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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Free
 
                Free,
As Thames and Seine, St. Lawrence, Nile, and Ganges,
Mingled in one illimitable sea.
            —Grant Allen		  1
  Free as a fly.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Free as a gift.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Free as a wood sawer.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Free as egg-nog on Christmas Eve.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Free as the diamond is free from alloy.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Free as the sybil’s leaves of yore.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Free as thought.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Free as a hurricane.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Free as a mountain goat.
            —Anonymous		  10
  As free from artifice as is the dimple in childhood’s cheek.
            —Alfred Austin		  11
  Free as Phœbus.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  12
  Free as wanton winds.
            —Aphra Behn		  13
  Free, as a young calf, from sorrow.
            —Aphra Behn		  14
  Free as whispering air.
            —Aphra Behn		  15
  Free as bird on branch, just as ready to fly east as west.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  16
  Free as light.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  17
  Free as a babe from cheating.
            —Robert Browning		  18
  Free as cloud and sunbeam are.
            —Robert Browning		  19
  Free and winding as a poet’s thought through his verse.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  20
  Free and graceful … like Dian when the bounding hart she tracks through the morning dew.
            —Chæremon		  21
  Free as the wind.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  22
  Free as the light and air.
            —Charles Churchill		  23
  Free as water.
            —Will Levington Comfort		  24
  Free as the sunbeams on the chainless air.
            —Robert T. Conrad		  25
  Free-handed as a harlot.
            —John Davidson		  26
  Free as a liberated ghost.
            —Sydney Dobell		  27
  Free and noble as clear poesy.
            —Michael Drayton		  28
  Free as nature first made man.
            —John Dryden		  29
  Free as an Arab.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  30
  Free as a mountain bird.
            —Sir William Schwenk Gilbert		  31
  Free as a tethered ass.
            —Sir William Schwenk Gilbert		  32
  Free as the hawk.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  33
  Smiling free, as rose to summer air.
            —Dora Greenwell		  34
  Free as the soul.
            —Edward Hake		  35
  Free, like one who trails the plough.
            —Samuel Hoffenstein		  36
            Good and free
As when poor Eve was innocent.
            —Jean Ingelow		  37
  Free as an eagle.
            —John Keats		  38
  Free as the sky-searching lark.
            —John Keats		  39
  Free as the breeze.
            —Francis Scott Key		  40
            More divinely free
Than Pacific’s boundless sea.
            —Frederic L. Knowles		  41
  Free as ambient air.
            —Sir Roger L’Estrange		  42
  Free as the waters of life.
            —Alfred Henry Lewis		  43
  Free as a king.
            —Thomas Lodge		  44
  Free as warmth in summer’s weather.
            —Charles Mackay		  45
  Free as breezes be on Nature’s velvet flooring.
            —Eric Mackay		  46
  Free as the thought that ye canna confine.
            —David Macbeth Moir		  47
Free as Severn’s waves, that spring to bless
Their parent hills.
            —James Montgomery		  48
  Free as the fetterless wind.
            —Thomas Moore		  49
  Free as first innocence.
            —Thomas Otway		  50
  Free as mountain winds.
            —William Shakespeare		  51
  Freer than a jailer.
            —William Shakespeare		  52
  Free in spirit as the mountain.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  53
  Free from flaw or stain as diamond from the mine.
            —Douglas B. W. Sladen		  54
                Free,
As the stars’ mountain-tops be,
As the pearl, in the depths of the sea,
From the portionless king that wears it.
            —Edmund Clarence Stedman		  55
                Free
As birds that breast and brave the sea.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  56
  Free as the circling sea.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  57
  Free as heaven.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  58
  Free-born as winds and stars and waves are free.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  59
  Freer than birds or dreams are free.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  60
  Free as song.
            —Bayard Taylor		  61
  As free as the eagle’s wing.
            —Henry D. Thoreau		  62
  Free as fishing is.
            —Izaak Walton		  63
  Free as Emperors.
            —William Ward		  64
Free as our rivers are
Ocean-ward going.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  65
                Free to rise
As leaves on Autumn’s whirlwind borne.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  66
  Free as India’s leopard.
            —N. P. Willis		  67
  Free as the soul of the fragrant wine.
            —William Winter		  68
  Free as the Sun.
            —William Wordsworth		  69
  Free as our desires.
            —William Wordsworth		  70
 
 
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