Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Hopeless

Hopeless and as full of fear
As are the blasted banks of Erebus.
—Christopher Marlowe

Hopeless as telling Belshazzar his dream.
—Thomas Nelson Page

As hopeless as for the musician to pour his notes into the ear of a deaf man.
—James McNeill Whistler