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

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

Float


Float away like the deluding mist of a mirage. —Anonymous	1
Floating like the Hesperian garden of old. —Anonymous	2
Floats like the lotus in the lake, unmoved. —Anonymous	3
Floating downward in airy play, Like spangles dropped from the glistening crowd That whiten by night the milky way. —William Cullen Bryant	4
Floating like the Cyannean Isles in the Euxine Sea. —Robert Burton	5
Floats over the troubles of life as the froth above the idle wave. —William Hazlitt	6
Floats like an atmosphere. —Henry W. Longfellow	7
Floats like an Ark safely through all the deluge of the dark. —Gerald Massey	8
Floats like soft-melting murmurs of grief. —James Montgomery	9
Floating in the air like so many spiders upon their cobwebs. —Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen	10
Floats like oil upon brown seas. —Friedrich Nietzsche	11
Floating like foam upon the wave. —Sir Walter Scott	12
Floating like the streamers in the wind. —Robert Southey	13
Gently floating … like a faery chime of blue harebells, heard in dreams, beneath the forest trees. —Andrew J. Symington	14
They float in its rythmic measure like leaves on a summer stream. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox	15