Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Roll
Rolls like a whale in the sea.
—Anonymous
Rolling like a sea.
—Matthew Arnold
I rolled myself like a hedgehog against the sharp points of my own thoughts.
—Joseph von Eichendorff
Rolled in money like pigs in mud.
—Thomas Hood
Rolls like a scow in the wake of a liner.
—Elbert Hubbard
Rolled up like a scroll.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Rolled like the willowy and tumultuous sea.
—Robert Southey
Rolling like a wreath of snow.
—Robert Southey
Roll
As waves that race and find no goal.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Roll’d about like tumbled fruit in grass.
—Alfred Tennyson