Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Solemn
Solemn as a judge.
—Anonymous
Solemn as a slate gravestone.
—Anonymous
Solemn as a thunderbolt.
—Anonymous
As solemn as any catafalque.
—Anonymous
Solemn as organ music.
—Anonymous
Solemn as a king on a five-franc piece.
—Honoré de Balzac
Solemn, as a thought of God.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Solemn as despair.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Solemn, like the cloudy groan of dying thunder on the distant wind.
—Lord Byron
Solemn as the long stops upon an organ.
—John Dryden
Solemn as an owl.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Solemn as a dying nun.
—Maurice Hewlett
Solemn as putty.
—Rudyard Kipling
Solemn as a parson’s clerk.
—George Meredith
Solemn as a monkey after committing a mischief.
—François Rabelais