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

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

Break


Break him like a biscuit. —Beaumont and Fletcher	1
Break like an o’er-bent bow. —Samuel Butler	2
Break as a bubble o’er-blown in a dream. —Sidney Lanier	3
Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale. —Thomas Babington Macaulay	4
Breaking, like rosy clouds at even-tide Around the rich pavilion of the sun. —Thomas Moore	5
The columns break, like shattered foam. —Edward Peple	6
Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk. —William Shakespeare	7
Break like a bursting heart. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	8
Break forth as laughter on lips that said nought till the pulse in them beat love’s march. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	9