Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Soar

Soars like a bird on the wing.
—Anonymous

Soars like a cloud.
—Anonymous

Soars like smoke.
—Euripides

Soaring like pride.
—Julia Ward Howe

The burthened heart should soar in mirth like Morn’s young prophet-lark.
—Gerald Massey

Soars like a seraph.
—Owen Meredith

Up, like a kite made of foolscap, it shall soar, with a long tail of rubbish behind, to the skies.
—Thomas Moore

Soar like white-winged sea-birds into the Infinite Deep.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

Soars, like a wild bird from a cypress bough, into the poets’ heaven.
—Mrs.
—Norton

Soared like incense to the skies.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

My fancy soars like a kite and faints in the blue infinite.
—Robert Louis Stevenson