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

Moan

Moaned like a chafed spirit warring with its lot.
—Anonymous

Moaned like a dismal autumn wind.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Moaned like a drinker in grievous plight.
—Arabian Nights

Moan like the doves.
—Assyrian

Moans like a dying hound.
—Henry H. Brownell

Moans … like wind through ill-shut casements.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Moan like nightbirds.
—Thomas Carlyle

Moan, like the voice of one who crieth
In the wilderness alone.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Moaned like some stricken thing … strangled with its own despair.
—Don Marquis

Moaning, like the voices of spirits departing in pain.
—Owen Meredith

A wild and desolate moan,
As a sea heart-broken on the hard brown stone.
—Joaquin Miller

Moans like a tender infant in its cradle,
Whose nurse has left it.
—Thomas Otway

Moan, like me who hath lost the last and best.
—T. Buchanan Read

As running rivers moan
On their course alone,
So I moan
Left alone.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Moan like the waves at set of autumn days.
—Eliza Scudder

The forest moans and vibrates like a vast Æolian harp.
—John. C. Van Dyke

Moaned … like a dirge.
—Frank Waters