Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Tense

Tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fibres tense like a greyhound’s sinews after a race.
—Charles Reade

Tense as a war-steed girth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Tense as wire.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne