Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Slight
Slight … as a dew-drop.
—Charles Dickens
Slight as a crescent moon at night.
—Theodosia Garrison
Slight as a vagrant plume
Shed from some passing wing.
—Laura R. Searing
Slight as indeed a dew-drop.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Slight as the sea’s sight of the sea-mew,
Slight as the sun’s sight of the star.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne