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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
W. Clark Russell
Bright as a new bell.Dark as the bottom of a well.Faint … as the wavering flame of spirits of wine.Gurgled like the cry of a drowning man.Hisses like red-hot iron.Sluggish as liquid pitch.Everything at the top and nothing at bottom, like a midshipman’s chest.Trembled like a freezing man.