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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Glare
 
  Eye … glared like a full moon, or a broad burnished shield.
            —Joseph Addison		  1
  Glares like the maniac’s moon, whose light is madness.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Glaring like mad.
            —Aristophanes		  3
  Glaring at each other like two gaunt wolves with a famished brood.
            —Mathilde Blind		  4
  Glare like the eye of an enemy.
            —Joseph Conrad		  5
  Glaring like a lion in a trap.
            —O. Henry		  6
                Glare,
Like to a dreadful comet in the air.
            —Robert Herrick		  7
  Glares like a tiger.
            —Victor Hugo		  8
  Glares like an excited cat.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  9
  Glared like hot iron.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  10
  Glaring like red insanity.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  11
  Broad and glaring as the eye of the Cyclops.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  12
As glares the famished eagle from the Digentian rock
On a choice lamb that bounds alone before Bandusia’s flock,
Herminus glared on Sextus.
            —Thomas Babington Macaulay		  13
  Glared like a torch amidst creation’s tomb.
            —James Montgomery		  14
                Glare,
Like fiery serpents hissing through the air.
            —James Montgomery		  15
  Glare, as when a torch is hurled before a sleeper’s eyes.
            —Bayard Taylor		  16
  Glares, like a troubled Spirit.
            —William Wordsworth		  17
 
 
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