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