Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Beat
Like the walnut tree,
The more he is beaten, the better he’ll be.
—Anonymous
Beaten as a road.
—Charles Cotton
My brain is beating like the heart of Haste.
—Sidney Lanier
Beaten like a Turco that pawns his musket.
—Ouida
Beats like a maniac drummer in mid-battle.
—T. Buchanan Read
Each falling hoof
Beat like a flail beneath the thresher’s roof.
—Bayard Taylor
Beat, like the pulse, perpetual.
—Isaac Watts