Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Break

Break him like a biscuit.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

Break like an o’er-bent bow.
—Samuel Butler

Break as a bubble o’er-blown in a dream.
—Sidney Lanier

Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay

Breaking, like rosy clouds at even-tide
Around the rich pavilion of the sun.
—Thomas Moore

The columns break, like shattered foam.
—Edward Peple

Breaking his oath and resolution, like
A twist of rotten silk.
—William Shakespeare

Break like a bursting heart.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Break forth as laughter on lips that said nought till the pulse in them beat love’s march.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne