Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Dark
Dark as the yawning grave.
—Mark Akenside
Dark as a cellar.
—Anonymous
Dark as a dungeon.
—Anonymous
Dark as a funeral scarf.
—Anonymous
Dark as a thief’s pocket.
—Anonymous
Dark as futurity.
—Anonymous
Dark as midnight.
—Anonymous
Dark as the shades of night.
—Anonymous
Dark like a dead person in a coffin.
—Anonymous
Dark as Death’s Eye.
—Philip James Bailey
Dark as a wood.
—R. D. Blackmore
Dark as was chaos, ere the infant Sun
Was rolled together, or had tried his beams
Athwart the gloom profound.
—Robert Blair
Dark as a Spaniard.
—Charlotte Brontë
Darkened, as the lighthouse will that turns upon the sea.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dark as mire.
—John Bunyan
Dark as pitch.
—John Bunyan
Dark as misery’s woeful night.
—Robert Burns
Dark as a sullen cloud before the sun.
—Lord Byron
Dark as winter.
—Thomas Campbell
Darkly, as through the foliage of some wavering thicket.
—Thomas Carlyle
Dark as death.
—Alice Cary
Darked, as it is wonte to darke by smoked images.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Dark as a murderer’s mask of crape.
—Eliza Cook
Dark as the grave.
—Abraham Cowley
Dark and cold, like a benighted hemisphere.
—Aubrey De Vere
Dark as a fiend.
—Aubrey De Vere
Ever darker and darker, like the shadow of advancing death.
—Charles Dickens
Darkened, like the earth on a splendid day when a cloud flits across the sun.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Dark as pines that autumn never sears.
—George Eliot
Dark as Pluto’s palace.
—Richard Glover
Dark as a cloud that journeys overhead.
—Thomas Hood
Dark as the grave.
—Thomas Hood
Dark as shadows be.
—Thomas Hood
Dark as the language of the Delphic fane.
—Horace
Dark as the back of a stag-beetle.
—Irish Epic Tales
Dark as the parentage of chaos.
—John Keats
Dark as the pillars of some Hindoo shrine.
—Charles Kingsley
Dark as Saint Bartholomew.
—Walter Savage Landor
Darkness like the day of doom.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Dark as a coal-hole.
—Samuel Lover
Dark as the swelling wave of ocean before the rising winds, when it bends its head near the coast.
—James Macpherson
Dark as it were dipped in the death-shadow.
—Gerald Massey
Dark as a dead man in the ground.
—Sydney Munden
Dark as a demon’s dread thought.
—Mrs.
—Osgood
Dark as the hush’d silence of the grave.
—Thomas Otway
Dark as night’s protecting wing.
—John Pierpont
Dark as the caves wherein earth’s thunders groan.
—Edgar Allan Poe
See him darkly as in a mirror.
—Saint Augustine
As dark as a Yule midnight.
—Scottish Proverb
Dark as the bottom of a well.
—W. Clark Russell
Dark as care.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Dark as Egypt.
—William Shakespeare
Dark as Erebus.
—William Shakespeare
Dark as hell.
—William Shakespeare
Dark as ignorance.
—William Shakespeare
Dark as a cloud that the moon turns bright.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dark as fate.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dark as fear.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dark in her sight
As her measureless measure of shadowless pleasure was bright.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dark as the heart of time.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Galleons dark as the helmsman’s bark of old that ferried to hell the dead.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dark as the sire that begat her, Despair.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
More dark than the dead world’s tomb.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Darkened as one that wastes by sorcerous art and knows not whence it withers.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dark as a land’s decline.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Silent dark as shame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dark as the inside of a whale.
—Frederick William Thomas
Dark as the brooding thundercloud.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Dark as the shroudings of a bier,-
As if the blessed atmosphere,
Like his own soul, was dim.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Dark as the waiting tomb.
—McLandburgh Wilson