"Shriek" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shout and shriek her hatred into the evil face of the man who had tricked her. She wanted to frighten him, to threaten, to lash him with her tongue. For she was conscious all the while of her own inability to harm him. Without defining the thought, her common-sense ...
— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman
... prophet's has heard the plaint from the bare heights. Many a frenzied shriek had gone up from these shrines of idolatrous worship, and as with Baal's prophets, it had brought no answer, nor had there been any that regarded. But this weeping reaches the ear that is never closed. Contrast with verse 23: 'Truly in vain is the ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren
... captain shouted. Half a minute later the billowly clouds swept across the vessel, and a sudden darkness overspread them. Then there was a glow of white light, a line of foam approached as fleet as a race-horse, and with a shriek the gale was upon them. The vessel shook from stem to stern as if she had struck against a rock, and her bow was pressed down lower and lower until she seemed as if she were going to dive head-foremost. But as she gathered way, her bow rose, and in a minute she was flying along at some eighteen ...
— The Treasure of the Incas • G. A. Henty
... the Hall!! Wives, children, and all, For naught the most delicate feelings to hurt is meant!" Here his eyes opened wide, for close by his side Was the scapegoat devouring the latest advertisement! One shriek from him burst—"You creature accurst!" And he ran from the spot like one fearing the worst. His language was chaste, as he fled in his haste, But the goat stayed behind him—and "scoffed ...
— Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses • A. B. Paterson
... I to find my destruction in this? My death in a skeleton seeking?" From the skull of the courser a snake, with a hiss, Crept forth, as the hero was speaking: Round his legs, like a ribbon, it twined its black ring; And the Prince shriek'd aloud as he felt ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various
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