Their war whoops and screeches got on my nerves and temper to the extent of sending me into their midst one evening brandishing a whip and commanding immediate silence.
From within the cabin came a series of harsh screeches mixed with discordant laughter and cries of "Ebenezer!
Presently the owl screeches dolefully once more and the bat wheels low overhead.
Cap'n Eb says in all his born days he never hearn such screeches and yells as the wind give over that chimbley; and old Cack got so frightened, you could fairly hear his teeth chatter.
After a half-dozen screeches Spurling stopped up the tube again.
Though the position was horribly uncomfortable, he had all he could do to prevent himself from going to sleep, even despite the occasional screeches of the whistle.
Through loop-holes and windows went the obscene crew, with such hideous screeches as startled the whole neighbourhood.
The yells and screeches he heard o'nights from these witches and warlocks were unbearable; and once or twice, when late at the mill, both he and Robin had received some palpable tokens of their presence.
The Indians listened, expecting the screeches and groans;--they gazed, hoping to witness the writhings of their captive.
Presently the flaming roof fell in and the savages listened intently to hear the screeches of their victims.
Man and ghost parted company; but no sooner had they done so than a dreadful storm arose, in the midst of which hideous screeches rose above the gale.
The door was shut, but proceeding from within was the most appalling pandemonium of screeches and snarls, just as if some dog had got hold of a cat by the neck and was shaking it to death.
But there were two others within the cabin who were by no means merry--the two cousins, who were standing huddled together on the couch, uttering spasmodic screeches at every movement made by a little gray snake on the floor.
For screecheswere sounding from the cabin--cries, feminine and frightened.
But then the screeches and the grunts of the pig rang in my ears, and I thought they came right from within my insides; I wondered how they could listen to all that, and yet eat the pork in perfect comfort.
But it was only the pig that complained against me, and it pleaded in screeches and grunts that nobody could understand.
Ten paces away three women and a man were brawling, the low angry tones of his voice mingling with the screeches of their Billingsgate.
And then my lady screeches out again and says to him--she says: "'Have mercy!
Just then came along a tall gent in a cloak, like Sir Everard wears, and my lady screeches out at sight of him.
Suddenly one of them betakes itself to some other tree, uttering its hoarse screeches as it flies.
I am now in a station where these birds probably outnumber the crows, where we are literally steeped in green parrots, where we hear nothing else all day long save their screeches and chuckles.
And you jump as the fierce creature screeches in your face.
He screeches at the unoffending stick, claws it, battles with it, and literally chokes himself in his rage.
In the mean time the screeches of the Earl mocked them all.
There was another tumult in the corridor, with the same screeches by one and the same humble protests by a multitude.
They seized the swooping foe by the root of the tail, and, in spite of screeches and wild flappings, plucked him down backwards.
Screeches of horror arose, which brought all the hordes to a halt as far back as they could be heard.
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