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

Hushed

Hushed, as in waiting for a bird to sing.
—Richard Hovey

Lies hushed, like a seer in a vision.
—William Dean Howells

Hushed like an infant on its mother’s breast.
—Gerald Massey

Hushed, as if nature were retired.
—Thomas Otway

Hush as death.
—William Shakespeare

Hushed as midnight.
—William Shakespeare

Hushed soft as the leaves and the grasses
Are hushed if the storm’s foot draws near.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hush’d … as a sick man’s room when he taketh repose.
—Alfred Tennyson

Hushed as the warm Numidian heaven.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Hushed as night.
—William Wordsworth

Hushed
As the unbreathing air, when not a leaf
Stirs in the mighty woods.
—William Wordsworth