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

William Hazlitt

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

Bounding like nymphs in vales of Arcady.

Brisk as a bird.

Came out of his shell like the aurelia out of the grub.

Fitted into it like a brilliant into the setting of a ring.

Floats over the troubles of life as the froth above the idle wave.

Fluttering like a piece of gold leaf.

Gaudy as a butterfly.

Gay as a mote.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

Naturally as the bleating of a sheep.

Sharp like a quince.

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.