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

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

Pale


Pale as an Angel of the Grave. —Anonymous	1
Pale as Banquo’s ghost. —Anonymous	2
Pale as linen. —Anonymous	3
Pale as parchment. —Anonymous	4
Pale as the gleam of a glow-worm. —Anonymous	5
Pale as the haggard features of despair. —Anonymous	6
Pale as the rose-leaves withered in the northern gale. —Anonymous	7
Pale as turnips were his cheeks. —Anonymous	8
Pale as with the sickness that promised death. —Anonymous	9
Grew pale, like a flower that is cut off. —Assyrian	10
Pale as a moon that moves alone through lonely space. —Alfred Austin	11
Pale as snowdrift in the frost. —Charles D. Bell	12
Pale as the moon before the solar ray. —Samuel Boyse	13
Pale as a white stone. —Charlotte Brontë	14
Pale as baby carved in stone. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	15
Pale … as one who saw an ecstasy beyond a foretold agony. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	16
Pale as crocus grows Close beside a rose-tree’s root. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	17
Pale as the silver cross of Savoy. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	18
Pale as a spectre. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton	19
Pale like only lily. —Robert Burns	20
Pale as ashes, or a clout. —Samuel Butler	21
Pale as death. —Samuel Butler	22
Pale … as any lead. —Geoffrey Chaucer	23
Like a dede ymage, pale and wan. —Geoffrey Chaucer	24
Palle as asshen colde. —Geoffrey Chaucer	25
Pale as a witch. —Richard Cumberland	26
Pale as driven by a beating storm at sea. —Richard Henry Dana (1815–1882)	27
Pale as a new cheese. —Thomas Dekker	28
Pale as a wreath of Alpine snow. —Lord De Tabley	29
Pale as a candle. —Charles Dickens	30
Pale as a muffin. —Charles Dickens	31
Pale as fires when mastered by the night. —John Dryden	32
Pale as a ghost. —Alexandre Dumas, père	33
Pale as a sheet. —Alexandre Dumas, père	34
Pale Like a white, bright boat in the sky’s vast seas. —Margaret Ewing	35
Pale and thin as an autumn moon. —Frederick William Faber	36
Pearly pale, Like a white transparent veil. —Frederick William Faber	37
Pale and meagre as a court page. —Henry Fielding	38
Pale as a moonbeam. —Gustave Flaubert	39
Pale as brow of one on whom the axe is falling. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	40
Pale as a petulant star. —Helen Hay	41
Pale as the tender tints that blush upon a baby’s cheek. —John R. Hayes	42
Pale as wordless grief. —F. Wyville Home	43
Pale as frosty snow-drops. —Thomas Hood	44
Pale, like cheeks that feel the chill of affright. —Thomas Hood	45
Pale as the Champa flowers. —Laurence Hope	46
Pale as a lover dying of despair. —Arsène Houssaye	47
Pale as a trappist. —Arsène Houssaye	48
Pale as a corpse. —Victor Hugo	49
Pale she was As lily yet unsmiled on by the sun. —Jean Ingelow	50
Pale as the moonlight beam. —Mrs. Richmond Inglis	51
Pale as smooth-sculptured stone. —John Keats	52
Pale as Orithyia when she was borne away. —Walter Savage Landor	53
More pale than the meadows of Anjou. —Andrew Lang	54
Pale as an unawakened Galatea. —Amy Leslie	55
Pale as pale November dawn. —Amy Leslie	56
Pale as is the face of one Who sinks exhausted in oblivion after a night of deep debauchery. —George Cabot Lodge	57
Pale as light. —George Cabot Lodge	58
Pale as are the dead. —Thomas Babington Macaulay	59
Pale as ascending ghost cast back to day. —David Mallet	60
Pale as a lily crowned with moonlight. —Gerald Massey	61
Pale as a pearl. —Gerald Massey	62
Pale as the sister of death. —George Meredith	63
Pale as a snowdrop in Cashmere. —Owen Meredith	64
Pale … as the icy moon. —Lewis Morris	65
Pale as marble. —Robert Morris	66
Pale as the angel of consumption. —Henri Murger	67
Pale as despairing woe. —Asian	68
Pale as the ended night. —John Payne	69
Pale as Paris plaster. —James Robinson Planché	70
Pale like those to whom dead Lazarus burst the tomb. —Charles Reade	71
Pale as a rain-washed rose. —Agnes Repplier	72
Pale as blossoms. —James Whitcomb Riley	73
Pale As the fair changing moon. —Christina Georgina Rossetti	74
Pale as whom the Fates astound. —Christina Georgina Rossetti	75
Pale as Parian statues. —Christina Georgina Rossetti	76
Pale as transparent Psyche-wings. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti	77
Pale as bread. —Sadi	78
Pale as a whitewashed wall. —Friedrich von Schiller	79
Pale and wan, as watchlight by the bed of some departing man. —Sir Walter Scott	80
Pale as clay. —Sir Walter Scott	81
Pale as a clout in the versal world. —William Shakespeare	82
Pale, as if a bear was at his heels. —William Shakespeare	83
Pale as milk. —William Shakespeare	84
Pale lustre like the silver moon. —William Shakespeare	85
Pale as his shirt. —William Shakespeare	86
Pale as the breath of blue smoke in far woodlands. —William Sharp	87
Pale as yonder waning moon. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	88
Pale—like the white shore Of Albion. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	89
Pale and pure as a maiden secluded in secret and cherished in fear. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	90
Pale and sweet as a dream’s delight. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	91
Pale as grass or later flowers. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	92
Pale as the duskiest lily’s leaf. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	93
Pale as the front of oblivion. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	94
Pale as the glimmer of stars on moorland meres. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	95
Pale as the moon in star-forsaken skies. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	96
Pale … as twilight. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	97
Paler than young snow. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	98
Skies as pale, as moonlight in a shadowy sea. —Arthur Symons	99
Pale as a tear. —John B. Tabb	100
Pale as a tablecloth. —William Makepeace Thackeray	101
Pale as Jephtha’s daughter. —Alfred Tennyson	102
Pale as the passing of a ghost. —Alfred Tennyson	103
Pale sad faces like faint flames dying. —George Sylvester Viereck	104

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