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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Scared
 
  Scared like a wild bird flies.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  1
  Scared, like to a man that with a ghost was marred.
            —William Dunbar		  2
  Scared as a jack-rabbit that has heard the howl of a wolf.
            —Alfred Henry Lewis		  3
  Scared look, like a bird’s driven right into the fowler’s nest.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  4
 
 
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