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

Tom Brown

Covetousness, like jealousy, when it has once taken root, never leaves a man but with his life.

Natural as dancing bears to a bag-piper.

Though a soldier in time of peace is like a chimney in summer, yet what wise man would pluck down his chimney because his almanac told him it was the middle of June.