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

Twist

Twisted as an Egyptian cripple.
—Anonymous

Twisted as Dick’s hatband.
—Anonymous

Twisting like a mop.
—Anonymous

Twist like pearl white fire.
—Anonymous

Twisted like a house that has been enveloped and carried away by a waterspout.
—Honoré de Balzac

Twists like a whiskee phit.
—Josh Billings

Twisted like knotted snakes.
—Charles Harpur

A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Twisted like an S. Thomas Hood

Twisted like a rope.
—Victor Hugo

Twisted in the maw of the wave like the angler’s hook in the jaws of a pike.
—Victor Hugo

Twisted like an eel.
—Charles Kingsley

Twisting like a serpent.
—Charles Lever

Twist like fell ghosts that fear the light.
—Lewis Morris

Twisted … like old olive branches.
—John Ruskin

Twists, like the curls of a bride.
—Sadi

Twisting and twining like a conger eel.
—Michael Scott