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| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. |
| Quick |
| Quick as a flash. —Anonymous | 1 |
| Quick as an arrow. —Anonymous | 2 |
| Quick as a wink. —Anonymous | 3 |
| Quick as gunpowder. —Anonymous | 4 |
| Quick as the flash of a quail’s wing. —Anonymous | 5 |
| Quick as the twinkling of a bed-post. —Anonymous | 6 |
| Quick as you can say Jack Robinson. —Anonymous | 7 |
| Quick as hell can scorch a feather. —Anonymous | 8 |
| Quick as a stab. —J. M. Barrie | 9 |
| Quick as greased lightning. —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms | 10 |
| Quick, as a darted beam of light. —R. D. Blackmore | 11 |
| Quick as a fear. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 12 |
| Quick as finches in a blossomed tree. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 13 |
| Quick as thought. —Thomas Carew | 14 |
| Quick as an eyelid’s beat. —Guido Cavalcanti | 15 |
| Quick of scent as a vulture. —Richard Cumberland | 16 |
| Quick as a dart. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 17 |
| Change quick, like eyes that brighten. —Judah HaLevi | 18 |
| Quick as barrels popping at a bird. —George Meredith | 19 |
| Quick as torrents run. —George Meredith | 20 |
| Quick as wings. —George Meredith | 21 |
| Quick as an imp. —Ada Patterson | 22 |
| Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound’s mouth. —William Shakespeare | 23 |
| Fly as quick to Delia’s arms, as yonder halcyon skims the stream. —William Shenstone | 24 |
| Quick as the morning ray, or ev’ning beam. —William Thomson | 25 |
| Quick as the lightning’s flash. —Juan Valera y Alcalá Galiano Valera | 26 |
| Quick as light. —Henry Vaughan | 27 |
| Quick as thought. —Wit Restored | 28 |
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