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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Smile (Noun)
 
  The smiles of his dark-blue eyes sparkle like the sea when first lighted up by the rays of the sun.
            —Alciphron		  1
  Smiles and tears, like sunshine and rain, are necessary for the development of life.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Smiled, as mountains smile to see the spring.
            —Ancient Ballad of Hindustan		  3
  Her smiles were like the glowing sunshine.
            —Serbian Ballad		  4
  Her smile was like a summer morn.
            —Robert Burns		  5
  Smile as gay as th’ sun o’ th’ May.
            —Alice Cary		  6
Charming smiles thy beauteous face adorn,
As May’s white blossoms gaily deck the thorn.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  7
  Smiles … sweet as the flow’rs in bloom of spring array’d.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  8
  A smile as fine as wine.
            —Frederick S. Cozzens		  9
  ’Twould force a misanthrope to hang a smile upon his lip, as dewdrop on a thorn.
            —Michael Field		  10
  Smile like the bloom of the morning.
            —Edward Octavus Flagg		  11
Smiles, like meteors of the night,
Just give one flash of momentary light.
            —Walter Harte		  12
  Smiles as thick on rosy lips as ripples on the sea.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  13
  A grim smile, like lion that has found a way of exit.
            —Victor Hugo		  14
  Smile like morning gold.
            —Victor Hugo		  15
  Her smile was such as a sultan might, in a blissful and fond moment, bestow on a slave his gold gems had enriched.
            —Victor Hugo		  16
  Her smile grateful as the dissolution of the ice.
            —Dr. Samuel Johnson		  17
  Wan smiles flickered, like the northern dawn, across her worn cheeks’ ice-field.
            —Charles Kingsley		  18
He strove to clothe his agony in smiles,
Which he would force up in his poor pale cheeks,
Like ill-timed guests that had no proper dwelling there.
            —Charles Lamb		  19
  The smiles which play on my cheek in public are to my heart as moonbeams falling on some rock of ice; they shine, but warm not.
            —Matthew Gregory Lewis		  20
  Capacious … smile, like the exaggerated reflection of a concave mirror.
            —Samuel Lover		  21
  A half smile, like the moonlight of laughter, dawned on her face.
            —George MacDonald		  22
  Her smile as sunshine on a ripening land.
            —Gerald Massey		  23
  Its smile is as a thankful hymn.
            —Gerald Massey		  24
Her smile—it was like the golden wine
Poured in the spirit, as in a cup.
            —Owen Meredith		  25
  Thy smiles, like sunflowers in the golden light they love.
            —Henry Hart Milman		  26
  Childhood … smiles, like glimpses of heaven.
            —Donald G. Mitchell		  27
  Smile like sunlight in a rippling sea.
            —Lewis Morris		  28
  Her smile is like the noon-splendor of a day of June.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  29
  As a meteor bright,
  As a comet bright,
Was her smile of pearl and spray.
            —Francis S. Saltus		  30
  How like the dewdrops on a drooping flower are smiles from gentle eyes.
            —John G. Saxe		  31
  Smiles, which spread like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  32
  A half smile hovering round her happy lips like a bright butterfly around a flower.
            —Alexander Smith		  33
  Smile … like sunshine opening through a shower in vernal skies.
            —Robert Southey		  34
                A smile
Sweet as good Angels wear when they present
Their mortal charge before the throne of Heaven.
            —Robert Southey		  35
  Smile, it was like sunshine in a shady place.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  36
                Crimson smile,
Like seas hid by a meadow-land.
            —Trumbull Stickney		  37
  Smiles more sweet than flowers.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  38
  A smile that was like sunrise on a sea strewn with wreckage.
            —Edith Wharton		  39
Her smile is as a listening child’s
Who hears its mother’s call.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  40
  A smile which cheered—like the breaking day.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  41
A smile as joyous, frank, and innocent
As that with which a babe awakes from sleep.
            —Sarah Williams		  42
  Around the lips a smile played like the shadow of a silver cloud upon a sunlit stream.
            —James. C. Wilson		  43
  A smile … as sleeps a sunbeam on a stone.
            —William Winter		  44
  An innocent smile, like a sunbeam kissing a velvet rose.
            —William Winter		  45
 
 
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