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

Stagger

Staggered away as a defeated man staggers away from the field of battle.
—Joseph Conrad

Staggered … like a child that is just allowed to go alone.
—Victor Hugo

Staggers, like a sinking mast.
—Victor Hugo

Staggering like a quivering aspen leaf.
—Christopher Marlowe

Staggers like a starveling cripple.
—Donald G. Mitchell

Like an old oke, whose pith and sap is seare,
At puffe of every storm doth stagger.
—Edmund Spenser

Stagger like a drunken man.
—Old Testament

Staggering … like tiplers answering Father Mathew’s call.
—John Greenleaf Whittier