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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Flash (Verb)
 
  Flashes like cut glass.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Flash like stars.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Eyes flashing, like shooting thunderbolts.
            —Philip James Bailey		  3
  Flashing, like a newly-awakened flame.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  4
  Flashed like the spray of a fountain.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  5
  Flashing like a steel blade.
            —Georg M. Brandes		  6
  Flash’d like a jewel.
            —Robert Bridges (English)		  7
  Flash like a rocket.
            —Charles Stuart Calverley		  8
  Flashing … like scimitar from its sheath.
            —Paul Laurence Dunbar		  9
  Flashes … like a revelation.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  10
Flashed like dazzling arrow tipped
With amorous heat.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  11
  Flashes like the shining soul of a jest.
            —William Ernest Henley		  12
  Flash like a heliograph.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  13
  Flashing like a scythe.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  14
  Flashed like a falchion from its sheath.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  15
  Flashed, like a sabre in the sun.
            —Thomas Moore		  16
  Flash like golden fire-flakes from the sky.
            —Wilhelm Müller		  17
  Flashing like thought.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  18
                Flashed …
Like a red-hot eye from a grave.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  19
  Flashing like fire-flies.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  20
  Flash like a steel blade tipped with fire.
            —Francis S. Saltus		  21
  Flashing like a fiery stream.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  22
  Flashed like a strong inspiration.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  23
  Like a mirror sparkling to the sun with dazzling splendor, flashed.
            —Robert Southey		  24
Her Eies did flash out fiery light,
Like coles that through a silver censer sparkle bright.
            —Edmund Spenser		  25
                Flash and toss
Like plumes in battle’s blithest charge.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  26
 
 
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