Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Flash (Verb)
Flashes like cut glass.
—Anonymous
Flash like stars.
—Anonymous
Eyes flashing, like shooting thunderbolts.
—Philip James Bailey
Flashing, like a newly-awakened flame.
—R. D. Blackmore
Flashed like the spray of a fountain.
—R. D. Blackmore
Flashing like a steel blade.
—Georg M. Brandes
Flash’d like a jewel.
—Robert Bridges (English)
Flash like a rocket.
—Charles Stuart Calverley
Flashing … like scimitar from its sheath.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar
Flashes … like a revelation.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne
Flashed like dazzling arrow tipped
With amorous heat.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne
Flashes like the shining soul of a jest.
—William Ernest Henley
Flash like a heliograph.
—Rudyard Kipling
Flashing like a scythe.
—Richard Le Gallienne
Flashed like a falchion from its sheath.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Flashed, like a sabre in the sun.
—Thomas Moore
Flash like golden fire-flakes from the sky.
—Wilhelm Müller
Flashing like thought.
—Dinah Maria Mulock
Flashed …
Like a red-hot eye from a grave.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Flashing like fire-flies.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Flash like a steel blade tipped with fire.
—Francis S. Saltus
Flashing like a fiery stream.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Flashed like a strong inspiration.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Like a mirror sparkling to the sun with dazzling splendor, flashed.
—Robert Southey
Her Eies did flash out fiery light,
Like coles that through a silver censer sparkle bright.
—Edmund Spenser
Flash and toss
Like plumes in battle’s blithest charge.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne