Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Run

Run from it as a mendicant friar from an alms.
—Thomas Adams

Running like a high sea.
—Anonymous

Running like a lapwing.
—Anonymous

Ran like a madman.
—Anonymous

Run like a millrace.
—Anonymous

Runs like a spout.
—Anonymous

Run like fire through stubble.
—Anonymous

Run like the devil.
—Anonymous

Running like the Devil’s mill.
—Anonymous

Run like the east wind.
—Anonymous

Running things into the ground, like a dog after the hare.
—Anonymous

Run like wildfire.
—Anonymous

Run like winking.
—Anonymous

Runs … as the surge of health returning to the sick.
—Arabian Nights

Runne like a fountayne free.
—English Ballad

Running as if they had hot coals in their shoes.
—Björnstjerne Björnson

Just as a wheel, that’s running down a hill
Which has no bottom, must keep running still.
—John Byrom

I ran like the drift on the ice low curled
When the winds of Yule are abroad on the world.
—Bliss Carman

Ran like hell-hounds.
—Hamlin Garland

Ran … as a wolfe, that taketh his praye.
—John Gower

Running like a hunted deer.
—Thomas Hood

Run like fire in summer furze.
—George Meredith

Runs like the prey of the forest.
—George Meredith

Ran, as in the terror of a dream.
—James Montgomery

Ran like a shiver.
—Max Nordau

Run like water off a duck’s back.
—Ray (Collectanea)

Running like a leaping wave.
—Edward R. Sill

Ran,
Like scatt’red chaffe, the which the wind away doth fan.
—Edmund Spenser

Run ravening as the Gadarean swine.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Run like oil.
—Old Testament

Run like the lightnings.
—Old Testament