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

Graceful

Graceful as an Alpine sapling.
—Anonymous

Graceful as a bird on the wing.
—Anonymous

Graceful as a fawn.
—Anonymous

Graceful as the arch of a rainbow.
—Anonymous

Graceful as a fairy-tale.
—William Archer

Graceful as a black frigate with snow white sails.
—Honoré de Balzac

Graceful as a springborn fairy.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne

Graceful as Mars.
—Homer (Pope)

Graceful as a snake of the paradise of Asia.
—David de La Gamme

Graceful as the willow-bough o’er the streamlet weeping.
—Samuel Lover

As warm and graceful as May.
—Edward Lovibond

She is graceful as the greenly waving boughs in summer wind.
—Gerald Massey

Graceful as a Naiad.
—George Moore

Graceful as a faun.
—Samuel Rogers

Graceful as an ivy bough born to cling and lean.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Graceful as a bow just bent.
—John Ruskin

Graceful and free
As honeysuckles and the lilies be.
—Douglas B. W. Sladen

Graceful as a couchant goddess.
—Anthony Trollope

Graceful as the sapphirine tide.
—Joseph Turnley

Graceful as the shawl-designs
Of Delhi or Umritsir.
—John Greenleaf Whittier