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

Strong

Strong as the mainstay of the laboring bark.
—Æschylus

Strong as Zeus.
—Æschylus (E. B. Browning)

Strong as an eagle.
—Anonymous

Strong as a Flander’s mare.
—Anonymous

Strong as hate.
—Anonymous

Strong as Hercules.
—Anonymous

Strong as mustard.
—Anonymous

Strong as an ox.
—Anonymous

Strong as the voice of Fate.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Strong as the spirit of the storm.
—W. Wilfred Campbell

Strong as beechwood in the blast.
—Thomas Campbell

Strong as bulls.
—Thomas Carlyle

Strong as the Harz-rock, rooted in the depths of the world.
—Thomas Carlyle

Strong as an host of armed Deities.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Strong as brandy.
—George Farquhar

As the lion strong.
—Francis Fawkes

Strong in silence as mysteries locked up in Jove’s own bosom.
—John Ford

Strong as earth’s first kings.
—Fitz-Greene Halleck

As strong as instinct.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Strong as the enginery that works the world.
—James A. Hillhouse

Stronger than thunder’s winged force.
—Horace

Strong as the wind.
—Mary Johnston

Strong as fire.
—Charles Kingsley

Strong as a jail.
—Charles James Lever

Strong as iron bands.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Strong as a storm.
—James Macpherson

Strong as a sea-swell.
—Gerald Massey

Strong as God.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong as a young goat.
—Ouida

Strong, like an iron chain.
—Pilpay

Strong as the devil himself.
—François Rabelais

Strong as Sampson.
—François Rabelais

Strong … as young Desire.
—T. Buchanan Read

Strong as strong Ajax’s red right hand.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Strong as necessity.
—Richard Savage

Confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
—William Shakespeare

Strong as Pluto’s gates.
—William Shakespeare

Strong as the axletree.
—William Shakespeare

Strong as … rash gunpowder.
—William Shakespeare

Strong as a wild swan’s pinions.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Strong as grows the yearning of the blossom toward the fruit.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Strong as love.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Strong as the seas.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Strong as the worldwide sun.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Strong as sheer truth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Strong as time.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Strong like fate.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Strong, and bold, and free as the milk-white foal of the Nedjidee.
—Bayard Taylor

Strong as death.
—Old Testament

Strong as iron.
—Old Testament

Strong as an oaken staff.
—Henry Van Dyke

As the deluge strong.
—Isaac Watts

Strong as a Monarch’s signet.
—N. P. Willis

Strong as guilty fear.
—William Wordsworth