Did you ever hear anyone shout for help or shriek with pain in that voice?
Twenty attendants rushed to capture the rebels; MacIan flung back three of them and Turnbull went over on top of one, when from behind them all came a shriek as of something quite fresh and frightful.
I wanted to shriek but could only make a little clicking sound which nobody seemed to hear.
And scarcely had I spoken the words when Peaches, the supernormal, who was a trifle ahead of me by now, uttered a shriekand leaned trembling against the stone wall of the passageway.
At sound of my entrance she turned and pounced upon me with a shriek of delight.
Through the cold and darkness came a shriek that chilled her with horror.
But instead of another and shriller shriek following the lash, came nothing but a shudder and a silence and the unquailing eye of the girl fixed like that of a spectre upon her assailant.
He again raised his arm; but as it descended, the piercing shriek that broke from the youth startled even the possessing demon, and the violence of the blow was broken.
The thunder was so great that he was compelled fairly to shriek out his words.
The voice of Yahnundasis rose to a shriek and he leaped like a snake-dancer.
A shriek from Christine interrupted the awful gaze of the travellers, and drew their looks in another direction.
True first inquired carefully of Agatha, Grace and others in the hospital, as to the exact point from which the shriek had come.
But he heard the despairing shriek of a feller traveller as he plunged in; and for a moment he tremblingly questions, what is there?
I see them now"--and the doctor gave, a fearfulshriek and fell upon the floor.
And at the same moment the shriek of the train just on the other side of the bend came thrilling through the woods.
And so, when the train swept round the bend out of the swamp, with a shriek and a roar, and came thundering down upon the Crossing, there was no need for Tremendous K.
His eyes glared, and shriek after shriek broke forth from his parched and fevered lips.
From across the courtyard rang a loud, penetrating shriek of fear that made the two aviators spring to their feet and rush to the bars.
While a piercing, agonized shriek burst from the ashen lips of the doomed Atlantean, his bright life-blood began to splash into the golden bowl below where, due to the presence of the steam coils, it swiftly commenced to hiss and bubble.
Then from the blasphemous mouth of the king of gangland there came a shriek of awful fear.
The shriekof it was rising again to drown his voice.
Their timidity would be quite phenomenal, if they were not the third sex; and, like all timid people, they can shriek and yell and curse and foam at the mouth when they are well frightened.
We candidly admit, however, that a memorial to Marlowe would be incongruous in Westminster Abbey if Darwin were not buried there; but after admitting the high-priest of Evolution it seems paltry to shriek at the admission of other unbelievers.
Above the shriek of wind was heard the dull thud of pounding seas upon the rocks, and the hiss of driving snow, combining to fill the air with a tumult little less than terrifying.
The result sounded like the quivering shriekof a leaky steam whistle.
The giggle and the shriek were, of course, the natural accompaniments of this playfulness.
There arose a roar of voices, which ended almost in a shriek of joy which was like the shriek of a tempest.
Well might I say listen, for now high above the yell of savages and ring of revolvers rises the shriek of frightened women.
I was not sorry when a shriek from the engine warned us that it was time to retrace our slippery footsteps.
Next instant with a shriek of joy she was locked in my embrace, and my eager lips pressed passionately her dimples, those nests for kisses.
Once the boats were steering up the lake toward Lumberport, a sudden shriek from Billy Long drew the attention of the girls and Mrs. Morse to the object to which he pointed.
Purt came to the surface more slowly, but when he got there he emitted a shriek like a steam whistle.
She quailed inwardly with pain when she thought of the shriek of terror with which Bobby had greeted her a little while ago when she had entered the room with Bellamy.
He wouldshriek out wildly in his sleep, and no one but his mother could soothe these paroxysms of terror.
They were waiting for the thrilling moment when the stone image would spring to life, shriek and cast itself upon her husband's body.
She screamed before she realized what she did--a long, high shriek of terror that filled the room, yet made so little actual sound.
The inner humming of their quiet life became inaudible beneath the scream and shriek of clattering traffic.
What more I might have seen I cannot tell;--it was then that I fell and fainted, and my shriek startled all the men on the stair-case.
It was as if life terrified them and robbed them of power of speech so that the shriek which was in their hearts died at their throats.
While sauntering here, enjoying the cool night breeze and delicious perfume of flowers, a woman uttered a piercing shriek near to them.
He clenched his hands, staggered convulsively forward and fell, with a loud and genuine shriek of terror, upon the shrubs that covered the rocky ledge.
The wind soon after burst upon the forest and added to the hideous shriek of elements.
