Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Toss

Millions of grass blades that tossed like an emerald sea in the sunshine.
—Oscar Fay Adams

Aside I’m tossed,
As an old sword whose scabbard’s lost.
—Anonymous

Tossing like an awakened conscience.
—Anonymous

Tossed like a peanut at sea.
—Anonymous

Tossed like a feather in a whirlwind.
—Anonymous

Tossed like a plebe in a blanket.
—Anonymous

I’ve been tossed like the driven foam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tossed … like a cork on the waves.
—Thomas Hardy

Tosses you about like cork crumbs in wine opened by an unfeed waiter.
—O. Henry

Tossed it just like a haymaker at work.
—Thomas Hood

Tossing like field-flowers in Spring.
—George Meredith

Tost like the bearded and billowy wheat by the winds of the mountain driven.
—Owen Meredith

Tossing like a flower’s head.
—Ouida

Tossed like a fretted shallop-sail
Between ocean and the gale.
—T. Buchanan Read

Like a frail bark thy weakened mind is tost.
—Richard Savage

I am tossed up and down as the locust.
—Old Testament

Tossed about like a few potatoes in a wheelbarrow.
—Mrs.
—Trollope

Toss like a ship at anchor, rocked by storms.
—William Wordsworth