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