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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fell
 
  Fell like piled-up cards.
            —Robert Browning		  1
  Fell as thick as harvests beneath hail.
            —Lord Byron		  2
The charioteer fell like a fluttered leaf;
Or as feather shaken from the wing
Of some high-soaring eagle, when the hail
Falls in a whirlwind and the woods cry back.
            —Lord De Tabley		  3
  Jussaic fell like a mass of dead flesh.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  4
  Fell like a ninepin.
            —José Echegaray		  5
The stars of heaven fell calmly away,
Like flakes of snow in a winter day.
            —James Hogg		  6
  She fell like a column of water.
            —William Dean Howells		  7
  He fell as one struck dead.
            —James Sheridan Knowles		  8
  His face fell like a cookbook cake.
            —Joseph. C. Lincoln		  9
  Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  10
  Like corn before the sickle the stout Lavinians fell.
            —Thomas Babington Macaulay		  11
  He fell, like the bank of a mountain-stream.
            —James Macpherson		  12
  She … fell from her full height as a stone drops from a rock into the gulf below.
            —Ouida		  13
Like the watch-tower of a town
Which an earthquake shatters down,
Like a lightning-stricken mast,
Like a wind-uprooted tree
Spun about,
Like a foam-topped waterspout
Cast down headlong in the sea,
She fell at last.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  14
Fell, like ocean’s feathery spray
Dashed from the boiling surge
Before the vessel’s prow.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  15
  Fell, like the unseen blight of a smiling day.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  16
  Fell fast, as the seared leaves that from the trembling tree the autumn whirlwind shakes.
            —Robert Southey		  17
  Fell like ripe grass before the mower’s scythe.
            —Robert Southey		  18
  Fell like a thousand of brick.
            —Simon Suggs		  19
  Fell as falls an ember from forth a flameless pile.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  20
  Fell a spirit, as sinks the star of day beneath its watery bed of western waves.
            —Joseph Turnley		  21
                But I fell;
Fell, like the snow-flakes, from heaven—to hell.
            —James W. Watson		  22
  Fell upon his ears like fire-bell at night.
            —Thomas Watson		  23
 
 
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