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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Dead
 
  Dead as Chelsea.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Dead as a man after two doctors have visited him.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Dead as leaves on a painted canvas.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Dead as mackerel.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Dead as the nail in a coffin.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Dead as the Roman Empire.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Dead as the wholesale district on Sunday.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Dead as Aristophanes.
            —William Archer		  8
                My sweetest child,
Which like a flow’r crush’d with a blast, is dead.
            —Sir John Beaumont		  9
Dead as a buried vestal whose whole strength
Goes when the grate above shuts heavily.
            —Robert Browning		  10
  As dead to the life I once lived as if the Styx rolled between it and me.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  11
  As dead to you as the dust of your fathers.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  12
  Dead as a herring.
            —Samuel Butler		  13
  Dede as stoon.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  14
  Dead as Scrooge’s partner.
            —Henry A. Clapp		  15
  Dead as Julius Cæsar.
            —Joseph Conrad		  16
  Dead as Pharaoh.
            —Charles Dickens		  17
  Dead as a salmon in a fishmonger’s basket.
            —George Farquhar		  18
  Dead as charity.
            —Nathaniel Field		  19
  Dead as a perished delight.
            —Josiah Gilbert Holland		  20
Dead as the bulrushes round little Moses,
On the old banks of the Nile.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  21
  Dead to sounds, as a ship out of soundings.
            —Thomas Hood		  22
  Dead as bricks.
            —Thomas Hood		  23
  More dead than Morpheus’ imaginings.
            —John Keats		  24
  Ded as a dore-nayle.
            —William Langland		  25
  Ded as dore-tree.
            —William Langland		  26
                Lies dead,
As a corse on the sea-shore, whose spirit has fled.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  27
  Dead as last year’s clothes in a fashionable fine lady’s wardrobe.
            —George Meredith		  28
The Dead are like the stars by day;
  Withdrawn from mortal eye,
But not extinct, they hold their way
  In glory through the sky.
            —James Montgomery		  29
  Dead as wood.
            —Lewis Morris		  30
  Dead as desire in the dead.
            —Sydney Munden		  31
  Dead as mutton.
            —Charles Reade		  32
  Dead as a dog that lieth in a ditch.
            —Samuel Rowlands		  33
  Dead as earth.
            —William Shakespeare		  34
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
            —William Shakespeare		  35
  Dead as night when stars wax dim.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  36
Dead as dreams of days that were
Before the new-born world lay bare
In heaven’s wide eye.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  37
  Dead as the carver’s figured throng.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  38
  Dead as the dawn’s grey dew
At high midnoon of the mounting day that mocks the might of the dawn it slew.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  39
  Dead as yesterday.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  40
  As dead and sapless as last month’s leaves.
            —Sir Henry Taylor		  41
  Dead as dreams.
            —William Watson		  42
  Dead as smelts.
            —Daniel Webster		  43
  Dead as the ropes of roses on St. James street.
            —Israel Zangwill		  44
 
 
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