1 "And looks a lot like Betty, too," said Camilla, and then disappeared shrieking amid a welter of skirts and pantalets and bobbing hats, as Betty, who did have a long face, began pinching her.
2 Carol joined them; she ducked shrieking small boys, and helped babies construct sand-basins for unfortunate minnows.
3 He dropped into the shrieking desk-chair.
4 Suppose he were sued by some vicious shrieking woman for malpractice.
5 While he was speaking these words, the howling of the shrieking, slanting storm without seemed to add new power to the preacher, who, when describing Jonah's sea-storm, seemed tossed by a storm himself.
6 When the shrieking behind them died away, Pavel realized that he was alone upon the familiar road.
7 It was a scene of wild confusion, women shrieking and wringing their hands and fainting, and men fighting and trampling down everything in their way.
8 The place, of course, was in an uproar; women fainting and shrieking, and men rushing in.
9 In the same moment I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her, and soaring at least as many feet above her head as she was high.
10 "All together," said Anna, and she ran laughing to meet them, and embraced and swung round all the throng of swarming children, shrieking with delight.
11 Bitzer had come down by train, shrieking and rattling over the long line of arches that bestrode the wild country of past and present coal-pits, with an express from Stone Lodge.
12 He caught it up, devoured it with his eyes, and then danced madly about the room, pressing it to his bosom and shrieking out in his delight.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 13 It culminated in a hurried outbreak of almost intolerably excessive shrieking, which stopped short, leaving us stiffened in a variety of silly attitudes, and obstinately listening to the nearly as appalling and excessive silence.
14 Cowards, you notice, are always shrieking to have troublesome people killed.
15 The whistling sound of the runners on the snow and the voices of girls shrieking were heard from different sides.