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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fall
 
  Sweet-falling as the evening dew.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Fall like a thousand of brick.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Falling like Sierra’s April flood that pours in ponderous cadence from the cliff.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Falls like the leaves in October.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Falling like the tower Siloam.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Fall like small birds beaten by the storm against a dead wall, dead.
            —Philip James Bailey		  6
  Falling … softly as a snowflake.
            —Philip James Bailey		  7
  Falling like a bolt out of the blue.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  8
  Falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water.
            —Colley Cibber		  9
  Fall, like the autumn-kissed leaf.
            —Paul Laurence Dunbar		  10
Fall on me like a silent dew,
Or like those maiden showers,
Which by the peep of day, do strew
A baptism o’er the flowers.
            —Robert Herrick		  11
Like a leaf that quits the bough,
  The mortal vesture falls.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  12
  Like a city without walls, the grandeur of the mortal falls who glories in his strength and makes not God his trust.
            —Thomas Babington Macaulay		  13
  They fall away, like the flower on which the sun hath looked in his strength.
            —James Macpherson		  14
  He falls like an oak on the plain; like a rock from the shaggy hill.
            —James Macpherson		  15
  Falls like some baffled thing.
            —Arthur W. E. O’Shaughnessy		  16
  Falling soft as snow on snow.
            —Francis Turner Palgrave		  17
  Falling as gently as an answer to a prayer.
            —Adelaide A. Procter		  18
                Falls like Lucifer,
Never to hope again.
            —William Shakespeare		  19
  Fall as a slaughtered beast headless.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  20
  Fallen as leaves by the storms in their season thinned.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  21
                Softer falls
Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  22
  They fall like grass before the mower.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  23
  Fall off, like leaves from a withered tree.
            —Voltaire		  24
 
 
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