Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Stark
Stark, as the soul of sin.
—Franklin R. Adams
Stark as a statue.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Stark as a gust of the sea.
—Bliss Carman
Stark,
Like the sea-rejected thing
Sea-sucked white.
—George Meredith
Stark as the winter snow.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti