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

Austere

Austere as a tree full of owls.
—Anonymous

Austere as the dawn.
—Bliss Carman

Austere as so many weather-beaten ascetics from the desert.
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle