Firm as the oak on rocky heights. - EDWARD LOVIBOND.

Firm as Nature's self. - LoWELL.

Firm as a pillar. GEORGE MERE

DITH.

Hands firm as driven stakes. — IBID. Firm as the poles, or earth, which never move. GEORGE SANDYS.

Firm as faith. SHAKESPEARE. Firm as rocky mountains. — IBID. Firm as the world's centre. -SHELLEY.

Firm as the fabled throne of Grecian Jove. IBID.

Firm as the castle's feudal roof. THOMAS WARTON.

As firm as rock in ocean. WILLIAM WHITEHEAD.

Firm as the chain of rocks which guard the strand. WILLIAM WILKIE.

Firm and unflinching, as the lighthouse reared

On the Island-rock.

WORDSWORTH.

Firm as solid crystal. - IBID.

(See also HAND.)

Fist

Fists like shoulders of mutton. BALZAC.

Fit (Adverb).
Fit as a rope for a thief.

ANON.

Fit as a shoulder of mutton for a sick horse. - IBID.

Fit as a fiddle. - WILLIAM HAUGH

TON.

Fit as a saddle for a sow. 'COLLECTANEA.'

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- LEAN'S

As fit as a pudding for a dogges mouth. LYLY.

Fit as a fritter for a friar's mouth. ENGLISH PROVERB.

As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's rush for Tom's fore-finger, as pancake for Shrove-Tuesday, a morris for Mayday, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's mouth; nay, as the pudding to his skin. SHAKESPEARE.

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Fixed continued.

Eyes immovably fixed . . . like a miser torn away from his coffers, or like a mother separated from her child about to be led away to death. DUMAS, PÈRE.

Fixed like a statue on his marble throne. -F. W. FABER.

Sullen, fix'd like some old oak's deep-rooted, knotted trunk, which hath endur'd the tempest-breathing months of thrice a hundred winters, yet remains unshaken.-RICHARD GLOVER.

Fixed as a sculptured figure. GOETHE.

Fixed as a rocky marge. KEATS. Gaze fix'd .. as one who deep in heaven some airy pageant sees. JOHN KEBLE.

Fixed as Lochlin's thousand rocks. - JAMES MACPHERSON.

Fixed like a rock. - MAHABHARATA. Fixed as a monument.-W. M. PRAED.

Fixt as the monument on Fish street Hill.-W. B. RHODES.

As fixed as the law of light. CHARLES SANGSTER.

There is affection in every employment, and it gives the spirit energy, and keeps the mind intent upon its work or study. This if it be not relaxed, becomes dull, and its earnestness flags, as salt that has lost its savor, so that it has no pungency or relish ; or as bended bow, which unless it be unbent, loses the power that it derives from its elasticity. EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.

Flame.

Flamed like a sheet of molten gold. WILLIAM H. AINSWORTH.

Flame like torch-flames in the passionate air. - SIDNEY LANIER.

Flame, like a meteor, to the troubled air. ROBERT LLOYD.

Flaming like a carbuncle. - RABE

LAIS.

Flaming, like the jaws of hell. - IBID. Flames like morn. - SWINBURNE.