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

Flare

Flare
Like a spent lamp about to die.
—John Davidson

Flare like torches.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Flared like molten brass.
—James Montgomery

Flared, like Titan torches flinging flakes of flame and embers, springing from the dale.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Flares like an angered and storm-redding morn.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne