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

Float

Float away like the deluding mist of a mirage.
—Anonymous

Floating like the Hesperian garden of old.
—Anonymous

Floats like the lotus in the lake, unmoved.
—Anonymous

Floating downward in airy play,
Like spangles dropped from the glistening crowd
That whiten by night the milky way.
—William Cullen Bryant

Floating like the Cyannean Isles in the Euxine Sea.
—Robert Burton

Floats over the troubles of life as the froth above the idle wave.
—William Hazlitt

Floats like an atmosphere.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Floats like an Ark safely through all the deluge of the dark.
—Gerald Massey

Floats like soft-melting murmurs of grief.
—James Montgomery

Floating in the air like so many spiders upon their cobwebs.
—Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen

Floats like oil upon brown seas.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

Floating like foam upon the wave.
—Sir Walter Scott

Floating like the streamers in the wind.
—Robert Southey

Gently floating … like a faery chime of blue harebells, heard in dreams, beneath the forest trees.
—Andrew J. Symington

They float in its rythmic measure like leaves on a summer stream.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox