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Definition of Shrieky
1. shrill [adj SHRIEKIER, SHRIEKIEST] - See also: shrill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrieky
Literary usage of Shrieky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"Omnipotence of droning, edged with shrieky squealing, which fills the Universe
... From the depths of the gamut to the shrieky top again,—a droning that has ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"Omnipotence of droning, edged with shrieky squealing, which fills the Universe
... From the depths of the gamut to the shrieky top again,—a droning that has ..."
3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"Omnipotence of droning, edged with shrieky squealing, which fills the ... From the
depths of the gamut to the shrieky top again, — a droning that has ..."
4. The Congregational Review (1887)
"Dr. Bayne talks of the year 1483 as the year when " Savonarola, a true prophet
of God, though somewhat shrill and shrieky, was strangled and burnt in ..."
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