banshee

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• The suggestion of murkiness was only compounded by Jack Warner's comment that, on hearing the claims against him, he laughed "like hell", as though this would somehow make him seem just really innocent and reassuring, rather than like the kind of horrifying, banshee figure who might appear in your nightmares waving a breadknife and wearing only a butcher's apron and a beard of bees. It's time to admit football is pure evil | Barney Ronay
• Flinging herself on the sofa, wailing like a banshee ,' Maggie laughed. FALLEN WOMEN
• Banshee, nor of his cough, with a spitting of blood, brought on, I understand, by catching cold in attending the courts, and overstraining his chest with making himself heard in one of his favourite causes. Castle Rackrent
• The trauma on Tuesday was followed in the middle of Thursday night by a storm, a howling banshee that shook buildings—thunder like a cannonade, lightning tearing through the sky. We'll Never Get Over It, Nor Should We
• They just adore tiptoeing around and shaking their heads when the broads shatter glass with their banshee wails.
• At windswept Banshee Bay, our campsite beneath the casuarina trees was made comfortable by some beachcomber's driftwood furniture.
• Right as we got to the top near the exit door, Maggie let loose a banshee yell and fell backwards down the stairs. ICED
• The roar of the tank, the buzz of the jeep, and the sudden whiz of the banshee add the right amount of ambiance to an action game.
• Manson's deadpan seriousness in wailing these corkers out, banshee style, detracts from the album's good points, namely its well-mixed beats and darkly atmospheric sounds.
• The wail of the banshees had been growing in intensity for some time.