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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Red
 
  Red as any rose in June.
            —Cecil Frances Alexander		  1
  Red, like a cardinal.
            —Leonid Andreyev		  2
  Red as a beet.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Red as a blister.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Red as a brick.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Red as a cherry.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Red as a coal.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Red as a danger signal.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Red as a hunter’s face.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Red as a petticoat.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Red as a red wagon.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Red as Roger’s nose, who was christened with pump water.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Red as asoka flowers.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Red as a turkey-cock.
            —Anonymous		  14
  Red as fields of heather on fire. Anonymous  15
  Red as the fire of a pipe.
            —Anonymous		  16
  Red as the heather bell.
            —Anonymous		  17
  Glowed red, like the ishrik seeds, fresh fallen, unbroken, bright.
            —Arabic		  18
  Red as a plum.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  19
  Red as with wine out of season.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  20
  Face of him … red as that of the foggiest rising Moon.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  21
  Red as the highest colour’d Gallic wine.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  22
  Red as a fox.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  23
  Rede as blood.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  24
  Rede as rose.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  25
                Rede,
As doth where that men melte lede.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  26
  Reed as the bristles of a sowes erys.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  27
  Red as a tile.
            —Daniel Defoe		  28
  Red as beetroot.
            —Charles Dickens		  29
  Red as gore.
            —Michael Field		  30
  Red as beef.
            —Henry Fielding		  31
  Red as the sangaree.
            —Richard Garnett		  32
  Red as deep as bull’s blood.
            —Edward Gibbon		  33
  Red as the blood-drops from a wounded heart.
            —Frank W. Gunsaulus		  34
  Red as coral.
            —Anthony Hamilton		  35
  Dry red, like old blood.
            —Maurice Hewlett		  36
With hue as red as the rosy bed
Which a bee would choose to dream in.
            —Charles Fenno Hoffman		  37
  Red as the beacon-light.
            —James Hogg		  38
  Red as an angry sunset.
            —Jean Ingelow		  39
  Red as the rose is red.
            —Omar Khayyám		  40
  Red as slaughter.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  41
  Red as the fire of a furnace.
            —Alphonse M. L. Lamartine		  42
  Red as a beacon the wind has upblown.
            —Sidney Lanier		  43
  Red as if he were going to choke.
            —George MacDonald		  44
  Nose had got as red with passion as the protuberance of a turkey-cock when gobbling out its unutterable feelings of disdain.
            —George MacDonald		  45
  Red as murder.
            —George Meredith		  46
  Red as the British Army.
            —George Meredith		  47
  Red as a dawn.
            —Henry Morley		  48
  Red as a lobster.
            —Thomas Nash		  49
  Red as Cupid’s bed of red rose-leaves shed on Mount Hymettus.
            —Miles O’Reilly		  50
  Red as a mazer from an alder-tree.
            —François Rabelais		  51
  Red as Mont Blanc at morning glows.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  52
  Red … as the forge’s mouth.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  53
  Red as from the broken heart.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  54
  Red, like a ruby.
            —John Ruskin		  55
  Red as fire.
            —William Shakespeare		  56
  Red as Mars.
            —William Shakespeare		  57
  Red as new-enkindled fire.
            —William Shakespeare		  58
  Red as Titan’s face.
            —William Shakespeare		  59
  Red, as it had drunk the evening beams.
            —Robert Southey		  60
  Red did show like roses in a bed of lillies shed.
            —Edmund Spenser		  61
  Red as dawn.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  62
  Red as hate.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  63
  Red as hot brows of shame.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  64
  Red as love or shame.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  65
  Lips red as morning’s rise.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  66
  Red as the rains of hell.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  67
  Red as a poppy.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  68
  Red as mountain-ash berries.
            —Zacharias Topélius		  69
  Red as the Baldinsville skoolhouse.
            —Artemus Ward		  70
  Red as the reddest ruby.
            —Theodore Watts-Dunton		  71
Red as the banner which enshrouds
The warrior-dead when strife is done.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  72
  Red as the naked hand of doom.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  73
  Red as ruddy clover.
            —William Wordsworth		  74
 
 
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