Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Flit
Flitted away like a bird on a wintry night.
—Anonymous
Flit like a summer cloud.
—Anonymous
Flitting like motes in the sunbeam.
—John Brougham
Seasons flit before the mind as flit the snow-flakes in a winter storm, seen rather than distinguished.
—William Cullen Bryant
Flittering here and there, like sunshine in the uneasy ocean-waves.
—William Cullen Bryant
Flitted … fitfully as an April sunbeam.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Flitted like a spark.
—Thomas Hood
Flit like a ghost away.
—John Keats
Fancies flit, and wheel like butterflies on banks of thyme.
—Andrew Lang
Flit like blown feathers.
—Don Marquis
Flitting like a shadow of love.
—Donald G. Mitchell
Flits, like a living flake of fire.
—Samuel Minturn Peck
Flit over the brain like the ghosts of the dead.
—Thomas Pringle
He flits like a bee.
—Osmanli Proverb
Flit like a swallow that stoops to lave its burnished bosom in the wave.
—T. Buchanan Read
Flit,
Like spendor-winged moths about a taper.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Flit, like life’s enjoyments, on rapid, rapid wing.
—Caroline Southey
Flitted away like a kite wi’ a brokken string.
—Alfred Tennyson
Flits like a sudden drift of snow against the dull grey sky.
—Oscar Wilde