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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Rise
 
  Rises and falls like a swan upon roaring water.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Rise as a vapor.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Rose like a phœnix, from the fires of time.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Rose like sunlight from the sea.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Rise like the white clouds on April skies.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Rising like springs ingathered.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  6
  Rising like water-columns from the sea.
            —Lord Byron		  7
  Joy rises in me, like a summer’s morn.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  8
  Rose like a kite.
            —William Cowper		  9
  Rose like a bewildering strain of oriental music.
            —Frederick William Faber		  10
  Rise out of the hearth, like the garden of Hesperides.
            —Edward Gibbon		  11
  Rising like pillared fire.
            —Arthur Henry Hallam		  12
  Rising in the middle of it like a lump of self-raising dough.
            —O. Henry		  13
  Rising in the air like eagle on the wing.
            —Thomas Hood		  14
  Rose like dim fancies when a dream begins.
            —Thomas Hood		  15
  Rising like Aphrodite from the wave.
            —Charles Kingsley		  16
  Rose red as a beacon the wind had upblown.
            —Sidney Lanier		  17
  Rising like the ruined arch of some aerial aqueduct.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  18
  Rose like an exhalation.
            —John Milton		  19
  He (Burke) rose like a rocket, he fell like a stick.
            —Thomas Paine		  20
  Rise from the ground like feather’d Mercury.
            —William Shakespeare		  21
  Rises as ocean at the enchantment of the moon.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  22
  Rising as a shoreward sea.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  23
  Rose like dust before the whirlwind’s force.
            —Bayard Taylor		  24
  Rise up as a great lion.
            —Old Testament		  25
  True to rise as leaves on Autumn’s whirlwind borne.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  26
                Rise,
Like spring-doves from the startled wood.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  27
 
 
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