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

Stained

Stained like pale honey oozed from topmost rocks
Sun-bleached the lifelong summer.
—Robert Browning

Stained, like meerschaum, through and through.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stain’d, as meadows yet not dry,
With miry slime left on them by a flood.
—William Shakespeare