Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Blown
Blown up like a tumor.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blowing like a blacksmith’s bellows.
—Victor Hugo
Blown like vapor on the summer air.
—Rossiter Johnson
Blowing like a grampus.
—Rudyard Kipling
Puffing and blowing like a porpoise.
—Samuel Lover
Blown like a leaf on the blast.
—John Boyle O’Reilly
Blown like leaves before the whirlwind’s fury fleeing.
—Bayard Taylor