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

Contract

Her face contracted like the petals of a flower in the sultry heat that precedes a storm.
—Alessandro Manzoni

Contract and purse thy brow together
As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
Some horrible conceit.
—William Shakespeare