Heavy Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Heavy


Heavy as a boarding-house dumpling. —Anonymous	1
Heavy as death. —Matthew Arnold	2
Heavy as a panegyric. —William Congreve	3
Heavy as the hand of death. —Charles Dickens	4
Head as heavy as alderman’s. —Henry Fielding	5
Hung heavy as an opiate. —Thomas Hardy	6
Heavy and lumpish … like a defunct nightmare, which had perished in the midst of its wickedness, and left its flabby corpse on the breast of the tormented one, to be gotten rid of as it might. —Nathaniel Hawthorne	7
Heavy, like a spade that digs in clay. —Richard Hengist Horne	8
Heavy as remembered sin That will not suffer sleep or thought to ease. —Rudyard Kipling	9
Lies heavy … like murder on a guilty soul. —Friedrich von Schiller	10
Heavy as lead. —John Skelton	11
Heavier than the sands of the sea. —Old Testament	12
Heavy as a Dutchman. —Mrs. Henry Wood	13
Heavy as frost. —William Wordsworth	14