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