Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Absolute as the Sultan of Turkey.

Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale.

Busy as the day.

Changes color as a maid at sight of sword and shield.

Like a city without walls, the grandeur of the mortal falls who glories in his strength and makes not God his trust.

Like corn before the sickle the stout Lavinians fell.

Eloquence flows like droppings of sweet poppy syrup.

As glares the famished eagle from the Digentian rock
On a choice lamb that bounds alone before Bandusia’s flock,
Herminus glared on Sextus.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and reflect the dawn.

A deep sullen murmur … like the moaning noise that goes before the whirlwind on the deep.

Pale as are the dead.

Passed like a dream away.

Patient as sheep.

Plain as the sun in heaven.

The roar of battle rose,
Like the roar of a burning forest, when a strong north wind blows.

Rushes like a boar against the shouting chase.

Shrank, like boys, who, unaware,
Ranging the woods to start a hare,
Come to the mouth of the dark lair where,
Growling low, a fierce old bear
Lies amidst bones and blood.

Silent as a country churchyard.

Swore like a porter.

Thick as flakes of snow.

Unquenched … like Vesta’s sacred fire.

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