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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Howl

Howl like a dervish.
—Anonymous

Howl like a vagabond for bread.
—Anonymous

Howled like a just-lugged bear.
—Robert Browning

Howling, like a wolf, flies the famished northern blast.
—William Cullen Bryant

Howl’d for help as wolves do for a meal.
—Lord Byron

Howl like a wolf.
—Charles Dickens

Howls like a thousand demons.
—George Eliot

Howling like a pig in a gate.
—Charles Kingsley

Howl like a wild beast.
—Rudyard Kipling

Howled like a pack of famished dogs.
—Alphonse M. L. Lamartine

Howlings, like a herd of ravenous wolves disappointed of their prey.
—William H. Prescott

Howling like savage creatures grazed by death.
—Charles Reade

Howling, like a slaughtered town.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley