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

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Back … with the instinct of homing pigeons.
—Mary Austin

Backward as the wind sweeps flame.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Backward, like a witch’s prayers.
—Earl of Dorset

Like the pace of a crab, backward.
—Robert Greene

Backward like the long wash of a wave.
—Maurice Hewlett

Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Like a rope-maker’s were his ways, for still one line upon another he spun, and, like his hempen brother, kept going backwards all his days.
—Horace Smith

Slideth back as a backsliding heifer.
—Old Testament