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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Gone
 
  Gone as a gone goose.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Gone as a shadow goes.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  2
  Gone as evanescent cloudlands.
            —Mathilde Blind		  3
Gone, like traces on the deep,
Like a spectre grasp’d in sleep,
Dews inhal’d from morning glades,
Melting snows, and gliding shades.
            —Henry Brooke		  4
  Quite gone … like a lost star.
            —Robert Browning		  5
  Gone … like ice on a June day.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  6
  Gone into their snares like a thread into a needle.
            —Fyodor Dostoyevsky		  7
  Gone, like a vapor which the potent morn kills, and in killing glorifies.
            —David Gray		  8
Gone like the bubble that bursts in the sun;
Gone like the grain when the reaper is done;
Gone like the dew on the fresh morning grass;
Gone without parting farewell; and alas!
Gone with a flavor of hydrogen gas!
            —Bret Harte		  9
Gone like the locust band, when whirlwinds bear
Their flimsy legions through the waste of air.
            —Reginald Heber		  10
  Gone, like smoke dissolved in air.
            —Aaron Hill		  11
Gone, like the tenants that quit without warning,
Down the back entry of time.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  12
  Gone, like the spray.
            —Charles Kingsley		  13
  Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.
            —George Linley		  14
Gone was every trace of sorrow,
As the fog from off the river,
As the mist from off the meadow.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  15
  Gane, like the flowers o’ spring awa’, or like a vision perished.
            —Alexander McLaughlan		  16
                Seen no more,
Gone, like the wind that raised the wave,
The spent wave on the shore.
            —George Meredith		  17
  Gone like a meteor.
            —Thomas Moore		  18
  Gone, like the thoughts that once were ours.
            —Thomas Moore		  19
  Gone like all things else that men set life upon.
            —F. W. H. Myers		  20
  To-day we are here, to-morrow gone, like the shadow that vanisheth, like the grass that withereth, or like the flower that fadeth; or indeed like anything, or rather like nothing.
            —Thomas Otway		  21
  Gone, as an angel’s wing through an opening cloud is seen, and then withdrawn.
            —John Pierpont		  22
  Gone as soon as a grain of corn thrown to an ant.
            —Plautus		  23
  Gone as an unreturning river.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  24
Like the dew on the mountain,
  Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
  Thou art gone, and forever.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  25
  Gone like the bloom upon the heather.
            —J. B. Selkirk		  26
  Gone, as they never had been.
            —Bayard Taylor		  27
  Gone like shadow when it declineth.
            —Old Testament		  28
Your early splendor’s gone
Like stars into a cloud withdrawn—
Like music laid asleep
In dried up fountains.
            —William Wallace		  29
  Gone, like the summer lightning’s gleam.
            —Frank Waters		  30
                Gone
As the fox-hunter follows the sound of the horn.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  31
  The red man has gone like the mist on the air.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  32
  Gone as a cloud faded into the sky.
            —William Butler Yeats		  33
 
 
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