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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Spread
 
  Spread out like a circus parade.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Spreads like an inflammation.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Spreads like ivy.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Spreads like gossip.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Spreads like honeysuckle in Virginia.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Spreads like a lie.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Spread like a rushing torrent.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Spreads like measles in a country school.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Spread like a drop of oil on a pool.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Spread like a cinder shower from Vesuvius.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Spreads … like the great voice of the sea.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  11
  Spread like fingers.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  12
  Spreads like fire.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  13
  Spreading his hands and all of his fingers, like the threads of a spider’s web.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  14
  Spread like wild-geese.
            —George Chapman		  15
  The conflagration spread like a flaming garland.
            —René de François Chateaubriand		  16
  Spread like fire among stubble.
            —Sanford Cox		  17
  Spreads like a memory.
            —Giosuè Carducci		  18
  Spread like fog.
            —John Dryden		  19
  An innumerable crowd spread like a black robe over the shore.
            —Hamlin Garland		  20
  Roots … spreading like huge creeping snakes over the surface of the evil.
            —Ernst H. Haeckel		  21
  Spread, like distant morning in the skies.
            —John Hughes		  22
  Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.
            —Madame de Lespinasse		  23
  The fancy of this exclusion spread immediately, like a gangrene, over the whole body of the monarchy.
            —Sir Roger L’Estrange		  24
  Spreads like a snow-ball.
            —William J. Locke		  25
  Spread like an ocean.
            —Edward Lovibond		  26
  Spreading like a mighty flock of sheep.
            —Walter Malone		  27
  Spread out, wide as the width of mind.
            —Lewis Morris		  28
  Spreads like a surface.
            —John Pomfret		  29
  Spread like wildfire.
            —Ray (Collectanea)		  30
  Spread like a contagion.
            —Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart		  31
As the delicate rose
To the sun’s sweet strength
Doth herself unclose,
Breadth and length;
So spreads my heart to thee.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  32
  Silence spread … like water that a pebble stirs.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  33
  Spreads like scandal after a sewing bee.
            —William Sage		  34
  Spread like evil ulcers.
            —Seneca		  35
  Spread like a quenchless fire.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  36
                Spread
Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded morn.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  37
  Spreads, like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.
            —Robert Southey		  38
  Her rich locks spread like sunbeams on the wind.
            —Torquato Tasso		  39
  Spread … abroad as the four winds of heaven.
            —Old Testament		  40
  As the valleys are they spread forth.
            —Old Testament		  41
  Spreading himself like a green bay tree.
            —Old Testament		  42
  Spread like a halo round a misty moon.
            —William Wordsworth		  43
  Spread like a sea.
            —William Wordsworth		  44
  Spread like plagues.
            —William Wordsworth		  45
  Spread like day.
            —William Wordsworth		  46
  The slaughter spread like flame.
            —William Wordsworth		  47
 
 
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