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

Fire

Fire the devout, like cantharidian plasters.
—Robert Burns

Fired like a planet on its peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
—Alexander Pope

Fired, as by a spell.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley