Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sob
Sobs like an Æolian.
—Anonymous
Sobs like a child in a dream.
—James Ballantine
Sobbing, as if the body and soul were torn.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Sobbing like a lover by his false one left in sorrow and in pain.
—J. S. Guthrie
Sob, like ocean’s tremor when it turns to ebb.
—Charles L. Moore
Sobbed like tears at the heart of May.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti