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

Scared

Scared like a wild bird flies.
—R. D. Blackmore

Scared, like to a man that with a ghost was marred.
—William Dunbar

Scared as a jack-rabbit that has heard the howl of a wolf.
—Alfred Henry Lewis

Scared look, like a bird’s driven right into the fowler’s nest.
—Dinah Maria Mulock