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

Heave

Heaved and sighed like the dying gasp of a syphon bottle.
—Anonymous

Heaves …
Like a mighty ship in pain,
Facing the tempest with struggle and strain.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Heaves like a water-weed that opens to the wave.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Heaves like a long-swept wave about to break.
—Lord Byron

Heaved like the surface of the sea.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Heaved as in his breast the waves of life kept heaving to and fro.
—Thomas Hood

Heaving … like the sea in the background of a marine piece at the theatre.
—George Meredith

Heaved like ridgy waves.
—Ossian

Heart heaved as a man’s death-smitten with a dart
That smites him sleeping, warm and full of life.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne