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

Reel

Reeling as a clubbed man reels before he collapses.
—Joseph Conrad

Reel like masts on ocean’s swell.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Reeling, to and fro, like a reed.
—Victor Hugo

He reels like a ship that has met with waves raised by the southeast wind.
—Osmanli Proverb

Reel like a leaf that’s drawn to a water-wheel.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Reels as any reed under the wind.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Reeled
As waves wind-thwarted on the sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Reels like a falling cedar.
—Torquato Tasso

Reels, as the golden Autumn woodland reels
Athwart the smoke of burning weeds.
—Alfred Tennyson

Reel to and fro and stagger like a drunkard.
—Old Testament