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

Rage (Verb)

Raged like Satan with a toothache.
—Anonymous

Rage like a lion.
—Robert Burton

Immeasurable thirst
Raged as a flame.
—Lord De Tabley

Raging like an unexpected fire.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rages … like a leopard caged.
—Maurice Hewlett

Rage like a thirst.
—Maurice Hewlett

Hector rages like the force of fire.
—Homer (Pope)

Like a wild thing, suddenly aware
That it is caged, which flings and bruises all
Its body at the bars, he rose, and raged.
—Jean Ingelow

Raging as burning Hercules.
—William J. Mickle

Raging as Demon of Dante.
—Walter Parke

Rage like a fury.
—James Robinson Planché

Rage, like demons in their Stygian cage.
—John Ruskin

Rage like an angry bear, chafed with sweat.
—William Shakespeare

Raged within me, like a scorpion’s nest
Built in my entrails.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rage … like boiling liquor in a seething pot.
—Torquato Tasso

Raging like one mad in flight.
—Theocritus

Rage as old Voltaire at Ferney.
—N. P. Willis