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

Instant

Instantly, like a bullet from the barrel.
—Anonymous

Emotion extinguished instantly, like a lighted match in a water-butt.
—Hermann Sudermann

Instant as a thought.
—N. P. Willis