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

Wide

Wide as a barn door.
—Anonymous

Wide as the poles asunder.
—Anonymous

Wide stretching as the earth.
—Anonymous

As wide as land.
—Alfred Austin

Wide as the sea’s perpetual flow.
—Herbert Bates

Wide as night is wide.
—Wilfred Campbell

Wide as the mouth of a wallet.
—Thomas Dekker

Wide as Shakespeare’s soul.
—Sydney Dobell

Wide-awake as mice.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Wide as hope.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wide as the unbridged gulf that yawns between the rich man and the beggar.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland

As wide as the world is.
—William Langland

Wide as a church door.
—Thomas Otway

Wide as life.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Wide as woe.
—William Watson

Wide as human thought.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Wide as the difference between death and life.
—John Greenleaf Whittier