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

Look (Verb)

Looks as if butter would not melt in his mouth.
—Anonymous

Looked as if he would jump down your throat.
—Anonymous

Looked as if he had eaten his bed-straw.
—Anonymous

He looked like a composite picture of five thousand orphans too late to catch a picnic steamboat.
—O. Henry

Look like the far end o’ a French fiddle.
—Alexander Hislop (Proverbs of Scotland)

To look as if he were hanged already.
—Sir John Taylor

She looks like an old coach new painted, affecting an unseemly smugness, whilst she is ready to drop to pieces.
—Sir John Vanbrugh