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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Wail (Noun)
 
  A lonely wail, like a lost child’s cry.
            —Anonymous		  1
  A wail, as of a babe new-born.
            —George Meredith		  2
  Continuous wail, like the moaning of a winter wind.
            —Ouida		  3
  Wail like echoes from the sea.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  4
            A wail
Of impotent despair,
Like the sound that frightened marshes hear
From some leper in his lair.
            —Oscar Wilde		  5
 
 
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