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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Pass
 
  Our memory passes like a ripple in the water, or a breeze in the air.
            —Henri F. Amiel		  1
  Passes like a mode.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Passed like an uncurbed cavalry.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Time passes like the wind.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Pass like a rolled syllable of midnight thunder from the coming day.
            —Philip James Bailey		  5
  One solitary and foreseeing thought, passed, like a planet’s transit o’er the sun.
            —Philip James Bailey		  6
  Passed, like the foam of the wave.
            —Jane Barlow		  7
As shadows cast by cloud and sun flit o’er the summer grass,
So, in thy sight, Almighty One! earth’s generations pass.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  8
  Passed away as fairies vanish at the break of day.
            —Hartley Coleridge		  9
            Thy grace must pass
As unremembered things.
            —Lord De Tabley		  10
  Time passed away as a tale which is told.
            —Charles Dickens		  11
  Passed out as quickly as a sunbeam.
            —Charles Dickens		  12
New generations pass,
Like shadows on the grass.
            —Julia C. R. Dorr		  13
  Passed like a meteor.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  14
  Pass away as in vision.
            —Frederic Harrison		  15
The generations pass, like autumn’s fruits,
Garnered, consumed, and springing fresh to life.
            —James A. Hillhouse		  16
  Passed away like waves.
            —Victor Hugo		  17
                Pass away—
As flowers that bloom at morn, at eve decay.
            —Francis Scott Key		  18
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
            —William Knox		  19
  Little troubles pass like little ripples in a sunny river.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  20
  Passed like the mournful cry of sunward sailing cranes.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  21
  When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  22
  Passed like a dream away.
            —Thomas Babington Macaulay		  23
  They pass like a shade away.
            —James Macpherson		  24
                They pass
Like a breath from the face of a glass.
            —Don Marquis		  25
  Pass away, like a thin cloud that melts across the moon.
            —James Montgomery		  26
                Passed
Like autumn foliage withering in the blast.
            —James Montgomery		  27
  Passed like a day-dream.
            —Thomas Moore		  28
All gently pass away,
Like mists that flee
From a summer sea.
            —Thomas Moore		  29
                All my days
Passed like an empty vision.
            —Lewis Morris		  30
  Pass’d, like swift clouds across a windy sky.
            —Arthur Joseph Munby		  31
  Passed along the waves like the chariot of Neptune.
            —Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen		  32
  Passed away, like shadows of the moon.
            —Adelaide A. Procter		  33
                Passed away,
Like the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  34
                Pass’d by me
As misers do by beggars.
            —William Shakespeare		  35
  Passed, like a cloud on the blast.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  36
Must pass, as grains of sand must fall,
Beneath the infinite calm sea
Of ages and eternity.
            —Harry B. Smith		  37
  Passed away like summer clouds.
            —Robert Southey		  38
And pass as love and sorrow pass,
As shadows flashing down a glass,
As dew-flowers blowing in flowerless grass.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  39
  Passes as the grey dew from the morning mountain grasses.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  40
  Pass as the flight of a year.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  41
Passed, like a sudden squall that tears the sea,
Yet leaves a sun to smile the billows down.
            —Bayard Taylor		  42
  Pass like a light.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  43
  Passeth away as a cloud.
            —Old Testament		  44
  Pass through thy hand as a river.
            —Old Testament		  45
  Passed, like a sweet but transient dream.
            —Frank Waters		  46
As a cloud of the sunset, slow melting in heaven,
As a star that is lost when the daylight is given,
As a glad dream of slumber, which wakens in bliss,
She hath pass’d to the world of the holy from this.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  47
                Pass,
Like shadows through a twilight land.
            —Oscar Wilde		  48
  Passed like a fancy that is swept away.
            —William Wordsworth		  49
 
 
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