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

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

Descend


Descended like a wolf on the fold. —Anonymous	1
Descends like the foot of a crow. —Arabic	2
Dryden, descending to such game, was like an eagle stooping to catch flies. —Oliver Goldsmith	3
Would no more descend from his calm than a bronze statue from its pedestal. —Francisque Sarcey	4
Descending … Like the spring whose breath is blending All blasts of fragrance into one. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	5
The light of speech descends like a tongue of the Pentecost. —Bayard Taylor	6
Complaints of times when merit wants reward Descend like similes from bard to bard. —William Whitehead	7