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

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

Pant


Panting like the hounds of summer, When they scent the stately deer. —William E. Aytoun	1
Pant like a netted lioness. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2
Pant like climbers. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	3
Pant as in a dream. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge	4
Panting like a spent hound. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	5
Panting, like a bird that has often beaten his wings in vain against his cage. —John Dryden	6
Softly panting like a bride. —Robert Herrick	7
Panted like a forge bellows. —Victor Hugo	8
Panting, like a run-down hare. —Douglas Jerrold	9
The country was panting like a wrestler lying under the knees of his successful opponent. —Guy de Maupassant	10
Panting, like an engine with its steam up. —James Robinson Planché	11
Panting, and swept as by the sense of death. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	12
Panted like a sick man’s fitful breath. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	13
Panted hard, Like one that feels a nightmare on his bed. —Alfred Tennyson	14
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. —Old Testament	15