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

Fatal

Fatal as Herod’s worms.
—Anonymous

Fatal as the eye of the basilisk.
—Anonymous

Fatal as the tongue of the serpent.
—Anonymous

Fatal as the shade of Death’s dark valley.
—Philip James Bailey

Fatal as the scythe of death.
—William Cowper

Anger and power are as fatal as lightning.
—George Eliot

Fatal as the Egyptian night,
When the eldest-born were slain.
—James Montgomery