The squaws and the children fled into the woods, shrieking that it was a manitou (spirit) armed with thunder and lightning.
As we reached the track, the cars came shrieking along.
He was a person who never saw in most of a day's transactions aught but the humour of them, and as we ran from this shrieking beldame of Camus, he was choking with laughter at the ploy.
Gracious, this beats anything I ever saw, even that storm off the Pamatous," shouted Jack, above the shrieking of the wind.
Although the place where they lay was sheltered, the storm was still howling and shrieking above the island and the sea ran rather high.
They even placed the thick canvas covering over the hatchway again and so closed the cracks that mercifully had let a breath of fresh air into that breathing mass of shrieking merchandise--kidnapped native girls, men and women!
A drove of frightened rats went shrieking and squeaking down the alleyway towards the forecastle.
For days there had been a cannonade such as the world had never witnessed before; the whole countryside shook, the air was thick with shrieking shells, the ground trembled with bursting bombs.
I went back after locking it up and taking out the key, and after opening the window I stood looking out to calm myself, wishing the while that I was right away among the hills far from the noise of whirring stones and shrieking metal.
Mrs Gentles; and her agonised voice sent a thrill through me far more than did theshrieking chorus of the women as they shouted words of encouragement to me to proceed.
Every time I rose there was the shrieking and crying of the women and the prayerful words of the mother bidding me try; and had not her woman friend clung to her arm, I believe she would have struggled into deep water and been drowned.
Above the roar and crackling of the flames we could hear the shouting of the mob and voices shrieking out more than crying, "Jump!
It was a ghastly thought, and the awfulness of it was perhaps accentuated by the snow dashing against the window panes and the wind shrieking around the gables of the cabin.
Jamie stretched himself upon the bed of boughs, and for a time lay watching the fire and thickly falling snow and listening to the wind shrieking and howling through the tree tops.
Now it descended on the ship like a fierce-scolding virago, then rushed on with wild, shrieking dissonance.
But now weeds choked its court-yard, and no sounds were heard in its deserted apartments but the shriekingof the wind as it rushed through the grated windows and whistled around the angles of the towers.
The executioner immediately seized her, and dragged her, shrieking and struggling in a delirium of phrensy, into the court-yard of the prison.
And she went to the guillotine shrieking with terror and betraying all who had protected her.
A little while, and thine own palace-halls Shall flash the truth upon thee with loud noise Of men and women, shrieking o'er the dead.
Whereupon there were such piteous outcries and dreadful shriekingas hath not been the like.
First there was Rose, and then there was that nightmare of a Coroner's case, when he had fled hatless and coatless down the stairs of a reeking east side tenement, pursued by the yells of a shrieking "corpse.
How was he going to avert the catastrophe of an elopement and at the same time save himself and that charming young girl from a shrieking scandal?
Imagine my astonishment and indignation, when the whole audience became convulsed with merriment, hearty, overwhelming merriment, rolling on the ground, and shrieking with laughter.
They will keep it up all night, and little rest we shall get while they are howling and shrieking in this fashion.
Biddy, however, who had stopped her ears as well as hid her face, still fancied that they were blacks, and continued shrieking as loudly as ever.
Yes, and there were forms of men visible on board; two had climbed the mainmast, which crashed before they could clutch at the ropes that were being flung to them from land, crashed and carried them down shrieking into the surge.
With scarcely any interesting scenery, it was a wearying monotony enough throughout the day, but when night drew on and the shrieking of the engine and whirl and rattle of wheels made sleep impossible, it was absolutely unendurable.
Shrieking wildly and hysterically, she staggered fainting to a chair, while Boris and I struggled with the murderer to obtain possession of the weapon.
Mingled rain and hail filled the shrieking blast, and horrid uproar seemed to revel everywhere.
A woman had got out on the ledge of an attic window, and knelt there shrieking and waving her arms, while the smoke curled round her, and the flames leapt up at her.
