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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
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  Start like sparkles from a fire.
            —George Chapman		  1
  Start as from some dreadful dream.
            —John Dryden		  2
  Starting as at the sight of an enemy.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  3
  Start, like a frightened roe.
            —Sir William Schwenk Gilbert		  4
  I started as one startles from a dream.
            —Josiah Gilbert Holland		  5
  Starts like a ghost.
            —Thomas Hood		  6
  Start like lightning greased.
            —Thomas Hood		  7
  Start as flames from ashes.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  8
  Start and quiver, as when some ignorant hand touches the barb hid in a long healed wound.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  9
  Started, like a greyhound from the slips when the sportsman cries halloo.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  10
  Starts, like one that spies an adder.
            —William Shakespeare		  11
  Start like a shying horse.
            —August Strindberg		  12
  Started like a guilty thing.
            —Mrs.
            —Trollope		  13
  She starts like a sleeper who wakes from dreaming.
            —Ella Wheeler Wilcox		  14
 
 
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