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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fleet
 
  Fleet as a falling star.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Fleet as a greyhound.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Fleet as Diana.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Fleet as kindled fire.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Fleeter than hawk that ever flew.
            —Edwin Arnold		  5
  Fleet is his foot as the wild roe-buck’s.
            —Charles Stuart Calverley		  6
  Fleet as the whirlwind.
            —Thomas Campbell		  7
  Flete as fleaynge cloudes that swymme before the syghte.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  8
  Fleet as leash-slipped greyhounds.
            —Dante		  9
Fleet as deer the Normans ran
Through Curlieu’s Pass and Ardrahan.
            —Thomas Osborne Davis		  10
  Fleet as fancy.
            —Charles Dibden, Jr.		  11
  Fleet as the swallow cuts the drift.
            —Joseph Rodman Drake		  12
  Fleets as a dream.
            —Elijah Fenton		  13
Fleet as the arrow from the bowstring flies,
Fleet as the eagle darting through the skies.
            —Firdausi		  14
                As fleet
As had they wings upon their feet.
            —Jacques Jasmin		  15
                Fleet,
As silver-sandalled Artemis.
            —Frances Anne Kemble		  16
  Fleet as wind.
            —Mahabharata		  17
  Fleet as the dew.
            —Philip B. Marston		  18
  Fleet as zephyr’s pinion.
            —Thomas Moore		  19
  Fleeter than the roe.
            —William Shakespeare		  20
  Fleeter than lightning’s flash.
            —Sophocles		  21
  Fleet as light.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  22
  Fleet as the lightning’s laugh.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  23
                Fleet
As words of men or snowflakes on the wind.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  24
  Fleet and slim as Atalanta.
            —Thomas Westwood		  25
  Fleet as shooting star.
            —Thomas Westwood		  26
  Fleet as the shadows.
            —William Wordsworth		  27
  Fleet as days and months and years.
            —William Wordsworth		  28
 
 
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