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