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

Bound (Verb)

My heart bounds like an imprisoned bird against its wiry barrier.
—John Brougham

Bounds like deer from the hounds.
—Eliza Cook

Bounding like nymphs in vales of Arcady.
—William Hazlitt

Like an antelope he bounded.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Bounds, light as hind before the hound.
—Ambrose Philips

Bounded like a madman.
—Edgar Allan Poe

Bound like a stoned horse.
—James Shirley

My pulses bound like a stag at play.
—John Sterling

Like a greyhound when slipped from the leash, he bounded.
—Bayard Taylor