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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Weak
 
  Weak as a cat.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Weak as a lamb that can’t stand the weight of its own wool.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Weak as unfledged nestling in the falcon’s grip.
            —Thomas Ashe		  3
  Weak as fear of shame.
            —Hartley Coleridge		  4
  Weak as palsy.
            —Lord De Tabley		  5
  Weak as a reed.
            —Charles Dickens		  6
  Weak as flesh.
            —Charles Dickens		  7
  Weak as an eddy in the sandy wind.
            —Edmund Gosse		  8
  Weak as a bled calf.
            —Thomas Hardy		  9
  Weak as spider’s skein.
            —John Keats		  10
  Weak as young corn withered, whereof no man may gather and make bread.
            —Andrew Lang		  11
  Weak as a poor straw upon a torrent’s breast.
            —Matthew Gregory Lewis		  12
  Weake as sheepe.
            —John Lyly		  13
  Weaker than a woman’s tear.
            —William Shakespeare		  14
  Weaker than the wine.
            —William Shakespeare		  15
Small at first, and weak and frail
Like the vapor of a vale.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  16
  Weak as a flower that sways with every wind.
            —Alexander Smith		  17
  Weak as foam on the sands.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  18
  Weak as hearts made sick with hope deferred.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  19
  Weak as snow.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  20
  Repentance … weak as night devoured by day.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  21
  Weaker than the worm.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  22
Weak as the Roman Chief, who strove to hide
His father’s cot (and once his father’s pride)
By casing a low shed of rural mould
With marble walls, and roof adorned with gold.
            —Paulus Syllogus		  23
  Emanations weak as rain.
            —Paulus Syllogus		  24
  Weak as the puny rillets of the hill.
            —Paulus Syllogus		  25
  Weak as water.
            —Old Testament		  26
  Weak as gruel.
            —Louis Untermeyer		  27
  Weak as a lamb the hour that it is yeaned.
            —William Wordsworth		  28
 
 
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