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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Happy
 
  Happy as a big sunflower.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Happy as a boy at a baseball game.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Happy as a June bug.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Happy as a prince.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Happy as a pussy that sees cream.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Happy as a queen.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Happy as a turtle dove.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Happy as a wave that dances on the sea.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Happy as the sunlight.
            —Thomas Ashe		  9
  Happy as Heaven.
            —Philip James Bailey		  10
  Happy as a reprieved thief.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  11
  Happy as a clam at high water.
            —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms		  12
  Happy az a dinner-bell.
            —Josh Billings		  13
  Happy as a May-pole.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  14
  Happy as birds in the spring.
            —William Blake		  15
  Happy as a lark.
            —Anne Brontë		  16
  Happy as the kine in the fields.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  17
  Happy as birds that sing on a tree.
            —Sir James Carnegie		  18
  Happy as a fish in water.
            —Victor Cherbuliez		  19
  Happy as Spirits cleansed.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  20
  Happy as ol’ maids an’ died on-married.
            —Finley Peter Dunne		  21
  Happy as a king.
            —John Gay		  22
  Happy as the blest above.
            —George Granville		  23
  Happy as a Sunday in Paris, full of song, and dance, and laughter.
            —Fitz-Greene Halleck		  24
  Happy as the Day.
            —Josiah Gilbert Holland		  25
  Happy as a lord.
            —Victor Hugo		  26
Happy as the Bird whose nest
Is heaven’d in the heart of purple Hills.
            —Gerald Massey		  27
  Happy as a miner when he has discovered a vein of precious metal.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  28
  Happy as a schoolgirl going home for the holidays.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  29
  Happy as a priest at a wedding.
            —George Moore		  30
  Happy as an enfranchised bird.
            —Thomas Moore		  31
  Happy as a poor man with a bag of gold.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  32
  Happy as a pig in muck.
            —G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)		  33
  Happy as a young lamb.
            —Ouida		  34
  Happy as heroes after battles won.
            —Matthew Prior		  35
  As happy as the day is lang.
            —Scottish Proverb		  36
  Happy as the fairest of all.
            —William Shakespeare		  37
  As happy as a serf who leaves the king ennobled.
            —Alexander Smith		  38
  Happy as a rose-tree in sunshine.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  39
  Happy as a child.
            —William Wordsworth		  40
  Happy as a Lover.
            —William Wordsworth		  41
  As happy as birds in their bowers.
            —William Wordsworth		  42
  Happy as a wave.
            —William Wordsworth		  43
 
 
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