Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Stand
Stands as firm as Gibraltar.
—Anonymous
Stands forth like morning from the shades of night.
—Anonymous
Stands like Mumphazard, who was hanged for saying nothing.
—Anonymous
Stands where he did, like Scotland.
—Anonymous
Stood like some erring angel that had lost his radiance.
—Honoré de Balzac
See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall.
—Bernard E. Bee
Stands at gaze
As might a wolf just fasten’d on his prey.
—Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Grenadiers … stand there, like a fixed stone-dam in that wild whirlpool of ruin.
—Thomas Carlyle
Stood like the Law and Gospel, one with the sanction of earth and one with the blessing of heaven.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Stood like a sentinel under inspection.
—George Meredith
Stand like statues cut in stone.
—George Sandys
Stood, like veteran, worn, but unsubdued.
—Sir Walter Scott
Stand at your door like a sheriff’s post.
—William Shakespeare
Stand
Like wonder-wounded hearers.
—William Shakespeare
Stood like a man at a mark with a whole army shooting at me.
—William Shakespeare
Stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
—William Shakespeare
Stand like flame transferred to marble.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley