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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