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

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

Overwhelm


Overwhelmed, like the miner upon whom a roof has just fallen. —Alexandre Dumas, père	1
As when a torrent, swell’d with wintry rains, Pours from the mountains o’er the delug’d plains, And pines and oaks, from their foundations torn, A country’s ruins! to the seas are borne: Fierce Ajax thus o’erwhelms the yielding throng. —Homer (Pope)	2
O’erwhelming his fair sight, Like misty vapors when they blot the sky. —William Shakespeare	3