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

Yell

Yelling like savages.
—Anonymous

Yolleden, as fendes doon in helle.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Yelling like a maniac.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

A discordant universal yell, like house-dogs howling at a dinner-bell.
—John H. Frere

Yell like a wronged panther.
—Alfred Henry Lewis

A yell as of wild beasts in their famine.
—Ouida

Yelled like incarnate fiends.
—Michael Scott

Dire yell,
As when, by night and negligence, the fire
Is spied in populous cities.
—William Shakespeare

Yell’d out
Like syllable of dolour.
—William Shakespeare

Yelled like all-possessed.
—Sam Slick

Yelled as beasts of ravin.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne