Lexicographical Neighbors of Shreiking
Literary usage of Shreiking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1818)
"... now seeing above 10000 houses all in one flame: the noise and cracking and
thunder of the impetuous flames, ye shreiking of women and children, ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1820)
"... the noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, ye shreiking of
women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of Towers, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1908)
"... she had much adoe to keep herself from shreiking, but contain'd herself, on
accnt of the danger they ran if they had been discover'd, ye same night they ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1820)
"... who now saw above 10000 houses all in one flame; the noise and cracking and
thunder of the impetuous flames, ye shreiking of women and children, ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... voyce of wight alive May reach from hence to depth of darkest Hell, Then let
those deep abysses open rive, That ye may understand my shreiking yell! ..."
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