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

Rave

Raved like a bedlamite.
—Anonymous

Rave like a madman.
—Anonymous

Rave like an epileptic dervish.
—Robert Browning

Rave like beasts stupefied.
—Robert Burton

Rave like a man in Bedlam.
—George Colman, the Younger

Raved like a fiend.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland

Rave like a fury.
—Walter Savage Landor

Raving like a mad creature.
—Jane Porter

Rave like Shakespeare’s jealous Moor.
—Christopher Smart

Raving … like a Maenad starting up at the rattle of the sacred emblems, when the triennial orgies lash her with the cry of Bacchus, and Cithæron’s yell calls her into the night.
—Virgil