Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Bent

Bent down like violets after rain.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Bent … like some rapt poet o’er his rhyme.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Bent like a drooping rose.
—Anonymous

Bent like a whip.
—Anonymous

Bent like an old bruised lantern.
—R. D. Blackmore

Bent-down like corbels of a building.
—Thomas Carlyle

Bent … like a soldier at the approach of an assault.
—Victor Hugo

Bent and trembled like the rushes.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Bent like some great bow unstrung.
—Joaquin Miller

Bent, like a rainbow.
—Robert Southey