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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Bent down like violets after rain.

Bent … like some rapt poet o’er his rhyme.

Deadly as nightshade.

Deepening like the dawn.

Dropped, like Icarus, in mid-sky.

Hopeful as the break of day.

Hurried, like one distraught.

Life is like a tale ended ere ’tis told.

Lithe as a panther.

Moaned like a dismal autumn wind.

Musical as brooks that run o’er yellow shallows in the sun.

Polished as the bosom of a star.

Purpled as with stains of wine. Waller

Soft as the satin fringe that shades the eyelids of thy fragrant maids.

Stark as a statue.

Sudden, like a Fate.

Eyes twinkled like diamonds.

Unknown, like a seed in fallow ground.

Wan as moonlight.

Weird as the elfin lights that glimmer of frosty nights.

Wild as the winds that tear the curled red leaf in the air.