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Definition of Screeched
1. screech [v] - See also: screech
Lexicographical Neighbors of Screeched
Literary usage of Screeched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of a West-India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1834)
"... and still, as on they came, They screeched and chattered; and their eyes of
flame, Twinkling and goggling, told, what pleasure grim 'Twould give to rack ..."
2. It is Never Too Late to Mend: A Matter-of-fact Romance by Charles Reade (1869)
"screeched Crawley, reproachfully. Crawley clapped his hand behind him, and to
his horror he had a tail ! " That you have," said the man, " now 1 look at you ..."
3. Recollections of Eminent Men: With Other Papers by Edwin Percy Whipple, Cyrus Augustus Bartol (1886)
"Thus he could not be contemptuously dismissed by hi$ brother Senators as a mere "
freedom screecher," for he screeched Grotius and Puffendorf; screeched ..."
4. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1873)
"And then I got a snug place among the heath, and fell fast asleep, and when I
woke I screeched again, and I screeched once more at daybreak, and I wouldn't ..."
5. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1873)
"And then I got a snug place among the heath, and fell fast asleep, and when I
woke I screeched again, and I screeched once more at daybreak, and I wouldn't ..."
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