Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Red
Red as any rose in June.
—Cecil Frances Alexander
Red, like a cardinal.
—Leonid Andreyev
Red as a beet.
—Anonymous
Red as a blister.
—Anonymous
Red as a brick.
—Anonymous
Red as a cherry.
—Anonymous
Red as a coal.
—Anonymous
Red as a danger signal.
—Anonymous
Red as a hunter’s face.
—Anonymous
Red as a petticoat.
—Anonymous
Red as a red wagon.
—Anonymous
Red as Roger’s nose, who was christened with pump water.
—Anonymous
Red as asoka flowers.
—Anonymous
Red as a turkey-cock.
—Anonymous
Red as fields of heather on fire. Anonymous
Red as the fire of a pipe.
—Anonymous
Red as the heather bell.
—Anonymous
Glowed red, like the ishrik seeds, fresh fallen, unbroken, bright.
—Arabic
Red as a plum.
—R. D. Blackmore
Red as with wine out of season.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Face of him … red as that of the foggiest rising Moon.
—Thomas Carlyle
Red as the highest colour’d Gallic wine.
—Thomas Chatterton
Red as a fox.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Rede as blood.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Rede as rose.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Rede,
As doth where that men melte lede.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Reed as the bristles of a sowes erys.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Red as a tile.
—Daniel Defoe
Red as beetroot.
—Charles Dickens
Red as gore.
—Michael Field
Red as beef.
—Henry Fielding
Red as the sangaree.
—Richard Garnett
Red as deep as bull’s blood.
—Edward Gibbon
Red as the blood-drops from a wounded heart.
—Frank W. Gunsaulus
Red as coral.
—Anthony Hamilton
Dry red, like old blood.
—Maurice Hewlett
With hue as red as the rosy bed
Which a bee would choose to dream in.
—Charles Fenno Hoffman
Red as the beacon-light.
—James Hogg
Red as an angry sunset.
—Jean Ingelow
Red as the rose is red.
—Omar Khayyám
Red as slaughter.
—Rudyard Kipling
Red as the fire of a furnace.
—Alphonse M. L. Lamartine
Red as a beacon the wind has upblown.
—Sidney Lanier
Red as if he were going to choke.
—George MacDonald
Nose had got as red with passion as the protuberance of a turkey-cock when gobbling out its unutterable feelings of disdain.
—George MacDonald
Red as murder.
—George Meredith
Red as the British Army.
—George Meredith
Red as a dawn.
—Henry Morley
Red as a lobster.
—Thomas Nash
Red as Cupid’s bed of red rose-leaves shed on Mount Hymettus.
—Miles O’Reilly
Red as a mazer from an alder-tree.
—François Rabelais
Red as Mont Blanc at morning glows.
—T. Buchanan Read
Red … as the forge’s mouth.
—T. Buchanan Read
Red as from the broken heart.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Red, like a ruby.
—John Ruskin
Red as fire.
—William Shakespeare
Red as Mars.
—William Shakespeare
Red as new-enkindled fire.
—William Shakespeare
Red as Titan’s face.
—William Shakespeare
Red, as it had drunk the evening beams.
—Robert Southey
Red did show like roses in a bed of lillies shed.
—Edmund Spenser
Red as dawn.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Red as hate.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Red as hot brows of shame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Red as love or shame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Lips red as morning’s rise.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Red as the rains of hell.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Red as a poppy.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
Red as mountain-ash berries.
—Zacharias Topélius
Red as the Baldinsville skoolhouse.
—Artemus Ward
Red as the reddest ruby.
—Theodore Watts-Dunton
Red as the banner which enshrouds
The warrior-dead when strife is done.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Red as the naked hand of doom.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Red as ruddy clover.
—William Wordsworth