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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