Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Laugh (Verb)
Laugh like a loon.
—Anonymous
Laughing like a stentor.
—Anonymous
Laughed like a bell.
—R. D. Blackmore
Laughed as if he had drowned a dog.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Laugh on one side, like the masks of the ancients.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
To laugh like Robin Goodfellow—a long, loud, hearty horse laugh.
—Robert Forby (Vocabulary of East Anglia)
Laughed like the sun.
—Richard Le Gallienne
Laughed as incessantly as a bird sings.
—Guy de Maupassant
Laughed like a bowlful of jelly.
—Clement. C. Moore
Laugh like a swarm of flies.
—François Rabelais
He laughed like the screech of a rusty hinge.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper.
—William Shakespeare
Laughed, like a happy fountain in a cave brightening the gloomy rocks.
—Alexander Smith
Laughs like beech-leaves ringing in the light.
—Trumbull Stickney