"Shrieking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Just imagine the luxury of a warm day's journey in such a vehicle, which has neither springs nor backed seats—three fiery horses fastened to it, and each pulling, plunging, and pirouetting on his own account; a ferocious yamtschick cracking his whip and shrieking "Shivar! shivar!"—faster! faster!—the wagon, rattling all over, plunging into ruts, jumping over stones, ripping its way through bogs and mud-banks; your bones shaken nearly out of their sockets; your vertebrae ...
— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne
... ablaze, And music is shrieking away; Terpsichore governs the hour, And fashion was never so gay! An arm round a tapering waist— How closely and fondly it clings! So they waltz, and they waltz, and they waltz— And that's what they do ...
— Successful Recitations • Various
... us, our welcome consisting in a most horrible screaming, and crying, and barking, which, I suspect, as far as the prisoners were concerned, was far from complimentary. Among them were some dreadful old crones, who came stretching out their withered, black, parchment arms, shrieking terrifically, and abusing the white men as the cause of all the misery and hardships it had been their lot to endure. Their accusations were, I believe, in most respects, too just. Certainly white men had torn them or their ancestors from their native land—white men ...
— Old Jack • W.H.G. Kingston
... knees in silent awe, while the women who had been standing outside, rushed shrieking down ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various
... in tumbled four children and the little pine tree. Chrissy darted forward, shrieking with delight, and fell headlong among the ...
— Happy Days for Boys and Girls • Various
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