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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fling
 
  Fling … as a bird flings o’er his shivering plumes the fountain’s spray.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  1
  Flung up like a fortress lifted by powder.
            —George Meredith		  2
  Flung like vile carrion to the hound.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  3
  Flung as foam from a ship’s swiftness.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  4
 
 
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