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

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

Mute


Mute as a funeral procession. —Anonymous	1
Mute as a poker. —Anonymous	2
Mute as death. —Anonymous	3
Mute as fate. —Anonymous	4
Mute as Mumchance, who was hanged for saying nothing. —Anonymous	5
Mute as the Tiber. —Anonymous	6
Mute as fishes. —Honoré de Balzac	7
Mute as mice. —Emily Brontë	8
Mute as snow. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	9
Mute as the dead. —Thomas Campbell	10
Mute, like one who pondered on strange and unaccountable events. —James Fenimore Cooper	11
Mute as the grave. —Abraham Cowley	12
Mute as the wine we drink. —Bartholomew Dowling	13
As mute as the tomb. —Alexandre Dumas, père	14
As mute and motionless as statues. —Oliver Goldsmith	15
Stood mute as silence was in Heaven. —John Milton	16
Soldiers … as mute as on parade. —Dinah Maria Mulock	17
Mute, like a flame. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti	18
Mute as if I tongueless were. —George Sandys	19
Mute as fox’s ’mongst mangling hounds. —Sir Walter Scott	20
Mute as the grave. —Sir Walter Scott	21
As mute as Pygmalion. —James Smith	22
Mute as a maiden. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	23
Mute as the mouth which felt death’s wave o’erflow it. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	24
As mute as Jedoro Tower. —William Wordsworth	25