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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Rave
 
  Raved like a bedlamite.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Rave like a madman.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Rave like an epileptic dervish.
            —Robert Browning		  3
  Rave like beasts stupefied.
            —Robert Burton		  4
  Rave like a man in Bedlam.
            —George Colman, the Younger		  5
  Raved like a fiend.
            —Josiah Gilbert Holland		  6
  Rave like a fury.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  7
  Raving like a mad creature.
            —Jane Porter		  8
  Rave like Shakespeare’s jealous Moor.
            —Christopher Smart		  9
  Raving … like a Maenad starting up at the rattle of the sacred emblems, when the triennial orgies lash her with the cry of Bacchus, and Cithæron’s yell calls her into the night.
            —Virgil		  10
 
 
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