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

Frail

Frail as a lily.
—Anonymous

Frail as flesh is.
—Laman Blanchard

Frail as the leaf in Autumn’s yellow bower.
—Thomas Campbell

Frail as the clouds.
—Thomas De Quincey

Frail as a sigh.
—Sydney Dobell

Frail as the web that misty night has spun.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Frail as dishes.
—Thomas Hood

Frail as frost-landscapes on a window-pane.
—James Russell Lowell

Frail as the clouds of sunset.
—James Montgomery

Frail as glass.
—Petrarch

Frail as a flake of snow.
—A. J. Ryan

Frail
As May’s first lily in a Northern vale.
—Bayard Taylor

Frail
As perfume of the cuckoo-flower.
—Alfred Tennyson