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

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

Moan


Moaned like a chafed spirit warring with its lot. —Anonymous	1
Moaned like a dismal autumn wind. —Thomas Bailey Aldrich	2
Moaned like a drinker in grievous plight. —Arabian Nights	3
Moan like the doves. —Assyrian	4
Moans like a dying hound. —Henry H. Brownell	5
Moans … like wind through ill-shut casements. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	6
Moan like nightbirds. —Thomas Carlyle	7
Moan, like the voice of one who crieth In the wilderness alone. —Henry W. Longfellow	8
Moaned like some stricken thing … strangled with its own despair. —Don Marquis	9
Moaning, like the voices of spirits departing in pain. —Owen Meredith	10
A wild and desolate moan, As a sea heart-broken on the hard brown stone. —Joaquin Miller	11
Moans like a tender infant in its cradle, Whose nurse has left it. —Thomas Otway	12
Moan, like me who hath lost the last and best. —T. Buchanan Read	13
As running rivers moan On their course alone, So I moan Left alone. —Christina Georgina Rossetti	14
Moan like the waves at set of autumn days. —Eliza Scudder	15
The forest moans and vibrates like a vast Æolian harp. —John. C. Van Dyke	16
Moaned … like a dirge. —Frank Waters	17