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

Clamor

As clamorous as Hecuba.
—Robert Burton

As when two vultures on the mountain’s height
Stoop with resounding pinions to the fight;
They cuff, they tear, they raise a screaming cry;
The desert echoes, and the rocks reply:
The warriors thus oppos’d in arms, engage
With equal clamours, and with equal rage.
—Homer (Pope)

Clamored … as though a besieging foe was in the house.
—Douglas Jerrold

Clamouring like a brazen bell.
—George Meredith

Clamorous … like croaking daws.
—Pindar

Clamorous like mill-waters, at wild play.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

More clamorous than a parrot against rain.
—William Shakespeare

Clamorous like as wave to wave at sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Clamorous as a horn
Re-echoed by a naked rock.
—William Wordsworth