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

Fleet

Fleet as a falling star.
—Anonymous

Fleet as a greyhound.
—Anonymous

Fleet as Diana.
—Anonymous

Fleet as kindled fire.
—Anonymous

Fleeter than hawk that ever flew.
—Edwin Arnold

Fleet is his foot as the wild roe-buck’s.
—Charles Stuart Calverley

Fleet as the whirlwind.
—Thomas Campbell

Flete as fleaynge cloudes that swymme before the syghte.
—Thomas Chatterton

Fleet as leash-slipped greyhounds.
—Dante

Fleet as deer the Normans ran
Through Curlieu’s Pass and Ardrahan.
—Thomas Osborne Davis

Fleet as fancy.
—Charles Dibden, Jr.

Fleet as the swallow cuts the drift.
—Joseph Rodman Drake

Fleets as a dream.
—Elijah Fenton

Fleet as the arrow from the bowstring flies,
Fleet as the eagle darting through the skies.
—Firdawsī

As fleet
As had they wings upon their feet.
—Jacques Jasmin

Fleet,
As silver-sandalled Artemis.
—Frances Anne Kemble

Fleet as wind.
—Mahabharata

Fleet as the dew.
—Philip B. Marston

Fleet as zephyr’s pinion.
—Thomas Moore

Fleeter than the roe.
—William Shakespeare

Fleeter than lightning’s flash.
—Sophocles

Fleet as light.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fleet as the lightning’s laugh.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fleet
As words of men or snowflakes on the wind.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fleet and slim as Atalanta.
—Thomas Westwood

Fleet as shooting star.
—Thomas Westwood

Fleet as the shadows.
—William Wordsworth

Fleet as days and months and years.
—William Wordsworth