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

Meek

Meek as a Madonna.
—Anonymous

Meek as a mouse.
—Anonymous

Meek as mustard.
—Anonymous

Meek as a violet.
—Anonymous

Meek as Moses.
—Anonymous

Meek as a matron in mantle gray.
—Joanna Baillie

Meek as the turtle-dove.
—Robert Blair

Meek as the man Moses.
—William Cowper

Meeke as is a mayde.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

As meke as ever was any lamb.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

As a lamb she sitteth meke and stille, as leef on lynde [Linden tree].
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Meek as any baby.
—Maurice Hewlett

As Hester meke.
—John Lydgate

Meek as a dove.
—George Meredith

Meek as gruel.
—George Meredith

Meek as the gentlest of those who in life’s sunny valley lie sheltered and warm.
—Thomas Moore

Meek as a saint.
—Alexander Pope

Meek as May.
—Alexander Pope

More meek than lambs.
—Theocritus

Meek, like a bankrupt beggar.
—William Shakespeare

Shee meeker, kinder than
The turtle-dove or pelican.
—George Wither

Leans meekly, like a flower
By the still river tempted from its stem
And on its bosom floating.
—N. P. Willis

Meek and patient as a sheathèd sword.
—William Wordsworth