Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Wave
Waving like mermaids’ hair.
—Anonymous
Waving like the bosom of an Amazon.
—Anonymous
His fair hair waved backward like that of the angel upon his sombre car of stars.
—Victor Hugo
Waving like a hand that beckons.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Waved like blessing hands.
—Gerald Massey
Waved like autumn-corn.
—Sir Walter Scott
Fence … waved like a cobweb in the gale.
—Sir Walter Scott
Waved like the enridged sea.
—William Shakespeare
Waved like a penon wyde dispred.
—Edmund Spenser
Wave as with swing of the sea
When the mid tide sways at its height.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Her slender figure waved, like some light cypress when the merry winds carol midst the yielding boughs.
—Joseph Turnley