Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Wild
Wild as vulture’s cry.
—Æschylus
Wild as the winds that tear the curled red leaf in the air.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Wild as a buck.
—Anonymous
Wild as a hawk.
—Anonymous
Wild as a maniac’s dream.
—Anonymous
Wild as a mountain lion.
—Anonymous
Wild as Scott’s Macbriar.
—Anonymous
Wild as Whiston’s prophecies.
—Anonymous
Wild as wild Arabs.
—Arabian Nights
Like a cowslip, growing wild.
—Thomas Ashe
As wild and as skeigh as muirland filly.
—Joanna Baillie
Wild as Winter.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
As wild as game in July.
—Dion Boucicault
Wild as one whom demons seize.
—Charlotte Brontë
Legends wild as those culled on shores licked by Hydaspes.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Wild as that hallow’d anthem sent to hail
Bethlehem’s shepherds in the lonely vale,
When Jordan hush’d his waves, and midnight still
Watch’d on the holy towers of Zion hill.
—Thomas Campbell
Wild and capricious as the wind and wave.
—James Cawthorn
Wilde as chased deere.
—Thomas Churchyard
A landscape rose
More wild and waste and desolate than where
The white bear, drifting on a field of ice,
Howls to her sundered cubs with piteous rage
And savage agony.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wild as a maniac’s mirth.
—Eliza Cook
Wild as the lightning.
—Aubrey De Vere
Wild as the waves.
—Aubrey De Vere
Wild as dreams.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wilder than the Adrain tides which form Calabrian bays.
—Roswell M. Field
As wild as the whirlwind.
—Nikolai V. Gogol
Wild as a sea-breeze.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wild as if creation’s ruins
Were heaped in one immeasurable chain
Of barren mountains, beaten by the storms
Of everlasting winter.
—James A. Hillhouse
Wild as coursers with unsubdued neck.
—Horace
Wild as a tameless horse of Tartary.
—Richard Hovey
Wild as a fiend.
—Sigmund Krasinski
Wild as a burst of day-gold blown through the colors of morning.
—George Cabot Lodge
Wild and woful, like the cloud rack of a tempest.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Wild as an unbroken horse.
—Maria Lowell
Wild as the heart of a bird.
—Edwin Markham
Wild as flowers upon a river’s brink.
—George Edgar Montgomery
Wild as the changes of a dream.
—James Montgomery
Wild as mountain-breezes.
—Thomas Moore
Wild as the winds.
—Alexander Pope
Wild as ocean gale.
—Sir Walter Scott
Wild, like trumpet-jubilee.
—Sir Walter Scott
Wildly as some vex’d and angry sea madly throws up its ancient firm foundation.
—William Shakespeare
Wild as young bulls.
—William Shakespeare
Wild as haggards of the rock.
—William Shakespeare
The other wild,
Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still.
—William Shakespeare
Wild … as regret.
—Marie Van Vorst
Wild as an errant fancy.
—Helen Hay Whitney
Wild like the stormy wind.
—William Wilkie
Wild as the tempests of the upper sky.
—William Winter
Wild and rude
As ever hue-and-cry pursued,
As ever ran a felon’s race.
—William Wordsworth