1 Mammy gave a little shriek and retreated and from a distance of a yard, modestly elevated her dress a few inches and showed the ruffle of a red taffeta petticoat.
2 Now the other side presented itself to Lily, the volcanic nether side of the surface over which conjecture and innuendo glide so lightly till the first fissure turns their whisper to a shriek.
3 He glanced at the dirty and unpropitious corner on which they stood, with the shriek of the "elevated" and the tumult of trams and waggons contending hideously in their ears.
4 And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever.
5 Passing through the doorway the door smote him full, and the shriek which followed brought the dancing to a halt.
6 At the same instant the car was assailed by a most terrifying shriek; the visitors started in alarm, the women turned pale and shrank back.
7 Tis the horrid shriek that a horse will give in his agony; oftener drawn from him in pain, though sometimes in terror.
8 A loud shriek from the younger of the sisters, and the form of the other standing upright before him, in bewildered horror, was the unexpected answer he received.
9 A single, wild, despairing shriek rose from the cavern, and all was hushed again as the grave.
10 The youth gave a shriek as he confronted the thing.
11 In his endeavor there was a dreadful earnestness, as if he conceived that one great shriek would make him well.
12 A wild shriek came pealing down the stairway.
13 She started up, with a faint shriek.
14 The shriek had perhaps sounded with a far greater power, to his own startled ears, than it actually possessed.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL 15 This done, he went away, muttering, and uttered the cry of his trade next door, in a vindictive shriek.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES