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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