Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Spin

Spin like a dervish.
—Anonymous

Spins like a top.
—Anonymous

Spin round like a withered leaf blown from the tree.
—Anonymous

Spinning like a plummet down
Into the spacious gulf of deep blue air.
—Lord De Tabley

Spinning like water flung from a top.
—Lord Dunsany

Spinning like bubbles in a river.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spins like a fretful midge.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Spinning like mill wheels.
—Julian Street