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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Roar (Verb)
 
  Roar as doth the sea.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Roared like a burning devil.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Roared like a burning lumber yard.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Roars like a demon in torture.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Roars like a lion.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Roars like a mad bull.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Roared like an angry sea.
            —Anonymous		  7
  A roar deep as the murmuring of Ætna.
            —John Banim		  8
  Roaring like Juno in the Tragedy.
            —Robert Burton		  9
  Roared and murmured like a mountain stream dashing or winding as its torrent strays.
            —Lord Byron		  10
  Roared like breakers in the night.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  11
  Roar as by the evil one possessed.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  12
  Roaring like a foundered horse.
            —Maurice Hewlett		  13
  Roaring like a tempest.
            —Victor Hugo		  14
            Roars in the gloaming
Like an ocean of seething champagne.
            —Charles Kingsley		  15
  Roared like water which rushes from a lock when the gates are open.
            —Camille Lemonnier		  16
  Roaring like a lion for his food.
            —Robert Lloyd		  17
  Roars like a flame that is fanned.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  18
  Roared as if smitten by some god.
            —Lucian		  19
  Roar like a devil with a man in his belly.
            —Andrew Marvell		  20
  Roared like a battle.
            —John Masefield		  21
  Roar like mad waves upon the shore.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  22
  Roars like a bull.
            —Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen		  23
  Roars … like a swift pursuing hound.
            —Arthur O’Shaughnessy		  24
                Roar
Like ocean battling with the shore.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  25
  Roareth like the sea.
            —Old Testament		  26
  Roars like a bull of Bashan.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  27
Rough repetition roars in rudest rhyme,
As clappers clinkle in one charming chime.
            —Bonnell Thornton		  28
  Roaring like a bear.
            —William Ward		  29
  Roar like lions for their prey.
            —William Wordsworth		  30
 
 
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