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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Bend
 
  Bends like a willow in the wind.
            —Anonymous		  1
Bend on me thy tender eyes,
As stars look on the sea.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  2
  Bend one way, like a field of corn in a hurricane.
            —William Cartright		  3
  Bending her form towards him, like a torch when it indicates a gentle draught of air.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  4
  Bend in the blast as blade of grass.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  5
Bends and sinks like a column of sand
In the whirlwind of his great despair.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  6
  Bending like a wand of willow.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  7
  Bends … like a wave near a rock.
            —Ossian		  8
  Bending like corn on the upland lea.
            —James G. Percival		  9
Bends like an angel softly through
The blue-pavilioned skies.
            —Mrs. A. B. Welby		  10
 
 
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