"Screech" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little: "Take thou heed; from thee hath issued a bird of harm, in choler a wild screech-owl, ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... what I intended to be an awe-inspiring screech; but, owing to the flutter of my breath, the effort ended in a curious mixture ...
— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes
... would labour, were they brought upon the stage, is their simplicity in contrast with the ghastly and contorted horrors that envelop them. A dialogue abounding in the passages I have already quoted—a dialogue which bandies 'O you screech-owl!' and 'Thou foul black cloud!'—in which a sister's admonition to her brother to think twice of suicide assumes a form ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... stair Will grumble at our feet, the table cry: 'Fetch my belongings for me; I am bare.' A clatter! Something in the attic falls. A ghost has lifted up his robes and fled. The loitering shadows move along the walls; Then silence very slowly lifts his head. The starling with impatient screech has flown The chimney, and is watching from the tree. They thought us gone for ever: mouse alone Stops in the middle of the floor to see. Now all you idle things, resume your toil. Hearth, put your flames on. ...
— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 • Various
... answered. "You see, she has been with us boys, and she can play, and doesn't screech if you touch her, or mind a bit if she tears her frock. So are our cousins in England—some of them. Yes, there are some jolly girls, of course; still, after all, what's the good of them, taking them altogether? They are very nice ...
— The Young Franc Tireurs - And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War • G. A. Henty
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