Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Hoarse
Hoarse as the rustling of autumnal breeze.
—Henry Brooke
Hoarse as a raven.
—Charles Reade
Hoarse as warning prophets in an evil age.
—Bayard Taylor
Hoarse
As when a hawker hawks his wares.
—Alfred Tennyson