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

Numerous

Numerous as grains of silver in the bowels of the Rockies.
—Anonymous

Numerous as hailstones.
—Anonymous

Numerous as insects on the banks of the Nile.
—Anonymous

Numerous as maggots in a Cheshire cheese.
—Anonymous

Numerous as the breaths a patriarch has breathed.
—Anonymous

Numerous as the heads of Briareus.
—Anonymous

Numerous as the holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
—Anonymous

Numerous as the leaves of the forest.
—Anonymous

Numerous as the mouths of the Ganges.
—Anonymous

Numerous as the mouths of the Nile.
—Anonymous

Numerous as the pearls of morning-dew, which hang on herbs and flowers.
—Anonymous

As numerous as the stars of heaven
Are the fond hopes to mortals given.
—Richard Dabney

Numerous as sands upon the ocean shore.
—Philip Freneau

Numerous as unsold shares in an over-capitalized mining company.
—Frank Carlos Griffith

Num’rous as birds that o’er the forest play.
—Walter Harte

Numerous as the fish that sail the wide sea over.
—Italian Love Song

Numerous as shadows haunting fairily
The brain.
—John Keats

Numerous as a night of stars.
—Gerald Massey

Numerous as leaves that strew the autumnal gale.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Numerous as the hairs of his head.
—Paul Wiggins

Numerous as the writings of Ibid.
—Paul Wiggins