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

Matthew Arnold

Checks, like men who live, and draw the vital air.

Clustering like bee-hives on the low flat strand of Oxus.

Cold as the grave.

Consumed her … like a flame.

Crawl like shadows forth in Spring.

Drops like a plummet.

Fade like grass.

Heavy as death.

Intrude like comets on the heavenly solitude.

His look was like a sad embrace.

Melts like a passing smoke, a nightly dream.

Rolling like a sea.

Soil’d, like the soil’d tissue of white violets left, freshly gather’d, on their native bank, by children whom their nurses call with haste indoors from the sun’s eye.

Stirr’d, like a clarion-blast.

Sweeps … along, like the broad volume of the insurgent Nile.

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