A blue jay began to chatter; and when he had finished his screed, a cock-quail challenged the silence.

Oh no, it's not through modesty that you do this, you who delivered that long screed about Antony's habits.

Then you hand me this touching screed with its 'nearest of kin' twaddle, and speaking of leaving you a fortune.

In my youth, when penny novels were my sole mental support, I used to see myself pouring forth screeds of beauteous remarks to an adoring swine 6 1/2 ft. high x 2 3/4 ft. broad.

" The Professor composed himself to listen, while she read Jarvis's long screed aloud.

Too soon the Staff, to spoil our tiny slumbers, Or, as they said, to certify our skill, Sent us a screed, all signs and magic numbers, And what it signified is mystery still.

" Bobby took the pencilled screed, and read: Major Wagstaffe, Sir,I take up my pen for to inform you that I am now in hospital in Glasgow, having become a cassuality on the 18th inst.

With great stateliness Lieutenant Cockerell tore the offending screed into four portions, to the audible concern of Madame.

These men were hardly more than shadows, things which brought them long screeds to be translated to the tapping keys, hands which would stretch into the candle-light and lift the messages that had just "buzzed" in over their wires.

Isn't there a man in the city-room now offering me fifteen thousand a year to write a daily screed like it?" "You can see, Wilbram," said Mr. Oakes, "that there was no intention to injure or annoy.