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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Shift
 
  Shifting as a weathercock.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Shift as the sands.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Shifting as the tints of the rainbow.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  3
  Shift, like fortune’s favours.
            —Robert Burns		  4
  Shifting, like the weather.
            —William Cowper		  5
  Shifts its scenery like a diorama.
            —George Eliot		  6
  She shifts and changes like the moon.
            —Robert Herrick		  7
  Shifting like the boundaries of a dream.
            —Charles L. Moore		  8
  Shifted like restless clouds.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  9
 
 
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