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

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

Silently


Silently as a snail slips over a cabbage leaf on a dewy morning. —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms	1
Silently as a dream. —William Cowper	2
Silently as a fish in a stream. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	3
Fall silently like dew on roses. —John Dryden	4
Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. —William Hamilton Gibson	5
Silently … as colours steal into the pear or plum. —Robert Herrick	6
E’en like the passage of an angel’s tear That falls through the clear ether silently. —John Keats	7
Silently as a cloud rolls out of the mouth of a valley. —Rudyard Kipling	8
Silently as the winds of the desert sweep upward and northward over the plains. —Ouida	9
Eat his dinner as silently as a brother of La Trappe. —William Makepeace Thackeray	10
Silently as bubbles burst. —William R. Thayer	11
As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere round the globe. —Walt Whitman	12