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

Crash

Crashing … like thunder nigh, whose burst of ruin strikes the shatter’d ear with horror.
—Richard Glover

Crashing … like the ice of polar sea.
—William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Crash as if rock were hurled upon rock.
—Ouida

Crash, as when the whirlwind rends the asp.
—Sir Walter Scott

Crashed, like a hurricane.
—Alfred Tennyson