Definition of Shreiks

1. shreik [v] - See also: shreik

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shreiks

shredder
shredders
shreddier
shreddies
shredding
shreddy
shredless
shreds
shreek
shreeked
shreeking
shreeks
shreik
shreiked
shreiking
shreiks (current term)
shrew mole
shreward
shrewards
shrewd
shrewder
shrewdest
shrewdie
shrewdies
shrewdish
shrewdly
shrewdness
shrewdnesses
shrewed

Literary usage of Shreiks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1902)
"... In Stygian Cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shreiks, and sights unholy, Find out som uncouth cell, Where brooding darknes spreads his jealous ..."

2. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1908)
"... loathed Melancholy 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shreiks, and sights unholy, Find out som uncouth cell, Where brooding darknes spreads his jealous wings. ..."

3. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... at last the earth sunk below the water, and the sea overwhelmed great numbers of people, whose shreiks and ..."

4. An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Shewing the Main Stream of English by Henry John Newbolt (1922)
"L'ALLEGRO HENCE Loathed Melancholy Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian Cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shreiks, and sights unholy, ..."

5. Longer English Poems: With Notes Philological and Explanatory and an by John Wesley Hales (1889)
"HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes and shreiks and sights unholy ; Find out som ..."

6. The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating The Last Years of the Stuarts by John Bagford, Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (1878)
"... when he did often come to woe her, Pull'd off his Cloaths, and furiously did run and leap into her. eo She shreiks, she strives, and down she dives, ..."

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