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

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

Shrink


Shrink as from a haunted place. —Anonymous	1
Shrinking like an old man into his shoulders. —Anonymous	2
Shrinks inward like a walnut. —Anonymous	3
Shrinks like a Yonkers celebrity when he hits Broadway. —Anonymous	4
Shrunk like a withered hand. —Philip James Bailey	5
Shrink, as if I had been wandering among volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver. —Charlotte Brontë	6
Shrink into a point like death. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	7
Shrink up like a crushed snail. —Robert Browning	8
Shrunken … like a withered branch. —Buddha	9
Shrunk up like a bean in a pod. —Alice Cary	10
Shrinking back, like one that had mistook. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge	11
Shrink, As from a precipice’s brink. —Eliza Cook	12
Shrink as a snail. —Coventry Mysteries	13
Shrinks, like the sick moon at the wholesome morn. —William Crashaw	14
Shrink like parchment in consuming flame. —John Dryden	15
Shrinks as some fair tulip by a storm oppressed Shrinks up and folds its silken arms to rest. —John Dryden	16
Shrank As one who sees a loathed sight. —Maurice F. Egan	17
Shrank like the snow that watchers in the vale see narrowed on the height each summer morn. —George Eliot	18
Shrank like a leaf in Fall. —Eugene Field	19
Shrinking like a snail withdrawing into its shell. —Herman Heijermans, Jr.	20
Shrunk away as a frost-bitten apple. —Washington Irving	21
Shrunk away, within him, like a dried filbert in its shell. —Washington Irving	22
Shrank as from a sudden and mortal danger. —Mary Johnston	23
Shrank, like things with breath, Whose ripeness feels the touch of death. —C. F. Keary	24
Shrank as the beetle shrinks beneath the pin when village children stab him in their sport. —Rudyard Kipling	25
Shrank, like boys, who, unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come to the mouth of the dark lair where, Growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. —Thomas Babington Macaulay	26
Shrink as though Death were passing in his shroud. —John Masefield	27
Shrank as at a prick of steel. —George Meredith	28
Shrank—like parchment at the touch of flame. —George Meredith	29
Shrink, as from a serpent in a knot of flowers. —Henry Hart Milman	30
He shrinks, as from a viewless blow. —Richard Monckton Milnes	31
Shrinking as violets do in summer ray. —Thomas Moore	32
Shrink as though some cowardly sin were between them. —Ouida	33
Shrank, As a taper in sunlight sinks faint and aghast. —T. Buchanan Read	34
Shrinks like scorched parchment from the fiery ordeal of true criticism. —Richard Brinsley Sheridan	35
Shrinks, as might love from scorn. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	36
Shrunk away tremulously, as fairies in the story-books, before a superior bad angel. —William Makepeace Thackeray	37
Shrinks like a beggar in the cold. —John T. Trowbridge	38
Shrink … like guilty things surprised. —Edwin P. Whipple	39

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