Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Swear
Swear like a freighter.
—Anonymous
Swear like a costermonger.
—Anonymous
Swore like a Tartar.
—Honoré de Balzac
Swear like a tinker.
—Thomas Coryate
Swear like a drunken tapster.
—Dr. John Doran
Swear like a lord.
—Sir Thomas Elyot
Swears like an imp.
—Victor Hugo
Swore like a porter.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay
Swore like a preacher’s son.
—Henry L. Mencken
Swears like a printing-office foreman and yearns for close quarters with a knife.
—Henry L. Mencken
Swear like a comfit-maker’s wife.
—William Shakespeare
Swore like any trooper.
—Robert Southey