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

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

Wander


Wandering like a passportless man. —Arthur Acheson	1
Wanderings as wild as those of the March-spirit. —Charlotte Brontë	2
Wandering as the wind. —William Cullen Bryant	3
Wandered up and down there like an early Christian refugee in the catacombs. —Joseph Conrad	4
Wandering like a plaintive shadow about the places where I dwell. —Théphile Gautier	5
Wanders like an unfettered stream. —Nathaniel Hawthorne	6
Wander like a lost soul in a Sam Lloyd puzzle. —O. Henry	7
Wanders up and down the world like the noble Morninger. —Archibald MacMechan	8
Wandering, like a leaf off the tree. —George Meredith	9
Wander like streams through the snow. —Miles O’Reilly	10
Wanderest Like the world’s rejected guest. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	11
Wander like a desert wind, without a place of rest. —Alexander Smith	12
Wander from mistress to mistress, like a pilgrim from town to town, who every night must have a fresh lodging, and ’s in haste to be gone in the morning. —Sir John Vanbrugh	13
Wandered about at random, like dogs that have lost the scent. —Voltaire	14
I wander’d lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills. —William Wordsworth	15
Wanders like a gliding ghost. —William Wordsworth	16