Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Closed
Closed as a shrine.
—Anonymous
Then saw in death his eyelids close
Calmly, as to a night’s repose,
Like flowers at set of sun.
—Fitz-Greene Halleck
Closed his eyes, like a priest who at evening service closes the gold tabernacle after Benediction.
—Guy de Maupassant
Closed over their trail as the waves of the ocean close in the wake of a ship.
—Theodore Roosevelt
Crept to the gate, and open’d it, and closed,
As lightly as a sick man’s chamber-door.
—Alfred Tennyson