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

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

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Turned upon me, as the lion turned upon the hunter’s spear. —Anonymous	1
Turn’d, as a vessel holds to sea, when near a Siren strand. —Thomas Ashe	2
Turn it, as a nose of wax, to their own ends. —Robert Burton	3
Doubling and turning like a hunted hare. —John Dryden	4
Turn, as upon pivots. —Victor Hugo	5
Turned like a weather cock with every wind. —Guy de Maupassant	6
Turned me about as did Lot’s wife. —François Rabelais	7
Turns as a bucket turns in a well. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti	8
Turn him off, Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears, And graze in commons. —William Shakespeare	9
Turn o’ the toe like a parish-top. —William Shakespeare	10
Turning as a turning wave Against the land-wind. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	11
Turned, like a panther in his lair. —John Greenleaf Whittier	12
Turning like a windmill sail. —John Greenleaf Whittier	13
Turned, like Lot at Sodom. —John Greenleaf Whittier	14
Turn Like sunflowers to the pure and best. —John Greenleaf Whittier	15