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

Haunt

Haunts like a knell.
—William Aytoun

Haunt us as eagles haunt the mountain air.
—Philip James Bailey

Your beauty haunts me like a fevered dream.
—Lady Dufferin

Haunts … like some sweet cadenced strain.
—George H. Ellwanger

Haunts the memory, like the wild imagings of a fevered nightmare.
—Robert W. Fraser

Haunted as a robber-path through wilderness of wood.
—Victor Hugo

Haunted … like a regret.
—Alphonse M. L. Lamartine

Haunts like a wild melody.
—Thomas Moore

Haunt … like an avenging fiend.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

Vex and haunt me like a tale of my own future destiny.
—Friedrich von Schiller

Haunt thee like a wicked conscience.
—William Shakespeare

Haunt one like a ghost.
—Edward Sharpham

Haunting like spectres.
—Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd

Haunted me like a passion.
—William Wordsworth