Which preposition to use with shriekings
A long, low, blood-curdling laugh, as if a dozen mocking fiends stood at his elbow,or was it just the shrieking of the wind among the gables?
But with a rapid movement he turned on his heel, seized her round the waist before she could open the door, dragged her shrieking from it, and with an oathand not without an effortflung her panting and breathless into the window-seat.
How astonishing was that last European field of Solferino, ten miles in sweep,with the balloon floating above it for its spy and scout,with the thread-like wire trailing in the grass, and the lightning coursing back and forth, Napoleon's ubiquitous aide-de-camp,with railway-trains, bringing reinforcements into the midst of the melée, and their steam-whistle shrieking amid the thunders of battle!