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

Smooth

Smooth as the surface of a pebble.
—Joseph Addison

Smooth like a china cup.
—William Allingham

Smooth as the stem of a young palm.
—Amriolkais

Smooth as a bowling green.
—Anonymous

Smooth as a bulrush.
—Anonymous

Smooth as a carpet.
—Anonymous

Smooth as a die.
—Anonymous

Smooth as a door knob.
—Anonymous

Smooth as an oil’d thunderbolt.
—Anonymous

Smooth as a perfect peach.
—Anonymous

Smooth as a poker table.
—Anonymous

Smooth as a rose leaf.
—Anonymous

Smooth as the mirrors in the Palace of Peace.
—Anonymous

Smooth as the palm of one’s hand.
—Anonymous

Smooth as wax.
—Anonymous

Smooth as a snow cloud.
—Anonymous

Smooth as a spirit’s wing.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Smothe it was as it were late shave.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Smooth as smoothest beaver hat.
—John Davies

Smooth as a new laid egg.
—Charles Dickens

Smooth as sheet of polished brass.
—Joseph Rodman Drake

Smooth as the back of a razor.
—George Du Maurier

Smooth as the dusky down on the elk.
—Ancient Erse

Smooth as fungus, daughter of the rain.
—Francis Fawkes

Smooth as the surface of well polish’d brass.
—Francis Fawkes

Smooth and shining, as a sword out of a sheath.
—Gustave Flaubert

A skin as smoth as silke.
—George Gascoigne

Smooth as glass.
—John Gay

Smooth as a billiard-table.
—Anthony Hamilton

Smooth as ice.
—Thomas Heywood

Smooth as the pond can be.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Smooth as a file.
—Leigh Hunt

Smooth as a road in Venice.
—Mary Johnston

Smooth as a billiard ball.
—Ben Jonson

Skin as smooth as any rush.
—Ben Jonson

Smooth as a silver shield.
—George Cabot Lodge

Smooth as jet.
—John Lyly

Smooth as the gliding stream.
—James Macpherson

Smooth as velvet.
—Charles Reade

Smoother than the fur of cats.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Tones as smooth as honey.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Smooth as a mirror.
—Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Smooth as oil.
—William Shakespeare

Smooth as monumental alabaster.
—William Shakespeare

Smooth as the elephant’s new polished tooth.
—Sir Edward Sherburne

Smooth as Pan.
—Sir Philip Sidney

Smooth as a billow.
—Alexander Smith

As Parian marble smooth.
—William Somerville

Smooth as the level lake, when not a breeze
Dies o’er the sleeping surface.
—Robert Southey

Smooth as the liquid passage of a bird.
—Trumbull Stickney

Smoother than butter.
—Old Testament

Smooth as the flight of a dream.
—Edith M. Thomas

Smooth as a floor.
—Mary A. Tincker

Smooth as a mole.
—John Withals (Dictionary in English and Latin)

Smooth as marble or a waveless sea.
—William Wordsworth