Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Shift
Shifting as a weathercock.
—Anonymous
Shift as the sands.
—Anonymous
Shifting as the tints of the rainbow.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Shift, like fortune’s favours.
—Robert Burns
Shifting, like the weather.
—William Cowper
Shifts its scenery like a diorama.
—George Eliot
She shifts and changes like the moon.
—Robert Herrick
Shifting like the boundaries of a dream.
—Charles L. Moore
Shifted like restless clouds.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley