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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Run
 
  Run from it as a mendicant friar from an alms.
            —Thomas Adams		  1
  Running like a high sea.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Running like a lapwing.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Ran like a madman.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Run like a millrace.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Runs like a spout.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Run like fire through stubble.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Run like the devil.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Running like the Devil’s mill.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Run like the east wind.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Running things into the ground, like a dog after the hare.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Run like wildfire.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Run like winking.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Runs … as the surge of health returning to the sick.
            —Arabian Nights		  14
  Runne like a fountayne free.
            —English Ballad		  15
  Running as if they had hot coals in their shoes.
            —Björnstjerne Björnson		  16
Just as a wheel, that’s running down a hill
Which has no bottom, must keep running still.
            —John Byrom		  17
I ran like the drift on the ice low curled
When the winds of Yule are abroad on the world.
            —Bliss Carman		  18
  Ran like hell-hounds.
            —Hamlin Garland		  19
  Ran … as a wolfe, that taketh his praye.
            —John Gower		  20
  Running like a hunted deer.
            —Thomas Hood		  21
  Run like fire in summer furze.
            —George Meredith		  22
  Runs like the prey of the forest.
            —George Meredith		  23
  Ran, as in the terror of a dream.
            —James Montgomery		  24
  Ran like a shiver.
            —Max Nordau		  25
  Run like water off a duck’s back.
            —Ray (Collectanea)		  26
  Running like a leaping wave.
            —Edward R. Sill		  27
                Ran,
Like scatt’red chaffe, the which the wind away doth fan.
            —Edmund Spenser		  28
  Run ravening as the Gadarean swine.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  29
  Run like oil.
            —Old Testament		  30
  Run like the lightnings.
            —Old Testament		  31
 
 
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