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

Deep

Deep as the fountains of sleep.
—Anonymous

Deep as the void above.
—Anonymous

Deep as evening red.
—Anonymous

Deep as despair.
—Anonymous

Deep as ever plummet sounded.
—Anonymous

Deep as grief.
—Anonymous

Deep as the North Star.
—Anonymous

Deep as though the globe were split to let the waters through.
—William E. Aytoun

Deep as Heaven’s own luminous blue.
—Philip James Bailey

Deep as death.
—Philip James Bailey

Deep in the heart as meteor stones in earth, dropped from some higher sphere.
—Philip James Bailey

Deep as midnight’s starry treasure.
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes

France kept her old affection as deeply as the sepulchre the corse.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Deep as hell from high heaven.
—Thomas Carlyle

Deep as Tophet, high as heaven.
—Thomas Carlyle

Silence as deep as eternity.
—Thomas Carlyle

Deep as life and death.
—Thomas Carlyle

Deep as the murmurs of the falling floods.
—James Cawthorn

Deep and yet soft, like notes from some long chord responsive to thrilled air.
—George Eliot

Deep as annihilation.
—Thomas Hardy

Sighs as deep as destiny.
—Jean Ingelow

Deep as devils grope.
—Sidney Lanier

Joy as deep as heaven’s blue.
—T. T. Lynch

Deep as that grave in Hell where Cæsar lies.
—Edward Markham

As deep as Pedwell.
—Scottish Proverb

Deep and tender as the blue of a baby’s eye.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Deep as the unfathomed endless sea.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Chasms as deep and as drear as the tomb.
—John Ruskin

Deep as hell.
—William Shakespeare

Deep as the sea.
—William Shakespeare

Deep as night and Heaven.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Deep as deep in water sinks a stone.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Deep as music’s heart.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Deep as the clear unsounded sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Deep as the deep dim soul of a star.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Deep as the depths unsought
Whence faith’s own hope may redeem us naught.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Deep as the pit of hell.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Deeper than men’s dreams of hell are deep.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Deeper than the green sea’s grass.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Deep as hate.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Deep as the grave.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Deeper than time or space.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

A grief as deep as life or thought.
—Alfred Tennyson

Deep as the shadow of Rome.
—John R. Thompson

Deep as the bottomless pit.
—George Sylvester Viereck

A tone as low and deep as love’s first whisper.
—N. P. Willis

Deeper than the vanities of power, or in vain pomp of glory.
—N. P. Willis