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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Drop
 
  Dropped, like Icarus, in mid-sky.
            —Thomas Bailey Aldrich		  1
  Drop him like a hot potato.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Drops like a wounded lily.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Drops like mercury on a cold day.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Dropped off like a repleted leech.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Drops like a plummet.
            —Matthew Arnold		  6
  Dropt like a rose o’er-blown.
            —Aphra Behn		  7
  Dropped like a lily broke down by the hail.
            —Lady Barnard		  8
  Drop off like leaves in autumn.
            —Robert Blair		  9
  Fluttering to the ground, dropped like a wounded bird.
            —Mathilde Blind		  10
  Dropped … like a spent horse.
            —George H. Boker		  11
Dropped heavily
As century follows century
Into the deep eternity.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  12
  Drop like shot.
            —Robert Browning		  13
  Dropped as dead.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  14
  Dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars, like petals from a rose.
            —Emily Dickinson		  15
  Dropped like a flower cut down by the sickle.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  16
  The blood dropped out of her cheeks as the mercury drops from a broken barometer-tube, and she melted away from her seat as an image of snow.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  17
  Music drops like balm into the drowsy ear.
            —Mrs. Emily Chubbuck Judson		  18
  Drop like hours into eternity.
            —John Keats		  19
The slow mists of the evening dropped,
Dropped as a cloth upon a dead man’s face.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  20
  He dropped like a bullock.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  21
  Men dropped like partridges.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  22
  Drop, like mellow fruit … into the grave.
            —Charles Lamb		  23
  Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.
            —John Milton		  24
  Dropped like a stone down through the deep sea.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  25
  Dropped, as by a thunder-stroke.
            —William Shakespeare		  26
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum.
            —William Shakespeare		  27
  Droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
            —William Shakespeare		  28
  Drop as a leaf drops dead.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  29
        Dropping like flies, devoured
By winter as if by fire, starved, frozen, blind,
Maimed, mad with torment, dying in hell.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  30
 
 
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