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

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

Sway


Swayed like a column in an earthquake. —Anonymous	1
Swaying like a lily. —Anonymous	2
Like a branch she sways with supple ply. —Arabian Nights	3
Swayed like a flower stalk in a gale. —John D. Barry	4
Swayed like a bird on a twig. —Arnold Bennett	5
Swayed and bent as gracefully as doth a lily-bell, when by the summer zephyr gently kissed. —William Cartwright	6
Sway, like a water-plant in a wave. —Alice Cary	7
Swayed at the top like a tree. —Joseph Conrad	8
Swayed rhythmically in one direction like a wheatfield in a squall. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	9
Sway, like a trim galley, at her anchorage between two seas. —Frederick William Faber	10
Swayed like a river weed. —Thomas Hardy	11
Swayed like a pole in the tideway. —Maurice Hewlett	12
Swayed … as the sling swings its projectile. —Victor Hugo	13
Swaying like a reed. —Victor Hugo	14
Swayed, like grain-fields when the wind breathes over them. —Sigmund Krasinski	15
Swaying like wind-swung bell. —George MacDonald	16
Swaying about like a fat goose with enormous legs and yielding knees. —Guy de Maupassant	17
Sway, as the calm joy of flowers, and living leaves before the wind. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	18
Sway’d Like those long mosses in the stream. —Alfred Tennyson	19
Swayed as the reeds sway in the blast. —John Greenleaf Whittier	20