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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Wild
 
  Wild as vulture’s cry.
            —Æschylus		  1
  Wild as the winds that tear the curled red leaf in the air.
            —Thomas Bailey Aldrich		  2
  Wild as a buck.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Wild as a hawk.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Wild as a maniac’s dream.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Wild as a mountain lion.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Wild as Scott’s Macbriar.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Wild as Whiston’s prophecies.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Wild as wild Arabs.
            —Arabian Nights		  9
  Like a cowslip, growing wild.
            —Thomas Ashe		  10
  As wild and as skeigh as muirland filly.
            —Joanna Baillie		  11
  Wild as Winter.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  12
  As wild as game in July.
            —Dion Boucicault		  13
  Wild as one whom demons seize.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  14
  Legends wild as those culled on shores licked by Hydaspes.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  15
Wild as that hallow’d anthem sent to hail
Bethlehem’s shepherds in the lonely vale,
When Jordan hush’d his waves, and midnight still
Watch’d on the holy towers of Zion hill.
            —Thomas Campbell		  16
  Wild and capricious as the wind and wave.
            —James Cawthorn		  17
  Wilde as chased deere.
            —Thomas Churchyard		  18
                A landscape rose
More wild and waste and desolate than where
The white bear, drifting on a field of ice,
Howls to her sundered cubs with piteous rage
And savage agony.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  19
  Wild as a maniac’s mirth.
            —Eliza Cook		  20
  Wild as the lightning.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  21
  Wild as the waves.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  22
  Wild as dreams.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  23
  Wilder than the Adrain tides which form Calabrian bays.
            —Roswell M. Field		  24
  As wild as the whirlwind.
            —Nikolai V. Gogol		  25
  Wild as a sea-breeze.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  26
            Wild as if creation’s ruins
Were heaped in one immeasurable chain
Of barren mountains, beaten by the storms
Of everlasting winter.
            —James A. Hillhouse		  27
  Wild as coursers with unsubdued neck.
            —Horace		  28
  Wild as a tameless horse of Tartary.
            —Richard Hovey		  29
  Wild as a fiend.
            —Sigmund Krasinski		  30
  Wild as a burst of day-gold blown through the colors of morning.
            —George Cabot Lodge		  31
  Wild and woful, like the cloud rack of a tempest.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  32
  Wild as an unbroken horse.
            —Maria Lowell		  33
  Wild as the heart of a bird.
            —Edwin Markham		  34
  Wild as flowers upon a river’s brink.
            —George Edgar Montgomery		  35
  Wild as the changes of a dream.
            —James Montgomery		  36
  Wild as mountain-breezes.
            —Thomas Moore		  37
  Wild as the winds.
            —Alexander Pope		  38
  Wild as ocean gale.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  39
  Wild, like trumpet-jubilee.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  40
  Wildly as some vex’d and angry sea madly throws up its ancient firm foundation.
            —William Shakespeare		  41
  Wild as young bulls.
            —William Shakespeare		  42
  Wild as haggards of the rock.
            —William Shakespeare		  43
                The other wild,
Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still.
            —William Shakespeare		  44
  Wild … as regret.
            —Marie Van Vorst		  45
  Wild as an errant fancy.
            —Helen Hay Whitney		  46
  Wild like the stormy wind.
            —William Wilkie		  47
  Wild as the tempests of the upper sky.
            —William Winter		  48
Wild and rude
As ever hue-and-cry pursued,
As ever ran a felon’s race.
            —William Wordsworth		  49
 
 
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