Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Bow
Bow like a field of wheat before the rising wind.
—Anonymous
Bows like a reed in a tempest.
—Anonymous
Like a field of standing corn, that’s moved with a stiff gale, their heads bow all one way.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Bow’d like weeping willows.
—Thomas Campbell
Arching bow’d, like color’d rainbows o’er a show’ry moon.
—Homer (Pope)
Bowed, like a man sawing marble.
—Thomas Hood
Bow’d like a sleeping flower.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Bowed like bondmen.
—William Shakespeare
A life bowed under its own wealth as the vine is bowed under its fruit.
—Hermann Sudermann
Bowed like a flowering weed when May’s wind heaves the reed-bed the stream kisses.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bowed down as briars or palms
Even at the breathless blast as of a breeze
Fulfilled with clamour and clangour and storms of psalms.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
—Old Testament
Bow down his head like a bulrush.
—Old Testament
Bowed to them like a tree in a storm.
—Edith Wharton