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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Behind
 
His tail extended all the while
Behind him like a rat-tail file.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  1
  See behind, as doth the hunted hare.
            —John Keats		  2
  Always behind, like a donkey’s tail.
            —English Proverb		  3
 
 
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