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

Driven

Driven as leaves in Autumn’s blast.
—Edward Octavus Flagg

Driven, like flower-seeds by the four winds sown.
—Fitz-Greene Halleck

Driven forth like a sky-rocket.
—Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen

Headlong driven like clouds before the blast of heaven.
—John Ruskin

Driven like chaff before the wind of heaven.
—Sir Walter Scott

Driven, like the alternations of an ever-changing wind over an Æolean lyre, which move it by their motion to ever-changing melody.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Driven … like leaves before the autumnal wind.
—Robert Southey

Driven
As foam before the wind that wakes
With the all-awakening sun, and breaks
Strong ships that rue the mirth it makes
When grace to slay is given.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Driven like starlets down the wind.
—James. C. Woods