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

Pant

Panting like the hounds of summer,
When they scent the stately deer.
—William E. Aytoun

Pant like a netted lioness.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Pant like climbers.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Pant as in a dream.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Panting like a spent hound.
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Panting, like a bird that has often beaten his wings in vain against his cage.
—John Dryden

Softly panting like a bride.
—Robert Herrick

Panted like a forge bellows.
—Victor Hugo

Panting, like a run-down hare.
—Douglas Jerrold

The country was panting like a wrestler lying under the knees of his successful opponent.
—Guy de Maupassant

Panting, like an engine with its steam up.
—James Robinson Planché

Panting, and swept as by the sense of death.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Panted like a sick man’s fitful breath.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Panted hard,
Like one that feels a nightmare on his bed.
—Alfred Tennyson

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
—Old Testament