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

Shame (Verb)

Would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp.
—William Shakespeare

Shamed as a Mayflower shames an autumn leaf.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne