Rocking and Rolling

See Also: MOVEMENTS, UNSTEADINESS, VIBRATION

Bobbed like a duck —F. van Wyck Mason
Bobbed like a ten-cent toy —John Updike
Like the nickel pickle and cigar, the ten-cent toy is an endangered species, but fond remembrances are likely to have comparisons like this show up for a bit longer.
Bobbing like milkweed —W. D. Snodgrass
Bobbing up and down like a barometer on an April morning —Clifford Mills
Bobbing up and down … like an apple in a bowl of toddy —Edgar Allan Poe
[Stomach from laughing hard] bounced like a cat in a sack —Gerald Kersh
Bounce … like a basketball —Raymond Chandler
Bounces like an india-rubber ball —G. K. Chesterton
(I was) bouncing around (in my seat) like a pellet of quicksilver in a nervous man’s palm —Dashiell Hammett
(Testicles) bouncing … like peas in a colander —Richard Ford
The bus rocked like a cradle —Carson McCullers
See Also: VEHICLES
Rocking back and forth like Jews praying —Irwin Shaw
(Franklin stood) rocking from side to side like a man on the deck of a ship in an angry sea —Wilbur Daniel Steele
Roll about … like a pea —Frank Swinnerton
Rolled down the hills like marbles —Boris Pasternak
Rolled like a stone in a riverbed —Muriel Rukeyser
Rolled like tropic storms along —Edgar Allen Poe
In Poe’s poem ‘rolled’ was spelled ‘roll’d.’
Rolled off the bed like a rolling pin off a kitchen table —Rita Mae Brown
Rolled over and over like a shot rabbit —P. G. Wodehouse
[A drunk] rolling about like a ball-bearing —Mark Helprin
Rolling around like a cannon ball in a high sea —Hank Searls
[Baby in pregnant woman’s body] rolling around like a basketball —Lynne Sharon Schwartz
(The words) roll on like bells —Alastair Reid
Rolls over … like surf —Lawrence Durrell
Swayed like a bird on a twig —Arnold Bennett
(A tipsy fellow,) swaying like a wind-rocked palm —Beryl Markham
Swaying like cobras about to strike —Robert Silverberg
Sways as a wafer of light —Carl Sandburg