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

Move

Moving constantly, like the spheres.
—Anonymous

Gently she moved in the calmness of beauty,
Moved as the bough to the light breeze of morning.
—Arabian

Moving like heaven still in the self-same moving.
—Phineas Fletcher

A wizard wind did faintly move,
Like a whisper through a dream.
—Owen Meredith

When everything moves equally, nothing moves apparently: as on a ship.
—Blaise Pascal

Moving, like a skeptic’s thought,
Out of nowhere into naught.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Moved one like the finest eloquence.
—Alexander Smith