Cry of horror

Usage examples of shriek.

But Conan doubted, for once, in a gold-barred cage in an Hyrkanian city, he had seen an abysmal sad-eyed beast which men told him was an ape, and there had been about it naught of the demoniac malevolence which vibrated in the shrieking laughter that echoed from the black jungle.

Whereupon the adulation reached fever pitch, the people screamed and shrieked with joy, every .

She shrieked to the ravens that croaked from afar, And she sighed to the gusts of the wild sweeping wind.

With a gasping shriek the king ape collapsed, clutching futilely for the agile, naked creature nimbly sidestepping from his grasp.

Then it all came to her, and she shrieked accusingly at the agrestic matron.

When she pounded the wooden point past skin and tissue and bone, however atrophied, the thing shrieked in rage and pain.

He tumbled again, only nominally under control, shrieking incoherently around his beakful of stolen weapon.

However, the old woman set up a dismal shriek, the children imitated her, and the poor girl began to cry.

I began to shriek, and my lover taking me in his arms to protect me my father stabbed him in the chest.

The landlady came on the scene and began to shriek, and Santis asked me to give him a few words apart.

Thereupon we began a thousand tricks, accompanied by shouts and shrieks of laughter, purposely calculated to drive the little priest desperate.

Marcoline shrieked but did not move, but my niece earnestly begged me to replace the bed-clothes.

Still the Berceau held on, though her way was checked, and now her bow-guns answered with chain-shot that shrieked high through the rigging, cutting ropes and sails as it went.

Old Abershaw, stumbling toward the river bank, sprawled with a wild shriek, thinking that both The Shadow and Bosco had overtaken him.

A horrifying shriek and the rustle of something moving quickly out of the jungle stopped Byrt short.