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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Sudden
 
  Sudden, like a Fate.
            —Thomas Bailey Aldrich		  1
  Sudden as an April shower.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Sudden as a meteor’s flight.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Sudden and swift as a raging cyclone.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Sudden as a sunbeam’s ray.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Sudden as a tidal wave on a summer sea.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Sudden as the babbling brook or robin’s whistle.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Sudden as the call of spring to buried flowers.
            —Anonymous		  8
  A sudden brightness, as when meteor swift opens the darkness.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Sudden, as creation burst from naught.
            —Thomas Campbell		  10
  Sudden as conscience.
            —Gilbert K. Chesterton		  11
  Sudden as the crack of rifle.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  12
  Sudden as kindling flames arise.
            —Walter Harte		  13
  Sudden as a snap.
            —Thomas Hood		  14
  Sudden as lightning.
            —Ben Jonson		  15
  Sudden sound as of a bowstring snapped in air.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  16
  Sudden as a stab.
            —James Russell Lowell		  17
  Sudden as Aphrodite from the sea.
            —George MacDonald		  18
  Sudden as the slapping of a wave.
            —Spencer Moore		  19
  A sudden flash, as from a sunlit jewel.
            —Lewis Morris		  20
Sudden like a pool that once gave back
Your image, but now drowns it and is clear
Again.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  21
  Sudden like a hamadryad before a dull fawn.
            —Henryk Sienkiewicz		  22
  Sudden as a flame.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  23
 
 
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