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

Wave

Waving like mermaids’ hair.
—Anonymous

Waving like the bosom of an Amazon.
—Anonymous

His fair hair waved backward like that of the angel upon his sombre car of stars.
—Victor Hugo

Waving like a hand that beckons.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Waved like blessing hands.
—Gerald Massey

Waved like autumn-corn.
—Sir Walter Scott

Fence … waved like a cobweb in the gale.
—Sir Walter Scott

Waved like the enridged sea.
—William Shakespeare

Waved like a penon wyde dispred.
—Edmund Spenser

Wave as with swing of the sea
When the mid tide sways at its height.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Her slender figure waved, like some light cypress when the merry winds carol midst the yielding boughs.
—Joseph Turnley