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

Slight

Slight … as a dew-drop.
—Charles Dickens

Slight as a crescent moon at night.
—Theodosia Garrison

Slight as a vagrant plume
Shed from some passing wing.
—Laura R. Searing

Slight as indeed a dew-drop.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Slight as the sea’s sight of the sea-mew,
Slight as the sun’s sight of the star.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne