"Do you remember the thing about the screech-owl and the weather signs?" said the Colonel, roused at last by the jig on his toes and the rattle of improvised "bones" almost in his face.

"'Wen de screech-owl light on de gable en' En holler, Whoool ohoh!'

If her ghost's funereal screech Thro' the earth my grave should reach, On that voice I lov'd so well

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!

Skriech, screech.

Here dreadful silence, solitary caves, No chirping birds with solace singing sweetly, Are harbour'd for delight; but from the oak, Leafless and sapless through decaying age, The screech-owl chants her fatal-boding lays.

He has a similar dread of a screech-owl, whom he compliments in the name of its mistress, Pallas Athene.

I smile to hear his collar bone collapse, Accompanied by his expiring screech; To crack his ribs is happiness, perhaps, Beyond all reach.

He had even stretched out his arm and touched the garments of the runner, when with a screech the fellow made a furious plunge straight over the side of the boat.

The horrid screech of the mitrailleuse drowned the hissing of the shells; the whole breadth of the long avenue was covered by a kind of white mist.

And thus, all wandering and groping in the dark, the blind leading the blind, we screech like owls at a spark of light from the real fountain beyond Aldebaran.

A wailing screech filled the room and everyone but Zimbardo covered his ears.

The screech increased in intensity until men fell to the floor and writhed, pressing their hands firmly to the sides of their heads.

" "O morther!" exclaimed O'Riley, holding on to his sides as if he believed what he said, "me biler'll bust av ye don't let me screech.

"Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night, The time of night when Troy was set on fire, The tune when screech-owls cry, and ban-dogs howl.

"The time when screech-owls cry, and bandogs howl.

Vittoria Corombona is described in the old editions as "a night-piece," and it should, indeed, be acted by the shuddering light of torches, and with the cry of the screech-owl to punctuate the speeches.

" At this my mother gives a screech and throws her arms about my neck.

A gun boomed; the air rocked with the screech and roar of whistles.

The screech-owl had come out of his hole, and bats were already blundering about, and the air was cooling.

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.

He hail'd the bird in Spanish speech, The bird in Spanish speech replied: Flapt round his cage with joyous screech Dropt down and died.

Holler, and meaowl, and spit, and screech, and jump around till she can't help but look at us.

"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.

The cry of the lone screech-owl below me in the swamp sounded but familiar and appropriate.