Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Long
Long as a day without bread.
—Anonymous
Long as a Devonshire lane,—which has no turning.
—Anonymous
Long as an obituary.
—Anonymous
Long as the moral law.
—Anonymous
Long as a Thanksgiving sermon.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Long as death.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Long as an epic.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Face as long as an undertaker’s.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Longer than a lawsuit.
—Thomas Dekker
Long and slender, like a cat’s elbow.
—Thomas Fuller
Long as the spear of Aaron.
—Charles B. Loomis
Her sorrow as long
As the passage of numberless ages in slumberless song.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne