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

Stark

Stark, as the soul of sin.
—Franklin R. Adams

Stark as a statue.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Stark as a gust of the sea.
—Bliss Carman

Stark,
Like the sea-rejected thing
Sea-sucked white.
—George Meredith

Stark as the winter snow.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti