Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Rage (Verb)
Raged like Satan with a toothache.
—Anonymous
Rage like a lion.
—Robert Burton
Immeasurable thirst
Raged as a flame.
—Lord De Tabley
Raging like an unexpected fire.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rages … like a leopard caged.
—Maurice Hewlett
Rage like a thirst.
—Maurice Hewlett
Hector rages like the force of fire.
—Homer (Pope)
Like a wild thing, suddenly aware
That it is caged, which flings and bruises all
Its body at the bars, he rose, and raged.
—Jean Ingelow
Raging as burning Hercules.
—William J. Mickle
Raging as Demon of Dante.
—Walter Parke
Rage like a fury.
—James Robinson Planché
Rage, like demons in their Stygian cage.
—John Ruskin
Rage like an angry bear, chafed with sweat.
—William Shakespeare
Raged within me, like a scorpion’s nest
Built in my entrails.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rage … like boiling liquor in a seething pot.
—Torquato Tasso
Raging like one mad in flight.
—Theocritus
Rage as old Voltaire at Ferney.
—N. P. Willis