Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Rigid
Rigid as a rock.
—Anonymous
Rigid as if chiselled from stone.
—Anonymous
Rigid as a sheet of metal.
—Honoré de Balzac
Rigid as the will of Fate.
—William Cullen Bryant
About as rigid as a concertina.
—Joseph Conrad
Rigid as embodied duty.
—Alphonse Daudet
Rigid as his starched collar.
—Alphonse Daudet
Rigid as stone.
—James B. Kenyon
Rigid as a Greek masque.
—Brander Matthews
Stood rigid, as if in a trance.
—Justin Huntley McCarthy
Rigid as a prison’s blank stone wall.
—Margaret E. Sangster