Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Flash (Verb)

Flashes like cut glass.
—Anonymous

Flash like stars.
—Anonymous

Eyes flashing, like shooting thunderbolts.
—Philip James Bailey

Flashing, like a newly-awakened flame.
—R. D. Blackmore

Flashed like the spray of a fountain.
—R. D. Blackmore

Flashing like a steel blade.
—Georg M. Brandes

Flash’d like a jewel.
—Robert Bridges (English)

Flash like a rocket.
—Charles Stuart Calverley

Flashing … like scimitar from its sheath.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar

Flashes … like a revelation.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne

Flashed like dazzling arrow tipped
With amorous heat.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne

Flashes like the shining soul of a jest.
—William Ernest Henley

Flash like a heliograph.
—Rudyard Kipling

Flashing like a scythe.
—Richard Le Gallienne

Flashed like a falchion from its sheath.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Flashed, like a sabre in the sun.
—Thomas Moore

Flash like golden fire-flakes from the sky.
—Wilhelm Müller

Flashing like thought.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

Flashed …
Like a red-hot eye from a grave.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Flashing like fire-flies.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Flash like a steel blade tipped with fire.
—Francis S. Saltus

Flashing like a fiery stream.
—Friedrich von Schiller

Flashed like a strong inspiration.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Like a mirror sparkling to the sun with dazzling splendor, flashed.
—Robert Southey

Her Eies did flash out fiery light,
Like coles that through a silver censer sparkle bright.
—Edmund Spenser

Flash and toss
Like plumes in battle’s blithest charge.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne