Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Wither
Withered like a Normandy pippin.
—Anonymous
Withered like a rose without light.
—Anonymous
Like the rainbow in a summer shower,
Or gaudy poppy, of fugacious bloom,
’Tis thine to flourish for a transient hour,
Then, withered, sink in dark oblivious tomb.
—Alexander Balfour
Her white soul withered in the mire
As paper shrivels in the fire.
—Stephen Vincent Benét
Wither away like a flower ungathered in a garden.
—Robert Burton
Withered as an autumn leaf.
—Wilkie Collins
Withered like a plucked flower ready to be flung on some rotting heap of rubbish.
—Joseph Conrad
Withered and pale as an old pauper.
—Charles Dickens
Withers like debauchery.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Withers, like a palm
Cut by an Indian for its juicy balm.
—John Keats
Withered like a leaf in the breath of an oven.
—Fritz H. Ludlow
Withered like some short-lived flower.
—Christopher Marlowe
Withered like an old apple-John.
—William Shakespeare
Like a blasted sapling, withered up.
—William Shakespeare
Withered like green corn under the hot winds of the unirrigated American desert.
—John R. Spears
Withered like hay.
—Edmund Spenser
Wither like a dying rose.
—Frank L. Stanton
Withered like stars in the morning.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Withered all our strength like flame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass.
—Old Testament
Wither as the green herb.
—Old Testament
Withered like an apple that the snow
Finds still upon the bough.
—L. Frank Tooker
Withered, as in death congealed.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
The egoist withers like a solitary barren tree.
—Ivan Turgenev
Withered as if struck by a blight.
—Voltaire
Wither like a thing of earth.
—Alaric A. Watts