" One audacious thrust of a lance he parried very dexterously with his bayonet, at the same time screeching defiantly and scornfully in the face of his hideous assailant.

But then it harshly screeched, "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"

What demons so potent as molecular movements, none the less tremendously potent for not carrying the futile cargo of a consciousness screeching irrelevantly, like a fowl tied head downmost to the saddle of a swift horseman?

The pack stretched out in wild staccato chorus, the little Airedales literally screeching.

Luckily, he screeched blue murder at the tip-top of his voice, or we might not have missed the beast.

I heard the door clang to; the rusty lock screeched venomously, and then I was alone in gravelike silence.