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

Thomas Adams

Agree like pikes in a pond, ready to eat up one another.

Beauty is like an almanac; if it lasts a year, it is well.

Common as the stones in our streets.

Contention is like fire; for both burn so long as there is any exhaustible matter to contend with.

Demur like a posed lawyer, as if delay could remove some impediments.

Like a bee or an epigram, all his sting is in his tail.

Run from it as a mendicant friar from an alms.

Strut like a new church warden.

Sweet as new-blown rose.

His will is like the Persian law, unalterable.