Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Colley Cibber

Contented as a Fox when the Hounds were drawn off and gone home from him.

Cool down like a dish of tea.

That face of yours looks like the title-page of a whole volume of roguery.

Falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water.

Fly, like a yelping Cur with a Bottle at his Tail.

Fly as the leaves before the autumn tempest.

Insipid as an old acquaintance.

Pushed like a fencing master.

Silent as your shadow.

Theatrical Favour, like Publick Commerce, will sometimes deceive the best Judgements by an unaccountable change of its Channel; the best Commodities are not always known to meet with the best Markets.

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.

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