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

Leigh Hunt

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a telescope.

Cheeks as ripe as apples.

Disappeared like buttered crumpets.

Earnest as bees.

Generous as daylight.

Restless as butterflies.

Sing-song like a stiff puffet on a humdrum barrel-organ.

Smooth as a file.

Surely as the same sunshine of heaven is on the mountain tops of east and west.

Up and down, like a chicken drinking.

Void of meaning as an oak wainscot.

Whistling like the thrushes
With voice in silver gushes.

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