Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Lurk
Lurk behind, like a concealed root.
—Miguel de Cervantes
Lurked as comfortably as a shy bird in its native thicket.
—Joseph Conrad
Lurk like vermin.
—John Davidson
Lurks like embers raked in ashes.
—John Dryden
Lurks and clings as withering, damning blight.
—George Eliot
Lurking … like a concealed enemy.
—Henry Fielding
Lurks like a mole underneath the visible surface of manners.
—Thomas Hardy
Lurk, like a snake under the innocent shade
Of a spread summer-leaf.
—Thomas Middleton
Lurking like a savage thing
Crouching for a treacherous spring.
—Maurice Thompson