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

Whirl

Whirl’d away like flakes of foam.
—Æschylus

Whirl like a scourge in the air.
—Anonymous

Whirl’d like a leaf.
—G. F. S. Armstrong

Blades whirled like spirited spray.
—Laurence Binyon

Whirling like dust.
—Joseph Conrad

Whirling … like the sand doth when the whirlwind breathes.
—Dante

Whirled like Ixion’s wheel.
—Euripides

Whirling … as in jubilee of childlike sport.
—Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

Whirl along, like pebbles in a stream.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whirling like a windmill.
—Rudyard Kipling

Whirled it round him like a rattler.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Whirl, like maelstrom in the ocean.
—Edwin Markham

Whirled like a potter’s wheel.
—William Shakespeare

Whirl … like the leaves of a forest grown withered and dry.
—Carmen Sylva

Whirl as if a tempest flung them.
—Bayard Taylor

Whirled in a swift and cloudy turbulence, as when some star of Eblis downward hurled by Allah’s bolt, sweeps with its burning hair the waste of darkness.
—Bayard Taylor