Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Thrill
Thrilling as the meteor’s fall through the depths of lonely sky.
—Anonymous
Thrilled like the juice of the purple vine.
—Anonymous
Thrilled like the string of a lyre.
—Anonymous
Thrilled as was Rome when Cæsar returned laden with the spoils of conquest.
—Anonymous
Thrills in leafy tremblement,
Like a heart that after climbing
Beateth quickly though content.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Thrill like his lyre-strings.
—Lord Byron
Thrilled like a revelation.
—Joseph Conrad
Thrilled in ecstasy, like an Oriental saint.
—Alphonse Daudet
Her timbers thrilled as nerves,
When through them passed the spirit of that shock.
—Sir Francis H. Doyle
Thrilling her as with fire of rage divine
And battling energy.
—George Eliot
Thrill in your veins like shouts of victory.
—George Eliot
Thrill like the nightingale’s song.
—Edward Octavus Flagg
Thrills … like a thing of song and gladness.
—Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
Thrill with sound like a harp.
—Kenneth Grahame
Thrilled like witch-notes.
—Arthur Henry Hallam
Thrill like some fanciful land of romance.
—Bret Harte
Thrills
As if the Enchanted Castle at the heart
Of the wood’s dark wonderment
Swung wide his valves, and filled the dim sea-banks
With exquisite visitants.
—William Ernest Henley
Thrill like a battle shout.
—Mary E. Hewitt
Memories thrill,
Like a breath from the wood, like a breeze from the hill.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
A leap and a thrill like the flash of a weaver’s shuttle,
Swift and sudden and sure.
—Richard Hovey
Thrilling like the trump of battle.
—Walter Malone
Thrill,
Like sounds upon the wind-harp’s chords when all the winds are still.
—George D. Prentice
My heart like a touched harp-string thrilled.
—Alexander Smith
Thrill as a theatre thronged at appeal of an actor’s appalled agitation.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Thrilled as by the clangorous call
Of storm’s blown trumpets from the core of night.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Thrill,
Like the whole world’s heart, with warm new life and gladdening flame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Thrilled … like Memnon waking from his marble dream.
—Sarah H. Whitman