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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Barren as routine.

Cautious as a cragsman.

Deceptive as the costume of a bal masque.

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.

Dull as an archdeacon.

False as the father of lies.

Fantastic as a war-dance.

Fruitless as the celebrated bee who wanted to swarm alone.

Grey as a hoary monolith.

Impertinent as puns.

Indifferent as rain.

Lifeless as a string of dead fish.

Ragged as the mouth of a Cornish cave.

Strange as the stars.

Sudden as conscience.

Sunken as Atlantis.

Watchful like owls awake.