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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Roar (Noun)
 
  A single roar like the roar of a mortar-battery.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  1
  Roar … like the sound of a beast in pain.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  2
            The roar of battle rose,
Like the roar of a burning forest, when a strong north wind blows.
            —Thomas Babington Macaulay		  3
  Roaring like thunder borne upon the breeze.
            —John Ruskin		  4
  Roar as of an ocean foaming.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  5
                Roar,
Like the din of wintry breakers on a sounding wall of shore.
            —Bayard Taylor		  6
 
 
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