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  • Seingô shrieked in rage, and clawed out at him with spiny, thorny arms.
  • The Captain shrieked, his face alight with fury.
  • Labour MPs shrieked in mock horror. Times, Sunday Times
  • He shrieked and he wailed and he howled and he screeched, until all the air in his lungs left, and then he still yelled.
  • The rod bent double, the reel shrieked and ratcheted.
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  • A woman in a sheepskin coat suddenly shrieked: 'This is a setup. Times, Sunday Times
  • Syrens whooped, steam whistles shrieked hoarsely; the raucous voices of fog-horns proclaimed the whereabouts of scores of craft, passing up and down the river; but the trim-built barge slid noiselessly along, ghost-like, in the dun-colored "smother," giving no intimation of her proximity. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
  • He coughed, sneezed, and barked simultaneously -- bleated in one breath, and cackled in the next -- sputteringly shrieked, and chatteringly squealed, with a bass of suffocated roars. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
  • AND, they shrieked even louder that the district must not close down the local jr high (in order to aggregate more children into a single location so that broader education could be offered tailored to the needs and interests of each individual child). never under estimate the non-linear nature of the results of screaming bug-eyed single mothers with limited information and rationality (and more children than money) shrieking about 'the children'. Page One of My Next Book, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Across the divide, La Dorada shrieked at him, her expression promising pain. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
  • Ri shrieked in alarm and jumped, shocked to find Kasna standing in the far corner.
  • Carla shrieked in fright, jumping sideways before realizing she was being confronted by two, more than likely, perfectly harmless fans.
  • When word processing software replaced typewriters, nobody shrieked about a socialist revolution in the steno pool. Martin Luz: Fealty to Folly: Oil Is Dead! Long Live Oil!
  • Catching sight of it, she shrieked and tripped over her own feet trying to get away from it.
  • Plucking up his sleeve, the beldame recognized the mole; and, staggering back in her chair, shrieked: Between the Acts
  • Today Di the drum dress a spirit and prepare to take a brigade and teach this indocile federal country in the middle of the green center, what be shrieked to obey.
  • With every jar of the carriage, the children shrieked with excitement.
  • The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Burlesques
  • She shrieked and wailed but professed ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
  • People shrieked when the thunder crashed loudly and the rain began to pour.
  • My mind shrieked at me, demanding that I get out while I could, while my heart was intact.
  • Suiting the action to the word, he thrust her rather suddenly and prematurely into a chair, and designing to reassure her by a little harmless jocularity, such as is adapted to please and fascinate the sex, converted his right forefinger into an ideal bradawl or gimlet, and made as though he would screw the same into her side — whereat Miss Miggs shrieked again, and evinced symptoms of faintness. Barnaby Rudge
  • I near shrieked as he fell to the floor, a perfect, coin shaped hole, dotted between his eyebrows.
  • I tried to apologize, but he just shrieked abuse at me.
  • Then Santiago with a shriek leaped upon me -- shrieked again and, arms flung high, pitched headlong from the teocalli with his own dagger buried to the hilt in his breast. The Moon of Skulls
  • The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire. Burlesques
  • Matt pressed himself up against the wall, using the ridge in the side of the building for cover as the car shrieked past amidst the sound of squealing metal.
  • They shrieked, yelled, blared, shrilled, and boomed the scandals and horrors of the moment in multivocal, multigraphic clamor, tainting the peaceful air breathed by everyday people going about their everyday business, with incredible blatancies which would be forgotten on the morrow in the excitement of fresh percussions, though the cumulative effect upon the public mind and appetite might be ineradicable. Success A Novel
  • ‘Let me go,’ I shrieked, feeling very much like a madwoman.
  • She now realized that it was she who had shrieked in pain.
  • As every outraged nerve in my body cried for alleviation, so my tortured mind shrieked for surcease from the accusing memory of the things I had said and done while under the influence of alcohol. Madeleine: An Autobiography
  • A bolt of electricity surged through her body, and Kessah shrieked loudly.
  • Shut your big bazoo," she shrieked, when I said it had nothing to do with her gender. #6 The Horse Shrink - A Beef
  • The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Burlesques
  • The monster shrieked an ear-splitting scream and stepped through the flames, reaching for Quen with its taloned paw.
  • After a moment's hesitation, she nearly shrieked with excitement.
  • The ship whistle shrieked to leave.
  • Vanessa shrieked, bucking and squiggling, kicking and flailing.
  • Dude, I shrieked and grinned so wide when I grokked what it was! Last Round of the Tourney
  • Outside the courtroom girls shrieked abuse at the lawyers.
  • She shrieked and wailed but professed ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Clarice shrieked as a small crimson blur streaked towards her, hissing and spitting.
  • But the floor still shrieked the tragedy, until Hans planed the surface of the stained wood away and with the shavings made a fire in the stove. THE UNEXPECTED
  • I shrieked, my voice quaking with inexpressible wrath.
  • Tambo! shrieked the cannibals from the trees, appalled at so awful a desecration, as they saw their chief tumbled into the tub and the sacred dirt rubbed and soused from his body. Chapter 11
  • There was no space for dwellers in these shadowed lanes to rush from their houses before our car, when warned by the “choof, choof” of the motor as we rattled over the “agony stones,” that something extraordinary was coming; but mothers shrieked for their offspring, while young girls hailed their friends to the free show; and men, women, and children jostled each other good-naturedly in every window and door as we approached, pouring out in our wake, though seemingly half afraid even then that the dragon might take to charging back upon them. The Car of Destiny
  • Nikki shrieked and flattened herself against the wall.
  • She shrieked and wailed but professed ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
  • She shrieked in terror.
  • But while his wife, manager and supporters ached with pain when he was given another red card, the rest of us secretly shrieked with delight.
  • Commonsense shrieked at me not to let a drop pass my lips, but it was irresistible, like musty goat's cheese straight from the liquidizer.
  • She shrieked in pain when a nurse dabbed ointment on her skin.
  • It shrieked in pain, and flew off, the others following close behind.
  • I shrieked, once again lurching forward and grabbing Lash by the back of his beat up concert shirt.
  • She shrieked loudly, though it was most probably drowned out by the rain, as a hand grabbed her arm and sharply pulled her up, drawing her into the warm chest of some person.
  • The jubilant crowd shrieked as the balls sailed into the stands' perimeters and crashed into the boundary.
  • Miranda shrieked with laughter.
  • The ship whistle shrieked to leave.
  • The young men, fired by the strong wine, shouted and hurrahed, and shrieked, and such a din arose as threatened to drown the music.
  • A searing pain tore through her stomach and she shrieked, trying not to writhe on the table. 365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • She shrieked in pain when a nurse dabbed ointment on her skin.
  • The girl shrieked with laughter, hitting the boy on the shoulder.
  • They insisted on applying layers of foundation and concealer, but I tried to leave the room, and shrieked hysterically when either of them attempted to touch my face.
  • Behind her, Marlin's sword clattered to the floor as he crumpled, holding his stomach as he shrieked. Temple of the Winds
  • Joven shrieked angrily and grasped it, clenching it greedily between her long, trembling fingers.
  • Lady -- dear lady, have pity upon me! "shrieked the agonized wretch, her countenance hideously distorted, and appallingly ghastly, as it was raised in such bitterly earnest appeal toward that of the avengeress. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
  • A belated shrapnel-shot shrieked and burst, and everything grew still.
  • Li Mei - t'ing gave a shout, and Lu Tzu - hsiao shrieked, " Tell what?
  • I had tripped in one of the hundreds of potholes that pit my road and shrieked in pain. Times, Sunday Times
  • The breeze whipped through the room and made fire sway side to side over splintered wood as it shrieked and sweltered, then fell.
  • Raven shrieked in pain and loosened her grip for a second.
  • Her gathered knowledge of things and her ruthless penetrativeness made it sometimes hard for her to be tolerant of a world, whose tolerance of the infinitely evil stamped blotches on its face and shrieked in stains across the skin beneath its gallant garb. One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5
  • She neither shrieked nor fainted; but no poor January fieldfare was ever colder, no ice-house more dank with perspiration, than she was then. The Hand of Ethelberta
  • We shrieked with laughter when we realized how stupid we'd been.
  • The rod bent double, the reel shrieked and ratcheted.
  • Well we recall all those charmingly piqued 'conservatives' who'd clutch the pearls as they shrieked, cried & caterwauled over & over & over again for Years about those 'nasty Clinton's!!' Awkward questions - poli
  • By my cachuca di caballero (upon my honor as a gentleman)," shrieked out Ros d'Eroles, convulsed with laughter, "I will send it to the Bishop of Leon for a crozier. Burlesques
  • I shrieked and jumped back, as he, laughing with amusement, murmured another set of words and a different ray of light extinguished the fire.
  • One of them must have been set for detonation at the base of the clouds and the other two were using their normal fuzing and as the preset fuze detonated a bit short of the base of the clouds and directly under the belly of my aircraft, the other two shrieked between John, my number two man, and myself. Thud Ridge
  • Violet shrieked, desperately trying to wrench her arm free from his grasp.
  • The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire. Novels by Eminent Hands
  • I had tripped in one of the hundreds of potholes that pit my road and shrieked in pain. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was such an utter loneliness that shrieked almost as loud as the wind.
  • The liquid splattered Cynthia's expensive sandals and she shrieked.
  • Sadie shrieked with laughter, and looked up to the sky.
  • I shrieked, making a lunge for her but from somewhere behind someone grabbed me… held me back.
  • The voice shrieked and howled before causing Jenna's body to fall to the ground.
  • I tried to apologize, but he just shrieked abuse at me.
  • No you don't understand" Carri shrieked to the now-shaken 911 phone operator - "Bubbles is our Great Dane!" brap: "Later, Carri gets on the telephone and tells Adams the baby is fine and blowing bubbles. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • The earth moved and groaned underfoot, and on all sides the wind shrieked like tormented demons. The Gods of Asgard
  • The creature shrieked as each laser shot cut into it and a thick black liquid squirted out from the massive wounds.
  • In the concert room, the superannuated artistes of the poorer kind of Continental concert hall shrieked and grimaced and ogled, and after every item of the show, the performer came round with an escallop shell into which the more generously disposed dropped small copper coins. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
  • Lucy shrieked, then started to cack herself laughing.
  • The grandmother shrieked. She scrambled to her feet and stood staring.
  • ‘I sport no such flaming burnsides,’ the ingrate is alleged to have shrieked.
  • Gertie shrieked her pleasure at the well-stocked larder and demanded to know if Aunt Beatrice wanted to make her as fat as she was. THE BLACK OPAL
  • Tobie shrieked, almost wringing her best friend's neck.
  • When the stone struck him, he cried out with a great cry and shrieked out a terrible shriek, whereupon I hastened from the spot; but these two young men hurried after me and laid hands on me and before thee carried me. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • ‘No running in the corridors,’ she shrieked, her curly brown and grey hair bouncing around her jowls.
  • She walked from her offices at MTV into Times Square and people shrieked her name and bayed for her autograph.
  • Seagulls, darting by with their snow white feathers, squalled and shrieked as they passed and the salty ocean air rushed into the building with every gust of wind.
  • He received a zap, shrieked slightly at his own stupidity, and yanked away.
  • The wheels of the car shrieked in protest as Khanor slammed on the brakes, nearly spinning out.
  • She shrieked with laughter as they raced up the stairs.
  • She shrieked with pain, tears rolled down her beautiful, untouched face.
  • 'I'm pregnant[Sentence dictionary],' she shrieked.
  • Labour MPs shrieked in mock horror. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sean shrieked at a school of drowsing fish who promptly scattered to deeper waters.
  • I shrieked with laughter, which is what you do with Rosemary, for her own contagious laugh is as big as she is.
  • “Charawk, chawk, chawk, chawk, chawk, chawk!” shrieked the hindmost hen, hit smartly by the watering-can Mr. Skelmersdale had thrown, and fluttered wildly over Mrs. Glue’s cottage and so into the doctor’s field, while the rest of those Gargantuan birds pursued the pullet, in possession of the child across the vicarage lawn. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
  • There he topped off the night by drinking a whole beaker of unmixed wine in a single gulp, after which he shrieked as if hit by a blow and was led back to his bed by his friends. Alexander the Great
  • The three of us shrieked hysterically as one lobster tried to crawl his way out up the sides.
  • She shrieked and leapt from the bed.
  • Italian editors shrieked that the Austrian team had ‘played foul’.
  • A kingbird chattered and shrieked overhead, the grasshoppers buzzed in the grasses, strange insects with ventriloquistic voices sang all about her -- she could not tell where. Other Main-Travelled Roads
  • The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out.
  • And here was this meeting -- thousands of workingmen, horny handed blacksmiths, longshoremen with shoulders like barns and truckmen with fists like battering rams, long-haired radicals of a hundred dangerous varieties, women who waved red handkerchiefs and shrieked until to Peter they seemed like gorgons with snakes instead of hair. 100\%: the Story of a Patriot
  • She shrieked in pain from her neck and rested her head down again.
  • My heavenly marster!" shrieked the widow in incoherent wailing. Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
  • Otto shrieked out, jumping on his pyro brother.
  • I had tripped in one of the hundreds of potholes that pit my road and shrieked in pain. Times, Sunday Times
  • Warm hands brushed my shoulders and I shrieked, lashing out with a violent swing of my arms.

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