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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Sharp
 
  As sharp as a razor.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Sharp as a steel trap.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Sharp as a tiger’s tooth.
            —Anonymous		  3
  As sharp as if he lived on Tewksbury mustard.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Sharp as the bristles of a hedgehog.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Sharp as the tooth of time.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Sharp as vinegar.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Sharp, like the shrill swallow’s cry.
            —Anonymous		  8
  So sharp that you could shave a sleeping mouse without waking her.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Sharp as the little end of nothing.
            —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms		  10
  Sharp, like the crack of a pistol.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  11
  A pang as sharp as ever wrenched confession from the lips of a prisoner in the cells of the Inquisition.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  12
  Like the prick of a needle, duly sharp.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  13
  Sharpe as brere.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  14
Sharp as the gore-soaked lashes
Of men’s whips.
            —Eliza Cook		  15
  Sharp as a winter’s morning.
            —Richard Corbet		  16
  Sharp-sighted as a hawk.
            —Richard Cumberland		  17
  Sharp like the claws of ravening beasts.
            —John Fox		  18
  Sharp as the bee-sting.
            —James Grainger		  19
  Sharp like a quince.
            —William Hazlitt		  20
  Sharp as a handsaw.
            —John Heywood		  21
  Sharp as her needle.
            —John Heywood		  22
  Sharp as a beak.
            —Victor Hugo		  23
  Sharp as truth.
            —Victor Hugo		  24
  Sharp as frost.
            —Eric Mackay		  25
  Sharp as a sickle is the edge of shade and shine.
            —George Meredith		  26
  Sharp as the enchanter’s sword.
            —George Meredith		  27
  Sharp as a ferret at a field-rat’s hole.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  28
  Sharp as a sword drawn from a shuddering wound.
            —Alfred Noyes		  29
  Sharp as thistles are.
            —Ovid		  30
  Short and sharp, like a donkey’s gallop.
            —Samuel Pegge		  31
  Sharp as javelins.
            —John Ruskin		  32
  Sharp as dirk rammed down in its sheath.
            —Duncan. C. Scott		  33
  Sharp as my needle.
            —William Shakespeare		  34
  More sharp than filed steel.
            —William Shakespeare		  35
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
            —William Shakespeare		  36
  Nose was as sharp as a pen.
            —William Shakespeare		  37
  Sharp as his spur.
            —William Shakespeare		  38
  Sharp as a bayonet.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  39
  Sharp as tenterhooks.
            —John Skelton		  40
  Sharp as … oyster strumpet.
            —Jonathan Swift		  41
  Sharp as the north sets when the snows are out.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  42
  More sharp than is the naked side of war.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  43
  Sharp as a terrier.
            —Tom Taylor		  44
  Sharp as reproach.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  45
  Sharp as a two-edged sword.
            —Old Testament		  46
  Sharper than a thorn.
            —Old Testament		  47
  Sharp as a thistle.
            —Towneley Mysteries, or Miracle Plays		  48
 
 
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