Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Loud
Loud as a horn.
—Anonymous
Loud as the blows of a hammer.
—Anonymous
Loud as the voice of an auctioneer.
—Anonymous
Loud as Tom of Lincoln.
—Anonymous
Crying your name as loud and hastily as men i’ th’ streets do fire.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Loud as a culverin.
—R. D. Blackmore
Louder than harvest thunderstorm.
—R. D. Blackmore
Loud as Sinai’s trumpet-sound.
—William Blake
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
—William Blake
As lowde as bloweth wynde in helle.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Loud as a king’s defiance.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tumultuous and very loud … like the roll of an immense and remote drum beating the charge of the gale.
—Joseph Conrad
Loud as thunder.
—Sydney Dobell
Loud as the sea.
—Richard Duke
Loud as Jupiter’s thunder.
—Pierce Egan
As loud as Heav’n’s quick-darted flame.
—William Hamilton
Loud as the trumpet rolls its sound.
—William Hamilton
Loud as when blust’ring Boreas issues forth,
To bring the sweeping whirlwind from the north.
—Walter Harte
Loud as the storm-wind that tumbles the main.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Loud, as the shout encount’ring armies yield.
—Homer (Pope)
Loud as the surges when the tempest blows.
—Homer (Pope)
Loud as cavalry to the charge.
—George Meredith
Loud as from numbers without number.
—John Milton
Dreadful sounds,
Loud as tides that burst their bounds.
—John Scott
Speak as loud as Mars.
—William Shakespeare
Loud as the clank of an ironmonger.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Loud as the voice of nature.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Loud as the summer forest in the storm, as the river that roars among rocks.
—Robert Southey
Loud, as when the tempest-tossed forest roars to the roaring wind.
—Robert Southey
Loud as when the wintry whirlwinds blow.
—Robert Southey
Lowd as larke in ayre.
—Edmund Spenser
Loud as the winds when stormy spring
Makes all the woodland rage and ring.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Loud as when the storm at ebb-tide rends the beach.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Loud as the trumpet of surviving Fame.
—Edmund Waller
Loud as the ocean when a tempest blows.
—William Wilkie
Loud as the silver trumpet’s martial noise.
—William Wilkie
Loud as any mill.
—William Wordsworth