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

Fell

Fell like piled-up cards.
—Robert Browning

Fell as thick as harvests beneath hail.
—Lord Byron

The charioteer fell like a fluttered leaf;
Or as feather shaken from the wing
Of some high-soaring eagle, when the hail
Falls in a whirlwind and the woods cry back.
—Lord De Tabley

Jussaic fell like a mass of dead flesh.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Fell like a ninepin.
—José Echegaray

The stars of heaven fell calmly away,
Like flakes of snow in a winter day.
—James Hogg

She fell like a column of water.
—William Dean Howells

He fell as one struck dead.
—James Sheridan Knowles

His face fell like a cookbook cake.
—Joseph. C. Lincoln

Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Like corn before the sickle the stout Lavinians fell.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay

He fell, like the bank of a mountain-stream.
—James Macpherson

She … fell from her full height as a stone drops from a rock into the gulf below.
—Ouida

Like the watch-tower of a town
Which an earthquake shatters down,
Like a lightning-stricken mast,
Like a wind-uprooted tree
Spun about,
Like a foam-topped waterspout
Cast down headlong in the sea,
She fell at last.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Fell, like ocean’s feathery spray
Dashed from the boiling surge
Before the vessel’s prow.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fell, like the unseen blight of a smiling day.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fell fast, as the seared leaves that from the trembling tree the autumn whirlwind shakes.
—Robert Southey

Fell like ripe grass before the mower’s scythe.
—Robert Southey

Fell like a thousand of brick.
—Simon Suggs

Fell as falls an ember from forth a flameless pile.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fell a spirit, as sinks the star of day beneath its watery bed of western waves.
—Joseph Turnley

But I fell;
Fell, like the snow-flakes, from heaven—to hell.
—James W. Watson

Fell upon his ears like fire-bell at night.
—Thomas Watson