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

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

Bent


Bent down like violets after rain. —Thomas Bailey Aldrich	1
Bent … like some rapt poet o’er his rhyme. —Thomas Bailey Aldrich	2
Bent like a drooping rose. —Anonymous	3
Bent like a whip. —Anonymous	4
Bent like an old bruised lantern. —R. D. Blackmore	5
Bent-down like corbels of a building. —Thomas Carlyle	6
Bent … like a soldier at the approach of an assault. —Victor Hugo	7
Bent and trembled like the rushes. —Henry W. Longfellow	8
Bent like some great bow unstrung. —Joaquin Miller	9
Bent, like a rainbow. —Robert Southey	10