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

Drink (Verb)

Drink like a funnel.
—Anonymous

Drinks like a sieve.
—Anonymous

Drank like a Merman.
—Richard Harris Barham

Drink like a fish.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

As the drop feeds its fated flower,
As finds its Alp the snowy shower,
Child of the omnific Need,
Hurled into life to do a deed,
Man drinks the water, drinks the light.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Drink … as wells drink in November, when it rains.
—Henry W. Longfellow

I drank as earth imbibes the shower,
Or as the rainbow drinks the dew;
As ocean quaffs the oceans up
Or flushing sun inhales the sea.
—Thomas Moore

Drink like a templar knight.
—François Rabelais