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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