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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Shoot
 
  Shot like a bullet from a gun.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  1
  Shot like a rabbit in a ride.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  2
  Shot, like meteors changed from stars to gleams of lightning.
            —James Montgomery		  3
  Shoot through the sparkling foam like an ocean-bird set free.
            —Epes Sargent		  4
  Shoots like a meteor through the storm.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  5
  Shoots, as a fire to smite some towering town.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  6
 
 
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