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

Down

Gone down like grass before the scythe.
—Anonymous

His foot came down like the foot of Pantagruel.
—Anonymous

Went down like Mercury in a chilled thermometer.
—Anonymous

The ship went down like lead.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From heaven down-cast
Like red leaves he swept away.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Down, like a plummet.
—Robert Southey

Down, like the hungry hawk.
—Mary E. Stebbins

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
—Old Testament