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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fled
 
  The tyrant from our shore, like a forbidden demon, fled.
            —Mark Akenside		  1
  Fled, like the raven from the bird of Jove.
            —Mark Akenside		  2
  Fled like leaves on the gale.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Fled, like rats from a sinking ship.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Sorrow fled on fleeting pinions, like the icy breath of winter that spring zephyrs waft away.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Fly around like a bat in the twilight.
            —Björnstjerne Björnson		  6
  Fled from his thoughts like a sickly dream.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  7
  Like a passing thought, she fled.
            —Robert Burns		  8
  Fled like frighted doos.
            —Robert Burns		  9
  Fled like crows when they smell powder.
            —Samuel Butler		  10
  Fled like a dream.
            —William Cowper		  11
  Each quiet day has fled like the same moth, returning with slow wing, and pausing in the sunshine.
            —George Eliot		  12
  Like murder, chas’d by conscience, fled.
            —Ebenezer Elliott		  13
  Fled like the flood’s foam.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  14
  Fled as soon as fleet the violets.
            —Haroma		  15
  Fled like a felon.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  16
  Fled like a Parthian.
            —Victor Hugo		  17
  Fled like a dusky cloud.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  18
  Fled like the mist of Cona.
            —James Macpherson		  19
  Fled, as the dawn clouds flee before the sun.
            —John Payne		  20
  Fled like shadows.
            —Petrarch		  21
  Fled, as fogs disperse before the god of day.
            —Charles Reade		  22
  Fled like a mist before the radiant day.
            —Earl of Roscommon		  23
  Fled at will, as in a wingèd chariot.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  24
                Fled
Like insect tribes before the northern gale.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  25
                Fled,
Like the brief glory which dark Heaven inherits
From the false dawn, which fades ere it is spread
Upon the night’s devouring darkness.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  26
                Fled
Like vultures frightened from Imus
Before an earthquake’s tread.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  27
  Fledde like a beest.
            —John Skelton		  28
  Like spectres from the sight of morning, fled.
            —Robert Southey		  29
  Fled like a glittering rivulet to the tarn.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  30
  As flies the shadow of a bird, she fled.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  31
  My best years have fled away, like dreams, or like a minstrel’s lay.
            —Walter von der Vogelweide		  32
  Fled away like a dream.
            —John Wesley		  33
  Fled like a flash of light.
            —Ella Wheeler Wilcox		  34
  Fled, as time will in a dream.
            —N. P. Willis		  35
  Fled as fast as doth the haunted fawn.
            —William Wordsworth		  36
                Fled
Like vapour, like a towering cloud, dissolved.
            —William Wordsworth		  37
 
 
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