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

Constant

Constant as a shadow in the sun.
—Anonymous

Constant in motion as the spheres.
—Anonymous

Constantly in my thoughts, like the lost voice of his victim in those of the murderer.
—Anonymous

More constant than the evening star,
Which mildly beams above.
—Anonymous

Constant as the dove.
—Mrs. James Hunter

Constancy is like vnto the Storke, who wheresoeuer she flye commeth into no neast but hir owne, or the Lapwinge, whom nothing can driue from hir young ones, but death.
—John Lyly

Constant as the years are rolled.
—Martial

Her constancy, that, like a rock,
Beats off temptation, as that mocks the fury
Of the proud waves.
—Philip Massinger

Constant in intercommunication as are the sun and earth.
—George Meredith

Constant as the day and night from east to west.
—James Montgomery

Constant as the stars that never move.
—Thomas Otway

Constant as the sun.
—Charles Reade

Constant as the constant hours.
—Margaret E. Sangster

But I am as constant as the northern star
Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
—William Shakespeare

Constantly as the week passes.
—Abigail A. Smith

Constant as a soaring lark.
—William Wordsworth

Constant as the motion of the day.
—William Wordsworth