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

Thomas Heywood

Black as stormy darkness.

Close as night.

Her sweet content is like a flattering glass to make my face seem fairer to mine eye.

Dear as his eyeball.

’Scape as did Arion on the Dolphin’s back.

Gracious as a mediæval queen.

Hard to enter my belief as Dives into heaven.

Honest a man as ever lived by bread.

Lean as a lath.

Necessary as one’s digestion.

Rebellious as the sea.

Senseless as stones.

Smiling like a cherry.

Smooth as ice.

Soft as jelly.

Spotless as an angel.

Spotless as the noon.

Stiff as a rubbing brush.

Void of pity as chased bears.

Wet as a drowned rat.

As white as bear’s teeth.