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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Flee
 
  Flee like desires.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  1
  Flee like a shamed child.
            —Richard Monckton Milnes		  2
  Flee like a dream’s dim imagery.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  3
  Flee, like mist from the tempest’s might.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  4
                Flee
As clouds and winds and rays across the sea.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  5
  Flee as a bird to your mountain.
            —Old Testament		  6
  Flee, as fleeing from a sword.
            —Old Testament		  7
  Fleeth also as a shadow.
            —Old Testament		  8
  Flee as the air.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  9
  Fleeing like the rose of an Arctic night.
            —George E. Woodberry		  10
 
 
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