Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Stick
Sticking as close together as two dried figs.
—Anonymous
Sticks like a cockle burr to a sheep’s coat.
—Anonymous
Stick like a leech.
—Anonymous
Sticks like a porous plaster.
—Anonymous
Sticks like fly paper.
—Anonymous
Stick like wax.
—Anonymous
Stick like a Comanche on a mustang. The worse it jumps, the tighter he sticks.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Stick to it, like a clenched nail.
—R. D. Blackmore
Stick to her point like a fox to his own tail.
—Dion Boucicault
Stick like burrs.
—John Bunyan
Sticks as close … as a shadow to a body.
—Robert Burton
Stick like pitch.
—William Congreve
Sticks like a weasel.
—Oliver Goldsmith
Stuck together like a sheet of buns.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sticks to me like a bobolink on a sapling, in a wood.
—Sylvester Judd
Stick as close as my shirt does to my back on a sultry, sweating day.
—London Chanticleers
Like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree.
—William Shakespeare
Stick like rust.
—Cyril Tourneur
Stick … as a country postmaster to his offiss.
—Artemus Ward