Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Bent
Bent down like violets after rain.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Bent … like some rapt poet o’er his rhyme.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Bent like a drooping rose.
—Anonymous
Bent like a whip.
—Anonymous
Bent like an old bruised lantern.
—R. D. Blackmore
Bent-down like corbels of a building.
—Thomas Carlyle
Bent … like a soldier at the approach of an assault.
—Victor Hugo
Bent and trembled like the rushes.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Bent like some great bow unstrung.
—Joaquin Miller
Bent, like a rainbow.
—Robert Southey