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

Escape

’Scape as did Arion on the Dolphin’s back.
—Thomas Heywood

My soul escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
—Old Testament