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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Strong
 
  Strong as the mainstay of the laboring bark.
            —Æschylus		  1
  Strong as Zeus.
            —Æschylus (E. B. Browning)		  2
  Strong as an eagle.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Strong as a Flander’s mare.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Strong as hate.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Strong as Hercules.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Strong as mustard.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Strong as an ox.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Strong as the voice of Fate.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  9
  Strong as the spirit of the storm.
            —W. Wilfred Campbell		  10
  Strong as beechwood in the blast.
            —Thomas Campbell		  11
  Strong as bulls.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  12
  Strong as the Harz-rock, rooted in the depths of the world.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  13
  Strong as an host of armed Deities.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  14
  Strong as brandy.
            —George Farquhar		  15
  As the lion strong.
            —Francis Fawkes		  16
  Strong in silence as mysteries locked up in Jove’s own bosom.
            —John Ford		  17
  Strong as earth’s first kings.
            —Fitz-Greene Halleck		  18
  As strong as instinct.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  19
  Strong as the enginery that works the world.
            —James A. Hillhouse		  20
  Stronger than thunder’s winged force.
            —Horace		  21
  Strong as the wind.
            —Mary Johnston		  22
  Strong as fire.
            —Charles Kingsley		  23
  Strong as a jail.
            —Charles James Lever		  24
  Strong as iron bands.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  25
  Strong as a storm.
            —James Macpherson		  26
  Strong as a sea-swell.
            —Gerald Massey		  27
  Strong as God.
            —Friedrich Nietzsche		  28
  Strong as a young goat.
            —Ouida		  29
  Strong, like an iron chain.
            —Pilpay		  30
  Strong as the devil himself.
            —François Rabelais		  31
  Strong as Sampson.
            —François Rabelais		  32
  Strong … as young Desire.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  33
  Strong as strong Ajax’s red right hand.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  34
  Strong as necessity.
            —Richard Savage		  35
      Confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
            —William Shakespeare		  36
  Strong as Pluto’s gates.
            —William Shakespeare		  37
  Strong as the axletree.
            —William Shakespeare		  38
  Strong as … rash gunpowder.
            —William Shakespeare		  39
  Strong as a wild swan’s pinions.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  40
  Strong as grows the yearning of the blossom toward the fruit.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  41
  Strong as love.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  42
  Strong as the seas.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  43
  Strong as the worldwide sun.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  44
  Strong as sheer truth.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  45
  Strong as time.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  46
  Strong like fate.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  47
  Strong, and bold, and free as the milk-white foal of the Nedjidee.
            —Bayard Taylor		  48
  Strong as death.
            —Old Testament		  49
  Strong as iron.
            —Old Testament		  50
  Strong as an oaken staff.
            —Henry Van Dyke		  51
  As the deluge strong.
            —Isaac Watts		  52
  Strong as a Monarch’s signet.
            —N. P. Willis		  53
  Strong as guilty fear.
            —William Wordsworth		  54
 
 
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