Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Dim
Dim as the land of shadows.
—Anonymous
As dim as dim might be.
—Robert Buchanan
Dim … as in a dream.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Burn dim, like lamps in noisome air.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dim as a ghost.
—Mrs. E. M. H. Cortissoz
Ghastly dim and pale, as if driven by a beating storm at sea.
—Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Dim as the borrow’d beams of moon or stars.
—John Dryden
Dim as the wandering stars that burst in the blue of the Summer heaven.
—Fitz-Greene Halleck
Dim and sweet as moonlight in a solitary street.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Dim wrapt in a haze like a shrouded ghost.
—Sir Alfred Lyall
Dim as the dream of an idle dreamer.
—Ernest McCaffey
Dim as the shades in the angry shower.
—George Meredith
Dim … like the far golden lustre of a dark god-like town.
—William Morris
Dim as the dream of a dream that was dreamed.
—Sydney Munden
Dim as the dusk of day.
—James Whitcomb Riley