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

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

Flit


Flitted away like a bird on a wintry night. —Anonymous	1
Flit like a summer cloud. —Anonymous	2
Flitting like motes in the sunbeam. —John Brougham	3
Seasons flit before the mind as flit the snow-flakes in a winter storm, seen rather than distinguished. —William Cullen Bryant	4
Flittering here and there, like sunshine in the uneasy ocean-waves. —William Cullen Bryant	5
Flitted … fitfully as an April sunbeam. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton	6
Flitted like a spark. —Thomas Hood	7
Flit like a ghost away. —John Keats	8
Fancies flit, and wheel like butterflies on banks of thyme. —Andrew Lang	9
Flit like blown feathers. —Don Marquis	10
Flitting like a shadow of love. —Donald G. Mitchell	11
Flits, like a living flake of fire. —Samuel Minturn Peck	12
Flit over the brain like the ghosts of the dead. —Thomas Pringle	13
He flits like a bee. —Osmanli Proverb	14
Flit like a swallow that stoops to lave its burnished bosom in the wave. —T. Buchanan Read	15
Flit, Like spendor-winged moths about a taper. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	16
Flit, like life’s enjoyments, on rapid, rapid wing. —Caroline Southey	17
Flitted away like a kite wi’ a brokken string. —Alfred Tennyson	18
Flits like a sudden drift of snow against the dull grey sky. —Oscar Wilde	19