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

Eugene Field

Illiterate as the lowliest hedger and ditcher.

Placid as a hearthstone.

Prodigious as the pyramid of Cheops.

Ruddy and fresh as the waking morn.

Shrank like a leaf in Fall.

Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

The womenfolk are like the books,—most pleasing to the eye,
Whereon if anybody looks he feels disposed to buy.