Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Scatter
Scatters them like a shot in a preserve.
—Anonymous
Scattered like the bones of dead bodies torn from one another by wolves after the battle.
—Anonymous
Scattered like chaff before the wind.
—Anonymous
Scattered like a flock.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Scattered with as little premeditation as the birds scattered their songs.
—Bliss Carman
The people I love most are scattered as the sands of the dry river beds fly before the fall hurricane.
—James Fenimore Cooper
Scattered like foam along the wave.
—George Croly
Like the Jews, scattered.
—Thomas Dekker
Scattered like mown and withered grass.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Scatter like smoke.
—Maurice Hewlett
Scattered all along, like emptied seashells on the sand.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Scattered …
As leaves when wild winds blow.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
She scatters the spray as the chaff in the stroke of the flail.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Scattered like a mad sea.
—Alphonse M. L. Lamartine
Scattering drops like beads of wampum.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Scattered were they, like flakes of snow.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Scattered wide
Like silt and seaweed by the force and fluctuations of the tide.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Scattered, like treasures of the lost Hesperides.
—Adelaide A. Procter
Scatter … as if they had been balloons in a wind.
—George Meredith
Scattered … like loose spray before the wind.
—George Meredith
They scattered like a brood of partridges.
—Osmanli Proverb
Scattering, like hope through fear.
—Richard Savage
Scattered like foam on the torrent.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Like a glow-worm golden
In a dell of dew,
Scattering unbeholden
Its aërial hue
Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Scattered, like a cloud of summer dust.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Like sheep from the wolf, scattering.
—Robert Southey
Scattered them as crows.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Scatter as wild swans parting adrift on the wan green waste.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Scatters as leaves blown down the wind.
—Arthur Symons
Scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
—New Testament
Scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
—Old Testament
Scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
—Old Testament
Scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd.
—Old Testament
Scatter like quicksilver.
—John Webster
Scattered like dust before the storm.
—Ludwig Uhland
Scattered … like chaff before the winnower’s fan.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Scattered like the chaff blown from the threshing-floor of God.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Scattering, like birds escaped the fowler’s net.
—William Wordsworth