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

Shoot

Shot like a bullet from a gun.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Shot like a rabbit in a ride.
—Rudyard Kipling

Shot, like meteors changed from stars to gleams of lightning.
—James Montgomery

Shoot through the sparkling foam like an ocean-bird set free.
—Epes Sargent

Shoots like a meteor through the storm.
—Sir Walter Scott

Shoots, as a fire to smite some towering town.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne