Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Silent
Silent … like a forgotten melody.
—Hamilton A
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Silent as a man being shaved.
—Niccolo Albizzi
Silent as a catacomb.
—Anonymous
Silent as a father confessor.
—Anonymous
Silent as death.
—Anonymous
Silent as Fate.
—Anonymous
Silent as Messina during a sirocco.
—Anonymous
Silent as the day gives way to night.
—Anonymous
Silent as the lips of Memnon.
—Anonymous
Silent as the Sphinx.
—Anonymous
Silent men like silent waters are deep and dangerous.
—Anonymous
Silent as the foot of time.
—A. L. Barbauld
Silent as the growth of flowers.
—Aphra Behn
Silent as thought.
—Pierre Jean de Béranger
The living seemed as silent as the slain.
—Ambrose Bierce
Silent as a church.
—Charlotte Brontë
Silent as an Indian.
—Charlotte Brontë
Silent as a ghost.
—W. H. Burleigh
Silent as night.
—Thomas Carew
Silent … like Sleeping Beauty’s Castle.
—Thomas Carlyle
Silent as snow falls on the earth.
—Chinese
Silent as your shadow.
—Colley Cibber
Silent and pure as the heaven above.
—Gabriel D’Annunzio
Silent as a saint.
—Aubrey De Vere
Silent as a flame that fails.
—Charles Dickens
Silent as the elves.
—George Eliot
Silent and troubled, like a man who feels he hath done that which he shall one day rue.
—Frederick William Faber
Silent as evening.
—Francis Fawkes
Silent as shut cups
And windless reeds.
—Zona Gale
Silent as a Japanese.
—Oliver Goldsmith
Silent like a glacier bed.
—Edmund Gosse
Silent as midnight’s falling meteor slides into the stillness of the far-off land.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Silent as a mummy.
—Thomas Hood
Silent as a stone.
—Thomas Hood
Glide as silent as a Dryad
That disappears among the trees.
—Richard Hovey
Silent as sleep or shadow.
—Jean Ingelow
Silent as at the gentle Lethe’s tide.
—William Irving
Silent as a consecrated urn.
—John Keats
Silent as a tomb.
—John Keats
Silent as a sentinel on an outpost.
—Hugh Kelly
Silent as the Trafalgar Square lions.
—Amy Leslie
Silent as the ev’nings ayre.
—Richard Lovelace
Silent as a country churchyard.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay
Silent as a hound at fault.
—Charles Macklin
Silent as the sleeping seas.
—Gerald Massey
Silent as the evening sky.
—George Meredith
Silent as the moon.
—John Milton
Silent as the depth of night.
—James Montgomery
Silent, like a sundial in the shade.
—Sydney Munden
Silent as a tree.
—Josephine P. Peabody
Silent as the silence where men lie slain.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Silent and slight as the fall of a half-checked tear on a maiden cheek.
—John Ruskin
Silent as the grave.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Silent as a corpse.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Silent as a noonday sky when larks with heat are mute.
—Alexander Smith
Silent as a steam calliope with a broken boiler.
—New York Sun
Silent as a politician.
—Jonathan Swift
Silent as a mountain lawn.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Silent as time.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Silent as a stooping cloud.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Silent as a cloud that sleeps in midday on a mountain peak.
—Bayard Taylor
Silent in conversation as a country lover.
—Sir John Vanbrugh
Silent as the mighty marching
Of earth and all the planets round the sun.
—Thomas Wade
Silent … as the hush’d grouping of a dream.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Silent as despair.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Silent as a picture.
—William Wordsworth
Silent as a standing pool.
—William Wordsworth
Silent as the skies.
—William Wordsworth