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

Sway

Swayed like a column in an earthquake.
—Anonymous

Swaying like a lily.
—Anonymous

Like a branch she sways with supple ply.
—Arabian Nights

Swayed like a flower stalk in a gale.
—John D. Barry

Swayed like a bird on a twig.
—Arnold Bennett

Swayed and bent as gracefully as doth a lily-bell, when by the summer zephyr gently kissed.
—William Cartwright

Sway, like a water-plant in a wave.
—Alice Cary

Swayed at the top like a tree.
—Joseph Conrad

Swayed rhythmically in one direction like a wheatfield in a squall.
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sway, like a trim galley, at her anchorage between two seas.
—Frederick William Faber

Swayed like a river weed.
—Thomas Hardy

Swayed like a pole in the tideway.
—Maurice Hewlett

Swayed … as the sling swings its projectile.
—Victor Hugo

Swaying like a reed.
—Victor Hugo

Swayed, like grain-fields when the wind breathes over them.
—Sigmund Krasinski

Swaying like wind-swung bell.
—George MacDonald

Swaying about like a fat goose with enormous legs and yielding knees.
—Guy de Maupassant

Sway, as the calm joy of flowers, and living leaves before the wind.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sway’d
Like those long mosses in the stream.
—Alfred Tennyson

Swayed as the reeds sway in the blast.
—John Greenleaf Whittier