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

Follow

Follow the track of blood …
Like to some hound that hunts a wounded fawn.
—Æschylus

Follow like a flock of sheep.
—Anonymous

Follow … like geese on a common.
—Anonymous

Follow one like Anthony’s pig.
—Anonymous

Followed fate as an Irishman a wheelbarrow.
—Anonymous

Follows like a shadow.
—Anonymous

Followed faithfully
As if ’twere his shadow.
—Edwin Arnold

Follow’d her desire, as sunlight tracks the shadow of a cloud.
—Thomas Ashe

I be bounde to followe it,
As the carpenter his ruler.
—English Ballad

Follow one another like ducks in a gutter.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

The jackals of the desert follow their prey in families, like the place-hunters of Europe.
—John Bright

Followed like a comet-tail.
—Thomas Carlyle

Followed like a child after the Pied Piper.
—O. Henry

Follow each other, like surge upon surge.
—William Knox

Misfortune follows him like a faithful hound.
—Stephen Phillips

Follow, as the night the day.
—William Shakespeare

Followed … like one drawn by a charm.
—Edward R. Sill

Youth follows life, as bees the honeybell.
—Bayard Taylor

Will follow thee,
As the ripple follows the bark at sea.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Like geese each other follow.
—George Withers