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

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

Drift


Drifting like flakes of snow. —Anonymous	1
Drift … lightly as a leaf. —Philip James Bailey	2
Drifted, light-hearted and free, and proud, like the Bedouin. —Steen S. Blicher	3
Weary drifting, driving like a helmless bark at sea. —Alice Cary	4
Drifts on the blast, like a wind-wafted leaf, O’er the gulfs of the desolate sea. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	5
Drifting like a flake of fire Rent by a whirlwind from a blazing spire. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	6
Drifted like a scarlet feather Torn from the folded wings of clouds. —Jean Ingelow	7
Drifts like April snow. —Amy Leslie	8
The snows are driven and drifted, Like Tithonus’ beard Streaming dishevelled and white. —Henry W. Longfellow	9
Drift as wrecks on the tide. —Henry W. Longfellow	10
Drifted as an unsteered log. —William Morris	11
Drifting, As the sands on sea-shore shifting. —Ellen B. Peck	12
Drifted Like foam or sand Past swamp and sallow. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	13
Drift like satin moons. —Oscar Wilde	14