Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Shift

Shifting as a weathercock.
—Anonymous

Shift as the sands.
—Anonymous

Shifting as the tints of the rainbow.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Shift, like fortune’s favours.
—Robert Burns

Shifting, like the weather.
—William Cowper

Shifts its scenery like a diorama.
—George Eliot

She shifts and changes like the moon.
—Robert Herrick

Shifting like the boundaries of a dream.
—Charles L. Moore

Shifted like restless clouds.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley