Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Heave
Heaved and sighed like the dying gasp of a syphon bottle.
—Anonymous
Heaves …
Like a mighty ship in pain,
Facing the tempest with struggle and strain.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Heaves like a water-weed that opens to the wave.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Heaves like a long-swept wave about to break.
—Lord Byron
Heaved like the surface of the sea.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Heaved as in his breast the waves of life kept heaving to and fro.
—Thomas Hood
Heaving … like the sea in the background of a marine piece at the theatre.
—George Meredith
Heaved like ridgy waves.
—Ossian
Heart heaved as a man’s death-smitten with a dart
That smites him sleeping, warm and full of life.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne