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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Reel
 
  Reeling as a clubbed man reels before he collapses.
            —Joseph Conrad		  1
  Reel like masts on ocean’s swell.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  2
  Reeling, to and fro, like a reed.
            —Victor Hugo		  3
  He reels like a ship that has met with waves raised by the southeast wind.
            —Osmanli Proverb		  4
  Reel like a leaf that’s drawn to a water-wheel.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  5
  Reels as any reed under the wind.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  6
                Reeled
As waves wind-thwarted on the sea.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  7
  Reels like a falling cedar.
            —Torquato Tasso		  8
Reels, as the golden Autumn woodland reels
Athwart the smoke of burning weeds.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  9
  Reel to and fro and stagger like a drunkard.
            —Old Testament		  10
 
 
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