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

Mute

Mute as a funeral procession.
—Anonymous

Mute as a poker.
—Anonymous

Mute as death.
—Anonymous

Mute as fate.
—Anonymous

Mute as Mumchance, who was hanged for saying nothing.
—Anonymous

Mute as the Tiber.
—Anonymous

Mute as fishes.
—Honoré de Balzac

Mute as mice.
—Emily Brontë

Mute as snow.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mute as the dead.
—Thomas Campbell

Mute, like one who pondered on strange and unaccountable events.
—James Fenimore Cooper

Mute as the grave.
—Abraham Cowley

Mute as the wine we drink.
—Bartholomew Dowling

As mute as the tomb.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

As mute and motionless as statues.
—Oliver Goldsmith

Stood mute as silence was in Heaven.
—John Milton

Soldiers … as mute as on parade.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

Mute, like a flame.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Mute as if I tongueless were.
—George Sandys

Mute as fox’s ’mongst mangling hounds.
—Sir Walter Scott

Mute as the grave.
—Sir Walter Scott

As mute as Pygmalion.
—James Smith

Mute as a maiden.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Mute as the mouth which felt death’s wave o’erflow it.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

As mute as Jedoro Tower.
—William Wordsworth