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