Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Sting

Sting like a hornet.
—Anonymous

Stung like a nettle.
—Anonymous

Stung like bees unhived.
—Robert Browning

Sting like a serpent.
—Robert Burton

Care stings like pois’nous asps to fury wrought.
—Nathaniel Cotton

Stung … like amber asp.
—Matthew Green

Stinging, like the wind when frosts are keen.
—Henrik Hertz

Stings like fire.
—Lucretius

Stung like a bee in the warm core of a rose.
—Ouida

He stings like a scorpion.
—Osmanli Proverb

Stung like fire.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Stingeth like an adder.
—Old Testament