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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Plain
 
  Plain as A. B. C. Anonymous  1
  Plain as a hat on a rack.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Plain as a steeple.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Plain as a pack-saddle.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Plain as the shepherd nymph in russet weeds.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Plain as two and two make four.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Plain as your own miniken-breeches.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  7
  As plain as noon-day.
            —George H. Boker		  8
  She dresses as plain as the lily that modestly grows in the valley.
            —Patrick Brontë		  9
  Plain as truth.
            —George Chapman		  10
  Plain as a demonstration in Euclid.
            —George Colman, the Younger		  11
  Her dress was as plain as an umbrella cover.
            —Joseph Conrad		  12
  Plain as plainness.
            —John Davies		  13
  As plain to everybody as the sun.
            —Charles Dickens		  14
  As plain as water’s water.
            —George Eliot		  15
  Plain as a pikestaff.
            —Samuel Foote		  16
  Plain as a dropped egg on a plate of hash.
            —Sewell Ford		  17
  Plain as the way to market.
            —Benjamin Franklin		  18
  Plain as the sunlight.
            —James Anthony Froude		  19
  As plain as the moral law.
            —Bret Harte		  20
  Plain as the man with lantern.
            —Thomas Hood		  21
  Plain as whisper in the ear.
            —Thomas Hood		  22
  Plain as the record on the prophet’s scroll.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  23
  As plain as a hole in a grindstone.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  24
  As plain as the round shield of the sun blazing on high.
            —James Huneker		  25
  Plain as print.
            —Samuel Lover		  26
  Plaine … as the high way.
            —John Lyly		  27
  Plain as the sun in heaven.
            —Thomas Babington Macaulay		  28
  Plain … as a rudimentary sum in arithmetic.
            —George Meredith		  29
  Plain as the light in the sun or as the man in the moon.
            —Thomas Otway		  30
  Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
            —François Rabelais		  31
  Plain as the plain bald pate of Father Time himself.
            —William Shakespeare		  32
  Plain as way to parish church.
            —William Shakespeare		  33
  Plain and smooth like a Quaker’s meeting.
            —James Smith		  34
  Plain as the sun at noonday.
            —Laurence Sterne		  35
  Plain as the glistening planets shine when winds have cleared the skies.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  36
  Plain as a weed.
            —Bayard Taylor		  37
 
 
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