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

Destitute

Destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind.
—Victor Hugo

Destitute … like a beast naked without refute, upon a plain to abide all summer showers.
—John Lydgate

Destitute as a stock-fish.
—John Howard Payne