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

James Anthony Froude

Deadly as the canker-worm.

Fade away like a cloud and vanish.

Inherent, like the laws of gravity.

Plain as the sunlight.

Powerful as the sacerdotalism of Mediæval Europe.

Variable as the weather.

The world is like the shifting scenes of a panorama: ten years convert the population of the schools into men and women, and make and mar fortunes; twenty years converts infants into lovers, fathers, and mothers, and decide men’s fortunes; thirty years turn fascinating beauties into bearable old women, and convert lovers into grandfathers; forty years change the face of all society; and fifty years will, alas! find us in a world of which we know nothing, and to which we are unknown.

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