Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Return
Return, like the postman.
—Anonymous
Return, like a late summer when the year grows old.
—William Cullen Bryant
Return upon you like pent waters.
—Thomas Carlyle
Return, like stars replenished at Joy’s golden urn.
—Thomas Hood
Returned, like the first messenger of Noah.
—Henry Mackenzie
Returning like dew that hath been to heaven, dropping in rain.
—Gerald Massey
An echo returned on the cold gray morn,
Like the breath of a spirit sighing.
—Mrs.
—Norton
Returned like a leaden shilling.
—Sir Richard Steele
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
—Old Testament
Returning like the Patriarch’s dove,
Wing-weary from the eternal sea.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Returning, like a ghost unlaid.
—William Wordsworth