Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sink
Sink like a lark falling suddenly to earth.
—Anonymous
Sinks like a plummet.
—Anonymous
Sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose.
—Anonymous
Sunk
Like a blade sent home to its scabbard.
—Robert Browning
Sink lower than the grave.
—John Bunyan
Then sinks, as beauty fades and passion cools,
The scorn of coxcombs, and the jest of fools.
—James Cawthorn
Sunk like lead into the sea.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sinks like a lily from the storm.
—Eliza Cook
Sink like fall of summer eve.
—Reginald Heber
The erect body sank like a sword driven home into the scabbard.
—Rudyard Kipling
The nerves of Power
Sink, as a lute’s in rain.
—Walter Savage Landor
Sank
As one that kneels before a virgin shrine.
—John Payne
Sinks eclipsed, as at the dawn a star when cover’d by the solar ray.
—Petrarch
Sinks, like a strain of vesper-song.
—Frank Sewall
I sank under it like a baby fed on starch.
—George Bernard Shaw
Sink down as a sunset in sea-mist.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sink as the pausing of music.
—Bayard Taylor
They sank into the bottom as a stone.
—Old Testament
Sank as lead in the mighty waters.
—Old Testament