Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Pale
Pale as an Angel of the Grave.
—Anonymous
Pale as Banquo’s ghost.
—Anonymous
Pale as linen.
—Anonymous
Pale as parchment.
—Anonymous
Pale as the gleam of a glow-worm.
—Anonymous
Pale as the haggard features of despair.
—Anonymous
Pale as the rose-leaves withered in the northern gale.
—Anonymous
Pale as turnips were his cheeks.
—Anonymous
Pale as with the sickness that promised death.
—Anonymous
Grew pale, like a flower that is cut off.
—Assyrian
Pale as a moon that moves alone through lonely space.
—Alfred Austin
Pale as snowdrift in the frost.
—Charles D. Bell
Pale as the moon before the solar ray.
—Samuel Boyse
Pale as a white stone.
—Charlotte Brontë
Pale as baby carved in stone.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pale … as one who saw an ecstasy beyond a foretold agony.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pale as crocus grows
Close beside a rose-tree’s root.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pale as the silver cross of Savoy.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pale as a spectre.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Pale like only lily.
—Robert Burns
Pale as ashes, or a clout.
—Samuel Butler
Pale as death.
—Samuel Butler
Pale … as any lead.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Like a dede ymage, pale and wan.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Palle as asshen colde.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Pale as a witch.
—Richard Cumberland
Pale as driven by a beating storm at sea.
—Richard Henry Dana (1815–1882)
Pale as a new cheese.
—Thomas Dekker
Pale as a wreath of Alpine snow.
—Lord De Tabley
Pale as a candle.
—Charles Dickens
Pale as a muffin.
—Charles Dickens
Pale as fires when mastered by the night.
—John Dryden
Pale as a ghost.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Pale as a sheet.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Pale
Like a white, bright boat in the sky’s vast seas.
—Margaret Ewing
Pale and thin as an autumn moon.
—Frederick William Faber
Pearly pale,
Like a white transparent veil.
—Frederick William Faber
Pale and meagre as a court page.
—Henry Fielding
Pale as a moonbeam.
—Gustave Flaubert
Pale as brow of one on whom the axe is falling.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pale as a petulant star.
—Helen Hay
Pale as the tender tints that blush upon a baby’s cheek.
—John R. Hayes
Pale as wordless grief.
—F. Wyville Home
Pale as frosty snow-drops.
—Thomas Hood
Pale, like cheeks that feel the chill of affright.
—Thomas Hood
Pale as the Champa flowers.
—Laurence Hope
Pale as a lover dying of despair.
—Arsène Houssaye
Pale as a trappist.
—Arsène Houssaye
Pale as a corpse.
—Victor Hugo
Pale she was
As lily yet unsmiled on by the sun.
—Jean Ingelow
Pale as the moonlight beam.
—Mrs. Richmond Inglis
Pale as smooth-sculptured stone.
—John Keats
Pale as Orithyia when she was borne away.
—Walter Savage Landor
More pale than the meadows of Anjou.
—Andrew Lang
Pale as an unawakened Galatea.
—Amy Leslie
Pale as pale November dawn.
—Amy Leslie
Pale as is the face of one
Who sinks exhausted in oblivion after a night of deep debauchery.
—George Cabot Lodge
Pale as light.
—George Cabot Lodge
Pale as are the dead.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay
Pale as ascending ghost cast back to day.
—David Mallet
Pale as a lily crowned with moonlight.
—Gerald Massey
Pale as a pearl.
—Gerald Massey
Pale as the sister of death.
—George Meredith
Pale as a snowdrop in Cashmere.
—Owen Meredith
Pale … as the icy moon.
—Lewis Morris
Pale as marble.
—Robert Morris
Pale as the angel of consumption.
—Henri Murger
Pale as despairing woe.
—Asian
Pale as the ended night.
—John Payne
Pale as Paris plaster.
—James Robinson Planché
Pale like those to whom dead Lazarus burst the tomb.
—Charles Reade
Pale as a rain-washed rose.
—Agnes Repplier
Pale as blossoms.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Pale
As the fair changing moon.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Pale as whom the Fates astound.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Pale as Parian statues.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Pale as transparent Psyche-wings.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Pale as bread.
—Sadi
Pale as a whitewashed wall.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Pale and wan, as watchlight by the bed of some departing man.
—Sir Walter Scott
Pale as clay.
—Sir Walter Scott
Pale as a clout in the versal world.
—William Shakespeare
Pale, as if a bear was at his heels.
—William Shakespeare
Pale as milk.
—William Shakespeare
Pale lustre like the silver moon.
—William Shakespeare
Pale as his shirt.
—William Shakespeare
Pale as the breath of blue smoke in far woodlands.
—William Sharp
Pale as yonder waning moon.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pale—like the white shore
Of Albion.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pale and pure as a maiden secluded in secret and cherished in fear.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Pale and sweet as a dream’s delight.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Pale as grass or later flowers.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Pale as the duskiest lily’s leaf.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Pale as the front of oblivion.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Pale as the glimmer of stars on moorland meres.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Pale as the moon in star-forsaken skies.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Pale … as twilight.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Paler than young snow.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Skies as pale, as moonlight in a shadowy sea.
—Arthur Symons
Pale as a tear.
—John B. Tabb
Pale as a tablecloth.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
Pale as Jephtha’s daughter.
—Alfred Tennyson
Pale as the passing of a ghost.
—Alfred Tennyson
Pale sad faces like faint flames dying.
—George Sylvester Viereck