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