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

Lay

Lay like a bank of stage snow.
—O. Henry

Lay, like a smile upon the lips of sleep.
—John Ruskin

Lay, like winds that die in water.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

In silver slumber lay,
Like the evening starre adorn’d with dewy ray.
—Edmund Spenser

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.
—Charles Wolfe