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

Humble

Humble as a grateful almsman.
—Anonymous

Humble as a worm.
—Anonymous

Humble as Uriah Heep.
—Anonymous

Humble as is a lamb.
—Alexander Barclay

Humble as a Jesuit to his superior.
—Samuel Butler

As humble as the grass.
—Bliss Carman

As humble as the child of one that sweats, to eat the dear-earn’d bread of honest thrift.
—John Ford

Humbly, like a praying nun.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Humble as a stone.
—Thomas Hood

Humble as a worm.
—Thomas Hood

Humbly as they used to creep
To holy altars.
—William Shakespeare