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

Low

Low as the grave.
—Anonymous

Low as horse’s hoof.
—Scotch Ballad

Low as zephyr, telling secrets to his rose.
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Lying low, like a malignant little animal under a hedge.
—Joseph Conrad

Low as a bushy bramble.
—Charles Macklin

Low as a baboon’s forehead.
—Sydney Munden

Low as Hell.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Fall low as Persian to the sun.
—Charles Sangster

Low as to the fiends.
—William Shakespeare

As low as hell’s from heaven.
—William Shakespeare

Low as the softest breath that passes in summer at evening
O’er the Æolian strings, felt there when nothing is moving,
Save the thistle-down, lighter than air, and the leaf of the aspen.
—Robert Southey

Low as broken crown.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne