Sleep (Verb) Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

Sleep (Verb)


Never bothered—sleeps like a hall-boy. —Franklin P. Adams	1
Sleep like a bud. —Anonymous	2
Sleep like a dead man. —Anonymous	3
Slept like a log. —Anonymous	4
Sealed sleep as water-lilies know. —Edwin Arnold	5
Sleep like a top. —Beaumont and Fletcher	6
Sleep as soundly as a constable. —Robert Brathwaite	7
Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore. —Lord Byron	8
Sleep like a jewel on the breast of faith. —Josiah Gilbert Holland	9
Time Slept, as he sleeps upon the silent face Of a dark dial in a sunless place. —Thomas Hood	10
Sleep, like wrecks in the unfathom’d main. —Letitia Elizabeth Landon	11
Like a lull’d babe she slept, and knew no fear. —Thomas Otway	12
Sleeps like a dream in a grave. —A. J. Ryan	13
Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. —William Shakespeare	14
She slept, as sleeps the blossom, hushed amid the silent air. —Elizabeth O. Smith	15
Sleep as a slain man sleeps. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	16
As a pearl within its shell, the happy spirit sleeps in me. —Bayard Taylor	17
Sleep … like sinless flowers that heed not the world and its maddening din. —Edward Willard Watson	18
Sleeping, like the darkness at noontide. —Lady Wilde	19
Sleeps, like a caterpillar sheathed in ice. —William Wordsworth	20