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

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

Stream


Streaming like feathers of a shuttlecock. —Ambrose Bierce	1
Branches stream like the dishevelled hair Of women in the sadness of despair. —William Cullen Bryant	2
Streamed o’er his memory like a forest’s flame. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	3
Streaming like a flag of battle. —George Meredith	4
Streamed like curtain-rents Fluttered by a wind. —George Meredith	5
Her locks streamed like the torch Borne by a racer at full speed, Or like the mane of horses in their flight Or like an angel when she stems the light Straight towards the sun, Or like a caged thing freed, Or like a flying flag when armies run. —Christina Georgina Rossetti	6
Stream like a comet’s flashing hair. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	7
Stream, like a sunset. —Frederick Tennyson	8