Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Soar
Soars like a bird on the wing.
—Anonymous
Soars like a cloud.
—Anonymous
Soars like smoke.
—Euripides
Soaring like pride.
—Julia Ward Howe
The burthened heart should soar in mirth like Morn’s young prophet-lark.
—Gerald Massey
Soars like a seraph.
—Owen Meredith
Up, like a kite made of foolscap, it shall soar, with a long tail of rubbish behind, to the skies.
—Thomas Moore
Soar like white-winged sea-birds into the Infinite Deep.
—Dinah Maria Mulock
Soars, like a wild bird from a cypress bough, into the poets’ heaven.
—Mrs.
—Norton
Soared like incense to the skies.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
My fancy soars like a kite and faints in the blue infinite.
—Robert Louis Stevenson