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

Fly


Each mysterious form, Flew like the pictures of a morning dream. —Mark Akenside	1
Flew along like a bird in a tempest. —Anonymous	2
Flies like antic shapes in dreams. —Anonymous	3
His arms flew like a windmill. —Anonymous	4
Flying, like blown flame. —Anonymous	5
Flies like chaff wide scattered by the wind. —Anonymous	6
Flew like feathered Mercury. —Anonymous	7
Flew like granado. —Anonymous	8
Words flew out of his mouth as shot out of a gatling gun. —Anonymous	9
Flew like a cloth-yard shaft from a bended yew. —Richard Harris Barham	10
Fly, like a yelping Cur with a Bottle at his Tail. —Colley Cibber	11
Fly as the leaves before the autumn tempest. —Colley Cibber	12
Fly as a bird on the wings of Night. —Arabian Nights	13
Fly like … the northern wind. —Francis Beaumont	14
Fly, like a full sail. —Beaumont and Fletcher	15
Fly like chaff before the wind. —James Boswell	16
Flying … like scatterings of dead leaves in autumn-gusts. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	17
Flew, as if he knew A frenzied wretch was on his back. —Eliza Cook	18
Fly as from the plague. —John Davies	19
Flies like a feather in the blast. —Joseph Rodman Drake	20
Away like a glance of thought he flew. —Joseph Rodman Drake	21
Flies like the nimble journeys of the light. —John Dryden	22
Fly like doves that the exalted eagle spies. —Richard Duke	23
Friends have flown, like leaves whirled away by the blast. —Mrs. E. Forrester	24
A headlong crowd is flying Like a billow that has broken and is shivered into spray. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	25
Fly Like the cannons that burst on the Fourth of July. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	26
Flew as in a dream. —Victor Hugo	27
Sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor. —Henry W. Longfellow	28
Flies like a bird unfettered from her cage. —Maria Lowell	29
Flew like sparks in burnt up paper. —James Russell Lowell	30
Fly as fast as Iris or Jove’s Mercury. —Christopher Marlowe	31
Fly as fast as the hare from the horn. —Brian Melbancke	32
Flown Like a smoke melted thinner than air, That the vacancy doth disown. —George Meredith	33
Flew around like the spray on a storm-driven deck. —Joaquin Miller	34
Flown, like morning clouds, a thousand ways. —James Montgomery	35
All flew like the down of a thistle. —Clement. C. Moore	36
Swiftly flew as glancing flame. —Thomas Moore	37
Flown are the days with their winged delights, as the odor is gone from the summer. —Louise Chandler Moulton	38
Flew like the swift and dazzling flight of gold-winged orioles. —Ouida	39
As before the pike will fly Dace and roach and such small fry; As the leaf before the gale, As the chaff beneath the flail, As before the wolf the flocks, As before the hounds the fox; As before the cat the mouse, As the rat from falling house; As the fiend before the spell Of holy water, book, and bell; As the ghost from dawning day. —Thomas L. Peacock	40
Some fly, like pendulums, from good to evil, And in that point are madder than the devil. —Christopher Pitt	41
He flies like a dog that has burnt his paw. —Osmanli Proverb	42
Flew as the spirit flies from the dead. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti	43
Fly like eagles which pursue their prey. —George Sandys	44
Flew at him, like the young hero Siegfried when he attacked the wild, long-bearded dwarf Alberich. —Joseph V. von Scheffel	45
Flown like the light clouds of a Summer’s day. —John Scott	46
Fly, like mist before the zephyr’s sigh. —Sir Walter Scott	47
Fly like chidden Mercury from Jove. —William Shakespeare	48
Like falcon to the lure, away she flies. —William Shakespeare	49
Fly like thought. —William Shakespeare	50
Like soldiers, when their captain once doth yield, They basely fly. —William Shakespeare	51
Like a flock of rooks at a farmer’s gun Night’s dreams and terrors, every one, Fled from the brains which are their prey. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	52
Flew like the wind. —John Skelton	53
Flew at him like an hellish fiend. —Edmund Spenser	54
Flew like a wyld gote. —Edmund Spenser	55
Fly, like scattered sheepe. —Edmund Spenser	56
Flew away as lightly as the wind. —Edmund Spenser	57
Flying fast as roebucke through the fen. —Edmund Spenser	58
Flie, as leapes the deere fled from the hunter’s face. —Earl of Stirling	59
Fly as if the devil drove. —Jonathan Swift	60
Flown as flies the blown foam’s feather. —Jonathan Swift	61
Fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. —Jonathan Swift	62
Fly away as a dream. —Jonathan Swift	63
Flew like a blossom blown about. —Walter Thornbury	64
Flown, Like birds from the nest when their wings have grown. —John T. Trowbridge	65
Fly, Like doves before the gathering storm. —George Sylvester Viereck	66
Flown, Like the morning-glory’s cup. —Amelia B. Welby	67
Fly like flower-seeds on the breeze. —N. P. Willis	68

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