Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Hum

Hum like a cobbler.
—Anonymous

Hum,
Like listless topers singing o’er their cups.
—Arabic

Hum and murmur like a hive.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hummed … as the sea in shells.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Humming, like bees that are swarming.
—Heinrich Heine

Humming like a hornet.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Humming … like a hive of bees.
—Joaquin Miller