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