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

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

Dart


Darted like an eagle. —Aneurin	1
Darted … like an arrow aflame. —Joseph Conrad	2
Darted like a skimming bird. —Joseph Conrad	3
Darted away like a bird that has been fluttering around its nest before it takes a distant flight. —James Fenimore Cooper	4
Darting skyward like a rocket. —Charles Dickens	5
Darted like a serpent. —Alexandre Dumas, père	6
Darting like glittering elves at play. —Mary M. Fenollosa	7
Darting like a flashing flame. —Firdausi	8
The ravenous shark, darting, like a spectre, through the blue waters. —Washington Irving	9
Dart like a rifle-bullet. —Rudyard Kipling	10
Darts on like a greyhound whelp after a leveret. —Walter Savage Landor	11
Dart like swallows. —Henry W. Longfellow	12
Darted like a flight of hawks. —Ouida	13
Dart o’er stock and stone like hunted hart. —Sir Walter Scott	14
Their influence darts Like subtle poison through the bloodless veins of desolate society. —William Shakespeare	15
Dart around, as light from the meridian sun. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	16
Darts, like a javelin, to his destin’d goal. —Christopher Smart	17
Darts, like lichtnin’ flashin’. —James Smith	18
Darted away like a telegram. —Mark Twain	19