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

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

Swarm


Swarmed like an ant-hill. —Anonymous	1
Swarmed like bees. —Anonymous	2
Swarming after, as a tail follows a comet. —Anonymous	3
As wasps, provok’d by children in their play, Pour from their mansions by the broad high-way, In swarms the guiltless traveller engage, Whet all their stings, and call forth all their rage: All rise in arms, and with a gen’ral cry Assert their waxen domes, and buzzing progeny. Thus from the tents the fervent legion swarms, So loud their clamours, and so keen their arms. —Homer (Pope)	4
Place swarmed like a fair. —Friedrich von Schiller	5