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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Noisy
 
  Noisy as a boiler-shop.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Noisy as a menagerie.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Noisy as a creditors’ meeting.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Noisy as a flock of crow-blackbirds in the migration season.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Noisy as a cookstove falling down stairs.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Noisy as burial-howlers at full cry.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Noisy as a living skeleton having a fit on a hardwood floor.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Noisy as a dozen drums.
            —Foundling Hospital for Wit		  8
  Noisy as a kettle-drum.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  9
  Noisy as at a fair.
            —George Meredith		  10
  Noisy as women bathing in a river.
            —Osmanli Proverb		  11
  As noisy as a hen with one chicken.
            —Charles Reade		  12
 
 
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