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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Stir
 
  Stirs the blood like trumpet-blast.
            —William Archer		  1
  Stirr’d, like a clarion-blast.
            —Matthew Arnold		  2
  Stirred her soul like organ music.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  3
  Stirring like the sight of glorious triumph.
            —Joseph Conrad		  4
  Stir as with hope and bliss.
            —Mrs. E. M. H. Cortissoz		  5
  Stir like tide-worn sea-weed.
            —Fannie Stearns Davis		  6
  That dream is in my heart, stirring, like spring within the unconscious earth setting the unborn summer in array.
            —Frederick William Faber		  7
  Stirs one like a martial tune.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  8
  Stirring as music.
            —James H. Gardiner		  9
  Stirred like drifted snows.
            —Thomas G. Hake		  10
  Stirred … as the dive of a kingfisher stirs a quiet pool.
            —Thomas Hardy		  11
                Divinely stirred,
As if the vanished soul of Keats,
Had found its new birth in a bird.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  12
  Stirred as tempest stirs the forest branches.
            —Thomas Hood		  13
  Stirred, like insects settled on a dancing leaf.
            —Thomas Hood		  14
  Stir like the hail of musketry in fight.
            —Sigmund Krasinski		  15
  Love’s sweet mystery stirring at their hearts, like first spring motions in the veins o’ the flowers.
            —Gerald Massey		  16
            My heart is stirred,
Like childhood’s when it hears the carol of a bird.
            —Robert Nicoll		  17
  Stirred him up like the tap of a drum.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  18
  Stirred like springtide waters.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  19
And with such song the hollow ways were stirred
As of a god’s heart hidden in a bird,
Or as the whole soul of the sun in spring
Should find full utterance in one flower-soft word.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  20
  Stirs my spirits like a raging sea.
            —Charles Wells		  21
  Stirs, like the trumpet’s call to strife.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  22
  Stirr’d like the ocean when a tempest blows.
            —William Wilkie		  23
 
 
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