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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Laugh (Verb)
 
  Laugh like a loon.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Laughing like a stentor.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Laughed like a bell.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  3
  Laughed as if he had drowned a dog.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  4
  Laugh on one side, like the masks of the ancients.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  5
  To laugh like Robin Goodfellow—a long, loud, hearty horse laugh.
            —Robert Forby (Vocabulary of East Anglia)		  6
  Laughed like the sun.
            —Richard Le Gallienne		  7
  Laughed as incessantly as a bird sings.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  8
  Laughed like a bowlful of jelly.
            —Clement. C. Moore		  9
  Laugh like a swarm of flies.
            —François Rabelais		  10
  He laughed like the screech of a rusty hinge.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  11
  Laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper.
            —William Shakespeare		  12
  Laughed, like a happy fountain in a cave brightening the gloomy rocks.
            —Alexander Smith		  13
  Laughs like beech-leaves ringing in the light.
            —Trumbull Stickney		  14
 
 
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