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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Loose
 
  Loose as … negligence.
            —James Cawthorn		  1
  Loose as the stubble in the field.
            —George Croly		  2
  Loose as a vine-branch blowing in the morn.
            —Austin Dobson		  3
  Loose as the wrapper of a two-for-fiver.
            —O. Henry		  4
  Loose as Cossack pantaloons.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  5
  Loose as eggs in a nest.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  6
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
            —William Shakespeare		  7
  Loose as the flame that flutters on the grate.
            —Alexander Smith		  8
  Loose, like a Comet’s refluent tresses, hung her heavenly hair dispersed.
            —Robert Southey		  9
  Loose as the petals of roses discrowned.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  10
  Loose as the breeze that plays along the downs.
            —James Thomson		  11
  The reins loose as flying ribbons.
            —Lewis Wallace		  12
  Loose as a cloud-wreath on the sky.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  13
 
 
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