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