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

Perish

Perish … like a microbe in hot water.
—Anonymous

Perish, through their over-confidence, like Icarus.
—Francis Bacon

Perish, as the quickening breath of God … is withdrawn.
—William Cullen Bryant

They perish as a robe outworn,
As faded leaves they float away.
—Lord De Tabley

Perish like leaves.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perish as the summer fly.
—Henry Arthur Jones

Perisheth, and is past by, like the Pearle in the Fable.
—Ben Jonson

Perished with him like a rocket which falls
And quenches its light in earth.
—Edgar Lee Masters

Perishing,
As though they were but things of dust and ashes.
—James Montgomery

Perished like the pageant of a dream.
—Thomas L. Peacock

Perished like some gift of earth.
—Friedrich von Schiller

Perish, as haze in sunrise on the red sea-line.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Perish as the snow built up of sleep.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Perish forever like his own dung.
—Old Testament