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

Sound (Verb)

No one was at the organ, yet it went on sounding—sounding like the songs of the archangels in their bursts of mystic ecstasy.
—Gustavo A. Becquér

The voice sounds as a prophet’s word.
—Fitz-Greene Halleck

Sounded like a felon’s heart in skeleton ribs.
—George Meredith