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

Return

Return, like the postman.
—Anonymous

Return, like a late summer when the year grows old.
—William Cullen Bryant

Return upon you like pent waters.
—Thomas Carlyle

Return, like stars replenished at Joy’s golden urn.
—Thomas Hood

Returned, like the first messenger of Noah.
—Henry Mackenzie

Returning like dew that hath been to heaven, dropping in rain.
—Gerald Massey

An echo returned on the cold gray morn,
Like the breath of a spirit sighing.
—Mrs.
—Norton

Returned like a leaden shilling.
—Sir Richard Steele

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
—Old Testament

Returning like the Patriarch’s dove,
Wing-weary from the eternal sea.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Returning, like a ghost unlaid.
—William Wordsworth