Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Alone

Like to the moon am I, that cannot shine
Alone.
—Michelangelo

Alone, like a leper.
—Anonymous

The old man proceeded alone into the waste, like a bold vessel leaving its haven to enter on the trackless field of the ocean.
—James Fenimore Cooper

Alone, like Crusoe.
—Edward S. Martin

Stands alone like a rock in a sandy vale.
—Ossian

Alone … like an owl in an ivy-bush.
—James Robinson Planché

I go alone
Like a lonely dragon, that his fen
Makes fear’d, and talk’d of more than seen.
—William Shakespeare

Alone, like one that had the pestilence.
—William Shakespeare

Alone like some deserted world.
—Bayard Taylor

Stand alone like a substantive.
—Sir Henry Wotton