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

James Robinson Planché

Mild as the moon.

Pale as Paris plaster.

Panting, like an engine with its steam up.

Rage like a fury.

Thick as onions on a string.

I go alone
Like a lonely dragon, that his fen
Makes fear’d, and talk’d of more than seen.