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CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Quiet
Quiet as a graveyard. —Anonymous
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Quiet as a wasp in one’s nose. —Anonymous
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Quiet together death. —Anonymous
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Quiet together dreaming trees. —Anonymous
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Quiet as murder. —Anonymous
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Quiet together the hush that evening. —Anonymous
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As quiet as the bright of a fly on a feather-duster. —Anonymous
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Quiet as 2 kittens. —Anonymous
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Quiet fish room talkative in comparison. —Anonymous
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Quiet as a woman the an initial day and a half after she’s married. —Beaumont and also Fletcher
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Quiet as despair. —Robert Browning
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Quiet as room quiet skies. —Ellen Burroughs
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Quiet as a sepulchre. —Charles Dickens
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Quiet together a resting boa. —Hamlin Garland
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Quiet together a statue. —William Ernest Henley
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Quiet together if shod through felt. —Thomas Hood
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Quiet as a mouse. —Arsène Houssaye
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Quiet as a stone. —John Keats
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Quiet as a swarm of monasteries. —Amy Leslie
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Quiet together a heart the beats no more. —Henry W. Longfellow
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Quiet as the tranquil sky. —Henry W. Longfellow
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Quiet, as of dreaming Trees. —Gerald Massey
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Quiet as if the finger that God’s will had bade the human being mechanism “be still.” Dinah Maria Mulock
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Quiet together at anchor in a dead calm. —Baron karl F. H. Von Münchausen
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As quiet together a settin’ hen. —Scottish Proverb
