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

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

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Bow like a field of wheat before the rising wind. —Anonymous	1
Bows like a reed in a tempest. —Anonymous	2
Like a field of standing corn, that’s moved with a stiff gale, their heads bow all one way. —Beaumont and Fletcher	3
Bow’d like weeping willows. —Thomas Campbell	4
Arching bow’d, like color’d rainbows o’er a show’ry moon. —Homer (Pope)	5
Bowed, like a man sawing marble. —Thomas Hood	6
Bow’d like a sleeping flower. —Letitia Elizabeth Landon	7
Bowed like bondmen. —William Shakespeare	8
A life bowed under its own wealth as the vine is bowed under its fruit. —Hermann Sudermann	9
Bowed like a flowering weed when May’s wind heaves the reed-bed the stream kisses. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	10
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	11
I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. —Old Testament	12
Bow down his head like a bulrush. —Old Testament	13
Bowed to them like a tree in a storm. —Edith Wharton	14