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Definition of the day : « shriek »
- noun high-pitched scream
- It was rather a frightful place to go into in search of the source of a shriek.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Through the cold and darkness came a shriek that chilled her with horror.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Yet, in the intensity of her utterance, the feeble whisper struck like a shriek of horror.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- By degrees her voice had lost its cooing tone and had risen to a shriek.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- At this juncture the brakes began to shriek and grind upon the wheels.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- But as soon as she did so she began to shriek, and took it out again.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- It sounded in their ears and was as unexpected as a shriek in church.
- Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
- I gave a shriek of despair, and scrambled out of the cave howling.
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- The shriek of agony from Hans loosened the arms of Heinrich.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
- He soon returned, for a shriek recalled him,—but she was gone.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens