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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Howl
 
  Howl like a dervish.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Howl like a vagabond for bread.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Howled like a just-lugged bear.
            —Robert Browning		  3
  Howling, like a wolf, flies the famished northern blast.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  4
  Howl’d for help as wolves do for a meal.
            —Lord Byron		  5
  Howl like a wolf.
            —Charles Dickens		  6
  Howls like a thousand demons.
            —George Eliot		  7
  Howling like a pig in a gate.
            —Charles Kingsley		  8
  Howl like a wild beast.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  9
  Howled like a pack of famished dogs.
            —Alphonse M. L. Lamartine		  10
  Howlings, like a herd of ravenous wolves disappointed of their prey.
            —William H. Prescott		  11
  Howling like savage creatures grazed by death.
            —Charles Reade		  12
  Howling, like a slaughtered town.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  13
 
 
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