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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Firm
 
  Firm as the shaft that props the towering dome.
            —Æschylus		  1
  Firm as the solid base of this great world.
            —Mark Akenside		  2
  Firm as adamant.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Firm as a mountain.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Firm as the granite base of Mount Washington.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Firm as the iron hills.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Firm as the budding fruit.
            —Ariosto		  7
  Firm as well-cured olives.
            —Aristophanes		  8
  Stand firm like a rock.
            —Marcus Aurelius		  9
  Firm as butchers.
            —Francis Bacon		  10
  Firm as the heart of a mountain.
            —Ambrose Bierce		  11
  Firm in his sinew as the hind leg of a stag.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  12
  Firmer than heaven and earth.
            —John Bunyan		  13
  Firm as a fortress.
            —Lord Byron		  14
  Held firm, like a wall of rock.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  15
  Firm-founded, like the bamboo’s clamping roots.
            —Chinese		  16
  Firm as Sparta’s king.
            —Sir Francis Doyle		  17
  Rock firm as facts.
            —Thomas Hardy		  18
  Firm as the band that clasps the antlered spoil.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  19
  Firm as the rooted mountain rock.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  20
  Firm as Atlas.
            —Robert Jephson		  21
  Firm as steel.
            —Virginia W. Johnson		  22
  Firm as the tread of lions.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  23
  Firm as the oak on rocky heights.
            —Edward Lovibond		  24
  Firm as Nature’s self.
            —James Russell Lowell		  25
  Firm as a pillar.
            —George Meredith		  26
  Hands firm as driven stakes.
            —George Meredith		  27
  Firm as the poles, or earth, which never move.
            —George Sandys		  28
  Firm as faith.
            —William Shakespeare		  29
  Firm as rocky mountains.
            —William Shakespeare		  30
  Firm as the world’s centre.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  31
  Firm as dust and fixed as shadows.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  32
  Firm as a stone.
            —Old Testament		  33
  As virtue, firm.
            —William Thomson		  34
  Firm as the fabled throne of Grecian Jove.
            —William Thomson		  35
  Firm as the castle’s feudal roof.
            —Thomas Warton		  36
  As firm as rock in ocean.
            —William Whitehead		  37
  Firm as the chain of rocks which guard the strand.
            —William Wilkie		  38
Firm and unflinching, as the lighthouse reared
On the Island-rock.
            —William Wordsworth		  39
  Firm as solid crystal.
            —William Wordsworth		  40
 
 
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