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

Destroy

Destroyed! like the flash of lightning.
—Max Müller

Destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or a worm that engendereth in the kernel of the nut.
—Sir Walter Raleigh