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

Broke

Broken up like baffled dreams.
—Frederick William Faber

A gleam of hope through my black night broke,
Like a star’s bright form
Through a whistling storm,
Or the moon through a midnight oak.
—Denis Florence McCarthy

Broke like a sea-bubble on the sand.
—James Montgomery