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