Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Foul

Foul as Zebedee’s hen that laid three rotten eggs to a good one.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms

Foul, like a birding place.
—Thomas Dekker

Foul as a sty.
—Edgar Lee Masters

Foul as slander.
—William Shakespeare

Foul as Vulcan’s stithy.
—William Shakespeare

Foul as bloated pestilence.
—Richard Sheil

Foul as plague-polluted gloom.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne