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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Cold
 
  Cold as loveless duty done.
            —Mary Louisa Anderson		  1
  Cold as a dog’s nose.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Cold as a frog.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Cold as a hot-water bag in the morning.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Cold as an enthusiastic New England audience.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Cold as a ramrod.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Cold as a tomb.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Cold as Greenland’s icy mountains.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Cold as charity.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Cold as iron.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Cold as the heart of a courtesan.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Cold as the grave.
            —Matthew Arnold		  12
  Icy cold as a crypt.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  13
  Tears as cold as the stones on which sorrowing hearts had caused to be carved their regrets.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  14
  Cold as the north side of a January gravestone by moonlight.
            —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms		  15
  As cold as cucumbers.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  16
  Cold … As a young nun the day she is envested.
            —Aphra Behn		  17
  Cold like a corpse.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  18
  Cold … as graveyard stones from which the lichen’s scraped.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  19
  Cold as the rocks of Torneo’s hoary brow.
            —Thomas Campbell		  20
  As colde as eny froste.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  21
  Colde as ston.
            —Thomas Campbell		  22
  Cold as the ice on northern sea.
            —Ella D. Clymer		  23
  Cold as clay.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  24
  Cold as a turtle.
            —Richard Cumberland		  25
  Cauld as the drifting snow.
            —Allan Cunningham		  26
  Cauld as the marble stone.
            —Allan Cunningham		  27
  Cold as the clod.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  28
  Cold as one who waits for burial mould.
            —Julia C. R. Dorr		  29
  Cold as a leaf long pillowed on a stone.
            —Arthur D. Fiske		  30
  Cold as the coiling water-snake.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  31
  Cold, just like a summer grate.
            —Thomas Hood		  32
  Cold as salt.
            —James Huneker		  33
  Cold as the mountain stream.
            —Mrs. Richmond Inglis		  34
  Cold as a bubbling well.
            —John Keats		  35
  Cold as a skeleton.
            —Amy Leslie		  36
Cold as the breath of winds that blow
To silver shot descending snow.
            —Richard Lovelace		  37
  As cold as an earthworm.
            —Maurice Maeterlinck		  38
  Cold as the night-dews on the world.
            —Gerald Massey		  39
  Cold as a fireless hearth.
            —Gerald Massey		  40
  Cold as a fish.
            —George Meredith		  41
  Cold as a mountain in its star-pitched tent.
            —George Meredith		  42
  Cold as Death’s chill hand.
            —William J. Mickle		  43
  Cold as the snows of Rhodope.
            —Hannah More		  44
  Cold as a dead maid’s cheek.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  45
  Cold as the Cloyster’d Nun.
            —The Muses Recreation, 1656		  46
  Cold as marble.
            —Petrarch		  47
  Cold as Diana’s Crescent.
            —Jane Porter		  48
  Cold as the world’s heart.
            —Charles Reade		  49
  Cold as when death’s foot shall pass.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  50
  Cold as a dead man’s nose.
            —William Shakespeare		  51
  Cold as a snowball.
            —William Shakespeare		  52
  My belly is as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for pills to cool the veins.
            —William Shakespeare		  53
  Cold as dew to drooping leaves.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  54
  Cold, like a frozen chaos.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  55
  Cold as blight of dew.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  56
  Cold as … dawn.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  57
  Cold as the cast-off garb that is cold as clay.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  58
Grew cold as a winter wave
In the wind from a wide-mouthed grave,
As a gulf wide open to swallow
The light that the world held dear.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  59
  Cold as fears.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  60
  Cold as rains in autumn.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  61
  Cold as winter’s sky.
            —John Aaddington Symonds		  62
  Cold as the moon.
            —John B. Tabb		  63
  As the night-mists … cold.
            —Bayard Taylor		  64
  Cold, like a star.
            —William Watson		  65
  Cold as the rank and wasting weeds, which lie in the pool’s dark bed.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  66
 
 
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