — Isp.
Twist like pearl white fire. — Ip.
Twisted like a house that has been
enveloped and carried away by a
waterspout. — BaLzac.
Twists like a whiskee phit. — JosH
BILLINGS.
. — UGLY. 439
Twisted like knotted snakes. —
CuaARLES Harpur.
A writhing horror twisted itself
across his features, like a snake glid-
ing swiftly over them. — HawTHORNE.
Twisted like an S. — Hoop.
Twisted like a rope. — Hueco.
Twisted in the maw of the wave
like the angler’s hook in the jaws of a
pike. — Inn.
Twisted like an eel. — KinesLry.
Twisting like a serpent. — CHARLES
LEVER.
Twist like fell ghosts, that fear the
light. — Lewis Morris.
Twisted . . . like old olive branches.
— Ruskin.
Twists, like the curls of a bride. —
Savl.
Twisting and twining like a conger
eel. — MicHarL Scort.
Twitter.
Twittering like a flock of angry
sparrows. — ANON.
Twitter like the tuning of myriads
of violins. — HELen H. Jackson.
Typical.
Typical as the sparrow is typical
of London. — Ricuarp Le GALLIENNE.
Tyrant.
Tyrants, like lep’rous kings, for
public weal should be immured. —
ANDREW MARVELL.
U
Ubiquitous.
Ubiquitous, like law’s dread majesty.
—EF W. Faser.
Ugly.
Ugly as a scarecrow. — ANON.
Ugly as sin. — Ip.
As ugly as were ever born of mud.
— CARLYLE.
Ugly as the devil. — FrE.pINe.
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Ugly — continued.
Uely as the devil’s dam. — Ricnarp
FLECKNOE.
Ugly as a bear. — SHAKESPEARE.
Ugly as apes. — PauLus SyLLoeus.
Ugly as a worn-out cabhorse. —
ANTON TCHEKHOV.
Ugly as the angel of a sign-board.
— Tuomas Wane.
Unabashed.
Unabashed as a little child. —
GrorcE Moors.
Unalterable.
His will is like the Persian law, un-
alterable. — Tuomas ADAms.
Unalterable as the spots on a leopard.
— ANon.
Unanswered.
Unanswered, like a vast sounding
board gathering the uttered syllables
and whispering them back in barren
echoes. — ConpE B. PALLEN.
Unappetizing.
Unappetizing as the floor of a
parrot’s cage. — ANON.
Unappetizing as a cold sausage in
the midst of its coagulated white
grease. — Grorcr 5. Kaurman.
Unappetizing as the remains of a
feast. — Ep1ra WHaRTON.
Unapproachable.
Unapproachable as a_ star. —O.
Henry.
Unarmed.
Unarm’d as bending angels.
— SHAKESPEARE,
Unasked.
Like Dian’s kiss, unasked, unsought
Love gives itself, but is not bought.
— LonGFELLow.
Unattractive.
Unattractive as a gargoyle. — ANon.
UGLY. — UNCALLED.
Unavailable.
As unavailable as for a man to
whistle in the teeth of a gale, or to cast
a jug of water against a tidal wave.
— Li Hune Cuane.
Unavailing.
Unavailing, as the cry of a spoiled
child in its nurse’s arms. — Henry
Cuay.
Unaware.
Catch Truth and Reason unawares,
As Men do Health in wholesome Airs.
— SaMuEL Butier.
Unawares, like the stroke of sudden
death. — HawTHORNE.
Great thoughts, great feelings come
to them, like instincts, unawares. —
R. M. Mites.
Unbecoming.
Unbecoming as grace after meat. —
FarquHar.
Unbidden.
Unbidden as the dews. — BuLwer-
Lytron.
Unblemished.
Unblemished as the white-robed
virgin choir. — Wiiu1am Livinaston.
Unbounded.
Unbounded, like infinity. — AUBREY
Ds VERE.
Unbounded as the ample air. —
GoLpDSsMITH.
Unbridled.
Unbridled as the northern storm. —
WiiuraM J. MIcKLE.
Uncalled.
As light November snows to empty
nests,
As grass to graves, as moss to mildewed
stones,
As July suns to ruins, through the
rents,
As ministering spirits to mourners,
through «a loss,
UNCALLED. — UNCOMFORTABLE.
As Heaven itself to men, through
pangs of death,
He came uncalled wherever grief had
come. —E. B. Brownine.
Uncared.
Uncared for, like a useless wayside
stone. —T. BucHaNAN Reap.
Uncaressable.
Uncaressable as puppets. — GEORGE
MEREDITH.
Unceasing.
Unceasing as marriage. — ANON.
Unceasing as the murmur of the
sea. — RosamunpD Marriott Wat-
SON.
Unceasingly.
On —like a comet—on, unceas-
ingly. — Cosmo MonxkHouse.
Unceasingly, like song in the time
of birds. — N. P. Wius.
Unceremonious.
Unceremonious as a colony of
flies. — ANON. ‘
Uncertain.
Uncertain as a comet. — ANon.
Uncertain as horse flesh. — Isp.
Uncertain as weather. — Isp.
Uncertain as the wind.—C. C.
Coton.
Uncertain as the almanac. — “Jacke
Drum’s ENTERTAINMENT.”
Uncertain in her temper as a morn-
ing in April. —Sam Szicx.
Uncertain as a child’s swift moods.
— ARTHUR SYMONS.
Uncertain as a vision or a dream. —
TENNYSON.
Unchainable.
Unchainable as the dim tide. —
' Wom B. Yeats.
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Unchangeable.
Unchangeable as the past. — ANon.
Unchangeable as space.—P. J.
BaILey.
Unchanged.
Unchanged, like the cat which be-
came blind, and still hankered after
mice. — ARABIC.
Unchanging.
Unchanging as the belt Orion wears.
—O. W. Hommes.
Unchanging still from year to year,
Like stars returning in their sphere,
With undiminish’d rays.
— James MonTcomeEry.
Unclean.
Unclean as sin. — RicHarp REatr.
Unclose.
Lids unclose
Like petals of a pearly rose
After the rain. — OLIVER HERFoRD.
Uncoil.
Uncoiling, —
Like the rattlesnake’s shrill warning
the reverberating drum.
—O. W. Hoimes.
Uncoiled itself like a huge boa about
to engulf a tiny rabbit. — James
HUNEKER.
Uncomely.
Uncomely as a drove of pigs running
down a lane. — GEorGE Moore.
Uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable as a rooster in a
pond. — ANON.
Uncomfortable as a girl sleeping
with curl-papers. — Inrp.
Uncomfortable as a raw oyster
served with sweet pickles. —O.
HENRY.
Uncomfortable as the Lilliputians
made Gulliver with their arrows. —
Ruskin.
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Uncommon.
Uncommon as common sense. —
ANON.
Uncommon as pug noses in Jerusa-
lem. — SypnNey Munpen.
Uncomplaining.
Uncomplaining as a lamb. — Emity
Bronte.
Uncompromising.
Uncompromising as justice. — WiL-
t1aM Lioyp GARRISON.
Unconfined.
Unconfined as day. — AKENSIDE.
Unconfin’d as
' DuKE.
Unconfined as
FAWKES.
light. — Ricwarp
air. — FRANCIS
Unconfin’d as our first parents in
their Eden were. — Otway.
Unconfined, like some free port of
trade. — Popg.
Unconquerable.
Unconquerable as chewing gum. —
ARNOLD BENNETT.
Unconscious.
Unconscious as the sunshine. —
Lowe Lt.
Unconscious as a_ statue. — Sir
WALTER Scott.
Unconscious as a flower. — CELIA
THAXTER.
Unconsciously.
Unconsciously as a flower exhales
its perfume. — GrorGe Moore.
Unconsciously as water drops over a
coral reef in a tropical sea alive with
the eyes of a thousand sharks. —
TaEopore Watts-DunTON.
Unconstant.
Unconstant as the fashion. —“Jacxr
Drum’s ENTERTAINMENT.”
UNCOMMON. — UNDISTURBED.
Uncontrollable.
Uncontrollable as the wave. — C. C.
Cotton.
As uncontrollable as fate. — Wiz-
LIAM SOMERVILLE.
Uncorrected.
Uncorrected as outstretched swine.
— GrorceE MEREDITH.
Uncouth.
I was as uncouth as a sea-fish upon
the brae of'a mountain. — Ropert
Louis STEVENSON.
Unctuous.
Unctuous as Sir Toby Belch. —
ANON.
Unctuous as a hot-corn. dodger
slathered with sap. — W. C. Brann.
Undefiled.
Undefiled like mountains made of
snow. — Eric Mackay.
Understanding.
Understandings seem perfect Solids,
as dead to Wit and as insensible of
Reason as if their Souls and their
Bodies (according to Hobbes’s Philos-
ophy) were both made of the same
stuff and equally impenetrable. —
Rozsert WotsELeY.
Understood.
Harder to be understood than a piece
of Egyptian antiquity, or an Irish
manuscript. — CONGREVE.
Undimmed.:
I have carried your glance within
me undimmed, unaltered, as a lost
boat, the compass some passing ship
has lent her. — ARTHUR Hucu CLoucu.
Undistinguishable.
Undistinguishable,
Like far-off mountains turned into
clouds. — SHAKESPEARE.
Undisturbed.
Undisturb’d as Death. — CowLey.
UNDISTURBED. —— UNFATHOMABLE.
Undisturbed — continued.
Undisturbed as Justice. — SouTHEY.
Undisturbed ;
As on the pavement of a Gothic church
Walks a lone Monk, when service hath
expired,
In peace and silence.
— Worpsworts.
Undone.
All undone,
As earth from her bright body casts
off night. — SWINBURNE.
Undone, as we would undo an
oyster. — CLEMENT WALKER.
Undulate.
Undulating like the sea. — Boccac-
CIO.
Undulating like diluvian billows
fixed into stone in the midst of their
stormy swell. — BuLwer-Lytron.
Undulating, like the mane of a
lion. — Dumas, PERE.
Undulating like a snake rearing on
its tail. — GauTIER.
Long seaweed undulated beneath
the water, like the waving of long
tresses in the wind. — Hueco.
Unearthly.
Unearthly ... like the remem-
bered tone of a mute lyre. — Byron.
Uneasy.
Uneasy as a pig in a parlor. — ANon.
Uneasy like a baffled thief. —
JOSEPH CONRAD.
Unelastic.
Unelastic as a mathematical fact.
— Sypney MunpEN.
Unemotional.
Unemotional as a frozen flounder.
— Grorce BROADHURST.
Unending.
Unending as the river and the stars.
— W. E. HENLEY.
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Unerring.
Unerring as a logarithm. — ANon.
Unerring as light. —R. G. IncEr-
SOLL.
Unerring as a leopard’s leap. —
Ova.
Unexciting.
Unexciting as the rain-sodden land-
scape. — Frances Hopeson BurRNETT.
Unexpected.
Fortune came like Agag, unexpected.
— ANON.
Unexpected as chastity at the bar
of a tavern. — Isp.
Unexpected, like a thunderbolt. —
Ini.
As unexpected as a serpent comes.
— Rosert BROWNING.
Unexpected as seeing a vision. —
JosEPH CONRAD.
Unexpected as a fifth ace in a poker
deck. — ALFRED Henry LEwis.
Unexpectedly.
Unexpectedly, like a bolt out of the
blue. — CaRLYLE.
Unfaded.
Unfaded, as before it grew. — WiL-
1AM BROOME.
Unfading.
Unfading as the garden of kindness.
— ANON.
Unfair.
Unfair to rest upon such decision,
as it would be to ascribe wisdom to a
judge, merely because he is dressed
differently from other men. — WILLIAM
CooKE.
Unfashioned.
Unfashioned, like a jewel in the
mine. — ADDISON.
Unfathomable.
Unfathomable as the Pythagorean
number. — ANON.
444
Unfathomable — continued.
Unfathomable as the
WILKIE COLLINS.
Unfeeling.
Like cold marble thou art all un-
feeling. — Hoop.
heavens.—
Unfeeling as rocks. — SMOLLETT.
Unfelt.
Unfelt, like the release of death. —
SouTHEY.
Unfettered.
Unfetter’d as the windes. — Sir
WILLIAM DAVENANT.
Unfettered as the matin bird that
cleaves the radiant sky. — W. B. O.
PEABODY.
Unfettered as bees that in gardens
abide. — Worpsworru.
Unfit.
Unfit... as pure gold for cir-
culation. — C. C. Cotton.
Unfold.
Unfold themselves like flowers. —
P. J. Barer.
Unfolding, like the tree-tops of the
forest, ever rising, rising. — Lonc-
FELLOW.
Ungracious.
Ungraciousness in rendering a
benefit, like a hoarse voice, mars
the music of the song. — ANon.
Unhappy.
Unhappy as King Lear. — Anon.
Unharmful.
Unharmful as the dove. — AMBROSE
Puiiirs.
Unharmonious.
Unharmonious as a screech owl’s
serenade. — ANon.
Unhealthy.
Unhealthy as the liver of a goose
intended for paté. —IsrarL ZANGWILL.
UNFATHOMABLE, — UNIVERSAL.
Unheeded.
Unheeded as if life ‘were o’er. —
Byron.
Unheeded as a threshold brook. —
Kzats.
Unimaginative.
Unimaginative as a Chicago pig-
sticking. —G. B. SHaw.
Unintelligible.
Unintelligible as any dream. —
Dickens.
Unintentional.
Unintentional as the birth of a
thought in the head. — JoserH Con-
RAD.
United.
United, as flesh and soul in man.
—P. J. Bariey.
United as the good thoughts that
dwell in the same soul. — Maurice
MAETERLINCK.
United, like a hook and eye. —
Sypney MunpEn.
In harmony united,
Like guests that meet, and some from
far,
By cordial love invited.
— WorDswoRTH.
Unity.
Behold, how good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity | It is like the precious oint-
ment upon the head, that ran down upon
the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that
went down to the skirts of his gar-
ments. —Otp TESTAMENT.
Universal.
Universal as the sun. — BEAUMONT
AND FLETCHER.
The desire to pry into the future is
as universal as the longing after im-
mortal life. — WitLiam DuNLaP.
Universal as seasickness. —G. B.
SHaw.
UNIVERSAL, —- UNMUSICAL,
Universal — continued.
Universal as the light. — SHELiey.
Unjust.
Unjust, like the Jedburgh judges of
Border history, it first hangs the
prisoner and then tries him. — Wi-
LIAM ARCHER.
Unkind.
Unkind as fate. — ANon.
Unkind as hail. — AmsrosE Puitirs.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude. — SHAKESPEARE.
As winter’s frost unkind. — SmoL-
LETT.
Unknown.
Unknown, like a seed in fallow
ground. — T. B. Avpricu.
Unknown as bells within a Turkish
steeple. — Byron.
Unknown as the Arimaspians. —
Grorce E1iot.
Unlike.
Unlike as a wasp is to an ant. —
ANON.
Unlike as intellect and body. —
Isp.
Unlike as the pearl is unlike the
inother shell-fish. — Ipm.
Unlike as birth to death.
— AnTHony BREWER.
As unlike as Luna is to a stage
moon. — STEPHEN CHALMERS.
Unlike as diamond is to charcoal.
— GrorcE Euior.
Unlike as an apple-dumpling and
soda-cracker. — SEWELL Forp.
Unlike as British beer and sparkling
Burgundy. — Arruur HorRnsiow.
Unlikely.
Unlikely as that a mouse should fall
in love with a cat. — ANON.
445
Unlikely as that the wolf is to eat
the moon. — Inn.
Unlikely as sweet fruit plucked from
a dry tree, or sweet leaves on a dead
stem. — Ini.
Unlikely . . . as to-teach an alli-
gator the polka. — Isp.
Unlikely as that a moth intends to
be burnt when it flies into a candle
flame. — Isip.
Unlikely as to see a hog fly. — Inw.
Unlovely.
Unlovely as the corpse of a man. —
Kupiina.
Unlustrous.
Unlustrous as the smoky light
That’s fed with stinking tallow.
— SHAKESPEARE,
Unmanageable.
Unmanageable as a ton of iron ore.
— HawTHorNeE.
Unmanageable, like vicious horses
of a charioteer. — Kataa UPaNisHap.
Unmeaning.
Unmeaning words, like some of
those who call themselves physicians,
but of the healing sciences nothing
know. — Lucian.
Unmerciful.
Unmerciful as the billows. — Joun
Gay.
Unmerciful as the physician who with
new arts keeps his miserable patient
alive and in hopes, when he knows the
disease is incurable. — WYCHERLEY.
Unmoved.
Stand unmoved, like a rock ’mid
raging seas. — CALDERON.
Unmoved as a statue. — FLAUBERT.
Unmoved as death. — Homer.
Unmusical.
A strain unmusical, like adumb night-
ingale insatiate of song. — AESCHYLUS.
446
Unnatural.
Unnatural as the feverish life of the
boulevard. — IsraEL ZANGWILL.
Unnoticed.
Unnoticed as a drop of water in a
torrent. — GABORIAU.
They think they pass themselves
off unnoticed, like the Irishman’s
bad guinea, in a handful of halfpences.
— Juuius C. Hare.
Unpitied.
Unpitied as fossils in a rock. —
CHARLES READE.
Unpredestinate.
Unpredestinate as the clouds over
our heads. — ANon.
Unprofitable.
Unprofitable as picking feathers out
of molasses. — ANON.
Unprofitable as smoke. — ALEXAN-
DER BARCLAY.
Unprofitably.
Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral
urns. — CowPEr.
Unquenched.
Unquenched . . . like Vesta’s sacred
fire. — MAcauLay.
Unquiet.
Unquiet as noise shaken. — ANON.
Lay unquiet as absinth on a baby’s
stomach. — Ricuarp Harpine Davis.
Unreal.
Unreal as a dream. — F. W. Faser.
Unreal as the shell-heard sea. —
Evucene Lez-Hamitton.
Half unreal, like music mingling
with a dream. — Joun Kenyon.
Unreal as a painted city on a stage
backdrop swayed by a wandering
draft. — Louis JosepH Vance.
UNNATURAL, — UNSEEN.
Unreasonable.
Unreasonable as to expect a hook
to hold soft cheese. — ANon.
Unreconcilable,
Unreconcilable as cats and rats,
as hounds and hares. — ANon.
Unremonstrant.
Unremonstrant as a fallen tree. —
GrorcE MEREDITH.
Unresponsive.
Unresponsive to desire . . . as pup-
pets in a peepshow.—Lorp Der
TABLEY.
Unripe.
Like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Unruffled.
Unruffled as time. —Epcar Sarvs.
Unruffled as a mirror. — JULES
SANDEAU.
Unsatiate.
Unsatiate as the barren womb or
grave. — DrypDEN.
Unscrupulous.
Unscrupulous as Siegfried. — JaMEs
HUNEKER.
Unseasonable.
Unseasonable as snow in summer. —
ANON.
Unseasonable as long graces at a
feast. — THomas KILLIGREW.
Unseeing.
Unseeing stare, like that of a child
who begins to see for the first time. —
Bauzac.
Unseen.
Not seen, like arrows shot by night.
— Buppua.
Unseen, like the wind. — EpMuND
GossE.
UNSEEN. —— UNSULLIED.
Unseen — continued.
Crept stealthily and unseen, like
earth-worms to a carcase. — BULWER-
Lytron.
More unseen
Than Satan in his exile.
— Krats.
Unseen as a disbanded rainbow. —
SypNEY MunpDEN.
Unseen, as lamps in sepulchres. —
Pore.
Like a star of Heaven,
In the broad daylight,
Thou art unseen. — SHELLEY.
Unsettle.
As unsettling to us as a change of
Government to Londoners. —J. M.
BaARRIE.
Unsettles
Like a bed of stinging nettles.
— W. S. GILBERT.
Unshaken.,
Unshaken like a Thracian hill. —
RIcHARD GLOVER.
Like a rock in the sea, stands un-
shaken ; like a rock in the sea before
the rush and crash of waters, which,
amid thousands of breaking waves, is
fixed by its own weight ; the crags and
the spray-foamed stones roar about
it in vain, and the lashed seaweed
falls idly by its side. — ViraiL.
Unshunnable.
Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Unsightly.
Unsightly as the Monster in the
Tempest. — THomas Rymer.
Unsordid.
Unsordid as a bond of love. —
Rosert U. JOHNSON.
Unsparing.
Unsparing as the scourge of war. —
RoBert BLOOMFIELD.
447
Unspoken.
Unspoken,
Like daffodils that die with sheaths
unbroken. —O. W. HoLmzs.
Unstable.
Unstable as the wind. — ALEXANDER
BARCLAY.
Unstable as the waves of the sea.
— GrorGcE BisHop.
Unstable as water.—Otp Trsta-
MENT.
Unstaid.
Unstaid as rolling waves in ocean
flood. — Tasso.
Unstained.
Unstained as snow. — James LANE
ALLEN.
Unstainéd as the sun. — EMERSON.
Unstained and pure as the lily or
the mountain snow. — James THom-
SON.
Unsteady.
Unsteady as a shadow. — ANoN.
Unsteady as the eye looking at the
sun. — IBip.
Unsteady as the ocean. — GoLp-
SMITH.
Unsteady on his legs, like a young
roe scared by a leaf. — Huco.
Unsubstantial.
Unsubstantial as a ghost. — ANON.
Unsubstantial as a
BuppHa.
mirage. —
Unsubstantial, like the teasing phan-
toms of a half-conscious slumber. —
HAWTHORNE.
Unsubstantial as a bag of money in a
looking-glass. — TrLucu ProveErs.
Unsubstantial as a dream. —
Tuomas WabDE.
Unsullied.
Unsullied in life and deed as a holy
saint. —O. Henry.
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Unsullied — continued.
Unsullied as a cloistered nun. —
WHITTIER.
Untasted.
My youth’s dear sweets here spent
untasted,
Like a fair taper, with his own flame
wasted. — Ben Jonson.
Untenanted.
As untenanted of man
As a castle under ban
By a doom.
— Erastus W. ELtsworts.
Unthinkable.
Unthinkable as trees without roots.
ALFRED AYRES.
Unthinkable as a mirror that would
not reflect the objects before it. —
Franz HartTMan.
Unthrifty.
Our hedges like a wanton courtezan
Unthrifty of its beauty. |
— Oscar WILDE.
Untimely.
Like winter rose and summer ice,
Her joys are still untimely.
— Ropert SouTHWELL.
Untiring.
Untiring as the law of gravitation.
— ANON. :
Untiring as an Indian on trail. —
Ova.
Untouched.
Like the lotus, which, although it
grows in the water, yet remains un-
touched by the water. — Buppua.
Untouched as any islet
Shrined in an unknown sea.
—C. G. Rossertt.
Untrue.
It’s as true as Biglam’s cat crew, and
the cock rock’d the cradle. — Scorcu
PROVERB.
UNSULLIED. —- UNWELCOME,
Untwined.
Arms untwined, like some twin stream
That parts at last in hastening to the
sea. — Epmunp Gosse.
Untwist.
Untwisted the fond links that bound us,
Like frost wreaths, that melt in the
morning’s first beam.
— Frances ANNE KEMBLE.
Unuseful,
Unuseful, as if void of mind. —
R. D. Biackmore.
Unusual.
Unusual as a sailor on horseback. —
AntHony Hamitton.
Unvaried.
The same unvaried tone,
Like the Scotch bagpipe’s favorite
drone. — Rosert Lioyp.
Unvexed.
Unvexed . . . like the candles round
a shrine. — KipLina.
Unwasted.
Like painted lamps they shine un-
wasted. — ABRAHAM COWLEY.
Unwatched.
Unwatched, unwept, as commonly a
pauper sleeps. — Hoop.
Unwearied.
Unwearied as the heavens. — Dr
QUINCEY.
Unwelcome.
Unwelcome as snow in summer. —
ANON.
Unwelcome as water in a leaking
ship. — Inn.
Unwelcome as water in your shoe. —
Ip.
Unwelcome to a woman as a look-
ing-glass after the small-pox. — Con-
GREVE.
UNWELCOME. — UPSOAR.
Unwelcome — continued.
Unwelcome and unasked, like Ban-
quo’s Ghost, in walked the long-lost
Spouse. — Hoop.
Unwelcome to any conceit as sluttish
morsels, or wallowish potions to a
nice stomach. — Sir Tuomas OveER-
BURY.
Unwinding.
Unwinding themselves as so many
clocks. — Rosert Burron.
Unworthy.
As unworthy as to reject a comrade
In envy of his share of victory.
— Emerica Mapicu.
Unworthy of credence as an anony-
mous letter. — BranpER MatTtuews.
Unyielding.
Unyielding as a rock. — ANon.
Up.
Up and down like a bucket in a well.
— ANon.
Up like a lark in the air. — RicHarp
Harvey.
Up and down like a milk punch in
the shaker. — O. Henry.
Up and down, like a chicken drink-
ing. — LeieH Hunt.
Went up as the smoke of a furnace.
— Op TESTAMENT.
Upborne.
Upborne, like Aphrodite upon a
meadowy swell of emerald sea. —
GERALD Massey.
Uplift.
Uplifted like the everlasting dome
Which rises in the miracle sublime
over eternal Rome. — ANON.
Uplift as the hearts and the mouths
of the singers, on the leaside and lawn.
— SwINBURNE.
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Uplifted like a quivering dart. —
S. H. Tuayven.
Uplifting as a jack-screw. — DANIEL
WEBSTER.
Upright.
Upright as a ramrod. — ANON.
Upright as a sentinel. — Ipm.
As upright as a stake. — Ipp.
Upright as a young apple tree. —
R. D. Biackmore.
Upright, like a taper. — OSMANLI
PROVERB.
Upright as a tower. — CHARLES
READE.
Upright as a wooden sentinel at the
door of a puppet-show. — Str WALTER
Scorr.
Upright as the cedar. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Upright as a wild Morisco. — Inm.
Upright as a sheer cliff’s wall. —
SWINBURNE.
Upright as an heap. — Otp Trsta-
MENT.
Uprise.
Uprisen as a prayer. — P. J. Barry.
Uprising, like a bubble in a stream.
— GrRTRUDE BLoEDE.
Uprise like the islands of the Cy-
clades as seen from the mountains of
Negroponte. — Pau, Bouraet.
Uprise, like a tempestuous ocean.
— SHELLEY.
Uprising like the smoke wraith,
Blue ascending into heaven’s blue.
— E.ten Burns SHERMAN.
Uproar.
An uproar like ten thousand Smith-
field fairs. — ANon.
Upsoar.
Upsoaring like an eagle’s wings. —
Firz-Greene HaLieck.
450
Upstart.
Upstarting wild and haggard,
Like a man from dreams awakened.
— LoNGFELLOw.
Upward.
Upward tending although weak,
Like plants in mines which never saw
the sun. — Rosert Brownine.
Upward, like the simulated pyramid
of flame on a monumental urn. —
Grorce Exior.
Upward flies ;
Like holy thoughts to cloudless skies.
— Wituiam MorserweE Lt.
Useful.
About as useful as a button on a
hat. — ANoN.
Useful as a shin of beef, which has
a big bone for the big dog, a little
bone for the little dog, and a sinew
for the cat. — Inip.
Useful as a cow. — Ipip.
Useful as daylight. — Isr.
Useful as the useful. — Huco.
Useless.
Useless as a chimney until you light
your fire. — ANON.
Useless as a gun without a trigger.
— Isrp.
Useless as a disabled pitcher. —
Ini.
As useless as a monkey’s fat. —
Isp.
Useless as a sedan chair on a rail-
way. — Isip.
Useless as a shoulder of mutton to a
sick horse. — Ipip.
Useless as whispering in the ear of a
corpse. — Ipip.
Useless as a clock without wheels.
— Isp.
Useless as to stop up a rathole with
an apple dumpling. — Inrp.
UPSTART. — UTILITY.
Useless as whistling psalms to a
dead horse. — Bartuett’s ‘Diction-
ARY OF AMERICANISMS.”
Useless as a candle in a skull. —
CowPeER.
Useless as a buttonhole without a
button. — Henry Irvine Dopce.
Useless as for her hand to try to
grasp a shadow. — GrorcE Exior.
Useless as to enlarge upon the ob-
vious. — EPicTEeTus.
Useless as the leg of a man with a
sprained ankle. — Ricaarp Le Gat-
LIENNE.
Useless as a skyrocket without
powder. — CHaRLES HENDERSON.
Whose talk is as busily useless as
the babble of a stream that hurries
by a ruined mill. — R. G. INGERSOLL.
Useless as the canal constructor
without water. —G. B. Suaw.
Useless extra, like a sixth finger. —
Anton TCHEKHOV.
Useless as perfumery to a hog. —
ToLstToy. :
Uselessly-
Uselessly and without any plan,
just like ants crawling over bushes,
which creep up to the top, and then
down to the bottom again without
gaining anything. Many men spend
their lives in exactly the same fashion,
which we may call a state of restless
indolence. — SENECA.
Utility.
It is only the public situation which
this gentleman holds which entitles
me, or induces me to say a word about
him. He is a fly in amber; nobody
cares about the fly ; the only question
is, How the devil did it get there?
Nor do I attack him for the love of
the glory, but from the love of utility,
as a burgomaster hunts a rat in a
Dutch dyke, for fear it should flood a
province. — SypNry SMITH.
VACANT. — VAIN,
V
Vacant.
Vacant like air. — CHARLOTTE
BRONTE.
Vacant as the beach from which
the tide has receded. — Hamitro
Wricat Masiz.
Vacantly.
Vacantly
As ocean’s moon looks on the moon in
heaven. — SHELLEY.
Vagrant.
Vagrant as the
Forp.
wind. — JoHN
Vague.
Vague as a shadow. — ANON.
Vague like a suggestion of solid
darkness. — JosrEPH CONRAD.
Vague . . . like feathers wafted back-
wards
From passage birds in flight.
—W. D. Howe tts.
Vague and unmarked as desert
sands, — Mary JoHNSsTON.
Vague as solitary dove,
Nor knew that nests were built.
— Krats.
Vague, like the thoughts of a child.
— Kincs.ey.
A vague presentment of impending
doom,
Like ghostly footsteps In a vacant
room. — LONGFELLOW.
Vague surmise
Shines in the father’s gentle eyes,
As firelight on a window-pane
Glimmers and vanishes away.
— Isp.
Vague as futurity.— OwENn Mernz-
DITH.
Vague as the music of a moon-
bathed brook.— Francis 8. Sat-
TUS.
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Vaguely.
Vaguely, like certain luminous scenes
of the theatre back of those thin
curtains which suddenly descend on
the scenic stage, transporting the
spectators from the tumult of a ball-
room to the silence of a private house.
— Epmonpo per Amicis,
Vaguely, as in a dream. — Fitz-
James O’BRIEN. i
Vain.
Vain as a peacock. — ANON.
Vain as chasing a bug in the dark.
— Isp.
Vain as the leaf upon the stream.
— Isp.
Vain as the promises of a patent
medicine advertisement. — Iprp.
Vain as to water the plant when the
root is dead. — Inrp.
Vain as a rattle in a baby’s clutch. —
Henry B. Binns.
Vain as the passing gale. — CHar-
LOTTE BRONTE.
Vain
As for a brook to cope with ocean’s
flood. — Byron.
As organ plaiers, vnlesse some body
blowe vnto them the windie bellowes,
do make no sound at all: Euen so,
vaine men, vniess they be pricked for-
ward, with commendations and praises
of others, haue neuer any minde, or
purpose to lend themselves to any
good action. — ANTHONIE FLETCHER’S
“CERTAINE Very Proper anD Most
PROFITABLE SIMILES.”
Vain as Niobe. — ‘‘Founpiine Hos-
PITAL FoR Wir,” 1743.
Vain as the sick man’s vow, or
young man’s sigh. — WALTER Harte.
Vain as the summer’s glowing spoils
Flung o’er an early bier.
— Tuomas Kippie Hervey.
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Vain — continued.
Vain your feeble cry,
As the babe’s wailings to the thunder-
ing sky. —O. W. Homes.
Vain as a sick man’s dream.
— Horace.
Vain as swords
Against the enchased crocodiles.
— Krats.
Vain . . . as to attempt to erase what
Time has written with the Judgment
Blood. — Grorcr MerrReEpITH.
Vain and unprofitable, as is the
sunshine to a dead man’s eyes. —
H. H. Mian.
Vain as to strike an axe on a rock.
— Osmanit PRovERB.
Vain as a leaf from a tree,
As a fading day,
As veriest vanity,
As the froth and the spray
Of the hollow-billowed sea,
As what was and shall not be,
As what is and passes away.
—C. G. RosseErtt.
Vain as an idiot’s dream. — Curis-
TOPHER SMART.
Vain as to count the April drops of
rain. — SMOLLETT.
Vain as a dead man’s vision, —
SWINBURNE.
Words as vain as wind. — FrepER-
IcK TENNYSON.
Vain as a girl. — THACKERAY.
Troubles of this world are vain as
billows in a tossing sea. — Worps-
WORTH. :
Vain as a Frenchman newly re-
turned from a campaign. — WycHER-
LEY.
Vain as a gaudy-minded man. —
Youn.
Vainly.
Vainly spent, as dews on the sea.
— CHARLOTTE Brontii.
VAIN. —— VALUABLE.
Vainly as the hydra bleeds. —
ScHILLER.
Vainly given like rain upon the
herbless sea poured down by too be-
nignant heaven. — JoHN STERLING,
Valiant.
Valiant as the Cid. — ANTHONY
HAMILTON.
Valiant as Mars. — Homer.
Valiant as fire. — Ben Jonson.
Valiant as a lion. — SHAKESPEARE.
Valiant as the wrathful dove or most
magnanimous mouse. — Ii.
Valiant as Hercules. — Ism.
As valiant a man as Mark Anthony.
— Iznip.
Less valiant than the virgin in the
night. — Ipm.
Valiant as Hector in every marciall
nede. — SKELTON.
Valor.
True valor is like honesty; it
enters into all that a man sees and
does. — JosH BIL.ines.
Valor higher than that which casts
out fear. — SWINBURNE.
Valorless.
Valourless as a hare. — ANON.
Valorous.
Valorous as Cesar. — ANON.
Valorous as Hector of Troy. —
SHAKESPEARE,
Valuable.
Valuable as chiselled gold or facetted
gems. — ANon.
About as valuable as the prayers
for divine guidance in selecting a
bishop. — APPLETON Moraan.
Common sense is as inestimably
valuable as the solar light. — WiLLIAM
WINTER.
VANISH.
Vanish.
Vanished like a trifling sigh.
— Franxiin P. Apams.
Vanished altogether, like the last
spark on a burnt piece of paper. —
Hans Curistian ANDERSEN.
Vanish like a bursted bubble. —
ANon.
Vanished like a guilty thing. — Ism.
Vanished like a pantomime demon.
— Isp.
Vanished like a pie. — Inn.
Vanished like a Titanic world of
spectres. — Inm.
Like a vain> dream... vanish’d
hence, we know not how. — Ism.
Vanishing, like eerie bubbles, on
the rough, tried sea of care. — Iprp.
Vanishing like noxious exhalations.
— Isp.
Vanish like the figments of a dream.
— Isp.
Vanish like the mist in the morn-
ing. — Ipm.
Vanish like a ghost before the sun.
—P. J. Barey.
Vanished like the furrow cut by a
ship’s keel in the sea. — Bauzac.
' Vanished like dew before the morn-
ing sun. — GEorGE BEATTIE.
All vanished, like a vision vain. —
Emity Bronte.
Vanished like a fairy.—E. B.
BRownine.
Vanished like a corpse-light from a
grave. — Byron.
Vanished like dawn to the daylight
— Giosuz CaRpUcct.
Vanishes, as is his wont, too like an
Ignis Fatuus, leaving the dark still
darker. — CARLYLE.
Vanished, like a ghost at cock-
crowing. — Inip.
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Vanish like a shot. — GIovANNI
Battista Cast.
Vanishing as flies a dream. — JoHN
CLARE.
Vanish’d like dew-drops from the
spray. — W. G. CLarK.
Passed away
As Fairies vanish at the break of day.
— Hartiey CoLeripce.
Vanished away, like spectres. —
Dickens.
Vanish like a breath. — Isp.
Vanished like a discontented fairy.
— Ism.
Vanish ...as easily as an eel
into sand. — Sir A. Conan Dorie.
Gradually vanished like the receding
hill-tops. — GroreEe Exsot.
Vanish as mist before the sun. —
FLAUBERT.
Colors, like the rainbow, ever
vanished. — GILes FLETCHER.
Vanished like an empty shade. —
Puineas FLETCHER.
Vanished like a beautiful evening
cloud. — Arnr GARBORG.
Vanished like the shades of night
upon the burst of a glorious morning
in July. — Witi1am Gopwin.
Vanish like an echo or a dream. —
GoETHE.
Vanish, as by the waving of an
enchanter’s wand. — HAWTHORNE.
Vanish, like a glimmering light, that
comes we know not whence, and goes
we know not whither. — Inip.
Vanish like ephemeral things. —
Isp.
Vanish out of life as completely as
if... he lay at the bottom of the
sea. — Ip.
Vanished like a baleful star. —
P. H. Hayne.
454
Vanish — continued.
Vanished like an empty dream. —
Henrico HEINe.
Vanished . . . like the shadow of a
cloud. — Hoop.
Vanished like the enchanted castle
on the approach of the conqueror.
— Franx Horripce.
Vanished like the beautiful sparkling
hoarfrost. — Hugo.
Vanish together, as a dream of
morning flies. — Ibn.
Vanish like a fleeting dream,
The shadow of a chariot, or flash of
sword. — Isp.
Vanished like the fleeting forms
drawn in an evening cloud. — RicHarp
* Jaco.
All vanish as you shall vanish, like
a bubble thrown up from the deep. —
Louis Kossutu.
She vanished like the lightning’s
sudden gleam. — LaMARTINE.
Vanished like a fleet of cloud, like a
passing trumpet-blast, are those splen-
dors of the past. — LonerELLow.
Vanish ... like the mist of the
lake. — James MacpHERSON.
Vanished . . . like the body in the’
tomb. — D. F. McCarrtuy.
Vanished . . . like the day branch
in the fire. — Inrp.
Like the dreams of the Blind,
Vanish the glories and pomps of the
earth in the wind.
—Jamrs CLarence Manecan.
Vanish like a dew-drop in a rose.
— GrraLp Massey.
Vanish like a view caught out of
darkness by lightning. — Grorce
MEREDITH.
Vanished, like a blasted thing. —
Donatp G. MircHe.t.
Vanish like gossamers of autumn
eve. — Miss Mutock.
VANISH.
Vanished like the feathery snow in
summer’s running brooks. — Mrs.
Norton.
Vanished like a mist that melts on
the sunny hill. — Ossian.
Vanished like a scene of enchant-
ment. — JANE PorTER.
Vanished, like the airy fabric of an
Eastern tale. — Prescott.
Vanished, like a shadow fled. —
Epna D. Proctor.
He vanishes like a man who has
caused his property to be snatched
from a swindler. — Osmanu Prov-
ERB.
Vanished, like the writing from the
sand. — T. BucHanan Reap.
Like the swift shadows of Noon, like
the dreams of the blind,
Vanish the glories and pomps of the
earth in the wind.
+— Frieprica Rucker.
Vanished from our -eyes, like sun-
beam on the billow cast. — Sr WALTER
Scott.
Vanisheth as smoke from tna.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Vanish like hailstones. — Isr.
Vanish, like smoke before the tem-
pest’s stream. — SHELLEY.
Vanished, like a star into a cloud.
— ALEXANDER SMITH.
Vanish like a vision of the night. —
SOUTHEY.
Beauty vanishes like a vapor. —
Harriet P. Sporrorp.
Vanish like smoke of incense. —
Ricwarp H. Stopparp.
Vanish away like smoke. — OLD
TESTAMENT.
Vanish like a shooting star. — JoHN
Toxin,
Vanished like a mere soap-bubble.
—Josrr K. Ty1.
VANISH. — VAST.
Vanish — continued.
Vanished . . . like a feathered shaft
frae a yeoman’s bow. —Davip VED-
DER.
Evanished like a blink
Of starlight ere the mind can think.
— Frank Waters.
Vanished, like a rush
Of self-consuming flame.
— Rosert K. Weeks.
Light as a sunbeam glides along the
hills
She vanished. — WorDSsworRTH.
Vanity.
Vanity acts like a woman — they
both think they lose something when
love or praise is accorded to another.
— Batzac.
Vaprous.
Vaprous as a witch’s cauldron. —
DIcKENs.
Variable.
Variable as a shadow. — Anon.
Variable as color. — C. C. Cotton.
Variable as the weather. — FROUDE.
Variable as flickering flames. —
James MontTGoMERY.
O, woman!... variable as the
shade,
By the light quivering aspen made.
— Srr Water Scotr
Varied.
Varied as the day. — ANon.
Varied as nature. — Inp.
In France, political principles are as
varied as a restaurant bill of fare. —
Batzac.
Varied as humanity. — Dumas,
FILS.
Varied as the shapes of nothingness.
— Josz EcHEGARAY.
Varied as varying Nature’s ways. —
WHITTIER.
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Various.
Various as the words we speak. —
ANON.
Their aims as various, as the roads
they take in journeying thro’ life. —
Roserr Buarr.
Various as woman’s will. — Henry
Brooke.
Various as our palates. — RoBERT
Burton.
Various as the voices of the wind.
— Hartley CoLERIDGE.
Various as flowers on unfrequented
plains. — ConcREVE.
Various as the hues of a rainbow. —
Por.
Various as human life. — Samuen
RoGeErs.
Like
SAVAGE.
nature various. — RicHarp
Various as an April day. — JoHN
Scott.
Various as the weather. — Sir
Ricwarp STEELE.
Various as the moon. — Isaac
Watts.
Vary.
Ever varies, she can pass from gay
to severe, from fancy to science —
quick as thought passes from the
dance of a leaf, from the tint of a rain-
bow, to the theory of motion, the
problem of light. — Butwer-Lytron.
The color also of this mixture varies
in proportion to its degrees of heat
and coldness ; as a burning coal, when
it is hot, shines ; and when it is cold,
looks black. — Rospert Burton.
Vary like the rainbow’s hue. —
Byron.
Vast.
Vast as all heaven. — WILFRED S.
Bunt.
Vast as all space. —JosEPH ConRAD.
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Vast — continued.
Vast as cathedrals. — DaupET.
Vast as Phoebus on his burning
wheels. — O. W. Homes.
Vast as the mid bulk of a roof-tree’s
beam. — SWINBURNE.
Vaulted.
Vaulted like rebounding hail. —
CoLERIDGE.
Vaulted, like a balloon or kite. —
JOHN TRUMBULL.
Veer.
Veers and swings,
Like an homing swallow with night-
fall in her wings.
— Buiss CaRMAN.
Veered like changing memories. —
GrorcE Exior.
Veer
As the storm shifts of the tempestuous
year.
— SWINBURNE.
Vehement.
Vehement as_ party
SypNEY MunpEn.
Veiled.
Veiled like noontide
AuBRey Dr VERE.
spleen. —
stars. —
Thy beauty lies,
Veiled like a violet nestling in the moss.
— Ciayton Hamiuron.
Veiled like a nun. — T. Bucnanan
Reap.
Venice.
Venice is like a melancholy face of
a former beauty who has ceased to
rouge, or wipe away traces of her old
arts. — Grorce MEREDITH.
Venomous.
Venymous as a snake. — “‘BokrE or
Mayp Emtyn.”
More venomous than the asp or the
blue spider. — Huco.
VAST. — VICE.
Venture.
I have ventur’d,
Like little wanton boys that swim on
bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth: my high-
blown pride
At length broke under me; and now
has left me,
Weary and old with service, to the
mercy :
Of a rude stream, that must forever
hide me. — SHAKESPEARE.
Verse.
“ A sweete verse is that which, like a
dish with a delicate Sauce, inuites the
Reader to taste, euen against his will.
— Henry Pracnam.
Vertical.
Vertical like a stake. — CHARLES
NopiEr.
Vexed.
Vexed like a morning eagle, lost and
weary,
And purblind amid foggy midnight
wolds. — Keats.
Must I be vexed like the nightly bird,
Whose sight is loathsome to all winged
fowls. — Marlowe.
Vibrate.
Vibrated, like a coffee mill in opera-
tion. — ANon.
Vibrate like a, soft musical note. —
Batzac.
Vibrating
Like some becalmed bark beneath the
burst
Of Heaven’s immediate thunder.
— COLERIDGE.
Felt all her being vibrate as if a
violin bow were drawn over her nerves.
— FLAUBERT.
Vice.
Vices, like beasts, are fond of none
but those that feed them. — SaMUEL
BUTLER.
VICE. — VIRGINITY.
Vice — continued.
Vice, like disease, floats in the at-
mosphere. — WiLLIAM Hazuirr.
The vices operate like age, — bring
on disease before its time, and in the
prime of youth, leave the character
broken and exhausted. — Juntus.
Vice leaves repentance in the soul
like an ulcer in the flesh which is always
scratching and lacerating itself. —
MowntTaIcNne.
Every great vice is like a pike in a
pond, that devours virtues and lesser
vices. — Sir THomas OVERBURY.
He that is deeply engaged in vice,
is like a man laid fast in a bag, who, by
a faint and lazy struggling to get out,
does but spend his strength to no
purpose, and sinks himself the deeper
in it: the only way is, by a resolute
and vigorous effort to spring out, if
possible, at once. — JoHn TILLOTSON.
Vice-President.
The Vice-President of the United
States is like a man in a cataleptic
state: he can not speak; he can not
move; he suffers no pain, and yetheis
perfectly conscious of everything that
is going on about him. —’THomas
Ritty MarsHAL..
Vicious.
As vicious
As any feend that lith in helle adoun.
— CHAUCER.
Victorious.
Victorious like the crest of Mars. —
ANON.
Victory.
Triumphant in victories lyke the
Palme tree, fruitfull in hir age lyke the
Vyne, in all ages prosperous, to all men
gratious, in all places glorious: so
that there be no ende of hir praise,
vntil the ende of all flesh. — Lyty.
Vigilant.
Vigilant as the stars. — ANON.
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Vigilant as a cat to steal cream. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Vigorous.
Vigorous as fire. — Joun PomMrRret.
Vile.
Wealth vile, as the dross upon the
molten gold. — AKENSIDE.
Vindictive.
Vindictive as Philip II. — Anon.
Vindictive as a parrot. — BULWER-
LyTTon.
More vindictive than jealous love.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Violent.
Violent as a river, swollen with rain,
rushes from the mountain. — ANON.
Violent as botel in the
[store-room]. — CHAUCER.
spence
Violent as steam. — C. C. CoLron.
Violent as hunger. — WiLL1aM Row-
LEY.
Violent as poison. — VaNcE THoMP-
SON.
Virgin.
Virgins are like the fair flow’r in its
lustre,
Which in the garden enamels the
ground,
Near it the bees in play flutter and
cluster,
And gaudy butterflies frolic around.
But when once plucked ’tis no longer
alluring,
To Convent-garden ’tis sent (as yet
sweet),
There fades and shrinks, and grows past
all enduring,
Rots, stinks, and dies and is trod under
feet. —Joun Gay.
Virginity.
Virginity, like an old courtier, wears
her cap out of fashion. —SHakkE-
SPEARE.
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Virtue.
Virtue, like the sun, retains its re-
splendence, though frequently obscured
by clouds. — ANon.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain
set; and surely virtue is best in a
body that is comely, though not of
delicate features, and that hath rather
dignity of presence than beauty of
aspect. — Bacon.
Virtue is like precious odors, most
fragrant when they are incensed, or
crushed ; for prosperity doth best dis-
cover vice, but adversity doth best
discover virtue. — Inrp.
Virtue is like health, the harmony
of the whole man. — CARLISLE.
Like other plants, virtue will not
grow unless its roots be hidden, buried
from the eye of the sun. — Inn.
Virtue and learning, like gold, have
their intrinsic value ; but if they are
not polished, they certainly lose a great
deal of their lustre ; and even polished
brass will pass upon more people than
rough gold. — CHESTERFIELD.
The pleasure of a fine woman is like
that of her own virtue — not so much
in the thing, as the reputation of
having it.— CoLLEy CIBBER. *
Virtue is like the polar star, which
keeps its place, and all stars turn
towards it. — ConFUucIus.
My virtue, like a string, wound up by
art
To the same sound, when yours was
touched, took part,
At distance shook, and trembled at my
heart. — Drypen.
The virtues, like the muses, are
always seen in groups. A good prin-
ciple was never found solitary in any
breast. — Jane PortEr.
The virtues. are lost in interest, as
rivers are lost in the sea. — Rocue-
FOUCAULD.
VIRTUE. ~— VIVID.
Virtue, like the clear heavens, is
without clouds. — Sir Pare Smney.
Virtues and discourses are like
friends, necessary in all fortunes ; but
those are the best which are friends in
our sadnesses, and support us in our
sorrows and sad accidents : and in this
sense, no man that is virtuous can be
friendless. — JEREMY TAYLOR.
Virtuous.
Virtuous men. . . like some herbs
and spices that give not out their
sweet smell till: they be broken or
crushed, — Bacon.
Virtuous as holy truth. — Brav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
Virtuous as a briar-rose. — EMERSON.
A truly virtuous person is like good
metal,—the more he is fired, the
more he is fined; the more he is
opposed, the more he is approved.
Wrongs may well try him and touch
him, but they cannot imprint on him
any false stamp. — RicHELIEU.
Visible.
Visible like evanescent grave-lights.
— Grorce MEREDITH.
Visitors.
(See also Guests.)
Fares with him as it does with a
tranquil lake, which is generally. dis-
turbed by visitors. — R. R. Mapprn.
Visits.
Visits
Like those of angels, short and far
between. — Buarr.
Like angel visits, few and far he-
tween. — CAMPBELL.
Like angels’ visits, short and bright.
— Joun Norris.
Vivid.
Vivid as a photograph. — ANon.
Vivid as a dream. — Inip.
VIVID. — VOICE.
Vivid — continued.
Vivid as from painted glass.—Hoop.
Vivid as light.— Apam GorTLos
OEHLENSCHLAGER.
Vivid as a dream. — WorpsworTu.
Vividness.
A vividness as of fire in dark night.
— CARLYLE.
Vocal.
Vocal like a harpsichord touched in
its ancient neglect by a master hand ;
its voice comes back and is eloquent
again. — ANON.
Voice.
A voice like a broken phonograph.
— ANON.
Her voice was like a bagpipe suffer-
ing from tonsillitis. — Ini.
For thy voice like an echo from
Fairyland seems. — Isp.
A voice like the whistle of birds. —
ARABIAN NIGHTs.
Her voice is like the harmony of
angels. — BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
A voice like a concertina that has been
left out in the rain. — Max BrERBoHM.
A voice like the cry of an expiring
mouse, shrill and thin. — Arraur C.
BENSON.
Gruff voice, like the creaking of the
gallows-chain. — R. D. BLackmoreE.
It was a voice so mellow, so bright and
warm and round,
As if a beam of sunshine had been
melted into sound.
— Hysatmar H. Bovesen.
Voice like the music of rills. —
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
Her voice is like the evening thrush
That sings in Cessnock banks unseen,
While his mate sits nestling in the
bush. — Burns.
His voice is like the rising storm.—
BYRON.
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Liquid voice resounded like the prel-
ude of a flute. — D’Annunzio.
Voice, as pure and sweet as if from
heaven. — Aubrey Dr VERE.
Voice . . . as sweet as the murmur
of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
— Emerson.
A voice as sweet as the evening
breeze of Boreas in the pleasant month
of November. — FIe.pine.
Delicate voices, like silver bells. —
Nixotar V. Gogo.
Voice like a coyote with bronchitis.
—O. Henry.
A voice like a strained foghorn. —
W. W. Jacoss.
A voice like the fourth string of a
violoncello. — LEvEr.
Something like the voice of a frog
with a quinsy. — In.
Voice like dish-water gurgling
through a sink. — Octave MIRBEav.
Voice was like hollow wind in a cave.
— OSSIAN.
Voice, low as the summer music of
a brook. — T. BucHanan Reap.
With full voice, pute and clear, up-
lifted, as some classic melody in
sweetest legends of old minstrelsy. —
James Wuitcoms RILzEy.
Voice, as hollow as the hollow sea.
—C. G. Rossetti.
Thy voice like rills
Of silver, trills
Such sounds of liquid sweetness.
— CHARLES SANGSTER.
Voice . . . is soft like solitude’s. —
SHELLEY.
A voice like a north wind blowing
over corn stubble in January. — Cari
STANBURG.
Voice . . . likea peace-giving orison.
— Hermann SuUDERMANN.
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Voice — continued.
Voice like quiring waves. — SwIn-
BURNE.
Voice...
That rings athwart the sea whence no
man steers
Like joy-bells crossed with death-bells
in our ears. — Isp.
Bernhardt’s . . . voice is like a thing
detachable from herself, a thing which
she takes in her hands like a musical
instrument, playing on the stops cun-
ningly with her fingers. — ARTHUR
SYMONS.
A great voice, as of a trumpet. —
New Testament.
I have heard a voice as of a woman
in travail, and the anguish as of her
that bringeth forth her first child. —
Op TESTAMENT,
The tones of her voice, like the music
which seems
Murmur’d low in our ears by the Angel
of dreams. — WHITTIER.
A fall of voice,
Regretted like the nightingale’s last
note. — Worpswortu.
Voiceless.
Voiceless as silence. — ANON.
Voiceless as the sphinx. — Inm.
Voiceless as the tomb. — IBip.
Voiceless as a funeral train. —T.
BucHAaNnan REApD.
Voiceless as the past. — Tuomas
WATSON.
VOICE. — WAG.
Void.
Void of pity as chased bears, —
Tuomas Hrywoop.
Void of sense as the movement of
the trees and the sound of the winds.
— Hueco.
Void of meaning as an oak wainscot.
— Honr.
Volatile.
Volatile as fragrance from a flower.
— James MontTcoMERY.
Volatile as a bell. —Sypney Mun-
DEN.
Volatile, like autumn leaves. —
EvucGeEne Fitcu Ware.
Voluptuous.
Voluptuous as the first approach of
sleep. — Byron.
Voluptuous as a tropical night. —
Amy LEsLiz.
Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind ;
but that is the only resemblance be-
tween them. — Pascat.
Voracious.
Voracious as the monster of the Nile.
— SamvueE. Low.
Voracious as a camel, swallowing his
leaven. — OsMANLI PROVERB.
Vulgar.
Vulgar as money. — ANON.
Vulgar as the face of Commerce. —
Batzac.
Vulgar as a church warden. —
Donatp G. MitcHELL.
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Waddle.
Waddle like a duck. — Anon.
Waddled to her with the graceless
speed of a seal on land. — Berrina
von Hutrern.
Waddles like an Armenian bride. —
OsMANLI Provers.
Wag.
Wags like a lamb’s tail. — ANon.
Wagging, like a bed of clover-leaves
in the morning. —R. D. Buacx-
MORE.
Wagging like bell-clappers. — Ep-
WARD Rosins.
WAGGLE. —- WALLOW.
Wagele.
Waggled like the hilt of a sword. —
J. M. Barrie.
Wail (Noun)..
A lonely wail, like a lost child’s ery.
— ANoN.
A wail, as of a babe new-born.
— Grorce MEREDITH.
Continuous wail, like the moaning of
a winter wind. — Ourpa.
Wail like echoes from the sea. — D.
G. Rossertt.
A wail
Of impotent despair,
Like the sound that frightened
marshes hear
From some leper in his lair.
— Oscar WILDE.
Wail (Verb).
Wailed like starving infants. — ANON.
Wailing like a midnight wind. —
Ausrey Dr VERE.
Wailing like voices of woe. — ANNIE
E. Preston.
Wailed as in some flooded cave
Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave.
— SWINBURNE.
Wail . . . as one making moan for
her child. — Ipm.
Waist.
A waist, tapered as a well-twisted
cord. — AMRIOLKAIS.
Her waist like the cup of a lily. —
N. P. Wits.
Wait.
Wait,
Like trees fast rooted in the ground.
— ANON.
Wandering fires wait even on rot-
tenness like a stray gleam of thought in
an idiot’s brain. — P. J. Baruey.
Waiting, like a lamp-post. —R. D.
BLACKMORE.
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Thy pleasant youth, a little while with-
drawn,
Waits on the horizon of a brighter
sky ;
Waits, like the morn, that folds her
wings and hides
Till the slow stars bring back her
dawning hour ;
Waits, like the vanished spring, that
slumbering bides
Her own sweet time to waken bud
and flower.
— WittiamM Cutten Bryant.
Idly wait
Like lovers at the swinging gate.
—O. W. Hotes.
Waited with a frown,
Like some old raat ate ae
Who, having thrown his gauntlet
down,
Expectant leans upon his lance.
— LoNGrELLow.
My love is waiting like corked soda-
water to fly towards her.— Barry Parn.
Wake.
Was waked as by a bugle call. — T.
Bucnanan Reap.
Memories waken, like golden strings
‘neath the player’s hand. — Lapy
WILDE.
Walk.
Walks like he had gravel in his shoes.
— GEORGE ADE.
Walked like a chicken with frozen
toes. — ANON.
She walked with a proud, defiant
step, like a martyr to the Coliseum. —
Bauzac.
She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies.
— Byron.
Walk like sprites
To countenance this horror.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Wallow.
Wallow like a boar. — Bunyan.
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Wallow. — continued.
Wallow ... like a stalled cow. —
KINGSLEY.
Wan.
Wan as moonlight. —T. B. At-
DRICH.
Wan as a sea cliff. — ANON.
Wan as the watery beams of the
moon. — Isp.
Wan and mute as vapor. — Isip.
‘Wan was her lip as the lily’s petal.
— Isp.
Wan,
Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan.
— CowPER.
Wan as a wasted ember. — Epcar
Fawcett.
Wan,
As a lily in the shade.
— JEAN INGELOW.
Wan
As snow at night when the moon is
gone. — Isp.
Wan as primroses gathered at mid-
night. — Kzats.
Wan
As shows an hour-old ghost.
—C. G. Rossertt.
Wan,
Like the head and the skin of a dying
man. — SHELLEY.
Wan as ashes. — SPENSER.
As a dead face wan and dun. —
SwINBURNE.
Wan as foam blown up by the sun-
burnt sands. — Ipp.
Wan as a withered flower. — Gra-
HAM R. Tomson.
Wander.
Wandering like a passportless man.
— ArTHurR ACHESON.
Wanderings as wild as those of the
March-spirit. — CHARLOTTE BRronrii.
WALLOW. — WANE.
Wander — continued.
Wandering as the wind. — WILLIAM
CuLLEN Bryant.
Wandered up and down there like
an early Christian refugee in the cata-
combs. — JosEPH CoNRAD.
Wandering like a plaintive shadow
about the places where I dwell. —
GAUTIER.
Wanders like an unfettered stream.
— HawrTHorne.
Wander like a lost soul in a Sam
Lloyd puzzle. —O. Henry.
Wanders up and down the world like
the noble Morninger. — ARCHIBALD
MacMecuan.
Wandering, like a leaf off the tree.
— GrorcE MEREDITH.
Wander like streams through the
snow. — Mies O’REILLY.
Wanderest
Like the world’s rejected guest.
— SHELLEY.
Wander like a desert wind, without
a place of rest. — ALEXANDER SMITH.
Wander from mistress to mistress,
like a pilgrim from town to town, who
every night must have a fresh lodging,
and ’s in haste to be gone in the morn-
ing. — VANBRUGH.
Wandered about at random, like dogs
that have lost the scent. — VoLTAIRE.
I wander’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills.
— Worpsworta.
Wanders like a gliding ghost. —Ipm.
Wane.
Each with an aspect never. twice the
same,
Waxing and waning as the new-born
host of fancies, like a single night’s .
hoar-frost.
— Ropert Browning.
WANE. — WARM.
Wane — continued.
Wane,
Like melodies upon a sandy plain,
Without an echo. — Keats.
Wanes,
As a dream dies down and is dead.
— SWINBURNE.
Want.
Want’s like an Irish bog, wherein who
sticketh,
By striving to get out, still deeper
sinketh. — Martiat.
Want is like the rack: it draws a
man to endanger himself to the gallows
rather than endure it. — Crrit Tour-
NEUR.
Wanton.
Wanton as a calf with two dams. —
ANON.
Wanton as a young widow. — Con-
GREVE.
Wanton... as a cat in a bowl of
water. — MASSINGER.
Wanton as a_ child. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Wanton as youthful goats. — Ibm.
War.
A civil war, indeed, is like the heat
of a fever ; but a foreign war is like
the heat of exercise, and serveth to
keep the body in health; for, in a
slothful peace, both courages will
effeminate and manners corrupt. —
Bacon.
Warble.
Warbled like a bird in a sweet
summer place. — ANON.
Warbled like a happy bird. — Ep-
MUND GOSSE.
The ‘spring of life warbled through
her heart as a brook sometimes war-
bles through a pleasant dell. — Haw-
THORNE.
Warble like the birds in June. —
Hoop.
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Wariest.
It is good to take the safest and
wariest way in general, like the
going softly by one that cannot well
see. — Bacon.
Warlike.
Warlike as the
SPEARE.
wolf. — SHAKE-
Warm.
Warm as a mouse in a churn. —
ANON.
Warm as sunbeams. — Ipip.
Warm as the glow of a topaz. — Isp.
Warm as Venus. — Inp.
Warm as a cricket. — R. D. BLAcK-
MORE.
Warm as red sky’s passing blush. —
CuarLorre BRONTE.
Warm as the spark Prometheus
stole. — E1iza Cook.
Warm in affection as Phoebus at
noon. — JoHN G. CoopER.
Warm as ecstasy. — CowPER.
Warm as a prayer in Paradise. —
GrorcE DarLey.
Warm as mead by May breezes
fanned. — AuBREY De VERE.
Warm as sun at noon’s high hour.
— Pau. Laurence DunBaAR.
Warms the soul,
Like the blushing bowl.
— Francis M. FRENcH.
Warm as toast. — JoHN Gay.
Warm as the zeal of youth when
first inspired. — Inrp.
Warm as a sunned cat. — Taomas
Harpy.
Warmed, like a dove fledging in its
downy nest. — CHARLES Harpur.
Warm as if the brush
Of Titian or Velasquez brought the flush
Of life into their features.
— 0. W. Homes.
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Warm — continued.
Warm as young blood. — Hoop.
Warm as when Aurora rushes
Freshly from the god’s embrace,
With all her shame upon her face.
— Isp.
Warm as a dove’s nest among sum-
mer trees. — KEats.
Warm as Cytherea. — Grorce Mac-
HEnry.
Her touch was as warm as the tinge
of the clover
Burnt brown as it reached to the kiss
-of the sun. — JoAQUIN MILLER.
Warm and meek,
Like curls upon a rosy cheek.
— Tuomas Moore.
Warm as life. — JoHn Payne.
Warm as wool. — JoHN PEELE.
Warm and cosy as a bird nest. —
ALEXANDER SMITH.
Warm as a stove. — STERNE.
Warm and soft as the dome aloft.
— SwINBURNE.
Glow warm as the thyme. — Inip.
Warm as a new-made bride. —
Bayarp Taytor.
Warm as a love-sick poet’s muse. —
WILLIAM THOMSON.
Warm as sunshine. — Worpswortu.
Warn.
‘Warn, like the one drop of rain on
your face, ere the storm. — GrorcE P.
Laturop.
Warrior.
Great warriors, like great earth-
quakes, are principally remembered for
the mischief they have done. — C. N.
Bove.
Wary.
Wary as a fox. — ANON.
Wary as a blind horse. — THomas
Futier, M.D.
WARM. — WATCH.
Wary as those that trade in poison,
— JoHN WEBSTER.
Waste.
Wasted like the mountain snowe,
before warme Phoebus’ shine. — Enc-
LisH BALLAD.
Wasted, like a sermon for the dead.
— AMBROSE BIERCE.
Wasted like well-streams. — RoBEert
BRownine.
Waste ... like April snow in the
warm noon.— WILLIAM CULLEN
BRYANT.
Waste as fast as dyke water. —
WILLIAM Carr’s “THE DIALECT oF
CRAVEN.”
As the drained fountain, filled with
autumn leaves,
The field swept naked of its garnered
sheaves ;
So wastes at noon the promise of our
dawn,
The springs all choking, and the
harvest gone.
—O. W. Ho.mes.
Waste like a wilderness. — Lonc-
FELLOW.
Wasted, as the snow congealed
When the bright sunne his beams there-
on doth beat. — SPENSER.
Wasted
Like an ember among the fallen em-
bers. — SWINBURNE.
Waste like death. — Isp.
Wasteful.
Wasteful as a hen. — WELSH Prov-
ERB.
Watch.
Watch, like a mourner.—H. C.
KENDALL.
Watch, like terriers at a rat’s hole.
— Kincs.ey.
Watch, like one that fears robbing.
— SHAKESPEARE.
WATCHFUL. — WEAK.
Watchful.
Watchful as a sentinel. — ANon.
Watchful as the eye of a bird. —
Isp.
Watchful as a bellman. — Brav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
Watchful as a spider sits in his web.
— Butwer-Lytron.
Watchful as the step of a mother by
the couch of her sick child. — Ism.
Watching every glance of him like a
British house-dog that will not be
taken in with suspicious travelers if he
can help it. — CARLYLE.
Watchful like owls awake. — G. K.
CHESTERTON.
He was trying to see, with that
watchful manner of a seaman who
stares into the wind’s eye, as if into
the eye of an adversary. — JosEPH
ConraD.
Watchful as spirits. — CowLry.
Watchful as when fowlers their
game will spring. — Orway.
Watchful, as a leopard is. — D. G.
Rosser 1.
Watchful as a wheeling eagle. —
Worpswortu.
Watchfulness.
A soul without watchfulness is like
a city without walls, exposed to the
inroads of all its enemies. — THOMAS
SECKER.
Wave.
Waving like mermaids’
ANON.
Waving like the bosom of an
Amazon. — Inp.
His fair hair waved backward like
that of the angel upon his sombre car
of stars. — Huao.
Waving like a hand that beckons.
— LONGFELLOW.
hair. —
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Waved like blessing hands. —
GeRALD Massey.
Waved like autumn-corn. — Sir
Watter Scorr.
Fence . . . waved like cobweb in
the gale. — Ism.
Waved like the enridged sea. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Waved like a penon wyde dispred.
— SPENSER.
Wave as with swing of the sea
When the mid tide sways at its height.
— SWINBURNE.
Her slender figure waved, like some
light cypress when the merry winds
carol midst the yielding boughs. —
JosEPH TURNLEY.
Waver.
Wavering as Hamlet. — ANon.
Wavers like a dry flame. — ARTHUR
C. Benson.
Wavers like a_ will-o-the-wisp. —
Witiiam Back.
He that wavereth is like a wave of
the sea driven with the wind and
tossed. — New TESTAMENT.
Wavered like a summer rill,
As her soft bosom rose and fell.
— Wiuuiam B. Yrats.
Wax.
His face waxed like as sunburnt
grass. — SWINBURNE.
Wayward.
Wayward as a flame. — ANon.
Wayward as the swallow overhead
at set of sun. — Grorcn MEreEpITH.
Wayward as wind. — WILLIAM
MortTHERWELL.
Weak.
Weak as a cat. — ANON.
Weak as alamb that can’t stand the
weight of its own wool. — Isip.
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Weak — continued.
Weak as unfledged nestling in the
falcon’s grip. — THomas ASHE.
Weak as fear of shame. —HARTLEY
CoLeRmcE.
Weak as palsy. — Lorp Dr TaBLey-
Weak as a reed. — DICKENS.
Weak as flesh. — Isr.
Weak as an eddy in the sandy wind.
— Epmunp Gossz.
Weak as a bled calf. — THomas
Harpy.
Weak as spider’s skein. — Krats.
Weak as young corn withered,
whereof no man may gather and make
bread. — ANDREW Lana.
Weak as a poor straw upon a tor-
rent’s breast. — M. G. Lewis.
Weake as sheepe. — Lyty.
Weaker than a woman’s tear. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Weaker than the wine. — Isp.
Small at first, and weak and frail
Like the vapor of a vale. — SHELLEY.
Weak as a flower that sways with
every wind. — ALEXANDER SMITH.
Weak as foam on the sands. —
SwINBURNE.
Weak as hearts made sick with hope
deferred. — Iprp.
Weak as snow. — Inip.
Repentance . . . weak as night de-
voured by day. — Inp.
Weaker than the worm. — Inn.
Weak as the Roman Chief, who
strove to hide
His father’s cot (and once his father’s
pride)
By casing a low shed of rural mould
With marble walls, and roof adorned
with gold. — Pautus SyLiocus.
Emanations weak as rain. — IBip.
WEAK. —— WEDGE.
Weak as the puny rillets of the hill.
— Isp.
Weak as water. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Weak as gruel.— Louis Unrter-
MEYER.
Weak as a lamb the hour that it is
yeaned. — WorDSWORTH.
Wealth.
Wealth, like rheum, falls upon the
weakest parts. — ANON.
Wealth is like a child’s rattle, which
pleases for a moment, and is enjoyed
no more. — Rosert Burton.
His wealth increaseth, and the more
he hath, the more he wants: like
Pharaoh’s lean kine, which devoured
the fat, and were not satisfied. —IBip.
Wealth is like a viper, which is
harmless if a man knows how to take
hold of it ; but if he does not, it will
twine round his hand and bite him. —
Saint CLEMENT.
Weary.
Wearied as a finch in a cage. —
ANON.
Weary as
Isp.
a haystack-sleeper. —
Weary, with her hard embracing,
Like a wild bird being tamed with too
much handling,
Or as the fleet-foot roe that’s tired
with chasing,
Or like the froward infant still’d with
dandling. — SHAKESPEARE.
Wearily.
Wearily,
Like those whom living tires.
— Tuomas Harpy.
Weatherbeaten.
Weatherbeaten as a fisherman’s oar.
— THomas Wank.
Wedge.
Wedg’d in one body, like a flock of
cranes. — Homer (Pope).
WEDLOCK. — WELCOME.
Wedlock.
Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared
been
To public feasts, where meet the public
rout.
Where they that are without would
fain go in,
And they that are within would fain
go out. —Sir Joun Davis.
Wedlock’s like wine, — not properly
judged of till the second glass. —
Dove tas JERROLD.
Honest wedlock
Is like a banqueting house built in a
garden,
On which the spring’s chaste flowers
take delight
To cast their modest odours.
— Tuomas Mmp.ieron.
Weep.
Weeps like a walrus o’er the waning
moon. — ANON.
Wept like a lost child. — GzorcE
W. Bacsy.
Weep like a cut vine-twig. —RoBErt
Brownine.
Wept like a baffled child. — Bui-
weEr-LyYTTron.
Weep like a crocodile. — Ropert
Burton.
Weepe as dooth a child that is ybete.
— CHAUCER.
Weep . . . like a dear innocent child
bitterly afflicted. —La Morre Fov-
QuE.
I must seem like a hanging moon, a
little waterish for a while. — THomas
MIpDLeTon.
Like a fair flower surcharged with
dew, she weeps. — MILTon.
T’m weeping like a willow
That droops in leaf and bough.
—G. P. Morris.
Weep, like a young wench that had
buried her grandam. — SHAKESPEARE.
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Weeps like a wench that had shed
her milk. — Isp.
Weigh.
Weigh like the shillings on a dead
man’s eyes. —O. W. Hotmrs.
‘Weighs a man down like a hod of
mortar. — N. P. WILus.
Weird.
Weird as the elfin lights that glim-
mer of frosty nights. — T. B. AL-
DRICH.
Weird as a_ witch’s
scream. —
CHARLES KINGSLEY.
Weirdly.
Weirdly, like a dream. — Larcap1o
Hearn.
Welcome (Adjective).
Welcome as land to sailors long at
sea. — AESCHYLUS.
About as welcome as a bullet. —
ANON.
Welcome as water in a leaking ship.
— Isp.
About as welcome as a coffin at a
wooden wedding. — Isp.
Welcome as the clang of the dinner
bell. — In.
Welcome as an engagement ring to
an old maid. — Ism.
Welcome as a good-natured friend
who makes short calls. — Inm.
Welcome as dew on parched flowers.
— Isp.
As welcome as sunshine
In every place
Is the beaming approach
Of a good-natured face.
— Isp.
Welcome as a rainstorm in Hell. —
Grorce Vaux Bacon.
Welcome as Eden. — Byron.
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Welcome — continued.
Welcome, like one tiny islet of
Reality amid the shoreless sea of Phan-
tasms, to the reflective mind, seriously
loving and seeking what is worthy
and memorable, seriously hating and
avoiding what is the reverse, and intent
not to play the dilettante in this world.
— CARLYLE.
Welcome as water into one’s shoes.
— Drenuam’s ‘“‘Foik-Lore NortH or
ENGLAND.”
As welcome as the haven to the
tempest-driven ship. — BARTHOLOMEW
Dow.inea.
Welcome as flowers that bloom in
the spring. — W. S. GiLBErt.
Welcome as a pole-cat at a picnic.
— CuarLes HENDERSON.
Welcome as peace after destructive
war. — Ropert Herrick.
Welcome as the bird to the elm-tree
bough. — Lowe tt.
Welcome as a boon long sought. —
Evan MacCott.
Welcome as stones in oats to horse.
— “NewS FROM CHELSMFORD.”
Welcome as flowers in May. — JoHn
Ray’s “ HANDBOOK or PROVERBS.”
Welcome . . . as the deluge of early
spring rain. — Francis S. Saurus.
Welcome . . . as dewy cherries to the
taste in June,
As shady lanes to travelers at noon.
— Joun Scorr.
Welcome hither
As is the spring to the earth.
— SHAKESPEARE.
The night to the owl and morn to
the lark less welcome. — Ini.
Welcome as dogs unto a church they
are. — JOHN TAYLor.
Welcome! as beauty to the lovesick
swain,
For which he long had sigh’d in vain.
— Wiiuiam TxHomson.
WELCOME. —— WHANG.
Welcome as the discovery of a five-
dollar bill in an old coat to a salaried
man the morning before pay day. —
WALTER TRUMBULL.
Welcome as the rear view of a grizzly
bear to a hunter who has left his fire-
arms at home. — Inm.
Welcome to my tranced view,
As battle-yell to warrior’s ear.
— WHITTIER.
Welcome as a star. — WoRDSWwoRTH.
Welcome (Verb).
Welcome as a child left in the haunt-
ing dark welcomes the entrance of
light. — BuLwer-Lytron.
Well.
Welled from out her happy heart
like the carol of a bird. — Saran
JosepHa Har.
Welter.
Weltering, shall I say, like an Egyp-
tian pitcher of tamed vipers, each
struggling to get its head above the
others. — CARLYLE.
Poor Mugno! there he welters, like
a toast at bottom of a tankard!—
Horace Smita.
Wet.
Wet as a fish. — ANON.
Weet, as beest is in the reyn. —
CHAUCER.
Her face with little drops was wet
Like pansy petals after rain.
— Norman GALe.
Wet as a drowned rat. — THomas
HeEywoop.
Wet as a dog in the rain. — James
HUNEKER.
Wet as the slush of a quagmire. —
Ovuma.
Whang.
Whanged agin my ribs like a old-
fashioned wheat Flale agin a barn door.
— ArTemus Warp.
WHEELING. —— WHISPER.
Wheeling.
Grenadiers continually wheeling, like
so many reapers steady among wind-
tossed grain. — CARLYLE.
Wheeze.
Wheeze like a calliope with sore
tonsils. — ANON.
Whelmed.
Whelmed me like a flood. —C. G.
RosseErmt.
Whelmed like the Egyptian tyrant’s
impetuous host. — SouTHEY.
Whet.
Appetite whets, like the world-
famous bark of Peru. — Bret Harve.
Whimper.
Whimper like a child for dread. —
Buiiss CARMAN.
Whimpers like a lowing cow. — JoHN
Gay.
Whimpered like a woman. — Lone-
FELLOW.
Whimpers like a cur. — ARTHUR
Symons.
Whine.
Whine like wind at a keyhole. —
ANoN.
Whyning like a Pigge halfe rosted.
— Ly ty.
Whined like a leashed wolf-pack. —
ALFRED NoyEs.
He whines like a Jew whose house is
burnt. — OsMANLI PROVERB.
Whip.
Whipped like a cur. — ANON.
Whipped like tops in Lent. — Ben
JONSON.
Whipped like green rye. — RaBe-
LAIS.
Whir.
Whir like the noise of an eagle’s
wings. — Ouma.
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Whirl.
Whirl’d away like flakes of foam. —
ARSCHYLUS.
Whirl like a scourge in the air. —
ANON.
Whirl’d like a leaf.—G. F. S.
ARMSTRONG.
Blades whirled like spirited spray.
— Laurence Binyon.
Whirling like dust. — JoszpH Con-
RAD
Whirling . . . like the- sand doth
when the whirlwind breathes. —
DANTE.
Whirled like Ixion’s wheel. — Eurir-
IDES.
Whirling . . . as in jubilee of child-
like sport. — E. T. A. Horrmann.
Whirl along, like pebbles in a stream.
O. W. Hommes.
Whirling like a windmill. — Kir-
LING.
Whirled it round him like a rattler.
— LoNGFELLOW.
Whirl, like maelstrom in the ocean.
— Epwin Marxuam.
Whirled like a potter’s wheel. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Whirl ... like the leaves of a
forest grown withered and dry. — Car-
MEN SYLVA.
Whirl as if a tempest flung them. —
Bayarp TAayYLor.
Whirled in a swift and cloudy tur-
bulence, as when some star of Eblis
downward hurled by Allah’s bolt,
sweeps with its burning hair the waste
of darkness. — Ipip.
Whisker.
(See also Beard).
Fetlock whiskers, like that worn by
a Percheron stallion. — ANon.
Whisper.
Whispers like the low wind’s sighs.
— AuicE Cary.
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Whisper — continued.
Whisper like the voice within the
shell. — Lewis Morris.
Whispered like the restless brook. —
C. G. RossErrt.
Whistle.
Whistling like the thrushes
With voice in silver gushes.
— Leicn Hunt.
Whistles like the jackal’s scream. —
SCHILLER.
Whistle, like a devil’s baby. —
STEPHEN SMITH.
White.
White as a moonlit sail. — Witt1am
ALEXANDER.
White as the necks of swans. —
JAMES LANE ALLEN.
White as a bean. — ANon.
White as lime. — Inip.
White as a baby’s arm. — IBm.
White as a diamond. — Isp.
White as a doll. — Inip.
White as a dove. — Insp.
White as a fish. — Ini.
White as a flock of sheep. — Isip.
White as a ghost. — Ini.
White as a live terrier. — IBin.
White as a pillow. —Isp.
White as arsenic. — Inn.
White as a sheet. — Inm.
White as a shroud. — Isp.
White as a spirit. — Isp.
White as a statue. — Isp.
White as a sycamore. — Ipm.
White as a whale’s tooth. — Inn.
White as chastity. — Ipm.
White as his neck-cloth. — Inm,
White as salt. — Ipip.
WHISPER.
— WHITE.
White as silver. — Ibm.
White as sin forgiven. — Ipm.
White as sunbeams. — Inn.
White as the breakers’ foam. — Isr.
White as the breast of a gull. —
Ip.
White as the blossoms of the almond
tree. — IBrp.
White as the foam that danced on
the billow’s height. — Isp.
White as the gown of a bride. —
Ipip.
White as the hand of Moses. —
Ipm.
White as the snowy white rose that
in the moonlight sighs. — Isip.
White as white satin. — Ii.
White like the inside of a shoulder
of mutton. — Isip.
White as the stem of a young palm.
— ARABIAN.
White as paper of Syria. — Ini.
White
Nicuts.
as camphor. — ARABIAN
Brow white as day. — Is.
White as morning. — IBip.
White as the full moon when it
mooneth on its fourteenth night, —
Isp.
White like egg of the pigeon hen. —
Isp.
White
ARCHER.
White as frost on field. —W. E.
AYTOUN.
as. bismuth. — WILLIAM
A maid as white as ivory bone. —
EneusH Bauuap.
White as
Baap.
snow-drops. — SERVIAN
Purely white as the mountain snow.
— WetsH Batiap.
White as porcelain. — Bauzac.
WHITE.
White — continued.
White as soap. — R. H. Barwam.
White as the hawthorn’s crown. —
Mary Barry.
White as a thread by hands of angels
spun. — Francis BEAUMONT.
Whiter than mountain snow hath
ever been. — Is.
White as swanne.—Sim . Harry
BEAUMONT.
Soul as white as heaven. — Brav-
MONT AND FLETCHER.
White as innocence herself. — In.
White as the foaming sea. — Park
BENJAMIN.
White as snow. — Bion.
White as an angel. — WILLIAM
BLAKE.
White as foam-drift in the moony
shimmer of starlit, wave-pavilioned
dells. — MataitpE Buiinp.
White as the sun. — Emity BRronté.
White as candles against the altar’s
gold. — Katuerine H. Brown.
White as foam thrown upon rocks
from the old-spent wave.—E. B.
BRownine.
White as gulls. — Isp.
White as moonshine. — IBmp.
White as wax. — Ini.
White like a cloud at fall of snow. —
Ipm.
White like a spirit’s hand. — Inm.
White with coming buds, like the
bright side of a sorrow. — RoBERT
BRowNING.
White as a curd. — Izrp.
White as the winding-sheet. —
Rosert BucHANAN.
White as death. — Butwer-Lytron.
White, as if she lived on blanched
almonds. — Isp.
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White as a clout. — Bunyan.
As white’s a daisy. — Burns.
White as the thoughts of an angel.
— Mary Frances Butts.
White as a white sail on a dusky sea.
— Byron.
White as fleece. — Atice Cary.
White as a cloth. — Briss CARMAN.
White as the chaulkie clyffes of
Brittaines isle. — CHATTERTON.
Whyte hys rade [neck] as the som-
mer snowe. — IB.
Whit as chalk. — CHAUCER.
Whyte as floure. — Inm.
Whit as is a lylie flour. — Iprp.
Whyte as lylye or rose in rys [twig].
— Isp.
White as snowe falle newe. — Inm.
White of hewe,
As snowe on braunche snawed newe.
— Ism.
White was his berd as is the dayesie.
— Isp.
Whit was as the flour delys (Flower-
de-luce). — Ii.
White as
CHINESE.
a flock of egrets. —
Gleaming white, like peach and
plum blossoms. — Isp.
Dressed in white — all white, like a
bride or a bandaged thumb. — Irvin
S. Coss.
White as new-plucked cotton. —
Freperick S. Cozzens.
White as an
AvuBREY DE VERE.
White as ashes. — DICKENS.
Hands . . . white, as if the blood
began to chill there. — Dumas, PERE.
infant’s spirit. —
As white as teeth of twenty-five
years old. — Ipm,
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White — continued.
A sail as white as blossom upon
spray. — Wituiam DunsBar.
The beautiful young lady, all in
white, like a lily in the night, or the
moon sweeping over a cloudless sky. —
JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF.
White as the canna upon the moor.
— Ancient Erse.
White as snow-wreath in the eye of
spring. — F. W. Faser.
White as molten glass. — PHINEAS
FLETCHER. ‘
Breasts
As white as hedgeside May.
— Norman GALE.
White and awful as a_ shroud-
enfolded ghost. — RicHarD GARNETT.
His beard was whiter than the
feathers which veil the breast of the
penguin. — GoLpsMITH.
~ Pure and white,
As some shy spirit in a haunted place.
— P. H. Hayne.
White as the lips of passion. — Ini.
As white as bear’s teeth. — THomas
HeEywoop.
As white as the pale ashes of a
wasted coal. — J. G. Hotianp.
White as sea-bleached shells. —
Homes.
White as the sea-gull. — Inm.
White as Irish linen. — Hoop.
White as parading breeches. — Inn.
White as a chicken. — Hugo.
White as the gowan [daisy]. —
JoHN IMLAH.
White,
Like ships in heaven full-sailed.
— Jean INGELow.
White as the snowy rose of Guelder-
land. — Isp.
White as flocks new-shorn. — Krats.
WHITE.
Whiter than a star. — Ism.
White as the moon. — Omar Kauay-
YAM
White as the wonder undefiled of
Eve just wakened in Paradise. —
Harriet McEwen KImMpat.
White as an embodied hush. —
Ipm.
Thin-flanked woman, as white and
as stale as a bone. — Kipiina.
White as an angel clad in light. —
—J. S. KNowtes.
White, like the apparition of a dead
rainbow. — CHARLES Lams.
White as maiden purity. — Miss
Lanpon.
White,
Like a gravestone seen in the pale
moonlight. — Inw.
White as Ketak’s snow flower. —
“Lays oF ANCIENT INDIA.”
White as a nun.—Ricnarp Ls
GALLIENNE.
White as ivory. — Isp.
White as the face of the dead. —
CAMILLE LEMONNIER.
Whiter than the downy spray. —
JoHN LEYDEN.
White as a live terror.—GEORGE
Casot LopGE.
White as a cloud that floats and
fades in the air. — LonGreLLow.
White as a schoolboy’s paper kite. —
Ini.
White as seas’ fog. — Iprp.
White as the gleam of a receding
sail. — Inn.
White as a dove. — Lover.
White as thistle-down. — LowEL.
White as alabaster. — Ly zy.
White as driven snow. — IBp.
WHITE.
White — continued.
White as untrod snow. — Lewis
Macuin.
White as the foam of streams. —
JAMES MacpHERSON.
White as the whitest foam of the sea
That tosses its waves under fervent skies,
Or a feather dropped from an angel’s
wing
As it leant o’er the walls of Paradise.
—A. W. Marswatt.
White and pure as any bridal veil.
— Guy pe Maupassant.
Sightless white, like eyes of lifeless
stone. — Wittiam J. MIcKLE.
White as the bloom o’ the pear. —
— Wituiam Miter.
White as a sinner’s shroud. — Miss
Mutock.
White as virgin’s pall. — Inn.
Lilly-white as a lady’s marrying
smock. — THomas NasH.
Venerable beard
White, hoary like the foam o’ the sea.
— Enrico NENcIonI.
White
Like girls for a first communion dight.
— Ropen Noe.
White . . . like angels in their as-
cension clothes, waiting for those who
prayed below. — Firz-Jamzs O'BRIEN.
White as a winter home. — JoHN
Payne.
White as is the new blown bell
Of that frail flower that loves the wind.
— Isp.
As white...as clay. —W. M.
PRAED.
White as the waxen petal of the
flowers. — HELEN C. PRINCE.
White like a young flock,
Coeval, newly shorn, from the clear
brook recent, and branching on the
sunny rock.
— Matruew Prior.
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White as swans. — RaBELAIsS.
White as fear. — Orr Reap.
White as the living cheek opposed.
— CHARLES READE.
White as grit. — James WaItcomp
Riney. °
White as the cream-crested wave. —
Ini.
White as the gleam of her beckoning
hand. — Inn.
White a hand as lilies in the sun-
light. — C. G. Rossetti.
White as the moon lies in the lap of
night. — Ipm.
White like flame. — Inm.
Whiter than sawn ivory. — Ruskin.
Wings as white as a dream of snow
in love and light. — A. J. Ryan.
White as Dinlay’s spotless snoe. —
Smr Watter Scott.
White as a lily. — SHAKESPEARE.
Soft as dove’s down and as white. —
Ipw.
White his shroud as the mountain
snow. — IBID.
Teeth as white as whale’s bone. —
Inw. :
Perfect white
Show’d like an April daisy on the grass.
—Ism.
White as the foam o’ the sea
That is driven o’er billows of azure
agleam with sun-yellow.
— WILLIAM SHARP.
White as isinglass. — G. B. SHaw.
Whitens like steel in a furnace. —
Isp.
White with the whiteness of what is
dead,
Like troops of ghosts on the dry wind
past. — SHELLEY.
White as a swan’s stray feather. —
H. B. Sirs.
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White — continued.
White . . . like the flying cloud at
noon. — SOUTHEY.
White as the swan’s breast. —
Isp.
White, withouten spot or pride, that
seemed like silke and silver woven
neare. — SPENSER.
White . . . like a dazie in a field of
grass. — Sir JoHN SUCKLING.
White as a custard. — Swirt.
White as dead stark-stricken dove.
— SWINBURNE.
White as faith’s and age’s hue. —
Isp.
White as moonlight snows. — Ipm.
White as the live heart of light.
— Isp.
_ White as the sparkle of snow-flowers
in the sun. — Ipip.
White as the unfruitful thorn-flower.
—Ism.
White as mountain cotton-grass. —
“Trisa Eric Tass.”
White as any flower. — TENNYSON.
White as privet. — Im.
White as utter truth. — Inm.
White as the light. — New Tzsta-
MENT.
It was like coriander seed, white. —
Op TESTAMENT.
Whiter than milk. — Is.
White as a ceiling. — THACKERAY.
I turned as white as cold boil’d veal.
— Is.
White, and ghastly, like an army of
tombstones by moonlight. — Ipm,
Like the mists of spring, all silvery
white. — “ Tue Hagoromo.”
More white than curds. — TaEoc-
RITUS.
WHITE. — WHOOP.
Slight and white as a peeled wand.
— Vance THompson.
White as sculptured stone. —F. F.
TIERNAN.
_ White as the down of angel’s wings.
— J. T. TRowBrwes.
White, like the Shah of Persia’s
diamond plume. — Mark Twain.
White as Carrara marble. — TuEo-
DORE Watts-DUNTON.
White as evening clouds. —C. J,
WELLS.
White as the wings of prayer. —
WHITTIER.
Stainless white,
Like ivory bathed in still moonlight.
— Isp.
Whiter than a moony pearl. —
Oscar WILDE.
White as a charnel bone. —N. P.
WILLIs.
White as flashing icicle. — Inm.
Whiz.
Whizzes like a hot iron. — Far-
QUHAR.
It whizzes like the waters from a mill.
— CHRISTOPHER PITT.
Whole.
Whole as a fish. — SHAKESPEARE.
Whole as the marble. — Ini.
Wholesome.
Wholesome as ass’s milk. — ANON.
Wholesome as the morning air. —
CHAPMAN.
Wholesome as Heaven. — Haw-
THORNE.
Whoop.
Whoop like boys, at rounders. —
KIncsLey.
Whooped like a Bacchanal. — Sir
Watter Scott.
Whooping like artillery. — Henry
D. Tuorgav.
WICKED. — WILD.
Wicked (Adjective).
Wicked as a lie. — Zoua.
Wicked (Noun).
The wicked, even whilst receiving
favors, incline to their natural disposi-
tions, as a dog’s tail, after every part
of anointing and chafing, to its natural
bend. — HiropapEsa.
But the wicked are like the troubled
sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters
cast up mire and dirt. — Op Testa-
MENT.
Wide.
Wide as a barn door, — ANon.
Wide as the poles asunder. — Isip.
Wide stretching as the earth. — Ism.
As wide as land. — ALFRED AUSTIN.
Wide as the sea’s perpetual flow. —
HeErsert Bates.
Wide as night is wide. — WILFRED
CAMPBELL.
Wide as the mouth of a wallet. —
Tuomas DEKKER.
Wide as Shakespeare’s soul. — Syp-
NEY DoBELL.
Wide-awake
PERE.
as mice. — Dumas,
Wide as hope. — Emerson.
Wide as the unbridged gulf that
yawns between the rich man and the
beggar. — J. G. HoL.anp.
As wide as the world is. — LANGLAND.
Wide as a church door. — SHAKE-
SPEARE.
Wide as life. — SWINBURNE.
Wide as woe. — WILLIAM Watson.
Wide as human thought. — Wuirt-
TIER.
Wide as the difference between death
and life. — Iip.
Widespread.
Widespread as a tent at noon.—
Oscar WILDE.
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Widow.
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily
from their perch. — BRUYERE.
A widow is like a frigate of which the
first captain has been shipwrecked. —
ALPHONSE Karr.
Wife.
A cigar is like a wife!
Put it up to your lips, and light it ;
When you’ve learned to do it right, it
‘Adds a certain zest to life.
Mind you keep on puffing it,
Or it’s out, and can’t be lit.
Ah, the aroma! Ah, the glow!
Will I have one? Thank you, No.
— ALEISTER CROWLEY.
Scolding wives, like bad clocks, are
seldom in order. —S. Downey.
A wife is like an unknown sea ;
Least known to him who thinks he
knows
Where all the Shores of Promise be,
Where lies the Island of Repose,
And where the rocks that he must flee.
— J. G. Hotianp.
A wife, domestic, good, and pure,
Like snail, should keep within her door ;
But not, like snail, with silver track,
Place all her wealth upon her back.
— Wituam W. How.
A good wife is like the ivy which
beautifies the building to which it
clings, twining its tendrils more lov-
ingly as time converts the ancient
edifice into a ruin. — Dr. JoHNSON.
Our wives, like their writings, are
never safe except when under lock and
key. — WYCHERLEY.
Wiggle.
Wiggle like a knot of vipers. —
Hay Carne.
Wild.
Wild as vulture’s cry. — AEscHYLUS.
Wild as the winds that tear the
curled red leaf in the air.—T. B.
ALDRICH.
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Wild Ee continued.
Wild as a buck. — Anon.
Wild as a hawk. — Inrp.
Wild as a maniac’s dream. — Ism.
Wild as a mountain lion. — Isp.
Wild as Scott’s Macbriar. — Isr.
Wild as Whiston’s prophecies. —
Isp.
Wild as wild Arabs. — ARABIAN
NIGuHTs.
Like a cowslip, growing wild. —
Tuomas ASHE.
As wild and as skeigh as muirland
filly. — Joanna Baru.
Wild as Winter. — BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.
As wild as game in July. — Dion
Bovcicavurt.
Wild as one whom demons seize. —
CuHarLoTre BRonNTE.
Legends wild as those culled on
shores licked by Hydaspes. — But-
wER-LYTTON.
Wild as that hallow’d anthem sent to
hail
Bethlehem’s shepherds in the lonely
vale,
When Jordan hush’d his waves, and
midnight still
Watch’d on the holy towers of Zion
hill. — CAMPBELL.
Wild and capricious as the wind and
wave. — JAMES CAWTHORN.
Wilde as chased deere. — THomas
CHURCHYARD.
A landscape rose
More wild and waste and desolate than
where
The white bear, drifting on a field of ice,
Howls to her sundered cubs with
piteous rage
And savage agony. — CoLERIDGE.
Wild as a maniac’s mirth. — Exiza
Cook.
Wild as the lightning. —AuBrey Dr
VERE.
Wild as the waves. — Ipm.
Wild as dreams. — EMERSON.
Wilder than the Adrain tides which
form Calabrian bays. —Rosweit M.
Frew.
As wild as the whirlwind. —N1-
KOLAI V. GOGOL..
Wild as asea-breeze. — HAWTHORNE.
Wild as if creation’s ruins
Were heaped in one immeasurable chain
Of barren mountains, beaten by the
storms
Of everlasting winter.
—James A. HILLHouse.
Wild as coursers with unsubdued
neck. — Horace.
Wild as a tameless horse of Tartary.
— Ricaarp Hovey.
Wild as a
KRaSInskKI.
Wild as a burst of day-gold blown
through the colors of morning. —
GerorcGE Cazot LopGE.
Wild and woful, like the cloud rack
of a tempest. — LonGFELLow.
fiend. — StemunpD
Wild as an unbroken horse. —
Maria LowEt..
Wild as the heart of a bird. —
Epwin Marxuam.
Wild as flowers upon a river’s brink.
— GrorcEe Epcar Monrcomery.
Wild as the changes of a dream. —
JAMES MoNnTGOMERY.
Wild as
Tomas Moors.
Wild as the winds. — Pops.
Wild as ocean gale. —Srr WALTER
Scorr.
Wild, like trumpet-jubilee. —Inw.
Wildly as some vex’d and angry sea
madly throws up its ancient firm
foundation. — SHAKESPEARE.
mountain-breezes. —
WILD. — WINTRY.
Wild — continued.
Wild as young bulls. — Im.
Wild as haggards of the rock. — Inrp.
The other wild,
Like an unpractised swimmer plunging
still. — Is.
Wild . . . as regret. — Martz Van
VorsT.
Wild as an errant fancy. — HELEN
Hay Wuitney.
Wild like the stormy wind. — Wi1-
LAM WILKIE.
Wild as the tempests of the upper
sky. — Wituiam WINTER.
Wild and rude
As ever hue-and-cry pursued,
As ever ran a felon’s race.
— WorpswortTu.
Wilful.
“ Wilful as a pig that will neither
lead nor drive. — ANon.
Wilful as the
Hovey.
wind. — RIcHARD
Wilful as a mule. — DanisH Prov-
ERB.
' Wilful as a prince. —Sir Water
Scort.
Willing.
Willing as a turtle. — Joun Gay.
With a heart as willing
As bondage e’er of freedom.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Willing as the springtide sea gives up
Her will to the eastern sea-wind’s.
— SWINBURNE.
Willingly.
As willingly as any singing bird sets
him to sing his morning roundelay,
because he likes to sing and likes the
song. — GeorcE Exior.
: Willingly
As birds make ready for their bridal
time. — TENNYSON.
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Wily.
Wily as an old fox. — Sir WALTER
Scort.
Wind.
Winds about like a hare. — ANon.
Winds about like a snake in the
grass. — IBmp.
Winds like a lover’s knot. — Inip.
Winding like the maze of love. —
JoHN CUNNINGHAM.
Windy.
Windy as a dog-day in Kansas. —
O. Henry.
Wine.
Wine is like anger; for it makes us
strong,
Blind and impatient, and it leads us
wrong ;
The strength is quickly lost ; we feel
the error long.
— GEORGE CRABBE.
Wine is like rain: when it falls on the
mire it but makes it the fouler,
But when it strikes the good soil #
wakes it to beauty and bloom.
—Joun Hay.
Winged.
Winged as Hermes’ heels. — ANon.
Wink.
Winks like the stars. — Hoop.
Wink with one eye like a gunner.
— Wituiam Row ey.
Winning.
As winning as the Queen of Love. —
RICHARD SAVAGE.
Winter.
Winter, like a felon ghost, that with
its viewless presence chills the blood.
— Epmunp Gosse.
Wintry.
Wintry as despair. — Lorp Dz TaB-
LEY.
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Wipe.
Wipe
My life away like a vast sponge of
fate. — Kzats.
I will wipe Jerusalem as a man
wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning
it upside down. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Wisdom.
Wisdom is like electricity. There
is no permanently wise man, but men
capable of wisdom, who, being put
into certain company, or other favor-
able conditions, become wise for a
short time, as glasses rubbed acquire
electric power for a while. — Emerson.
Wisdom which. is only theoretical
and never put into practise is like a
double rose ; its color and its perfume
are delightful, but it withers away and
leaves no seed. — SCHOPENHAUER.
Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as
light excelleth darkness. —Oxtp Txs-
TAMENT.
Wise.
Wise as Minerva. — ANON.
Wise as Solomon. — Ini.
As wise as the men of Gotham, who
went to build a wall about the wood to
keep out the cuckoo. — Inrp.
Wise as Time and Silence are. —
Autrrep AUSTIN.
Looking wise,
As men find woodcocks by their eyes.
— SamMvueEL Butter.
Wise as Thurlow looks.—C. J.
Fox.
As wise as a woodcock. — Joun
Heywoop.
Wise as an owl. — Keats
Wise as the Mayor of Banbury, who
would prove that Henry III was be-
fore Henry II.—Leran’s ‘“‘Couec-
TANEA.”
Wise as age. — W. J. Linton.
Wise as nature. — Popg.
WIPE. — WIT.
Wise as Waltom’s calfe. — Jonn
SKELTON.
Wise as serpents. — New Testa-
MENT.
Wiser than the children of light. —
Ini.
Wise as Shakespeare. — THorEauv.
Wise as her mother’s apron string.
— Nicnotas UDALL.
Wish.
Wishes, like castles in the air, are
inexpensive and not taxable. — Sam
SLICK.
Wishes, like painted landscapes, best
delight,
Whilst distance recommends them to
the sight.
Placed far off, they beautiful appear ;
But show their eoarse and nauseous
colours, near.
— Tuomas YALDEN.
Wistfully.
Wistfully,
Like to some maiden spirit pausing
pale,
New-wing’d, yet fain to sail
Above the serene gulf to where a
bridegroom soul
Calls o’er the soft horizon.
— Smney LANIER.
Wit.
Wit is like a ghost, much more.
often talked of than seen. — ANON.
Wit kills the soul, as argument
kills reason. — Bauzac.
Full of wit as a ginger-bottle is of
pop. —J. R. Bartierr’s “Dicrion-
ARY OF AMERICANISMS.”
Wits, like Physicians, never can agree,
When of a different Society.
— Apura BEHN.
His wit is like fire in a flint, that is
nothing while it is in, and nothing again
as soon as it is out. — SAMUEL BuT-
LER,
WIT.
Wit — continued.
All wit and fancy, like a diamond,
The more exact and curious ’tis ground,
Is fore’d for every carat to abate,
As much in value as it wants in weight.
— Is.
Wit’s like a luxuriant vine ;
Unless to virtue’s prop it join,
Firm and erect toward Heaven bound,
Though it with beauteous leaves and
pleasant fruit be crown’d
It lies, deformed and rotting, on the
ground. — CowLey.
Wit, like fierce-claret, when’t begins to
pall,
Neglected lies, as ’f of no use at all ;
But, in its full perfection of decay,
Turns vinegar, and comes again in
play. — Earu or Dorset.
Wit, like hunger, will be with great
difficulty restrained from falling into
vice and ignorance, where is great
plenty and variety of food. — Henry
FIELDING.
True wit is like the brilliant stone,
Dug from the Indian mine,
Which boasts two different powers in
one,
To cut as well as shine.
— ‘ GRUB-STREET JOURNAL,” 1730.
Homebred wits are like home-made
wines, sweet, luscious, spiritless, with-
out body, and ill to keep. — Jutius C.
Hare.
Wit, like an insect clamb’ring up a wall,
Mounts to one point, and then of
course must fall,
No wiser, if its pains proceed, than end,
And all its journey to descend.
— WatrTer Harte.
Wits, like misers, always covet
more. — Isp.
Wit is like love — the softest is the
best. — Aaron HILL.
Wits, like drunkenemen with swords,
are apt to draw their steel upon their
best acquaintances. — Doucias JER-
ROLD.
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Wit, like money, bears an extra
value when rung down itnmediately
it is wanted. Men pay severely who
require credit. — Inip.
Wit, like every other power, has its
boundaries. Its success depends on
the aptitude of others to receive im-
pressions ; and that as some bodies,
indissolute by heat, can set the furnace
and crucible at defiance, there are
minds upon which the rays of fancy
may be pointed without effect, and
which no fire of sentiment can agitate
or exalt. — Dr. JoHNSON.
Bring all wits to the Rack, whose
Noses are euer like Swine spoyling
and rooting vp the Muses Gardens,
and their whole Bodies like Moles,
as blindly working vnder Earth. to
cast any, the least, hilles vpon Vertue.
— Ben Jonson.
For wits, like adjectives, are known
to cling to that which stands alone. —
Rosert Luiovp.
Nor make to dangerous wit a vain pre-
tense,
But wisely rest content with modest
sense ;
For wit, like wine, intoxicates the
brain,
Too strong for feeble women to sus-
tain :
Of those who claim it more than half
have none ;
And half of those who have it are
undone. — Lorp Lyrrerron.
Wit and wisdom differ; Wit is
upon the sudden turn, Wisdom is in
bringing about ends. Nature must
be the ground-work of Wit and Art ;
otherwise whatever is done will prove
but Jack-Pudding’s work. Wit must
grow like Fingers. If it be taken from
others, ’tis like Plums stuck upon
black Thorns; there they are for a
while, but they come to nothing. —
SELDEN.
Wit . . . blunt as the fencer’s foils.
— SHAKESPEARE.
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Wit — continued.
One wit, like a knuckle of ham in
soup, gives a zest and flavor to the
dish ; but more than one serves only
to spoil the pottage. — SMOLLETT.
Some men’s wit is like a dark lantern,
which serves their own turn and guides
them their own way, but is never known
(according to the Scripture phrase)
either to shine forth before men or to
glorify their Father in heaven. —
SwIrt.
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet,
So wit is by politeness keenest set.
— Youna.
Wither.
Withered like a Normandy pippin.
— ANON.
‘Withered like a rose without light.
— Isip.
Like the rainbow in a summer shower,
Or gaudy poppy, of fugacious bloom,
Tis thine to flourish for a transient
hour,
Then, withered, sink in dark oblivious
tomb. — ALEXANDER BALrour.
Her white soul withered in the mire
As paper shrivels in the fire.
— SrerHen Vincent BENeET.
Wither away like a flower un-
gathered in a garden. — Rosert Bur-
TON.
Withered as an autumn leaf. —
WILKIE COLLINS.
Withered like a plucked flower
ready to be flung on some rotting
heap of rubbish. — JosepH Conrap.
Withered and pale as an old pauper.
— Dickens.
Withers like debauchery. — Dumas,
PERE.
Withers, like a palm
Cut by an Indian for its juicy balm.
— Keats.
Withered like a leaf in the breath
of an oven. — Fritz H. Lupiow.
WIT. — WITNESS.
Withered like some short-lived
flower. — MarLoweE.
Withered like an old apple-john. —
SHAKESPEARE.
Like a blasted sapling, withered
up. — Isr.
Withered like green corn under
the hot winds of the unirrigated
American desert. — Joun R. Sprars.
Withered like hay. — SPENSER.
Wither like a dying rose. — Frank
L. Stanton.
Withered like stars in the morning.
— Rosert Louis STEVENSON.
Withered all our strength like flame.
— SWINBURNE.
My heart is smitten, and withered
like grass. — OLD TESTAMENT.
Wither as the green herb. — Isin.
Withered like an apple that the snow
Finds still upon the bough.
—L. Franx Tooker.
Withered, as in death congealed.
— Tupper.
The egoist withers like a solitary
barren tree. — Ivan 5. TurGENEV.
Withered as if struck by a blight.
— VoLTAIRE.
Wither like a thing of earth. —
Ataric A. Watts.
Withheld.
Withheld as things forbidden. —
SWINBURNE.
Within.
Within another, like the ivory balls
in a Chinese carving. — DIcKENS.
Witless.
Witless as a jackdaw. — Tuomas
SHADWELL.
Witness.
Witnesses, like watches, go
Just as they’re set, too fast or slow.
—SamueL Burer
WITTY. — WOMAN,
See also Wit.) Witty.
Witty as a Frenchman. — Anon.
Witty as a roll of ten dollar bills.
— Isp.
Witty as Diana. — Inm.
Witty as two fools and a madman.
— Isp.
Witty men commit the most fatal
errors, as the strongest horses make
the most dangerous stumbles. — Im.
Wizen.
An old man, wizened as a dried
plaice. — CAMILLE LEMONNIER.
Wizen, like a small dry tree. —
SWINBURNE.
Woman.
A painted woman is like a gilded
pill ; fools admire the former, and
children the latter, for the disguise.
— ANoN.
A woman, like a melon, is hard to
choose. — Isp.
Women are like melons : it is only
after having tasted them that we
know whether they are good or not.
— Isrp.
Pretty women are like sovereigns :
one flatters them only through in-
terest. — Isip.
Woman, like good wine, is a sweet
poison. — Ixip.
Women, like the plants in woods,
derive their softness and tenderness
from the shade. — Iprp.
Most women proceed like the flea,
— by leaps and jumps. — Bauzac.
Women, like birds, are shy of a
single spring; perplex them by a
choice, their heads become giddy,
they flutter, and drop into the trap.
—Rosert M. Bet.
Women, like conjurers’ tricks, are
miracles to the ignorant. — Isp.
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Women, like loadstones, lose their
attraction, when they suffer the rust of
a fretful temper to eat away their
brightness. — Inrp.
Women are like wasps in their anger.
Not so, for wasps leave their stings,
but women never leave their tongues
behind them. — NicHoLas BRETOoN.
Pleasant at first she is, like Dio-
scorides’ Rhododaphne, that fair plant
to the eye, but poison to the taste,
the rest as bitter as wormwood in the
end and sharp as a two-edged sword.
— Rosert Burton.
Your women
Are like new plays, which self-com-
placent authors
Offer at some eight hundred royals each,
But which, when once they’re tried,
you purchase dear
Eight hundred for a royal.
— CALDERON.
Women, and men who are like
women, mind the binding more than
the book. — CHESTERFIELD.
Women are like tricks by sleight of
hand,
Which to admire, we should not
understand. — CONGREVE.
Women are like medlars, no sooner
ripe than rotten. — THomas DEKKER.
Beautiful peaches are not always
the best flavored ; neither are hand-
some women the most amiable. —
W. S. Downey.
The happiest women, like the
happiest nations, have no history.
— Gerorce Enior.
Women are like pictures; of no
value in the hands of a fool, till he
hears men of sense bid high for the
purchase. — FarquHar.
The womenfolk ‘are like the books, —
most pleasing to the eye,
Whereon if anybody looks he feels dis-
posed to buy.
— Everne FIrxp.
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Woman — continued.
Woman is like a pot of oil, and a
man a burning coal. A wise man will
not put the oil and the fire together.
— HITOPADESA.
Women, with their tongues,
like polar needles, ever on the jar.
—O. W. Homes.
You look at a star from two motives,
because it is luminous — and because
it is impenetrable. You have at your
side a softer radiance and a greater
mystery — woman. — Hueco.
A fine woman, like a fortified town
. .. demands a regular siege; and
we must even allow her the honors of
war, to magnify the greatness of our
victory. — Hue KE ty.
I have been servitor in a college
at Salamanca, and read philosophy
with the doctors; where I found
that a woman, in all times, has been
observed to be an animal hard to
understand, and much inclined to
mischief. Now as an animal is al-
ways an animal, and a captain is
always a captain, so a woman is
always a woman ; whence it is that a
certain Greek says, her head is like a
bank of sand ; or, as another, a solid
rock ; or, according to a third, a
dark lanthorn: and so, as the head
is the head of the body ; and that
body without a head, is like a head
without a tail ; and that where there
is neither head nor tail, ’tis a very
strange body; so, I say, a woman
is, by comparison, do you see? (for
nothing explains things like compari-
sons). I say by comparison, as
Aristotle has often said before me,
one may compare her to the raging
sea; for as the sea, when the wind
rises, knits its brows like an angry
bull, and that waves mount upon
rocks, rocks mount upon waves, that
porpoises leap like trouts, and whale
skip about like gudgeons ; that ships
roll like beer-barrels, and mariners
WOMAN.
pray like saints; just so, I say, a
woman —a woman, I say, just so,
when her reason is ship-wrecked upon
her passion, and the hulk of her
understanding lies thumping against
the rock of her fury; then it is, I
say, that by certain emotions, which
— um — cause, as one may suppose,
a sort of convulsive — yes — hurri-
canes — um — like —in short, a woman
is the devil. — THomas Kina.
Hard is the fortune that your sex
attends ;
Women, like princes, find few real
friends :
And who approach them their own
ends pursue ;
Lovers and ministers are seldom true.
— Lorp LytTre.ton.
A woman is like the ivy, which grows
luxuriantly whilst it clings to some
sturdy tree, but never thrives if it is
separated from it. — Moire.
A woman who loves to be at the
window is like a bunch of grapes at
the wayside. — ITatian PROVERB.
A woman possessing nothing but
outward advantages is like a flower
without fragrance, a tree without fruit.
— REGNIER.
Women are like thermometers,
which, on a sudden application of heat,
sink at first a few degrees, as prelimin-
ary to rising a good many. — RICHTER.
Women, like summer storms, awhile
are cloudy,
Burst out in thunder and impetuous
show’rs ;
But straight the sun of beauty dawns
abroad,
And all the fair horizon is serene.
— Nicnotas Rowe.
Women, like things, at second hand
Do half their value lose;
But, whilst all courtship they with-
stand,
May at their pleasure choose.
— Sir Cuariss SEDLEY.
WOMAN, — WORDS.
Woman — continued.
Women use lovers as they do cards ;
they play with them awhile, and, when
they have got all they can of them,
throw them away, call for new ones,
and then perhaps lose by the new ones
all they got by the old ones. — Swirr.
Women are as roses, whose fair
flower
‘Being once displayed, doth fall that
very hour. — SHAKESPEARE.
A woman that is like a German clock,
Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,
And never going right, being a watch,
But being watch’d that it may still go
right f — Isp.
A woman mov’d is like a fountain
troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of
beauty ; :
And while it is so, none so dry and
thirsty
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of
it. — Isp.
Woman the other world resembles well,
In whose looks Heav’n is, in whose
breast is Hell.
— Sm Epwarp SHERBURNE.
A continual dropping in a very
rainy day and a contentious woman
are alike. — Op TESTAMENT.
Women are like curst dogs : civility
keeps them tied all day-time, but they
are let loose at midnight ; then they
do most good, or most mischief. —
JoHN WEBSTER.
Woman is like the reed that bends
to every breeze, but breaks not in the
tempest. — WHATELY.
You say, sir, once a wit allow’d a
woman to be like a cloud, accept a
simile as soon between a woman and
the moon ; for let mankind say what
they will, the sex are heavenly bodies
still. — James C. WHYTE.
Women are like minors; they live on
their expectations. — Oscar WILDE.
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Women, like old soldiers, more
nimbly execute than they resolve. —
WYCHERLEY.
Wonderful.
As wonderful as calves with five
legs. — BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Wonderful as a. starlit
Ricuarp Lz GALLIENNE.
sky. —
Wondrous.
Wondrous as a dream. — FRANCES
ANNE KEMBLE.
Wooden.
As wooden as tho shoe on a Dutch
peasant. — ANoNn.
Words.
Words ... as sweet as founts that
murmur low,
To one who in the deserts drear,
With parched tongue moves faint and
slow.
— Ancient BaLiap or HInpustTan.
Sweet words are like honey; a
little may refresh, but too much gluts
the stomach. — ANNE BRADSTREET.
Words are like money ; there is noth-
ing so useless, unless when in actual
use. — SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902).
Burning Words, like so many full-
formed Minervas, issuing amid flame
and splendor from Jove’s head. —
CARLYLE.
Words, like glass, darken whatever
they do not help us to see. — JosEPH
JOUBERT.
There comes Emerson first, whose rich
words, every one,
Are like gold nails in temples to hang
trophies on. — LowELL.
His words, like so many nimble and
airy servitors, trip about him at com-
mand. — Mitton.
Words are like leaves; and where
they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely
found. — Pore.
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Words — continued.
But obscene Words, too grosse to
move Desire,
Like heaps of Fuel do but choak the
Fire.
That Author’s Name has undeserved
Praise
Who pall’d the Appetite he meant to
raise. | — Lorp ROCHESTER.
These words, like daggers, enter in
mine ears. — SHAKESPEARE.
My words hang together like feathers
in the wind. — SKELTON.
Thy words, like genial showers to
the parch’d earth, refresh my languid
soul. — SMOLLETT.
With words as with sunbeams, —
the more they are condensed, the
deeper they burn. — SouTHEY.
My words are like spoken roses. —
SWINBURNE.
With all the rhymes like stars above
you,
And all the words’ like flowers.
— Ip.
Words like swords and thunder-
clouded creeds. — Ipmp.
A word fitly spoken is like apples
of gold in pictures of silver. — OLp
‘TESTAMENT.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb,
sweet to the soul, and health to the
bones. — Inup.
The words of a talebearer are as
wounds, and they go down into the
innermost parts of the belly. — In.
Work.
Work like a horse. — ANon.
Worked like a fury. — Inm.
Worked like a Trojan. — Ism.
Worked like a miner in a landslide.
—Ism.
Work like beavers. — Inip.
WORDS, — WORLD.
Working like the gills of a fish, —
O. HEnry.
Work like a galley slave. — Lzan’s
“‘COLLECTANEA.”
Work like a brick. — Lyzy.
World.
The world is like yon children’s
merry-go-round ; what men admire are
carriages and hobbies. — P. J. Barney.
The world is like the shifting scenes
of a panorama : ten years convert the
population of the schools into men and
women, and make and mar fortunes ;
twenty years converts infants into
lovers, fathers, and mothers, and
decide men’s fortunes; thirty years
turn fascinating beauties into bear-
able old women, and convert lovers
into grandfathers ; forty years change
the face of all society ; and fifty years
will, alas ! find us in a world of which
we know nothing, and to which we are
unknown. — Froupg.
The world is like a great staircase,
some go up and others go down. —
HIpronax.
This world is like carrion, round
which are thousands of vultures:
this one strikes that one with his
claws, that one darts at this one with
his beak, till at length they all fly
away, and all that remains is the car-
cass. — PILPAY.
The world is like a tree trunk full
of ants ; he who comes into it knows
nothing ; he who goes from it, comes
not again. — OsMANLI PRovers.
Everything in the world is like a
hollow nut ; there is little kernel any-
where, and when it does exist, it is
still more rare to find it in the shell.
— ScHOPENHAUER.
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever
From creation to decay,
Like the bubbles on a river,
Sparkling, bursting, borne away.
— SHELLEY.
WORLD. — WRIT.
World — continued.
The World is not unfitly compared
to a fishing-net, the end of the world to
be the drawing up of the nets. While
the nets are down, there is nothing said
to be caught; for the nets may break,
and the fish escape: But at the end of
the world, when the nets are drawn up,
it will then evidently appear, what
every man hath caught. —JouNn
Spencer’s “Tuines New anp OL;
or, A STORE-HOUSE OF SIMILES,” 1658.
Worn.
Worn down .. . like a shape in a
shroud. — AraBian NIGHTS.
Worn like a cloth
Gnawn into rags by the devouring
moth. — GrorcE SaNpys.
Worried.
Worried as a toad under a harrow.
— ANON.
Worried,
Like a tempest-driven bark.
— T. Bucnanan Reap.
Worry.
Worry as a wolf a lamb. — ANon.
Worship.
Worship me like an Idol. — RoBert
Burton.
Worthless.
Worthless as withered weeds, or
idlest froth amid the boundless main.
— Emity Bronte.
Worthless all as
BURNE.
Worthless as the lightest falling
leaf. — Cetia THAXTER.
Wound.
Wounds . . . show
Like graves i’ the holy chufch-yard.
— SHAKESPEARE.
Ss
sands. — SwIn-
Woven.
Woven like winter serpents in a
pit. — AmprosE Bierce.
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Woven as raiment. — SWINBURNE.
Woven . . . like bubbles in a frozen
pond. — Wiitiam B. Yeats.
Wrap.
Wrapped, as in a mist. — ANON.
All wrapped up in flannel, like a
race horse. — Eucrne Brirux.
Wrathful.
Wrathy as a militia officer on a
training day.—J. R. Barrietr’s
“DicTioNARY OF AMERICANISMS.”
Wrathful as Justice in her earnest
mood. — W. J. Linton.
Wriggle.
Wriggles, as though she had the
itch. — BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Wriggle, like a screw. — SAMUEL
Butier.
Wriggle in and out like an eel in a
sandbag. — MippLEToN.
Wriggling about like a mouse in
the middle of a wall. — Piaurus.
Wriggle . . . like sleep struggling to
wake up. — RABINDRANATH TAGORE.
Wrinkle.
Wrinkled as a raisin. — ANon.
His face wrinkled like an old parch-
ment. — Grorces ErxHoup.
Wrinkled like a baked apple. —
Noxotuar V. Gogot.
Wrinkled like a fresh-blown poppy.
— Aurrep Hayes.
Wrinkled like a last year’s apple.
— Guy DE MAvpPAssantT.
Wrinkles, like a Book
Of Vellam, at a fire.
— “Muses ReEcreEaTION.”
Writ.
Writs like wild-fowl, fly abroad,
And then return o’er cities, towns,
and hills,
With clients, like dried straws, between
their bills.
— Toomas Mipp.eton.
486
Write.
A witty writer is like a porcupine ;
his quill makes no distinction between
friend and foe. — Josa BILLines.
Our writings are as so many dishes,
our readers guests, our books like
beauty, that which one admires,
another rejects ; so are we approved
as men’s fancies are inclined. —
RosBert Burton.
The writer, like the priest, must be
exempted from secular labor. His
work needs a frolic health: he must
be at the top of his condition. —
EMERSON.
Write like an angel (Goldsmith). —
Davin GARRICK.
Writing or printing is like shooting
with a rifle ; you may hit your reader’s
mind, or miss it;—but talking is
like playing at a mark-with the pipe
of an engine; if it is within reach,
and you have time enough, you can’t
help hitting it. — O. W. Hotmes.
Clear writers, like clear fountains,
do not seem so deep as they are;
the turbid looks most profound. —
W. S. Lanpor.
Witty Writings, when directed to
serve the good ends of Virtue and
Religion, are like the Lights hung out
Yawn.
Yawned much as a bored tiger does
in the face of a philosophical student
of savage manners in the zodlogical
gardens. — BuLwer-LytTTon.
Yawns like a grave in a cemetery.
— Hueco.
Yawn’d like a gash on warrior’s
breast. — Siz WALTER Scott.
WRITE. — YAWNING.
in a Pharos, to guide the Mariners
safe through dangerous Seas; but
the Brightness of those, that are
impious or immoral, shines only to
betray, and lead Men to Destruction.
— Lorp LytTTELTon.
This much I have discovered, that
it is in writing as in building, where,
after all our schemes and calculations,
we are mightily deceived in our ac-
counts, and often forced to make use
of any materials we can find that the
works may be kept a-going. — Swirt,
Writhe.
Writhes like Saint Laurent on the
gridiron. — Anon.
Writhed _ like
Izrp.
Writhe like the Pythian. —E. B.
BRownine.
twisted locks. —
Writhing o’er its task,
As heart-sick jesters weep behind the
mask. — Hoop.
Writhed like a feather on the fire.
— Guy pE Maupassant.
Writhed like a worm on a hook. —
CHARLES READE.
Writhe as a dragon by some great
spell curbed and foiled. — Wituam
Watson.
Yawn and stretch like a greyhound
by the fireside. — VanBRUGH.
Yawning.
Yawning wide like the mouth of a
cavern. — JoHN DENNIs.
Yawning destruction, deep as the
grave. — CHares KisraLupy.
Yawning, like some old crater rent
anew. — Tuomas Moore.
YAWNING, — YELLOW.
Yawning — continued.
Yawning silently like an image. —
Octave UZzaNnNE.
Yearn.
Yearned as the parched land for
summer’s rain. — ANON.
Yearn’d as the captive toiling at
escape. — Byron.
Yearning, like the first fierce im-
pulse into crime. — Hoop.
Yearning, like a swallow in the void.
— TRUMBULL STICKNEY.
Yearning as with child of death. —
SWINBURNE.
Yell.
Yelling like savages. — ANON.
Yolleden, as fendes doon in helle.
— CHAUCER.
Yelling like a maniac. — Dumas,
PERE.
A discordant universal yell, like
house-dogs howling at a dinner-bell.
—Joun H. Frere.
Yell like a wronged panther. —
Atrrep Henry Lewis.
A yell as of wild beasts in their
famine. — Oumpa.
Yelled like incarnate fiends. —
Micwaet Scott.
Dire yell,
As when, by night and negligence, the
fire
Is spied in populous cities.
— SHAKESPEARE,
Yell’d out
Like syllable of dolour. — Ism.
Yelled like all-possessed. — Sam
SLICK.
Yelled as beasts of ravin. — Swin-
BURNE.
Yellow.
Yellow as * 7at’s eye. — ANON.
Yellow as a corpse. — Inrp.
Yellow as a guinea. — Ism.
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Yellow as a hopeless lover. —
ARABIAN NIGHTS.
She was as yellow as a quince. —
Bauzac.
Yellow as gamboge. — R. D. BLacx-
MORE.
Yellow like to fire. — E. B. Brown-
ING.
Yellow, like April bees. —C. S.
CALVERLEY.
As yelowe of hewe
As ony basyn scoured newe.
— CHAUCER.
Yellow as liquid honey. — D’An-
NUNZIO.
Yellow as
HAMILTON.
Yellow as saffron. — Bret Harte.
jealousy. — ANTHONY
Yellow as a Chinaman. — O. Henry.
Yellow as cowslips. — James Hoae.
Yellow as the amber. — Hoop.
Yellow as Nature, abetted by time.
— Bettina von Hutren.
Yellow and ill-fitting as the shuck
on a dried cob. — Kiprine.
Yellow, like a lion’s mane. — Henry
LutTTREL.
Yellow as
MEREDITH.
jaundice. — GEORGE
Yellow as corn in the sun. — Ouma.
Yellow as wood ashes. — Henry M.
Rmeovr.
Yaller —like you’ve saw custard-
pie with no crust.—James Wauit-
coMB RILEy.
Yellow, like ripe corn. —D. G.
RosseEtTTt.
His face grew yellow as gamboge.
— Horace Smiru.
Yellow as sulphur. — Rosert Louis
STEVENSON.
Yellow as pestilence. — SwINBURNE.
As yellow as the blossom of the
broom. — “‘Masrnocion.”
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Yellow — continued.
Yellow like canned corn. — CAROLYN
WELLS.
Yield.
Yielded like melted snow. — J. Frnt-
MORE CooPER.
Yielded like the mist
Which eagles cleave, upmounting from
their nests. — Keats.
Yielded, like bruised limb to leech.
—Grorce Merepitu.
Yielding as light. —Joun G. Nzi-
HARDT.
Young.
Young as the hour of birth. —
MatutipE Buinp.
Young as Eve with nature’s day-
break in her face. — E. B. Brownie.
Young as old Homer’s song is young.
—Grorce Mrrepita.
Young as morn. — MEREDITH
NIcHOLSON.
Young as Truth. — D. G. RosseErrt.
Young as dawn. — SWINBURNE.
Youth.
Youth, like white paper, will take
any impression. — ANON.
Youth is like green corn, all sap and
promise. — Inrp.
The rose, like ready youth, enticing
stands,
And would be cropt if it might choose
the hands.
— Wituiam Browne.
Zeal.
Zealous, like a Quaker railing at
lace. — ANON,
Zeal without humanity is like ship
without a rudder, liable to be stranded
at any moment. — OWEN Fe.LTHaM.
YELLOW. — ZIGZAG.
Youth like genius gives its best at
first. — CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
Youth, like spring-time, light and
nimble,
Evanescent in its glee.
— Hartiey CoLermce.
Youth is not like a new garment
which we can keep fresh and fair by
wearing sparingly ; youth, while we
have it, we must wear daily ; and it
will fast wear away. — JoHN Foster.
Youth is like those verdant forests
tormented by winds: it agitates on
every side the abundant gifts of nature,
and some profound murmur always
reigns in its foliage. — M. pz GuERIN.
Youth, like the aloe, blossoms but
-once, and its flower springs from the
midst of thorns: but see with what
strength and to what height the aloe-
flower rises over them. — W. S. Lanpor.
Blithe youth is like a smile,
So mirthful, and so brief.
— Rosert NIcHOLL.
Youth passes like the odour
From the white rose’s cup
When the hot sun drinks up
The dew that overflowed her.
—C. G. Rossetti.
Youth like summer morn, age like win-
ter weather,
Youth like summer brave, age like
winter bare. — SHAKESPEARE.
Youthful.
Youthful as the month of May. —
ANON.
Zeal without knowledge is like ex-
pedition to a man in the dark. —
Newton.
Zigzag.
Zigzag like lightning. — SouTHeEy.
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