Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Drag

Drag along like a stage procession.
—Anonymous

Dragged out like a languishing concertina.
—William Archer

Drag like lead.
—Charles Dickens

Dragged … like a lamb to a slaughter-house.
—Thomas Holcroft

Dragged like a dove into the vulture’s bed.
—Lycophron

Like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.
—Alexander Pope