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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Follow
 
Follow the track of blood …
Like to some hound that hunts a wounded fawn.
            —Æschylus		  1
  Follow like a flock of sheep.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Follow … like geese on a common.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Follow one like Anthony’s pig.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Followed fate as an Irishman a wheelbarrow.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Follows like a shadow.
            —Anonymous		  6
Followed faithfully
As if ’twere his shadow.
            —Edwin Arnold		  7
  Follow’d her desire, as sunlight tracks the shadow of a cloud.
            —Thomas Ashe		  8
I be bounde to followe it,
As the carpenter his ruler.
            —English Ballad		  9
  Follow one another like ducks in a gutter.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  10
  The jackals of the desert follow their prey in families, like the place-hunters of Europe.
            —John Bright		  11
  Followed like a comet-tail.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  12
  Followed like a child after the Pied Piper.
            —O. Henry		  13
  Follow each other, like surge upon surge.
            —William Knox		  14
  Misfortune follows him like a faithful hound.
            —Stephen Phillips		  15
  Follow, as the night the day.
            —William Shakespeare		  16
  Followed … like one drawn by a charm.
            —Edward R. Sill		  17
  Youth follows life, as bees the honeybell.
            —Bayard Taylor		  18
                Will follow thee,
As the ripple follows the bark at sea.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  19
  Like geese each other follow.
            —George Withers		  20
 
 
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