Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Lithe
Lithe as a panther.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Lithe as a snake.
—Anonymous
Lithe as a tiger.
—Anonymous
Lithe as leech.
—Robert Browning
Lithe as a feather duster.
—Gelett Burgess
Lithe as a rat.
—Frank Danby
Lyth as lasse of Kent.
—Michael Drayton
Lithe as willow.
—Richard Hovey
Lithe as lips
That curl in touching you.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Lithe as the dark-eyed Syrian gazelle.
—Bayard Taylor