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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Meek
 
  Meek as a Madonna.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Meek as a mouse.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Meek as mustard.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Meek as a violet.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Meek as Moses.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Meek as a matron in mantle gray.
            —Joanna Baillie		  6
  Meek as the turtle-dove.
            —Robert Blair		  7
  Meek as the man Moses.
            —William Cowper		  8
  Meeke as is a mayde.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  9
  As meke as ever was any lamb.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  10
  As a lamb she sitteth meke and stille, as leef on lynde [Linden tree].
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  11
  Meek as any baby.
            —Maurice Hewlett		  12
  As Hester meke.
            —John Lydgate		  13
  Meek as a dove.
            —George Meredith		  14
  Meek as gruel.
            —George Meredith		  15
  Meek as the gentlest of those who in life’s sunny valley lie sheltered and warm.
            —Thomas Moore		  16
  Meek as a saint.
            —Alexander Pope		  17
  Meek as May.
            —Alexander Pope		  18
  More meek than lambs.
            —Theocritus		  19
  Meek, like a bankrupt beggar.
            —William Shakespeare		  20
Shee meeker, kinder than
The turtle-dove or pelican.
            —George Wither		  21
Leans meekly, like a flower
By the still river tempted from its stem
And on its bosom floating.
            —N. P. Willis		  22
  Meek and patient as a sheathèd sword.
            —William Wordsworth		  23
 
 
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