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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Rock
 
  Rocked like a leaf.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Rocked like a ship at sea.
            —Anonymous		  2
  The earth rocking as a ship borne over the waves.
            —Samuel Beal		  3
            The burning phrase
Rocked on like ocean’s tidal swell.
            —Lord De Tabley		  4
  Rock’d like Yankee in his chair.
            —Thomas Hood		  5
  Rocking like the stately lilies beneath the stately sky.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  6
  Like sea-birds in the sunny main, rock idly.
            —Robert Southey		  7
  Rocked like a mass of jelly that has been invisibly shaken.
            —Hermann Sudermann		  8
  Head was on her breast, rock’d like a nautilus in calm mid-ocean.
            —N. P. Willis		  9
 
 
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