Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Hiss

Hiss like a steam kettle.
—Anonymous

Hiss … like shot from guns.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The sea hissed like twenty thousand kettles!
—Joseph Conrad

Hissed like a forked serpent.
—Aubrey De Vere

Hiss, like a goose with a flock of goslings.
—Sam Slick

Hissing like a snake.
—Victor Hugo

Hiss like vipers.
—Sigmund Krasinski

Hissed like a rocket.
—Camille Lemonnier

Hisses like red-hot iron.
—W. Clark Russell

Hisses and roars, as when fire is with water commixed and contending.
—Friedrich von Schiller

Hiss as of a rushing wind.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hisses as with mouths of snakes and wolves at bay.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hiss like bottle(d) ale.
—John Taylor