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

Away

Away like a ghost at break of day.
—Robert Browning

Into the night away they go
Like a bolt that’s launched from a steel crossbow.
—Gottfried A. Bürger

Away like a glance of thought.
—Joseph Rodman Drake

Away, like wild pigeons startled in the wood.
—Euripides

Like two drops of dew
Exhaled to Phœbus’ lips, away they are gone.
—John Keats

They fall away like the flower on which the sun looks in his strength, after the mildew has passed over it, and its head is heavy with the drops of night.
—James Macpherson

Away, with never a look behind … like an eagle before the wind.
—George H. Miles

Away, like mists that flee from summer sea.
—Thomas Moore

Away, like mists when winds arise.
—T. Buchanan Read

Chased away as the vision of the night.
—Old Testament

Away as with a whirlwind.
—Old Testament