Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Frail
Frail as a lily.
—Anonymous
Frail as flesh is.
—Laman Blanchard
Frail as the leaf in Autumn’s yellow bower.
—Thomas Campbell
Frail as the clouds.
—Thomas De Quincey
Frail as a sigh.
—Sydney Dobell
Frail as the web that misty night has spun.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Frail as dishes.
—Thomas Hood
Frail as frost-landscapes on a window-pane.
—James Russell Lowell
Frail as the clouds of sunset.
—James Montgomery
Frail as glass.
—Petrarch
Frail as a flake of snow.
—A. J. Ryan
Frail
As May’s first lily in a Northern vale.
—Bayard Taylor
Frail
As perfume of the cuckoo-flower.
—Alfred Tennyson