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

Flit

Flitted away like a bird on a wintry night.
—Anonymous

Flit like a summer cloud.
—Anonymous

Flitting like motes in the sunbeam.
—John Brougham

Seasons flit before the mind as flit the snow-flakes in a winter storm, seen rather than distinguished.
—William Cullen Bryant

Flittering here and there, like sunshine in the uneasy ocean-waves.
—William Cullen Bryant

Flitted … fitfully as an April sunbeam.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Flitted like a spark.
—Thomas Hood

Flit like a ghost away.
—John Keats

Fancies flit, and wheel like butterflies on banks of thyme.
—Andrew Lang

Flit like blown feathers.
—Don Marquis

Flitting like a shadow of love.
—Donald G. Mitchell

Flits, like a living flake of fire.
—Samuel Minturn Peck

Flit over the brain like the ghosts of the dead.
—Thomas Pringle

He flits like a bee.
—Osmanli Proverb

Flit like a swallow that stoops to lave its burnished bosom in the wave.
—T. Buchanan Read

Flit,
Like spendor-winged moths about a taper.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Flit, like life’s enjoyments, on rapid, rapid wing.
—Caroline Southey

Flitted away like a kite wi’ a brokken string.
—Alfred Tennyson

Flits like a sudden drift of snow against the dull grey sky.
—Oscar Wilde