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

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

Low


Low as the grave. —Anonymous	1
Low as horse’s hoof. —Scotch Ballad	2
Low as zephyr, telling secrets to his rose. —Thomas Lovell Beddoes	3
Lying low, like a malignant little animal under a hedge. —Joseph Conrad	4
Low as a bushy bramble. —Charles Macklin	5
Low as a baboon’s forehead. —Sydney Munden	6
Low as Hell. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti	7
Fall low as Persian to the sun. —Charles Sangster	8
Low as to the fiends. —William Shakespeare	9
As low as hell’s from heaven. —William Shakespeare	10
Low as the softest breath that passes in summer at evening O’er the Æolian strings, felt there when nothing is moving, Save the thistle-down, lighter than air, and the leaf of the aspen. —Robert Southey	11
Low as broken crown. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	12