Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Dim

Dim as the land of shadows.
—Anonymous

As dim as dim might be.
—Robert Buchanan

Dim … as in a dream.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Burn dim, like lamps in noisome air.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dim as a ghost.
—Mrs. E. M. H. Cortissoz

Ghastly dim and pale, as if driven by a beating storm at sea.
—Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Dim as the borrow’d beams of moon or stars.
—John Dryden

Dim as the wandering stars that burst in the blue of the Summer heaven.
—Fitz-Greene Halleck

Dim and sweet as moonlight in a solitary street.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Dim wrapt in a haze like a shrouded ghost.
—Sir Alfred Lyall

Dim as the dream of an idle dreamer.
—Ernest McCaffey

Dim as the shades in the angry shower.
—George Meredith

Dim … like the far golden lustre of a dark god-like town.
—William Morris

Dim as the dream of a dream that was dreamed.
—Sydney Munden

Dim as the dusk of day.
—James Whitcomb Riley