Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Hang
Hang as high as Haman.
—Anonymous
Hanging like Mahomet’s coffin, between earth and heaven.
—Anonymous
Hang together like bees.
—Anonymous
Hang together like birds.
—Anonymous
Hang together like burrs.
—Anonymous
Hangs together like a rope of sand.
—Anonymous
Like Mahomet’s coffin, the shocking word hung half-way ’twixt the root and the tip of the tongue.
—Richard Harris Barham
One snowy cloud hangs, like an avalanche of frozen light upon the peak of night’s cerulean Alp.
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Hung, like words of transport trembling on the tongue, too strong for utterance.
—Robert Bloomfield
Hang like Mahomet in the air.
—Samuel Butler
You dosed me with a drug that hangs about my tongue like a pound-weight on a humming-bird’s wing.
—James Fenimore Cooper
Hangs his head … like bending lilies over-charg’d with rain.
—Richard Duke
Hung like heaven around.
—Gerald Massey
Hang like a tail.
—George Meredith
Hangs on the heart like a nightmare.
—Owen Meredith
Hung like mists o’er sleeping streams
In uninhabitable lands.
—T. Buchanan Read
Hung like a vapor in the cloudless sky.
—Samuel Rogers
Hung like an icicle on a Dutchman’s beard.
—William Shakespeare
His listless hand
Hung like dead bone within its withered skin.
—William Shakespeare
Hangs like flax on a distaff.
—William Shakespeare
Hang me in a bottle like a cat, and shoot at me.
—William Shakespeare
Hang upon him like a disease.
—William Shakespeare
Hang upon my tongue like a new-married wife upon her husband’s neck.
—William Shakespeare
She hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.
—William Shakespeare
Hang on her lips like a padlock on a pedlar’s budget.
—Edward Sharpham
Hung like bees on mountain-flowers.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hang like night on heaven above me.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hangs heavy as the dewiest poppy.
—Arthur Upson
Hang like sackcloth on a wanton nun.
—Thomas Wade