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

Expire

Expired like the sound of a melancholy echo.
—Anonymous

Expired like hardy plants which lose their color and perfume when transplanted to a hot-house.
—Anonymous

Expiring like the deserted camp-fires of a retiring army.
—George W. Curtis

Expire like an exhausted taper.
—Oliver Goldsmith

Doomed to expire like blossoms that ne’er see a second sun.
—Jean Baptiste Racine