Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Voice
A voice like a broken phonograph.
—Anonymous
Her voice was like a bagpipe suffering from tonsillitis.
—Anonymous
For thy voice like an echo from Fairyland seems.
—Anonymous
A voice like the whistle of birds.
—Arabian Nights
Her voice is like the harmony of angels.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
A voice like a concertina that has been left out in the rain.
—Max Beerbohm
A voice like the cry of an expiring mouse, shrill and thin.
—Arthur. C. Benson
Gruff voice, like the creaking of the gallows-chain.
—R. D. Blackmore
It was a voice so mellow, so bright and warm and round,
As if a beam of sunshine had been melted into sound.
—Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Voice like the music of rills.
—William Cullen Bryant
Her voice is like the evening thrush
That sings in Cessnock banks unseen,
While his mate sits nestling in the bush.
—Robert Burns
His voice is like the rising storm.
—Lord Byron
Liquid voice resounded like the prelude of a flute.
—Gabriel D’Annunzio
Voice, as pure and sweet as if from heaven.
—Aubrey De Vere
Voice … as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
A voice as sweet as the evening breeze of Boreas in the pleasant month of November.
—Henry Fielding
Delicate voices, like silver bells.
—Nikolai V. Gogol
Voice like a coyote with bronchitis.
—O. Henry
A voice like a strained foghorn.
—W. W. Jacobs
A voice like the fourth string of a violoncello.
—Charles James Lever
Something like the voice of a frog with a quinsy.
—Charles James Lever
Voice like dish-water gurgling through a sink.
—Octave Mirbeau
Voice was like hollow wind in a cave.
—Ossian
Voice, low as the summer music of a brook.
—T. Buchanan Read
With full voice, pure and clear, uplifted, as some classic melody in sweetest legends of old minstrelsy.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Voice, as hollow as the hollow sea.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Thy voice like rills
Of silver, trills
Such sounds of liquid sweetness.
—Charles Sangster
Voice … is soft like solitude’s.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
A voice like a north wind blowing over corn stubble in January.
—Carl Stanburg
Voice … like a peace-giving orison.
—Hermann Sudermann
Voice like quiring waves.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Voice …
That rings athwart the sea whence no man steers
Like joy-bells crossed with death-bells in our ears.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bernhardt’s … voice is like a thing detachable from herself, a thing which she takes in her hands like a musical instrument, playing on the stops cunningly with her fingers.
—Arthur Symons
A great voice, as of a trumpet.
—New Testament
I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child.
—Old Testament
The tones of her voice, like the music which seems
Murmur’d low in our ears by the Angel of dreams.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
A fall of voice,
Regretted like the nightingale’s last note.
—William Wordsworth