See Also: GROANS AND WHISPERS, SCREAMS

1. Bawling like sick monkeys —Henry Miller
2. Cried naggingly, half-heartedly, like the grinding of a non-starting engine that has drained its battery —John Updike
3. Cries out like an Arab, high wails like a dog or human in terrible pain. It rises and falls like sirens going by —Robert Campbell
4. Cry, hopelessly and passively, like a child in a dentist’s waiting room —William Faulkner
5. Cry like a rain-water spout in a shower —Charles Dickens
6. Crying … muffled, like faraway nighttime waves —Z. Vance Wilson
7. Crying out like an abandoned infant —T. Coraghessan Boyle
8. (Gave a) cry like a startled sea gull —Oscar Wilde
9. Her eyes [when she wept] were like syphon bottles under pressure —Erich Maria Remarque
10. Her sob broke like a bubble on a pink geranium —John Malcolm Brinnin

    See Also: DISINTEGRATION

11. Kept on crying … like persistent rain —Elizabeth Spencer
12. Like a waterpot I weep —A Broken-Hearted Gardener, anonymous nineteenth century verse
13. A sad crying, like the birds going south for the winter to come —Ray Bradbury
14. The shrill cry of the new-born … like the sound of the blade of a skate on ice —Angela Carter
15. Sobbed … like an abandoned child —Maurice Hewlett
16. A sob broke the surface like a bubble of air from the bottom of a pond —Sue Grafton
17. Sobs … died off softly, like the intermittent drops that end a day of rain —Edith Wharton
18. Sobs laboring like stones from her heaving breast —James Crumley
19. Sobs rippled like convulsions through her slim body —James Crumley
20. Thin cry [of a bluebird] like a needle piercing the ear —Theodore Roethke
21. Wailed like an uneasy animal in pain —Kenneth Grahame
22. Weeping like a calf —Francois Maspero
23. Weeping raw as an open sausage —A. D. Winans
24. Wept like a fountain —Erich Maria Remarque
25. Wept like a gutter on a rainy day —Guy de Maupassant
26. Wept like a woman deceived and forsaken by a lover —George Garrett
27. Whimpers like a hurt dog —Robin McCorquodale
28. Whine, as unctuous as old bacon grease —James Crumley
29. (The twangy voice was beginning to) whine like a loosening guitar string —François Camoin