Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Strong
Strong as the mainstay of the laboring bark.
—Æschylus
Strong as Zeus.
—Æschylus (E. B. Browning)
Strong as an eagle.
—Anonymous
Strong as a Flander’s mare.
—Anonymous
Strong as hate.
—Anonymous
Strong as Hercules.
—Anonymous
Strong as mustard.
—Anonymous
Strong as an ox.
—Anonymous
Strong as the voice of Fate.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Strong as the spirit of the storm.
—W. Wilfred Campbell
Strong as beechwood in the blast.
—Thomas Campbell
Strong as bulls.
—Thomas Carlyle
Strong as the Harz-rock, rooted in the depths of the world.
—Thomas Carlyle
Strong as an host of armed Deities.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Strong as brandy.
—George Farquhar
As the lion strong.
—Francis Fawkes
Strong in silence as mysteries locked up in Jove’s own bosom.
—John Ford
Strong as earth’s first kings.
—Fitz-Greene Halleck
As strong as instinct.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Strong as the enginery that works the world.
—James A. Hillhouse
Stronger than thunder’s winged force.
—Horace
Strong as the wind.
—Mary Johnston
Strong as fire.
—Charles Kingsley
Strong as a jail.
—Charles James Lever
Strong as iron bands.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Strong as a storm.
—James Macpherson
Strong as a sea-swell.
—Gerald Massey
Strong as God.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong as a young goat.
—Ouida
Strong, like an iron chain.
—Pilpay
Strong as the devil himself.
—François Rabelais
Strong as Sampson.
—François Rabelais
Strong … as young Desire.
—T. Buchanan Read
Strong as strong Ajax’s red right hand.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Strong as necessity.
—Richard Savage
Confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
—William Shakespeare
Strong as Pluto’s gates.
—William Shakespeare
Strong as the axletree.
—William Shakespeare
Strong as … rash gunpowder.
—William Shakespeare
Strong as a wild swan’s pinions.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strong as grows the yearning of the blossom toward the fruit.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strong as love.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strong as the seas.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strong as the worldwide sun.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strong as sheer truth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strong as time.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strong like fate.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Strong, and bold, and free as the milk-white foal of the Nedjidee.
—Bayard Taylor
Strong as death.
—Old Testament
Strong as iron.
—Old Testament
Strong as an oaken staff.
—Henry Van Dyke
As the deluge strong.
—Isaac Watts
Strong as a Monarch’s signet.
—N. P. Willis
Strong as guilty fear.
—William Wordsworth