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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Round (Adjective)
 
  Round as a circus ring.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Round as a dish.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Round as a dumpling.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Round as a juggler’s box.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Round as a length of stovepipe.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Round as an orb.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Round as a pearl.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Round as a rosebud.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Round as a turnip.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Round as a windmill.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Round as the full moon.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Round as the globe.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Rounde as a thymbyll.
            —Ashmol MS. (15th Century)		  13
  Round like wells.
            —Francis Bacon		  14
  Round and sound as a mountain apple.
            —Robert Browning		  15
  Round as any Jonian jug.
            —John Byrom		  16
  Round as Giotto’s O. Thomas Carlyle  17
  Rounde as appille was his face.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  18
  A round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea.
            —Havelock Ellis		  19
  Round as the globe.
            —John Gay		  20
  Round as Norval’s shield.
            —Thomas Hood		  21
  Round as platter of delf.
            —Thomas Hood		  22
  Round as a quoit.
            —Camille Lemonnier		  23
  Round like pumpkins.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  24
  Round as a tun.
            —Thomas Middleton		  25
  Round as the shield of my fathers.
            —Ossian		  26
  Round as a dish.
            —François Rabelais		  27
  Round as a hoop.
            —François Rabelais		  28
  Round and perfect as a star.
            —Alexander Smith		  29
  Round as a pearl or tear.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  30
  Round and pale as a pair of suet dumplings.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  31
  Round as a moyn.
            —Towneley Mysteries and Miracle Plays		  32
  Round as a kettle.
            —Samuel Wesley		  33
  Round as an Orbe.
            —J. Wilkins		  34
  Round as a horn.
            —Alexander Wilson		  35
 
 
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