Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Away
Away like a ghost at break of day.
—Robert Browning
Into the night away they go
Like a bolt that’s launched from a steel crossbow.
—Gottfried A. Bürger
Away like a glance of thought.
—Joseph Rodman Drake
Away, like wild pigeons startled in the wood.
—Euripides
Like two drops of dew
Exhaled to Phœbus’ lips, away they are gone.
—John Keats
They fall away like the flower on which the sun looks in his strength, after the mildew has passed over it, and its head is heavy with the drops of night.
—James Macpherson
Away, with never a look behind … like an eagle before the wind.
—George H. Miles
Away, like mists that flee from summer sea.
—Thomas Moore
Away, like mists when winds arise.
—T. Buchanan Read
Chased away as the vision of the night.
—Old Testament
Away as with a whirlwind.
—Old Testament