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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