"I was under the bed at the time, and afore I could say a word Mrs. Pretty gave a loud screech and scratched my face something cruel.

Nearer they wheeled until I could hear their discordant screech.

The Apaches, heartened by what they supposed to be a panic, swarmed along at increased speed, and gave out their most diabolical screeches, hoping no doubt to scare men into helplessness, and beasts into a stampede.

"We didn't have time to take it all in, howsomever, for after the first blast a big, black thing sailed over our heads with the fearfullest screech that ever scart a man to death.

Suddenly, from the cat, there came a fierce, long screech.

When the lorn damsel, with a frantic screech, And cheeks as hueless as a brandy-peach, Cries, "Help, kyind Heaven!" and drops upon her knees On the greenbaize,beneath the (canvas) trees, See to her side avenging Valor fly: "Ha! Villain!

But the apprentice struck at her with his axe and sliced the paw off, whereupon the two cats vanished with a frightful screech.

The harsh screech of the mitrailleuse grows louder and nearer.

It exploded with a hideous screech, as if the bridge were some human thing being struck, and screaming out its agony.

He was about to make some answer when a dreadful cry broke suddenly out of the woods, a horrible screech, as from some one who was goaded to the very last pitch of human misery.

that fearful mount Hecklebirg in Norway, an especial argument to prove it, [3043]"where lamentable screeches and howlings are continually heard, which strike a terror to the auditors; fiery chariots are commonly seen to bring in the souls of men in the likeness of crows, and devils ordinarily go in and out."

If an owl screeches, turn the pocket of your apron inside out, tie a knot in your apron string, and he will stop.

I sprang up, my tormentor uttering a raucous screech as I tossed him away.

Suddenly we heard a sharp screech up the stream, and when it was repeated, Vacille said it must be a young bear crying because its mother would not feed it fast enough.

There are dogs basking on doorsteps, larger dogs rambling with idleness in the slow sway of their tails, and overhead black swifts (whose nests are in the roofs of the higher houses) dash to and fro, uttering their shrill screech.

From the time that he sighted the three horsemen he kept up a steady screech until he was safe under their noses.

he cried, in an unearthly screech, and threw up his arms in horror.

From time to time we capture a copy and read this sort of thing: "From agonised screeches heard by one of our intrepid airmen while patrolling over the enemy's lines yesterday, it is evident that the brutal and relentless British are bayonetting their prisoners.

The weird, haunting screech of an owl!

A musician of the party must have been kept in by the bad weather, for from one of the caravans came the diabolic screech of a wheezing concertina that had got rid of all its ideals and dreams of distinction.