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

Swear

Swear like a freighter.
—Anonymous

Swear like a costermonger.
—Anonymous

Swore like a Tartar.
—Honoré de Balzac

Swear like a tinker.
—Thomas Coryate

Swear like a drunken tapster.
—Dr. John Doran

Swear like a lord.
—Sir Thomas Elyot

Swears like an imp.
—Victor Hugo

Swore like a porter.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay

Swore like a preacher’s son.
—Henry L. Mencken

Swears like a printing-office foreman and yearns for close quarters with a knife.
—Henry L. Mencken

Swear like a comfit-maker’s wife.
—William Shakespeare

Swore like any trooper.
—Robert Southey