Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Run
Run from it as a mendicant friar from an alms.
—Thomas Adams
Running like a high sea.
—Anonymous
Running like a lapwing.
—Anonymous
Ran like a madman.
—Anonymous
Run like a millrace.
—Anonymous
Runs like a spout.
—Anonymous
Run like fire through stubble.
—Anonymous
Run like the devil.
—Anonymous
Running like the Devil’s mill.
—Anonymous
Run like the east wind.
—Anonymous
Running things into the ground, like a dog after the hare.
—Anonymous
Run like wildfire.
—Anonymous
Run like winking.
—Anonymous
Runs … as the surge of health returning to the sick.
—Arabian Nights
Runne like a fountayne free.
—English Ballad
Running as if they had hot coals in their shoes.
—Björnstjerne Björnson
Just as a wheel, that’s running down a hill
Which has no bottom, must keep running still.
—John Byrom
I ran like the drift on the ice low curled
When the winds of Yule are abroad on the world.
—Bliss Carman
Ran like hell-hounds.
—Hamlin Garland
Ran … as a wolfe, that taketh his praye.
—John Gower
Running like a hunted deer.
—Thomas Hood
Run like fire in summer furze.
—George Meredith
Runs like the prey of the forest.
—George Meredith
Ran, as in the terror of a dream.
—James Montgomery
Ran like a shiver.
—Max Nordau
Run like water off a duck’s back.
—Ray (Collectanea)
Running like a leaping wave.
—Edward R. Sill
Ran,
Like scatt’red chaffe, the which the wind away doth fan.
—Edmund Spenser
Run ravening as the Gadarean swine.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Run like oil.
—Old Testament
Run like the lightnings.
—Old Testament