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

Wander

Wandering like a passportless man.
—Arthur Acheson

Wanderings as wild as those of the March-spirit.
—Charlotte Brontë

Wandering as the wind.
—William Cullen Bryant

Wandered up and down there like an early Christian refugee in the catacombs.
—Joseph Conrad

Wandering like a plaintive shadow about the places where I dwell.
—Théphile Gautier

Wanders like an unfettered stream.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wander like a lost soul in a Sam Lloyd puzzle.
—O. Henry

Wanders up and down the world like the noble Morninger.
—Archibald MacMechan

Wandering, like a leaf off the tree.
—George Meredith

Wander like streams through the snow.
—Miles O’Reilly

Wanderest
Like the world’s rejected guest.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wander like a desert wind, without a place of rest.
—Alexander Smith

Wander from mistress to mistress, like a pilgrim from town to town, who every night must have a fresh lodging, and ’s in haste to be gone in the morning.
—Sir John Vanbrugh

Wandered about at random, like dogs that have lost the scent.
—Voltaire

I wander’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills.
—William Wordsworth

Wanders like a gliding ghost.
—William Wordsworth