Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Perish
Perish … like a microbe in hot water.
—Anonymous
Perish, through their over-confidence, like Icarus.
—Francis Bacon
Perish, as the quickening breath of God … is withdrawn.
—William Cullen Bryant
They perish as a robe outworn,
As faded leaves they float away.
—Lord De Tabley
Perish like leaves.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perish as the summer fly.
—Henry Arthur Jones
Perisheth, and is past by, like the Pearle in the Fable.
—Ben Jonson
Perished with him like a rocket which falls
And quenches its light in earth.
—Edgar Lee Masters
Perishing,
As though they were but things of dust and ashes.
—James Montgomery
Perished like the pageant of a dream.
—Thomas L. Peacock
Perished like some gift of earth.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Perish, as haze in sunrise on the red sea-line.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Perish as the snow built up of sleep.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Perish forever like his own dung.
—Old Testament