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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Stare (Verb)
 
  Stare like a glass eye.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Stare like a mad bull.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Staring like an idiot.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Staring like a sick face.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Stared in my face like a flash of light.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  5
            Mortals stare aghast
As though heaven’s bounteous windows were slammed fast
Incontinent.
            —Robert Browning		  6
  Stared like a pig poisoned.
            —Benjamin Franklin		  7
  Stared … like a detected thief.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  8
  Staring like Pythoness possessed.
            —Thomas Hood		  9
  Staring at her as if she had been an angel out of Heaven.
            —Charles Kingsley		  10
  Stare, like wild things of the wood about a fire.
            —James Russell Lowell		  11
  Stares as he had seen Medusa’s head.
            —Philip Massinger		  12
Stared, as one who would command
Sight of what has filled his ear.
            —George Meredith		  13
                Stared listlessly,
Like those who walk in sleep.
            —William Morris		  14
  Eyes staring like a dead pig’s.
            —François Rabelais		  15
Like dumb statues, or breathing stones,
Stared each on other.
            —William Shakespeare		  16
  Stared … as professional critics do at a new poet.
            —Joseph V. von Scheffel		  17
  Stared like the Gorgon’s head.
            —Tobias Smollett		  18
  Staring like a stuck pig.
            —Jonathan Swift		  19
  Stared aghast at her a minute, as Macbeth might on beholding Banquo’s sudden appearance at his ball-supper.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  20
  Stared like a dead body.
            —H. G. Wells		  21
 
 
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