Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. Matthew Arnold
Checks, like men who live, and draw the vital air. 1 Clustering like bee-hives on the low flat strand of Oxus. 2 Cold as the grave. 3 Consumed her … like a flame. 4 Crawl like shadows forth in Spring. 5 Drops like a plummet. 6 Fade like grass. 7 Heavy as death. 8 Intrude like comets on the heavenly solitude. 9 His look was like a sad embrace. 10 Melts like a passing smoke, a nightly dream. 11 Rolling like a sea. 12 Soil’d, like the soil’d tissue of white violets left, freshly gather’d, on their native bank, by children whom their nurses call with haste indoors from the sun’s eye. 13 Stirr’d, like a clarion-blast. 14 Sweeps … along, like the broad volume of the insurgent Nile. 15
