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

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

Driven


Driven as leaves in Autumn’s blast. —Edward Octavus Flagg	1
Driven, like flower-seeds by the four winds sown. —Fitz-Greene Halleck	2
Driven forth like a sky-rocket. —Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen	3
Headlong driven like clouds before the blast of heaven. —John Ruskin	4
Driven like chaff before the wind of heaven. —Sir Walter Scott	5
Driven, like the alternations of an ever-changing wind over an Æolean lyre, which move it by their motion to ever-changing melody. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	6
Driven … like leaves before the autumnal wind. —Robert Southey	7
Driven As foam before the wind that wakes With the all-awakening sun, and breaks Strong ships that rue the mirth it makes When grace to slay is given. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	8
Driven like starlets down the wind. —James. C. Woods	9