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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Wave
 
  Waving like mermaids’ hair.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Waving like the bosom of an Amazon.
            —Anonymous		  2
  His fair hair waved backward like that of the angel upon his sombre car of stars.
            —Victor Hugo		  3
  Waving like a hand that beckons.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  4
  Waved like blessing hands.
            —Gerald Massey		  5
  Waved like autumn-corn.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  6
  Fence … waved like a cobweb in the gale.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  7
  Waved like the enridged sea.
            —William Shakespeare		  8
  Waved like a penon wyde dispred.
            —Edmund Spenser		  9
        Wave as with swing of the sea
When the mid tide sways at its height.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  10
  Her slender figure waved, like some light cypress when the merry winds carol midst the yielding boughs.
            —Joseph Turnley		  11
 
 
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