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

Stare (Verb)

Stare like a glass eye.
—Anonymous

Stare like a mad bull.
—Anonymous

Staring like an idiot.
—Anonymous

Staring like a sick face.
—Anonymous

Stared in my face like a flash of light.
—Honoré de Balzac

Mortals stare aghast
As though heaven’s bounteous windows were slammed fast
Incontinent.
—Robert Browning

Stared like a pig poisoned.
—Benjamin Franklin

Stared … like a detected thief.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Staring like Pythoness possessed.
—Thomas Hood

Staring at her as if she had been an angel out of Heaven.
—Charles Kingsley

Stare, like wild things of the wood about a fire.
—James Russell Lowell

Stares as he had seen Medusa’s head.
—Philip Massinger

Stared, as one who would command
Sight of what has filled his ear.
—George Meredith

Stared listlessly,
Like those who walk in sleep.
—William Morris

Eyes staring like a dead pig’s.
—François Rabelais

Like dumb statues, or breathing stones,
Stared each on other.
—William Shakespeare

Stared … as professional critics do at a new poet.
—Joseph V. von Scheffel

Stared like the Gorgon’s head.
—Tobias Smollett

Staring like a stuck pig.
—Jonathan Swift

Stared aghast at her a minute, as Macbeth might on beholding Banquo’s sudden appearance at his ball-supper.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

Stared like a dead body.
—H. G. Wells