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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Loud
 
  Loud as a horn.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Loud as the blows of a hammer.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Loud as the voice of an auctioneer.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Loud as Tom of Lincoln.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Crying your name as loud and hastily as men i’ th’ streets do fire.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  5
  Loud as a culverin.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  6
  Louder than harvest thunderstorm.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  7
  Loud as Sinai’s trumpet-sound.
            —William Blake		  8
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
            —William Blake		  9
  As lowde as bloweth wynde in helle.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  10
  Loud as a king’s defiance.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  11
  Tumultuous and very loud … like the roll of an immense and remote drum beating the charge of the gale.
            —Joseph Conrad		  12
  Loud as thunder.
            —Sydney Dobell		  13
  Loud as the sea.
            —Richard Duke		  14
  Loud as Jupiter’s thunder.
            —Pierce Egan		  15
  As loud as Heav’n’s quick-darted flame.
            —William Hamilton		  16
  Loud as the trumpet rolls its sound.
            —William Hamilton		  17
Loud as when blust’ring Boreas issues forth,
To bring the sweeping whirlwind from the north.
            —Walter Harte		  18
  Loud as the storm-wind that tumbles the main.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  19
  Loud, as the shout encount’ring armies yield.
            —Homer (Pope)		  20
  Loud as the surges when the tempest blows.
            —Homer (Pope)		  21
  Loud as cavalry to the charge.
            —George Meredith		  22
  Loud as from numbers without number.
            —John Milton		  23
                Dreadful sounds,
Loud as tides that burst their bounds.
            —John Scott		  24
  Speak as loud as Mars.
            —William Shakespeare		  25
  Loud as the clank of an ironmonger.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  26
  Loud as the voice of nature.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  27
  Loud as the summer forest in the storm, as the river that roars among rocks.
            —Robert Southey		  28
  Loud, as when the tempest-tossed forest roars to the roaring wind.
            —Robert Southey		  29
  Loud as when the wintry whirlwinds blow.
            —Robert Southey		  30
  Lowd as larke in ayre.
            —Edmund Spenser		  31
Loud as the winds when stormy spring
Makes all the woodland rage and ring.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  32
  Loud as when the storm at ebb-tide rends the beach.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  33
  Loud as the trumpet of surviving Fame.
            —Edmund Waller		  34
  Loud as the ocean when a tempest blows.
            —William Wilkie		  35
  Loud as the silver trumpet’s martial noise.
            —William Wilkie		  36
  Loud as any mill.
            —William Wordsworth		  37
 
 
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