Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Stare (Verb)
Stare like a glass eye.
—Anonymous
Stare like a mad bull.
—Anonymous
Staring like an idiot.
—Anonymous
Staring like a sick face.
—Anonymous
Stared in my face like a flash of light.
—Honoré de Balzac
Mortals stare aghast
As though heaven’s bounteous windows were slammed fast
Incontinent.
—Robert Browning
Stared like a pig poisoned.
—Benjamin Franklin
Stared … like a detected thief.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Staring like Pythoness possessed.
—Thomas Hood
Staring at her as if she had been an angel out of Heaven.
—Charles Kingsley
Stare, like wild things of the wood about a fire.
—James Russell Lowell
Stares as he had seen Medusa’s head.
—Philip Massinger
Stared, as one who would command
Sight of what has filled his ear.
—George Meredith
Stared listlessly,
Like those who walk in sleep.
—William Morris
Eyes staring like a dead pig’s.
—François Rabelais
Like dumb statues, or breathing stones,
Stared each on other.
—William Shakespeare
Stared … as professional critics do at a new poet.
—Joseph V. von Scheffel
Stared like the Gorgon’s head.
—Tobias Smollett
Staring like a stuck pig.
—Jonathan Swift
Stared aghast at her a minute, as Macbeth might on beholding Banquo’s sudden appearance at his ball-supper.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
Stared like a dead body.
—H. G. Wells