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

Strain

A faint strain,
As if some echo, that among
Those minstrel halls had slumber’d long,
Were murm’ring into life again.
—Thomas Moore

One great strain of joy as the sea breaking.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne