Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Sing

Sing like a bird called a swine.
—Anonymous

Sing like a cobbler.
—Anonymous

Singest like an angel in the clouds.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sing like a swan, as if thou went’st to bliss.
—Sir John Davies

Sing like an angel.
—John Evelyn

Singing as sweetly and making as heavenly a noise as doth an arbour of nightingales in a calm-winded night.
—John Grange

Sing-song like a stiff puffet on a humdrum barrel-organ.
—Leigh Hunt

Sings like the sighing of a tempest spent.
—Dr. Samuel Johnson

Singing … like the shouting of a backstay in a gale.
—Rudyard Kipling

Sings, like an inspired young Sibyl.
—Thomas Moore

He sings like an empty water jar.
—Osmanli Proverb

She sings
As if a choir of spirits swept
From earth with throbbing wings.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

About the caldron sing,
Like elves and fairies in a ring.
—William Shakespeare

Sang like sirens.
—Voltaire