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

Piercing

Piercing as light.
—Anonymous

Piercing … as the air.
—Francis Fawkes

Piercing as the mid-day sun.
—William Shakespeare

Piercing, like the morn, now it has darted
Its lustre on all hidden things.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley