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

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

Stand


Stands as firm as Gibraltar. —Anonymous	1
Stands forth like morning from the shades of night. —Anonymous	2
Stands like Mumphazard, who was hanged for saying nothing. —Anonymous	3
Stands where he did, like Scotland. —Anonymous	4
Stood like some erring angel that had lost his radiance. —Honoré de Balzac	5
See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. —Bernard E. Bee	6
Stands at gaze As might a wolf just fasten’d on his prey. —Pedro Calderón de la Barca	7
Grenadiers … stand there, like a fixed stone-dam in that wild whirlpool of ruin. —Thomas Carlyle	8
Stood like the Law and Gospel, one with the sanction of earth and one with the blessing of heaven. —Henry W. Longfellow	9
Stood like a sentinel under inspection. —George Meredith	10
Stand like statues cut in stone. —George Sandys	11
Stood, like veteran, worn, but unsubdued. —Sir Walter Scott	12
Stand at your door like a sheriff’s post. —William Shakespeare	13
Stand Like wonder-wounded hearers. —William Shakespeare	14
Stood like a man at a mark with a whole army shooting at me. —William Shakespeare	15
Stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. —William Shakespeare	16
Stand like flame transferred to marble. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	17