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

Grand

Grand like Barbarossa’s beard.
—Anonymous

Grand as a victory.
—Anonymous

Grand as thought.
—Honoré de Balzac

Grand as a Greek statue.
—Robert Browning

As grand as the world.
—Joseph A. de Gobineau

Grand as floor-walkers.
—O. Henry

Grand as the frigate on the wind.
—Jean Ingelow

Grand as the passion felt but never spoken.
—Tracy Robinson

Grand,
As though a distant singing sea broke on a tuneful strand.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Grand
As any stone that decks a monarch’s hand.
—Douglas B. W. Sladen

Grand as doomsday and as grave.
—Alfred Tennyson