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

Beat

Like the walnut tree,
The more he is beaten, the better he’ll be.
—Anonymous

Beaten as a road.
—Charles Cotton

My brain is beating like the heart of Haste.
—Sidney Lanier

Beaten like a Turco that pawns his musket.
—Ouida

Beats like a maniac drummer in mid-battle.
—T. Buchanan Read

Each falling hoof
Beat like a flail beneath the thresher’s roof.
—Bayard Taylor

Beat, like the pulse, perpetual.
—Isaac Watts