Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Still (Adjective)
Still as a church mouse.
—Anonymous
Still as a sheltered place when winds blow loud.
—Anonymous
Still as a tomb.
—Anonymous
Still as the stump of a tree.
—Anonymous
Still as a cat in a gutter.
—Appius and Virginia
Great thoughts are still as stars.
—Philip James Bailey
Still as one in sleep.
—Alexander Barclay
Still as a crow’s nest, in the ded ov winter.
—Josh Billings
Still as a log.
—R. D. Blackmore
Still as a mouse.
—Charlotte Brontë
Still as a prostrate column.
—Charlotte Brontë
Still as a vision.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Still as when a silent mouth in frost
Breathes.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Still as if spell-bound.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Still as the moonbeam.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Still as a statue.
—Lord Byron
Still as a summer noon.
—Bliss Carman
Stille as any stoone.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Sat stille, as if he were in a traunce.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
As stille as the dede were.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Still as a slave before his lord.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Still like leaves forged of heavy metal.
—Joseph Conrad
Still as old Chaos, before Motion’s birth.
—Abraham Cowley
Still as if struck with death.
—Julia C. R. Dorr
Still like a clock worn out with eating time,
The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
—John Dryden
Still as a graveyard.
—O. Henry
Still as tombstone.
—Homer
Still as salt.
—William Dean Howells
Still as a pool.
—Victor Hugo
Still as a rock set in the watery deep.
—Jean Ingelow
Dead-still as a marble man.
—John Keats
Still as children’s thoughts.
—Thomas Killigrew
Still as a chimney.
—Charles Kingsley
Still as beggars at the gate of greatness.
—Rudyard Kipling
Silence stiller than the shore
Swept by Charon’s stealthy car.
—Frederic L. Knowles
Still as the moonlight.
—George MacDonald
Fall still as oak-leaves after frost.
—George Meredith
Still as an island stood our ship.
—Richard Monckton Milnes
Still as the Spring-tide comes.
—Lewis Morris
As still
As snowflakes fall upon the sod.
—John Pierpont
Still as a sow in beans.
—Pedro Pineda (Spanish Dictionary)
Still as the hour of death.
—T. Buchanan Read
Still, as one who broods or grieves.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Still as the gleam of a star through the dark.
—A. J. Ryan
Still as a shadow.
—Duncan. C. Scott
Still as the grave.
—William Shakespeare
Still as a wavelet in a pool.
—William Sharp
Still as some far tropic sea where no winds murmur, nor waves be.
—William Sharp
Still as a brooding dove.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Still as clapper in a mill.
—John Skelton
Still as the gentle calm, when the hush’d wave no longer foams before the rapid storm.
—Tobias Smollett
Still as any stake.
—Edmund Spenser
Still as a ghostly lake.
—Howard V. Sutherland
Still as fair shapes fixed on some wondrous wall
Of minster-aisle or cloister-close or hall
To take even time’s eye prisoner with delight.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Still as a stone.
—Old Testament
Still, like Sunday.
—Mark Twain
Still as an image of a boy in stone.
—Theodore Watts-Dunton
Still as the dawn.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Still as a picture.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Still as Eden ere the birth of man.
—N. P. Willis
Still as starlight.
—N. P. Willis
Still
As the mute swan that floats adown the stream.
—William Wordsworth