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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Smooth
 
  Smooth as the surface of a pebble.
            —Joseph Addison		  1
  Smooth like a china cup.
            —William Allingham		  2
  Smooth as the stem of a young palm.
            —Amriolkais		  3
  Smooth as a bowling green.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Smooth as a bulrush.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Smooth as a carpet.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Smooth as a die.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Smooth as a door knob.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Smooth as an oil’d thunderbolt.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Smooth as a perfect peach.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Smooth as a poker table.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Smooth as a rose leaf.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Smooth as the mirrors in the Palace of Peace.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Smooth as the palm of one’s hand.
            —Anonymous		  14
  Smooth as wax.
            —Anonymous		  15
  Smooth as a snow cloud.
            —Anonymous		  16
  Smooth as a spirit’s wing.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  17
  Smothe it was as it were late shave.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  18
  Smooth as smoothest beaver hat.
            —John Davies		  19
  Smooth as a new laid egg.
            —Charles Dickens		  20
  Smooth as sheet of polished brass.
            —Joseph Rodman Drake		  21
  Smooth as the back of a razor.
            —George Du Maurier		  22
  Smooth as the dusky down on the elk.
            —Ancient Erse		  23
  Smooth as fungus, daughter of the rain.
            —Francis Fawkes		  24
  Smooth as the surface of well polish’d brass.
            —Francis Fawkes		  25
  Smooth and shining, as a sword out of a sheath.
            —Gustave Flaubert		  26
  A skin as smoth as silke.
            —George Gascoigne		  27
  Smooth as glass.
            —John Gay		  28
  Smooth as a billiard-table.
            —Anthony Hamilton		  29
  Smooth as ice.
            —Thomas Heywood		  30
  Smooth as the pond can be.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  31
  Smooth as a file.
            —Leigh Hunt		  32
  Smooth as a road in Venice.
            —Mary Johnston		  33
  Smooth as a billiard ball.
            —Ben Jonson		  34
  Skin as smooth as any rush.
            —Ben Jonson		  35
  Smooth as a silver shield.
            —George Cabot Lodge		  36
  Smooth as jet.
            —John Lyly		  37
  Smooth as the gliding stream.
            —James Macpherson		  38
  Smooth as velvet.
            —Charles Reade		  39
  Smoother than the fur of cats.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  40
  Tones as smooth as honey.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  41
  Smooth as a mirror.
            —Bernardin de Saint-Pierre		  42
  Smooth as oil.
            —William Shakespeare		  43
  Smooth as monumental alabaster.
            —William Shakespeare		  44
  Smooth as the elephant’s new polished tooth.
            —Sir Edward Sherburne		  45
  Smooth as Pan.
            —Sir Philip Sidney		  46
  Smooth as a billow.
            —Alexander Smith		  47
  As Parian marble smooth.
            —William Somerville		  48
Smooth as the level lake, when not a breeze
Dies o’er the sleeping surface.
            —Robert Southey		  49
  Smooth as the liquid passage of a bird.
            —Trumbull Stickney		  50
  Smoother than butter.
            —Old Testament		  51
  Smooth as the flight of a dream.
            —Edith M. Thomas		  52
  Smooth as a floor.
            —Mary A. Tincker		  53
  Smooth as a mole.
            —John Withals (Dictionary in English and Latin)		  54
  Smooth as marble or a waveless sea.
            —William Wordsworth		  55
 
 
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