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

Weak

Weak as a cat.
—Anonymous

Weak as a lamb that can’t stand the weight of its own wool.
—Anonymous

Weak as unfledged nestling in the falcon’s grip.
—Thomas Ashe

Weak as fear of shame.
—Hartley Coleridge

Weak as palsy.
—Lord De Tabley

Weak as a reed.
—Charles Dickens

Weak as flesh.
—Charles Dickens

Weak as an eddy in the sandy wind.
—Edmund Gosse

Weak as a bled calf.
—Thomas Hardy

Weak as spider’s skein.
—John Keats

Weak as young corn withered, whereof no man may gather and make bread.
—Andrew Lang

Weak as a poor straw upon a torrent’s breast.
—Matthew Gregory Lewis

Weake as sheepe.
—John Lyly

Weaker than a woman’s tear.
—William Shakespeare

Weaker than the wine.
—William Shakespeare

Small at first, and weak and frail
Like the vapor of a vale.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Weak as a flower that sways with every wind.
—Alexander Smith

Weak as foam on the sands.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Weak as hearts made sick with hope deferred.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Weak as snow.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Repentance … weak as night devoured by day.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Weaker than the worm.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Weak as the Roman Chief, who strove to hide
His father’s cot (and once his father’s pride)
By casing a low shed of rural mould
With marble walls, and roof adorned with gold.
—Paulus Syllogus

Emanations weak as rain.
—Paulus Syllogus

Weak as the puny rillets of the hill.
—Paulus Syllogus

Weak as water.
—Old Testament

Weak as gruel.
—Louis Untermeyer

Weak as a lamb the hour that it is yeaned.
—William Wordsworth