Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Turn
Turned upon me, as the lion turned upon the hunter’s spear.
—Anonymous
Turn’d, as a vessel holds to sea, when near a Siren strand.
—Thomas Ashe
Turn it, as a nose of wax, to their own ends.
—Robert Burton
Doubling and turning like a hunted hare.
—John Dryden
Turn, as upon pivots.
—Victor Hugo
Turned like a weather cock with every wind.
—Guy de Maupassant
Turned me about as did Lot’s wife.
—François Rabelais
Turns as a bucket turns in a well.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Turn him off,
Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears,
And graze in commons.
—William Shakespeare
Turn o’ the toe like a parish-top.
—William Shakespeare
Turning as a turning wave
Against the land-wind.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Turned, like a panther in his lair.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Turning like a windmill sail.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Turned, like Lot at Sodom.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Turn
Like sunflowers to the pure and best.
—John Greenleaf Whittier