Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Brave
Brave as a Barbary lion.
—Anonymous
Brave as Achilles.
—Anonymous
Brave as a mad bull.
—Anonymous
Brave as Launcelot.
—Anonymous
Brave as a falcon and as merciless.
—Wilfrid S. Blunt
Brave as a grenadier.
—Victor Hugo
Is brave like unto the Lord of the Celestials.
—Mahabharata
Brave and stern as soldier’s mother might be.
—Rosa Mulholland
Brave as winds that brave the sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Brave as bannered chivalry.
—Thomas Watson