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

Laugh (Verb)

Laugh like a loon.
—Anonymous

Laughing like a stentor.
—Anonymous

Laughed like a bell.
—R. D. Blackmore

Laughed as if he had drowned a dog.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Laugh on one side, like the masks of the ancients.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

To laugh like Robin Goodfellow—a long, loud, hearty horse laugh.
—Robert Forby (Vocabulary of East Anglia)

Laughed like the sun.
—Richard Le Gallienne

Laughed as incessantly as a bird sings.
—Guy de Maupassant

Laughed like a bowlful of jelly.
—Clement. C. Moore

Laugh like a swarm of flies.
—François Rabelais

He laughed like the screech of a rusty hinge.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper.
—William Shakespeare

Laughed, like a happy fountain in a cave brightening the gloomy rocks.
—Alexander Smith

Laughs like beech-leaves ringing in the light.
—Trumbull Stickney