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- The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
- Terence, This is Stupid Stuff from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad
- A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever by John Keats
- Nervous Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Quote by Jack London from Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
- The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis | The Holy Bible: King James Version
- Canto III: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- Happy Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Quiet Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Michael: A Pastoral Poem by William Wordsworth
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Abiding in the Shadow of the Almighty
- Book XVIII: The Iliad of Homer by Samuel Butler
- Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children: Proper Place for Sports.
- Fast Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Sir Edward Dyer's My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
- Walt Whitman's Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
- Hamlet and His Problems by T.S. Eliot
- Chapter 21, Part 8: Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails | The Golden Bough by Sir James George
- With Rue My Heart is Laden by A. E. Housman
- Elementary Rules of Usage: Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- With Rue My Heart is Laden from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad
- Beautiful Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction by Charles W. Eliot
- The Gleaner of Sapri by Luigi Mercantini
- William Wordsworth's Expostulation and Reply
- Loud Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Calm Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Rev. Alban Butler
- Scared Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Preface to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
- Quote by James Allan Francis from Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations
- Empty Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- America: A Prophecy by William Blake
- Pippa's Song by Robert Browning
- Psalm 23: The Lord is My Shepherd | The Holy Bible: King James Version
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Psalm 109: A Cry for Vengeance | The Holy Bible: King James Version
- The Mental Traveller from William Blake's The Pickering Manuscript
- Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Lonely Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Dark Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Tired Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Love (Noun) Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Act I: Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
- The Congo by Vachel Lindsay
- Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" Speech
- Confused Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Act V, Scene III: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Cold Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout by Benjamin Franklin
- Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Hot Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Silent Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Useless Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Emily Dickinson's I Had No Time to Hate, Because
- Chapter 1: Of Our Spiritual Strivings | The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: English Translation by Edward Fitzgerald
- Chapter 11: Invitations, Acceptances, and Regrets | Etiquette by Emily Post
- The Shot by Alexander Pushkin
- Smooth Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- The Day of Doom by Michael Wigglesworth
- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
- List of Characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
- Sleep by Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset
- If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Lines 1-499: Oedipus the King by Sophocles
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion by William Blake
- Robert Frost's The Witch of Coos
- Still (Adjective) Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Boots by Rudyard Kipling
- Get Up and Bar the Door: A Traditional Ballad
- Kind Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Elementary Elements of Composition: Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- Phillis Wheatley's To Maecenas
- Act II, Scene III: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- The Betrothed by Rudyard Kipling
- Lines 1-499: Antigone by Sophocles
- Emily Dickinson's Split the Lark and You'll Find the Music
- Blue Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Dance Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Hair Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Confident Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- A Litany by John Donne
- The Ocean from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
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- The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
- Terence, This is Stupid Stuff from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad
- A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever by John Keats
- Nervous Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Quote by Jack London from Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
- The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis | The Holy Bible: King James Version
- Canto III: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- Happy Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Quiet Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Michael: A Pastoral Poem by William Wordsworth
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Abiding in the Shadow of the Almighty
- Book XVIII: The Iliad of Homer by Samuel Butler
- Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children: Proper Place for Sports.
- Fast Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Sir Edward Dyer's My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
- Walt Whitman's Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
- Hamlet and His Problems by T.S. Eliot
- Chapter 21, Part 8: Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails | The Golden Bough by Sir James George
- With Rue My Heart is Laden by A. E. Housman
- Elementary Rules of Usage: Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- With Rue My Heart is Laden from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad
- Beautiful Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction by Charles W. Eliot
- The Gleaner of Sapri by Luigi Mercantini
- William Wordsworth's Expostulation and Reply
- Loud Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Calm Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Rev. Alban Butler
- Scared Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Preface to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
- Quote by James Allan Francis from Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations
- Empty Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- America: A Prophecy by William Blake
- Pippa's Song by Robert Browning
- Psalm 23: The Lord is My Shepherd | The Holy Bible: King James Version
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Psalm 109: A Cry for Vengeance | The Holy Bible: King James Version
- The Mental Traveller from William Blake's The Pickering Manuscript
- Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Lonely Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Dark Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Tired Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Love (Noun) Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Act I: Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
- The Congo by Vachel Lindsay
- Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" Speech
- Confused Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Act V, Scene III: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Cold Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout by Benjamin Franklin
- Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Hot Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Silent Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Useless Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Emily Dickinson's I Had No Time to Hate, Because
- Chapter 1: Of Our Spiritual Strivings | The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: English Translation by Edward Fitzgerald
- Chapter 11: Invitations, Acceptances, and Regrets | Etiquette by Emily Post
- The Shot by Alexander Pushkin
- Smooth Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- The Day of Doom by Michael Wigglesworth
- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
- List of Characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
- Sleep by Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset
- If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Lines 1-499: Oedipus the King by Sophocles
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion by William Blake
- Robert Frost's The Witch of Coos
- Still (Adjective) Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Boots by Rudyard Kipling
- Get Up and Bar the Door: A Traditional Ballad
- Kind Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Elementary Elements of Composition: Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- Phillis Wheatley's To Maecenas
- Act II, Scene III: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- The Betrothed by Rudyard Kipling
- Lines 1-499: Antigone by Sophocles
- Emily Dickinson's Split the Lark and You'll Find the Music
- Blue Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Dance Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Hair Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- Confident Similes from Frank J. Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes
- A Litany by John Donne
- The Ocean from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
- Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
- Chapter 25: The Dynamo and the Virgin | The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
- John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations