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

Fall

Sweet-falling as the evening dew.
—Anonymous

Fall like a thousand of brick.
—Anonymous

Falling like Sierra’s April flood that pours in ponderous cadence from the cliff.
—Anonymous

Falls like the leaves in October.
—Anonymous

Falling like the tower Siloam.
—Anonymous

Fall like small birds beaten by the storm against a dead wall, dead.
—Philip James Bailey

Falling … softly as a snowflake.
—Philip James Bailey

Falling like a bolt out of the blue.
—Thomas Carlyle

Falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water.
—Colley Cibber

Fall, like the autumn-kissed leaf.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

Like a leaf that quits the bough,
The mortal vesture falls.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

They fall away, like the flower on which the sun hath looked in his strength.
—James Macpherson

He falls like an oak on the plain; like a rock from the shaggy hill.
—James Macpherson

Falls like some baffled thing.
—Arthur W. E. O’Shaughnessy

Falling soft as snow on snow.
—Francis Turner Palgrave

Falling as gently as an answer to a prayer.
—Adelaide A. Procter

Falls like Lucifer,
Never to hope again.
—William Shakespeare

Fall as a slaughtered beast headless.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fallen as leaves by the storms in their season thinned.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Softer falls
Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
—Alfred Tennyson

They fall like grass before the mower.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

Fall off, like leaves from a withered tree.
—Voltaire