Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Drop
Dropped, like Icarus, in mid-sky.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Drop him like a hot potato.
—Anonymous
Drops like a wounded lily.
—Anonymous
Drops like mercury on a cold day.
—Anonymous
Dropped off like a repleted leech.
—Anonymous
Drops like a plummet.
—Matthew Arnold
Dropt like a rose o’er-blown.
—Aphra Behn
Dropped like a lily broke down by the hail.
—Lady Barnard
Drop off like leaves in autumn.
—Robert Blair
Fluttering to the ground, dropped like a wounded bird.
—Mathilde Blind
Dropped … like a spent horse.
—George H. Boker
Dropped heavily
As century follows century
Into the deep eternity.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Drop like shot.
—Robert Browning
Dropped as dead.
—Aubrey De Vere
Dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars, like petals from a rose.
—Emily Dickinson
Dropped like a flower cut down by the sickle.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
The blood dropped out of her cheeks as the mercury drops from a broken barometer-tube, and she melted away from her seat as an image of snow.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Music drops like balm into the drowsy ear.
—Mrs. Emily Chubbuck Judson
Drop like hours into eternity.
—John Keats
The slow mists of the evening dropped,
Dropped as a cloth upon a dead man’s face.
—Rudyard Kipling
He dropped like a bullock.
—Rudyard Kipling
Men dropped like partridges.
—Rudyard Kipling
Drop, like mellow fruit … into the grave.
—Charles Lamb
Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.
—John Milton
Dropped like a stone down through the deep sea.
—Dinah Maria Mulock
Dropped, as by a thunder-stroke.
—William Shakespeare
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum.
—William Shakespeare
Droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
—William Shakespeare
Drop as a leaf drops dead.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dropping like flies, devoured
By winter as if by fire, starved, frozen, blind,
Maimed, mad with torment, dying in hell.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne