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| —Proverbs 25:11 |
| Old Testament |
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| A Dictionary of Similes |
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| By Frank J. Wilstach |
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Wilstach spent over 20 years tracing more than 16,000 similies to about 2,000 sources and categorizing them under some 3,000 subjects. |
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| CONTENTS |
| Bibliographic Record Preface |
BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, & Co., 1916.
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010
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| Category Index |
| Abandon | to | Cynic |
| Daily | to | Future |
| Gabble | to | Life |
| Lifeless | to | Puzzled |
| Quail | to | Stick |
| Stiff | to | Zigzag |
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| Featured Entries |
| Beautiful, Black, Blind, Blue, Blush, Bright, Calm, Change, Chaste, Cheek, Clear, Cling, Cold, Dark, Dead, Deep, Differ, Dull, Easy, Eye, Face, Fade, Fair, Fast, Fierce, Firm, Fixed, Fled, Fly, Free, Fresh, Full, Gay, Gleam, Glitter, Glow, Gone, Happy, Heart, Keen, Light, Lip, Loud, Love, Man, Melt, Mild, Mind, Pale, Pass, Plain, Pure, Red, Rich, Round, Sad, Scatter, Sharp, Shine, Shrink, Silent, Smile, Smooth, Soft, Sparkle, Spread, Still, Straight, Strong, Sure, Sweet, Swift, Thick, Tremble, True, Vanish, Voice, Warm, Welcome, White, Wild, Wit, Woman |
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| Author Index |
| Gilbert Abbott À Beckett | to | Charles Dickens |
| Emily Dickinson | to | Lays of Ancient India |
| Emma Lazarus | to | Thomas Shadwell |
| William Shakespeare | to | Johann Heinrich Zschokke |
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| Featured Entries |
| Anonymous, Arabian Nights, Bacon, Bailey, Balzac, Beaumont and Fletcher, Billings, Blackmore, E.B. Browning, R. Browning, Bulwer-Lytton, Burton, Butler, Byron, Carlyle, Chaucer, Coleridge, Colton, Conrad, Cowper, Dickens, Dryden, Dumas, George Eliot, Emerson, Hawthorne, O. Henry, O.W. Holmes, Homer, Hood, Hugo, Keats, Kipling, Longfellow, Lyly, Massey, de Maupassant, Meredith, Montgomery, T. Moore, Old Testament, Ouida, Pope, Read, Reade, Riley, C.G. Rossetti, D.G. Rossetti, M. Scott, Shakespeare, Shelley, Southey, Spenser, Swift, Swinburne, Taylor, Tennyson, Whittier, Wordsworth |
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