Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Absolute
Absolute, sure, as the sun-dial’s gnomon, compassing all the world’s fate.
—A. H. Beesly
Absolute as the art which built the Parthenon.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Absolute as the Sultan of Turkey.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay