Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Inevitable
Inevitable as death.
—Anonymous
Inevitable as the unfolding of the lily bud to the sun.
—Anonymous
Inevitable as the brute mother shields her young from attacks of the hereditary enemy.
—George Eliot
Influences … inevitable as those musical vibrations which take possession of us with a rhythmic empire that no sooner ceases than we desire it to begin again.
—George Eliot