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

Dart

Darted like an eagle.
—Aneurin

Darted … like an arrow aflame.
—Joseph Conrad

Darted like a skimming bird.
—Joseph Conrad

Darted away like a bird that has been fluttering around its nest before it takes a distant flight.
—James Fenimore Cooper

Darting skyward like a rocket.
—Charles Dickens

Darted like a serpent.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Darting like glittering elves at play.
—Mary M. Fenollosa

Darting like a flashing flame.
—Firdawsī

The ravenous shark, darting, like a spectre, through the blue waters.
—Washington Irving

Dart like a rifle-bullet.
—Rudyard Kipling

Darts on like a greyhound whelp after a leveret.
—Walter Savage Landor

Dart like swallows.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Darted like a flight of hawks.
—Ouida

Dart o’er stock and stone like hunted hart.
—Sir Walter Scott

Their influence darts
Like subtle poison through the bloodless veins of desolate society.
—William Shakespeare

Dart around, as light from the meridian sun.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Darts, like a javelin, to his destin’d goal.
—Christopher Smart

Darts, like lichtnin’ flashin’.
—James Smith

Darted away like a telegram.
—Mark Twain