Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Fixed
Fixed as fate.
—Anonymous
Fixed as the laws of the Medes and the Persians.
—Anonymous
Fixed as the laws of the planetary system.
—Anonymous
Fixed as your name on a note.
—Anonymous
Fixed like ony stane.
—Joanna Baillie
Fixt—like conscious guilt.
—Aphra Behn
Fix’d as the rock that braves the main.
—Thomas Blacklock
Fixed as the orb of the burning sun.
—Emily Brontë
Fixed as the polar star.
—William Allen Butler
Fixed, as in death.
—John Vance Cheney
Fixt as an island ’gainst the waves and wind.
—Abraham Cowley
Eyes immovably fixed … like a miser torn away from his coffers, or like a mother separated from her child about to be led away to death.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Fixed like a statue on his marble throne.
—Frederick William Faber
Sullen, fix’d like some old oak’s deep-rooted, knotted trunk, which hath endur’d the tempest-breathing months of thrice a hundred winters, yet remains unshaken.
—Richard Glover
Fixed as a sculptured figure.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fixed as a rocky marge.
—John Keats
Gaze fix’d … as one who deep in heaven some airy pageant sees.
—John Keble
Fixed as Lochlin’s thousand rocks.
—James Macpherson
Fixed like a rock.
—Mahabharata
Fixed as a monument.
—Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Fixt as the monument on Fish street Hill.
—William Barnes Rhodes
As fixed as the law of light.
—Charles Sangster
As fixed as Cheviot.
—Sir Walter Scott
Fixed and indispensable as the majestic laws that rule yon rolling orbs.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fix’d as a mountain ash.
—William Somerville
Like the stone eyeballs of the statue fixed.
—Robert Southey
Fixed like a sea-rock.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fixt
As are the roots of earth and base of all.
—Alfred Tennyson
Fixed as the earth.
—Theognis
Fixed … like churchyard graves.
—Theodore Tilton
Fix’d as oaks.
—Paul Whitehead
Fixed as a star.
—William Wordsworth
Fixed as a sentinel.
—Edward Young