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

Shun

Shun wickedness as swallows shun pestilent places.
—Saint Augustine

Shun him like the plague.
—Robert Browning

Shun her like garlic.
—Lord Byron

Shunned like a viper.
—Mathew Carey

Shunned like base praise and hireling’s mart.
—Aubrey De Vere

Shunn’d him as a sailor shuns the rocks.
—John Dryden

Shun as moles shun light.
—O. Henry

Shun him like the pest.
—Edward Sharpham

Shun as sullen night-ravens do the sun.
—Henry Vaughan

Shun, like a shattered bark, the storm.
—William Wordsworth