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

Hang

Hang as high as Haman.
—Anonymous

Hanging like Mahomet’s coffin, between earth and heaven.
—Anonymous

Hang together like bees.
—Anonymous

Hang together like birds.
—Anonymous

Hang together like burrs.
—Anonymous

Hangs together like a rope of sand.
—Anonymous

Like Mahomet’s coffin, the shocking word hung half-way ’twixt the root and the tip of the tongue.
—Richard Harris Barham

One snowy cloud hangs, like an avalanche of frozen light upon the peak of night’s cerulean Alp.
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Hung, like words of transport trembling on the tongue, too strong for utterance.
—Robert Bloomfield

Hang like Mahomet in the air.
—Samuel Butler

You dosed me with a drug that hangs about my tongue like a pound-weight on a humming-bird’s wing.
—James Fenimore Cooper

Hangs his head … like bending lilies over-charg’d with rain.
—Richard Duke

Hung like heaven around.
—Gerald Massey

Hang like a tail.
—George Meredith

Hangs on the heart like a nightmare.
—Owen Meredith

Hung like mists o’er sleeping streams
In uninhabitable lands.
—T. Buchanan Read

Hung like a vapor in the cloudless sky.
—Samuel Rogers

Hung like an icicle on a Dutchman’s beard.
—William Shakespeare

His listless hand
Hung like dead bone within its withered skin.
—William Shakespeare

Hangs like flax on a distaff.
—William Shakespeare

Hang me in a bottle like a cat, and shoot at me.
—William Shakespeare

Hang upon him like a disease.
—William Shakespeare

Hang upon my tongue like a new-married wife upon her husband’s neck.
—William Shakespeare

She hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.
—William Shakespeare

Hang on her lips like a padlock on a pedlar’s budget.
—Edward Sharpham

Hung like bees on mountain-flowers.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hang like night on heaven above me.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hangs heavy as the dewiest poppy.
—Arthur Upson

Hang like sackcloth on a wanton nun.
—Thomas Wade