Putnam's Phrase Book / An Aid to Social Letter Writing and to Ready and Effective Conversation, with Over 100 Model Social Letters and 6000 of the World's Best English Phrases

by Edwin Hamlin Carr

Churlish as the bear.

Troilus and Cressida, I., 2

Slow as the elephant.

Troilus and Cressida, I., 2

His nose was as sharp as a pen.

King Henry V., II., 3

As dead as a door-nail.

King Henry VI., IV., 10

The inaudible and noiseless foot of time.

All’s Well that Ends Well, V., 3