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

Dance

Dancing like a solar mote around the atmosphere of her lips.
—Anonymous

Dance … like atoms in the sunshine.
—Anonymous

Dance like corks upon the waves.
—Anonymous

Dancing like popcorn over a hot fire.
—Anonymous

Dance like a town top.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

Dance like flame.
—Robert Browning

Dance like a lubber in a net.
—William Bullein

Dancing like dervishes, who turn as on a pivot.
—Lord Byron

Dance like a school of dolphins.
—John Dyer

Dance up and down, like a bear asking for supper.
—Maurice Hewlett

Your dancing, like true wit, is best express’d
By nature only to advantage dress’d;
’Tis not a nimble bound, or a caper high,
That can pretend to please a curious eye.
Good judges no such tumblers’ tricks regard;
Or think them beautiful, because they’re hard.
—Soame Jenyns

Danced in his eyes, as the sunbeams dance on the waves of the sea.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Dancing like naked fauns too glad for shame.
—James Russell Lowell

Dance like witches in their maniac mirth.
—Walter Malone

Danced, like wan ghosts about a funeral pyre.
—Thomas Moore

Dancing like a Bacchante.
—Ouida

Dance, Like wingèd stars.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dance like white plumes upon a hearse.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dance like a wither’d leaf.
—Alfred Tennyson

Dancing like a bright and buoyant flame.
—Celia Thaxter

Dance,
Like the sun wading through the misty sky.
—James Thomson

Danced like the fairies.
—Voltaire

Dance like a wave of the sea.
—William Butler Yeats