Lexicographical Neighbors of Shreiks
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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