Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Restless
Restless as a gypsy.
—Anonymous
Restless as ambition.
—Anonymous
Restless as Hamlet.
—Anonymous
Restless as leaves.
—Anonymous
Restless as quicksilver.
—Anonymous
Restless as the sea.
—Alfred Austin
Restless as a riot.
—Rex Beach
Restless … as the winds.
—Aphra Behn
Restless as the nest-deserted bird.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Restless, like a dog whose master is absent.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Restless, as the fire that blows and spreads and leaps from high to higher where’er is aught to seize or to subdue.
—George Eliot
Restless as the winter storm.
—Reginald Heber
Restless as water that winds onward through the plains.
—Victor Hugo
Restless as butterflies.
—Leigh Hunt
He was as restless as a wild beast in a cage.
—George MacDonald
Restless as if fluttering wings bore thee on thy wanderings.
—Charles Eliot Norton
Restless as the desert wind.
—Albert Bigelow Paine
Restless as a brook.
—Hiram Rich
Restless as hyenas.
—Edgar Saltus
Restless … like the touch’d needle till it find the star.
—George Sandys
Restless as Ulysses.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
Restless as Niagara.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Restless as a veering wind.
—William Wordsworth