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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Shine
 
  Shone like a glowworm’s head.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Shines like armor.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Shines like burnished metal.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Shines like fire in cat’s eye.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Shines like frost in the moonlight.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Shine like immortals.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Shone like the bristles of a blacking-brush.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Shines like the gleam of a sword.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Shone like the jetty down on the black hogs of Hassaqua.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Shone like polished ebony.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Shone like satin.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Shines like shot silk in the sunshine.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Shining like glowing flame.
            —Aristo		  13
  Shine at all points like a constellation.
            —Philip James Bailey		  14
  Shine like a diamond on a dead man’s hand.
            —Philip James Bailey		  15
  Shine through them as live coals through ashes.
            —Philip James Bailey		  16
  Shine as Phœbus doth in a May morning.
            —Alexander Barclay		  17
  Shine like dragon’s scales.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  18
  Shines like a newly lit flame.
            —Josh Billings		  19
  Shone like a cherry by candle-light.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  20
  She shines like the birch in the sunlight’s play.
            —Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen		  21
  Shine like jet.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  22
  Shone like flames blown in the wind.
            —O. M. Brown		  23
                Shone
Like yealow flowres and grasse farre off, in one;
Or like the mixture nature doth display
Upon the quaint wings of the popinjay.
            —William Browne		  24
  Shine like the sun in the firmament of heaven.
            —John Bunyan		  25
  Shone as seraphs shine.
            —Lord Byron		  26
  Shines like a phosphoric sea.
            —Lord Byron		  27
  Shines like snow.
            —Lord Byron		  28
  Shining like a bed of daffodils.
            —Alice Cary		  29
  Shine like red buttons set on a holiday coat.
            —Alice Cary		  30
  Shoon as the burned gold.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  31
  Shine as brighte as sunne.
            —Thomas Churchyard		  32
  Shining out like the gold that ’d been purged of its dross.
            —Eliza Cook		  33
  Shine like gleams which sparkle in the crowns of kings barbaric.
            —John Gilbert Cooper		  34
  Shine, like a veil before a holy shrine.
            —Mrs. E. M. H. Cortissoz		  35
  Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows down Virtue’s manly cheek for other’s woes.
            —Erasmus Darwin		  36
  Shine out like the spine of a frosty hill in the wintry sun.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  37
  Shine out like flowering meads in spring.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  38
  Shine like cherub’s cheeks.
            —Charles Dickens		  39
                Stalks shine
Like the burnished spears of a field of gold.
            —Paul Laurence Dunbar		  40
  Shines like a beau in a new birthday suit.
            —Henry Fielding		  41
  Shining as a saint on a holy pyx.
            —Gustave Flaubert		  42
            Shine in heav’n as bright
As doth the sun in his transcendent might.
            —Giles Fletcher		  43
  Shine as bright as smiling day.
            —Giles Fletcher		  44
  The winking buttons on the gown
Shone like the lamps of London Town.
            —Norman Gale		  45
On prince or bride no diamond stone
Half so gracious ever shone,
As the light of enterprise
Beaming from a young man’s eyes.
            —Shraz Hfiz (Emerson)		  46
The wistful stars
Shine like good memories.
            —William Ernest Henley		  47
  Shone like the evening star.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  48
  Shone like Jove’s own lightning.
            —Homer (Pope)		  49
  Shone like an aureole round the head of some modern saint.
            —Alfred Edward Housman		  50
  Their souls shine like living torches.
            —James Huneker		  51
  Shone like the bubbling foam about a keel.
            —John Keats		  52
  Shone like a friendly twinkling star.
            —Frances Anne Kemble		  53
Shining as the Alps, when that the sun
Gems their pale robes with diamonds.
            —Frances Anne Kemble		  54
  The pile of fish … shone like a dump of fluid silver.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  55
  A smouldering fire, shining like lamps through rents in sepulchres.
            —Sigmund Krasinski		  56
  Shone like an illuminated letter.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  57
  Lakes … shining like polished mirrors.
            —Charles James Lever		  58
  Shone beneath, as the fire shines through the ashes.
            —George Henry Lewes		  59
  Shone like ocean’s snowy foam.
            —John Leyden		  60
  Shine as immortal poems.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  61
  Shining like the Sunne in earth.
            —John Lyly		  62
  Shone like Joshua’s sun.
            —Gerald Massey		  63
  Shone like love’s eyes soft with tears.
            —Joaquin Miller		  64
  Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.
            —John Milton		  65
    Shine sweetly through the gloom,
Like glimpses of eternal day beyond the tomb.
            —James Montgomery		  66
                Shine,
Like golden ingots from a fairy mine.
            —Thomas Moore		  67
  Shine like Nereïd’s hair.
            —Thomas Moore		  68
  Shine like a goldsmith’s shop in Cheapside.
            —Thomas Nabbes		  69
Shine, like woodland flowers which paint the desert glades,
And waste their sweetness in unfrequented shades.
            —Ambrose Philips		  70
  Shines like rotten wood.
            —Sir Walter Raleigh		  71
Gleam and shine
Like jewels in a stream of wine.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  72
  Shone like a keen Damascus blade.
            —Clinton Scollard		  73
                Shine
As gloriously as the Venus of the sky.
            —William Shakespeare		  74
  Shone like mountains in the morn.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  75
  Shine like obelisks of fire.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  76
  Shine like pyramids of fire.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  77
  Shone like the reflex of a thousand minds.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  78
  Shone like a sunbeam.
            —William Sotheby		  79
  Shone like a single star, serene in a night of darkness.
            —Robert Southey		  80
  Shone like silver in the sunshine.
            —Robert Southey		  81
  Shone like the brook that o’er its pebbled course runs glittering gayly to the noontide sun.
            —Robert Southey		  82
  Shone like the waves that glow around a midnight keel in liquid light.
            —Robert Southey		  83
  Shyne as brightest skye.
            —Edmund Spenser		  84
  Shone as heaven’s light.
            —Edmund Spenser		  85
  Shined far away, like glancing light of Phœbus’ brightest ray.
            —Edmund Spenser		  86
  Shone and shivered like wings of angels blown by the sun’s breath.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  87
  Shines as a cloud-constraining star.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  88
  Shone like a burning brand.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  89
  Shone like a drop of dew.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  90
  Shining like all April in one day.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  91
  Shining like a sunbeam-smitten tear.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  92
  Shone like the star that shines down storm.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  93
  Shine sweet like stars when darkness feels them strong.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  94
  Shone like suns aglow.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  95
  Shone like isles of tawny gold.
            —Bayard Taylor		  96
  Like a sheathless sabre … shines.
            —Bayard Taylor		  97
  Shines like fires in swamps.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  98
  Shone as a wintry sun.
            —Frederick Tennyson		  99
  Shine as the brightness of the firmament.
            —Old Testament		  100
  Shone like silver threads in tangles blown.
            —Maurice Thompson		  101
  Shone like the robe of a queen.
            —Walter Thornbury		  102
  Shin’d like molten glass.
            —Henry Vaughan		  103
  Shine like fairy flags unfurled.
            —Theodore Watts-Dunton		  104
  Shines like burnished brass.
            —Paul Wiggens		  105
  Shines as calmly as some distant star.
            —Sarah Williams		  106
  Shine, eminent as a planet’s light.
            —N. P. Willis		  107
 
 
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