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

Restless

Restless as a gypsy.
—Anonymous

Restless as ambition.
—Anonymous

Restless as Hamlet.
—Anonymous

Restless as leaves.
—Anonymous

Restless as quicksilver.
—Anonymous

Restless as the sea.
—Alfred Austin

Restless as a riot.
—Rex Beach

Restless … as the winds.
—Aphra Behn

Restless as the nest-deserted bird.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Restless, like a dog whose master is absent.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Restless, as the fire that blows and spreads and leaps from high to higher where’er is aught to seize or to subdue.
—George Eliot

Restless as the winter storm.
—Reginald Heber

Restless as water that winds onward through the plains.
—Victor Hugo

Restless as butterflies.
—Leigh Hunt

He was as restless as a wild beast in a cage.
—George MacDonald

Restless as if fluttering wings bore thee on thy wanderings.
—Charles Eliot Norton

Restless as the desert wind.
—Albert Bigelow Paine

Restless as a brook.
—Hiram Rich

Restless as hyenas.
—Edgar Saltus

Restless … like the touch’d needle till it find the star.
—George Sandys

Restless as Ulysses.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

Restless as Niagara.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper

Restless as a veering wind.
—William Wordsworth