Still (Adjective) Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

Still (Adjective)


Still as a church mouse. —Anonymous	1
Still as a sheltered place when winds blow loud. —Anonymous	2
Still as a tomb. —Anonymous	3
Still as the stump of a tree. —Anonymous	4
Still as a cat in a gutter. —Appius and Virginia	5
Great thoughts are still as stars. —Philip James Bailey	6
Still as one in sleep. —Alexander Barclay	7
Still as a crow’s nest, in the ded ov winter. —Josh Billings	8
Still as a log. —R. D. Blackmore	9
Still as a mouse. —Charlotte Brontë	10
Still as a prostrate column. —Charlotte Brontë	11
Still as a vision. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	12
Still as when a silent mouth in frost Breathes. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	13
Still as if spell-bound. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton	14
Still as the moonbeam. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton	15
Still as a statue. —Lord Byron	16
Still as a summer noon. —Bliss Carman	17
Stille as any stoone. —Geoffrey Chaucer	18
Sat stille, as if he were in a traunce. —Geoffrey Chaucer	19
As stille as the dede were. —Geoffrey Chaucer	20
Still as a slave before his lord. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge	21
Still like leaves forged of heavy metal. —Joseph Conrad	22
Still as old Chaos, before Motion’s birth. —Abraham Cowley	23
Still as if struck with death. —Julia C. R. Dorr	24
Still like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. —John Dryden	25
Still as a graveyard. —O. Henry	26
Still as tombstone. —Homer	27
Still as salt. —William Dean Howells	28
Still as a pool. —Victor Hugo	29
Still as a rock set in the watery deep. —Jean Ingelow	30
Dead-still as a marble man. —John Keats	31
Still as children’s thoughts. —Thomas Killigrew	32
Still as a chimney. —Charles Kingsley	33
Still as beggars at the gate of greatness. —Rudyard Kipling	34
Silence stiller than the shore Swept by Charon’s stealthy car. —Frederic L. Knowles	35
Still as the moonlight. —George MacDonald	36
Fall still as oak-leaves after frost. —George Meredith	37
Still as an island stood our ship. —Richard Monckton Milnes	38
Still as the Spring-tide comes. —Lewis Morris	39
As still As snowflakes fall upon the sod. —John Pierpont	40
Still as a sow in beans. —Pedro Pineda (Spanish Dictionary)	41
Still as the hour of death. —T. Buchanan Read	42
Still, as one who broods or grieves. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti	43
Still as the gleam of a star through the dark. —A. J. Ryan	44
Still as a shadow. —Duncan. C. Scott	45
Still as the grave. —William Shakespeare	46
Still as a wavelet in a pool. —William Sharp	47
Still as some far tropic sea where no winds murmur, nor waves be. —William Sharp	48
Still as a brooding dove. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	49
Still as clapper in a mill. —John Skelton	50
Still as the gentle calm, when the hush’d wave no longer foams before the rapid storm. —Tobias Smollett	51
Still as any stake. —Edmund Spenser	52
Still as a ghostly lake. —Howard V. Sutherland	53
Still as fair shapes fixed on some wondrous wall Of minster-aisle or cloister-close or hall To take even time’s eye prisoner with delight. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	54
Still as a stone. —Old Testament	55
Still, like Sunday. —Mark Twain	56
Still as an image of a boy in stone. —Theodore Watts-Dunton	57
Still as the dawn. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox	58
Still as a picture. —John Greenleaf Whittier	59
Still as Eden ere the birth of man. —N. P. Willis	60
Still as starlight. —N. P. Willis	61
Still As the mute swan that floats adown the stream. —William Wordsworth	62

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