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

Slay

Slay like thunderbolts.
—Anonymous

Slay, as folk that nae defence might ma.
—John Barbour

Slays like lightning.
—George Eliot

Slays as plague’s blind breath.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne