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

Overflow

Overflowing like a crock of salt-rising dough in a warm kitchen.
—Irvin S. Cobb

My being overflowed, like a golden chalice to bright wine
Which else had sunk into the thirsty dust.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley