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

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

Lost


Lost as Eden. —Anonymous	1
Lost, like a river running into an unknown sea. —Anonymous	2
Lost like a predestined soul. —Anonymous	3
Lost, like autumnal leaves, when North winds rage. —William Congreve	4
Lost himself in thought as though he had fallen out of the world. —Joseph Conrad	5
Lost, like a star in day. —Henry Ellison	6
Lost like the day of Job’s awful curse, in the third chapter, third and fourth verse. —Bret Harte	7
Lost, like the lightning in The sullen cloud. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	8
As lost, as any needle in a stack of hay. —Thomas Hood	9
Lost in the gulf of chance to fall, as oblivion swallows thought. —Alfred de Musset	10
Lost like stars beyond dark trees. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti	11
Lost, like the light, flickering of a cottage’s fire. —Sir Walter Scott	12
Lost as in a trance. —Esaias Tegner	13