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

Mob

The mob, like the ocean, is very seldom agitated without some cause superior and exterior to itself; but … both are capable of doing the greatest mischief after the cause which first set them in motion has ceased to act.
—C. C. Colton