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

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

Speed


Sped, like a phantom. —P. D. Gray	1
Sped like meteors through the sky. —Lord Byron	2
Like a shaft dismissed I sped away. —Richard Garnett	3
Speeding … like an arrow. —Thomas Hardy	4
Sped like plagues and pestilences. —Robert Jephson	5
Speeds from the earth like a bird on the wing. —William Knox	6
He sped as speeds the wind. —Lewis Morris	7
Speed, like yellow leaves before the gale When Autumn winds are strongest. —Thomas L. Peacock	8
Speeds like the horseman who travels in haste. —Thomas Pringle	9
As a swallow chases the summer, we sped. —T. Buchanan Read	10
Sped, like some swift cloud that wings the wide air’s wilderness. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	11