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

Comfort

Comfortable as coin.
—Anonymous

Comfortable as an annuity.
—Anonymous

Comfortable as matrimony,—to an old woman.
—Anonymous

Comfortable as an anvil.
—Irvin S. Cobb

Comfortable as the hungry pig was, when he was shut up by mistake in the grain department of a brewery.
—Charles Dickens

Comforting as April air
After the snow.
—Jean Ingelow

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
—William Shakespeare

That comfort comes too late;
’Tis like a pardon after execution.
—William Shakespeare