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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Scatter
 
  Scatters them like a shot in a preserve.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Scattered like the bones of dead bodies torn from one another by wolves after the battle.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Scattered like chaff before the wind.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Scattered like a flock.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  4
  Scattered with as little premeditation as the birds scattered their songs.
            —Bliss Carman		  5
  The people I love most are scattered as the sands of the dry river beds fly before the fall hurricane.
            —James Fenimore Cooper		  6
  Scattered like foam along the wave.
            —George Croly		  7
  Like the Jews, scattered.
            —Thomas Dekker		  8
  Scattered like mown and withered grass.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  9
  Scatter like smoke.
            —Maurice Hewlett		  10
  Scattered all along, like emptied seashells on the sand.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  11
            Scattered …
As leaves when wild winds blow.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  12
  She scatters the spray as the chaff in the stroke of the flail.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  13
  Scattered like a mad sea.
            —Alphonse M. L. Lamartine		  14
  Scattering drops like beads of wampum.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  15
  Scattered were they, like flakes of snow.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  16
                Scattered wide
Like silt and seaweed by the force and fluctuations of the tide.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  17
  Scattered, like treasures of the lost Hesperides.
            —Adelaide A. Procter		  18
  Scatter … as if they had been balloons in a wind.
            —George Meredith		  19
  Scattered … like loose spray before the wind.
            —George Meredith		  20
  They scattered like a brood of partridges.
            —Osmanli Proverb		  21
  Scattering, like hope through fear.
            —Richard Savage		  22
  Scattered like foam on the torrent.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  23
        Like a glow-worm golden
          In a dell of dew,
        Scattering unbeholden
          Its aërial hue
Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  24
  Scattered, like a cloud of summer dust.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  25
  Like sheep from the wolf, scattering.
            —Robert Southey		  26
  Scattered them as crows.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  27
  Scatter as wild swans parting adrift on the wan green waste.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  28
  Scatters as leaves blown down the wind.
            —Arthur Symons		  29
  Scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
            —New Testament		  30
  Scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
            —Old Testament		  31
  Scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
            —Old Testament		  32
  Scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd.
            —Old Testament		  33
  Scatter like quicksilver.
            —John Webster		  34
  Scattered like dust before the storm.
            —Ludwig Uhland		  35
  Scattered … like chaff before the winnower’s fan.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  36
  Scattered like the chaff blown from the threshing-floor of God.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  37
  Scattering, like birds escaped the fowler’s net.
            —William Wordsworth		  38
 
 
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