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

Sink

Sink like a lark falling suddenly to earth.
—Anonymous

Sinks like a plummet.
—Anonymous

Sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose.
—Anonymous

Sunk
Like a blade sent home to its scabbard.
—Robert Browning

Sink lower than the grave.
—John Bunyan

Then sinks, as beauty fades and passion cools,
The scorn of coxcombs, and the jest of fools.
—James Cawthorn

Sunk like lead into the sea.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sinks like a lily from the storm.
—Eliza Cook

Sink like fall of summer eve.
—Reginald Heber

The erect body sank like a sword driven home into the scabbard.
—Rudyard Kipling

The nerves of Power
Sink, as a lute’s in rain.
—Walter Savage Landor

Sank
As one that kneels before a virgin shrine.
—John Payne

Sinks eclipsed, as at the dawn a star when cover’d by the solar ray.
—Petrarch

Sinks, like a strain of vesper-song.
—Frank Sewall

I sank under it like a baby fed on starch.
—George Bernard Shaw

Sink down as a sunset in sea-mist.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Sink as the pausing of music.
—Bayard Taylor

They sank into the bottom as a stone.
—Old Testament

Sank as lead in the mighty waters.
—Old Testament