Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Vibrate

Vibrated, like a coffee mill in operation.
—Anonymous

Vibrate like a soft musical note.
—Honoré de Balzac

Vibrating
Like some becalmed bark beneath the burst
Of Heaven’s immediate thunder.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Felt all her being vibrate as if a violin bow were drawn over her nerves.
—Gustave Flaubert