Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Straight
Straight as a candle.
—Hans Christian Andersen
Straight as an angel’s flight.
—Anonymous
Straight as an Indian’s hair.
—Anonymous
Straight as a lance.
—Anonymous
Straight as a pine.
—Anonymous
Straight as a ramrod.
—Anonymous
Straight as a rush.
—Anonymous
Straight as a string.
—Anonymous
Straight as columns of fire.
—Anonymous
Straight, as if he had swallowed a stick.
—Anonymous
Straight as the backbone of a herring.
—Anonymous
Straight as a cane.
—Arabian Nights
Straight as a temple-shaft.
—Edwin Arnold
Straight as a shooting star.
—William Austin
Straight as a die.
—Alexander Barclay
Straight as a loon’s leg.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Straight as a shingle.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Straight as truth.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Straight as poplars.
—Charlotte Brontë
Straight … like graves dug side by side at measured lengths.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Straight to its aim as the aim of the rifle-ball of a Tyrolese.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Straight as a rule.
—John Bunyan
Straight as a beadle’s wand.
—Charles Stuart Calverley
Straight as a bull’s back against the white sky.
—Bliss Carman
Straight as line.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Straight as a lily on its stem.
—Wilkie Collins
Straight as a tower.
—Thomas Osborne Davis
Straight as any plummet line.
—Charles Dickens
Straight as a crow flies.
—Charles Dickens
As straight as a beggar can spit.
—Rudyard Kipling
Go as straight as a schoolboy at Christmas.
—Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)
Straight as a spear.
—Nathaniel Lee
Straight like a sala-tree.
—Mahabharata
Straight as Circe’s wand.
—Christopher Marlowe
Gleams straight like the glow which a ploughing keel doth break
From the grim sea around, with light on her bow and light in her raging wake.
—Westland Marston
Straight like vine poles.
—Guy de Maupassant
Fly straight as the emissary eagle back to Jove.
—George Meredith
Straight as the flight of the dove.
—George Meredith
Straight,—like a webfoot to water.
—George Meredith
Straight as a dart.
—Pilpay
Straight as the palm tree.
—Matthew Prior
Straight as a Seer’s thought into the blue of the immaculate heavens.
—Richard Realf
Straight as thought could span.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Straight as bolt from crossbow sped.
—Mark Twain
Straight as a wall.
—Ivan Vazov
Straight as a Sioux chief.
—Booker T. Washington