Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Rave
Raved like a bedlamite.
—Anonymous
Rave like a madman.
—Anonymous
Rave like an epileptic dervish.
—Robert Browning
Rave like beasts stupefied.
—Robert Burton
Rave like a man in Bedlam.
—George Colman, the Younger
Raved like a fiend.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland
Rave like a fury.
—Walter Savage Landor
Raving like a mad creature.
—Jane Porter
Rave like Shakespeare’s jealous Moor.
—Christopher Smart
Raving … like a Maenad starting up at the rattle of the sacred emblems, when the triennial orgies lash her with the cry of Bacchus, and Cithæron’s yell calls her into the night.
—Virgil