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

Fling

Fling … as a bird flings o’er his shivering plumes the fountain’s spray.
—William Cullen Bryant

Flung up like a fortress lifted by powder.
—George Meredith

Flung like vile carrion to the hound.
—Sir Walter Scott

Flung as foam from a ship’s swiftness.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley