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1. The Leopard squeezed that final shriek of horror out of Johnny’s throat as her
2. But in a minute it got louder, and soon there was a shriek in it
3. But it was approaching rapidly, now the noise was more shriek and howl than thunder
4. The jaw closed and the shriek, wind and thunder began and soon rose to deafening once again
5. A family of lorisaurs murmured in the branches above, and the distant shriek of a small dactyl could be heard far back the way they had come
6. the shriek in a sleepless night,
7. They were moving in slowly and deliberately, heads low, claws high, making the whispered shriek
8. They all scrambled back a good distance from the pool and Desa allowed herself a full-bodied shriek of terror
9. The lady from social services let out a small shriek as she entered the kitchen
10. One more tortuous shriek proclaimed, 'Come one, come all!'
11. But he didn’t have a chance to do more than register her presence as at that very moment Mrs Brown uttered a piercing shriek
12. Then, there was a sudden shriek!
13. short by a terrified shriek coming from the wall behind
14. Father wrestled with the wheel, shouting mightily to overcome the shriek of tearing muscles
15. You have to understand that—” He was interrupted by Maileena’s sudden shriek and the feeling of someone plunging at him from behind
16. The ground underneath all of their now unsure feet shook and that blood-stilling shriek resounded from above
17. The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with a little shriek, and went on: ‘–that begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness– you know you say things are “much of a muchness”–did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?’
18. The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried by–the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the neighbouring pool–she could hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and his friends shared their never-ending meal, and the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution–once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the Duchess’s knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it–once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard’s slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the
19. boy–and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other
20. jaw was open as wide as nature would allow in what must have been a last shriek of agony or terror
21. that drank the light of the torch for an instant before shutting and being pulled away with a shriek so
22. It was a rasping, high-pitched shriek that came in quick bursts: Scree! Scree! Scree! Closer it came, closer
23. The unearthly shriek came again, much closer
24. their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came
25. The wheels set up a loud irritating shriek as he pulled the chair across the floor, adding to his already unsettled nerves
26. Wetting his lips, Brokin tried again and this time the shrill, high-pitched shriek of an injured weasel rang out across the clearing
27. The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried by--the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the neighbouring pool--she could hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and his friends shared their never-ending meal, and the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution--once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable Mock Turtle
28. Sabrina served, and Lisette ducked as the ball bounced once and whizzed straight for her, letting out a piercing shriek
29. The most horrid screaming came over the radio, a high-pitched shriek that seemed impossible to drag out of a human throat
30. The shriek of a whistle broke into my thoughts
31. “Sir, glad to have you!” she shouted and let off a few rounds, the sound of her pistol quickly followed by unearthly shriek
32. I shriek, my face hot
33. For him, the occasional shriek or scream was more than offset by a man’s blasphemy
34. A sudden movement and Ikati was transfixed with pain: he gave a shriek that sounded human
35. earsplitting shriek, and the gun fell from his hand
36. Davis gave a shriek and in trying to avoid treading on the awful thing, lost her balance and her parasol
37. “What did she put inside him?!” Eynochia cried with a banshee-worthy shriek,
38. when Cinder’s agony cut the air with a blood-chilling shriek
39. With a simultaneous shriek the girls followed him
40. Suddenly I heard an unmistakable shriek of greeting from Cuauhtzin, followed by a stream of obscenities in Otomi and the hearty laughter of Tetl
41. Just before the house came into view, I heard the unmistakable shriek of Cuauhtzin’s greeting
42. I arrived at midmorning to the usual shriek from Cuauhtzin
43. The shrill shriek of
44. Her mother let out a shriek and rushed over with a wet cloth
45. There came a shriek of parting steel as the Buster Sword
46. Unfortunately Cuauhtzin would shriek whenever he caught sight of another bird
47. He heard the shriek of the motortricycle’s wheels as it
48. It was there that I was reunited with Cuauhtzin who let out an ear-piercing shriek in greeting and promptly flew to my shoulder and firmly attached himself
49. The latter was certain we were here when he heard the shriek
50. there came a terrible shriek from behind
1. “You!” he shrieked, pointing at the unkempt little accountant as the man
2. Thru it all the wind shrieked so that we could hardly hear each other scream as we went sloshing around the deck
3. “You!” he shrieked, pointing at the unkempt little accountant as the man slowly emerged again from the rear of the car
4. Then the water burst into spray and Desa shrieked as three loops of tentacle spun around the stick and yanked it from her hand
5. It shrieked and curled up, maybe it was still going to spring
6. "No”, shrieked the old woman, making ready to pounce on the
7. “SEE!!!” he shrieked, waving his arms so hard, they whacked the ceiling
8. worse than this?’ Matt almost shrieked
9. Desa shrieked with laughter, “All the science in the Yakhan couldn’t code an RNAcid trip where that was true
10. Her brain shrieked
11. Helez shrieked, gathered her clothing to cover herself and shouted something in Hebrew
12. Odis shrieked in pain behind the rag
13. ‘Collar that Dormouse,’ the Queen shrieked out
14. " The first General almost shrieked
15. The way back to the garage was something similar; Grandpa protecting me from this demon rooster, as Devil shrieked his un-pleasantries, trying to pierce our fragile eardrums (I assume that this is why Grandpa has to wear hearing aids now)
16. He shrieked and wailed, while numerous interested spectators chanted a weird chorus
17. On the other side of the door, the man shrieked with pain
18. "No! they'll rob us!" shrieked the old man
19. ‘Eight months?’ I shrieked
20. Calling out to them, Brightness laughed when they shrieked their surprise at her sudden appearance
21. 'Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out
22. She shrieked in revulsion, only to receive a stunning blow to the back of her skull
23. ” Hartle shrieked at his screens
24. “Lady please!” shrieked the woman! She was nude still, stark white hairless skin with a flowing wreath of fir needles cascading from her head
25. The Prosops shrieked in horror:
26. “Then punish me again, for while I would have, he did not!” her blush was crimson with the shame of her public confession, but she stood her ground, as she shrieked her anger
27. Ebira and Enilia were carried away and now openly shrieked with laughter
28. He slammed into her and she shrieked
29. “Is there anybody there?” it shrieked to the black above
30. Alec Davis, who shrieked in horror, and they passed Miss Rosemary West who laughed and sighed
31. Then she shrieked, her wrath emanating from every inch of her
32. Cody screamed, shrieked while he grabbed his balls and rolled around on the floor
33. The tall golden bird shrieked as its master’s whip cracked its
34. “What the hell?” shrieked Corneo, dragging the yellow quilt over
35. He had two of the red parrots that quickly shrieked challenges to Cuauhtzin
36. hulking animal shrieked in confusion as its legs kicked
37. Cuauhtzin shrieked in alarm at the raptor, but it ignored him and just seemed to stare at Carlotta
38. Cuauhtzin shrieked until he gained my shoulder, then let out a memorable, thoroughly obscene lecture in Otomi laced with a few words in Ani’ Yun’-wiya
39. The girls shrieked with laughter at this
40. dragon sat up and shrieked with joy, leaping into the air
41. “Go! Go! Let's get the others!” she shrieked, pushing me up the steps
42. Since all of my losses, everything had constantly shrieked, ―New! New!‖ Somewhere below that lay my past, my reality, just out of sight
43. “You might not want to be with me but I love you Jesse, what do you suggest I do about that? Oh yeah, that doesn’t matter since I’ve served my purpose in your bed, on to the next one right?” she shrieked
44. ” I shrieked and he blinked a few times, a flurry of emotions passing in his eyes
45. ” I shrieked and he held up his hands
46. “Stop it!” I shrieked, “It was me! Here! I have the rest of the heroin pouches! Not her! Not this croaking voice! It is this gruesome song!”
47. Lucy shrieked at him to stop the car mere inches
48. “Charlie!” I shrieked as they pushed me towards the door; there were police cars waiting outside
49. Birds shrieked and field wolves howled, even when not on the hunt, though no danger approached that small group of men destined to change all
50. His eyes bright with the excitement of such a great adventure that had suddenly come to his town, he shrieked as he ran full tilt at Moshe, “I want to go with you! I want to go with you!” Moshe hardly had time to do more than to scoop up the racing child and spin around a couple of times extracting some of the energy of such an excited assault, while thinking, Where’s his mother? He’s too little to be wandering around by himself
1. It feeds off of you, turns you into a shrieking bonfire
2. “Anyway, what is a would-be doctor good for? You should wait for him to finish his studies, and that could take ages! Like an old friend of mine, who had an affair with a medicine student, she waited for him to take his diploma, she even helped him financially to open his surgery, and in the end he dumped her! So, what did you expect? It's a fortunate thing that he hasn't called!” she concludes with a shrieking voice and her usual air of importance
3. Suddenly, a shrieking cry shattered the night air, and then several pleas of NO! Followed, whirling around to look behind her, she could see two people struggling in the dark several yards from her
4. By solarup, the storm clouds and shrieking wind had abated, and last nights soup had been revitalized with fresh stormwater
5. “Who are you?” She looked familiar now that her hair had quieted and she was no longer shrieking
6. up the hallways, hobbling and shrieking
7. “Where’s the niche?” he screams to himself, “Where’s the niche?” The dragon’s screeching and shrieking are deafening as he gropes The Perfect Prank
8. A wave of euphoria and relief hit her and she could not help but throw her arms into the air whilst shrieking in delight
9. Launching himself off the porch like a missile and growling his fiercest, he landed on the dog’s head with a quick slash of claws across the face that sent the dog running back to the street, shrieking and squealing
10. I imagine that some of my first nightmares were about those shrieking hens pecking and biting off my little sausage fingers as I tried to gather eggs for breakfast (this may or may not, also, be why I slept with a pocket knife underneath my pillow for the majority of my youth — to keep those psycho chickens from making num-nums out of my nose pickers)
11. The rear wheels bumped into the water, throwing the human mass rudely apart; and as the wagon was dragged laboriously up the opposite bank, the inmates slid toward the tailboard, shrieking and groaning in their helpless agony
12. A familiar shrieking howl came from the street
13. Grindel threw back his head, shrieking his frustration, tossing the useless body aside
14. The barista stared at the red-faced, shrieking man and pleasantly chirped,
15. Grabbing the bag with both hands, she upended and shook it, scattering the contents across the floor while shrieking in frustration and kicking clothing across the room
16. Or, was she remembering what Gene Frazer said about her fights with her son? She wasn’t sure but, in a confusing whirl of knife blades, ceiling beams, fat cheeks waggling with laughter, squinty-eyed grimaces while his cock befouled her, taut shoulder muscles, angry shrieking, a dagger penetrating the soft flesh below her chin as she contorted her neck to escape it, blood trickling along her neck, the color red, a wash of green, a snickering cockroach crawling over her, red again, the ceiling, black, all black, it ended
17. The high, shrill, shrieking noises made it even more fun than usual to eat
18. Henry and Elliot Conner raced along the beach, shrieking loudly
19. Maybe that was why her name came shrieking out of my vocal cords
20. Swift as lightning, she flew at him, shrieking a call more terrifying than any barbarian hordes could raise
21. moving through the table, moving up to the top of the table, the Church officials at the other end leaping up and running away shrieking in terror
22. Not that he needed any prodding, but it’s better than some voice shrieking in mindless, hysterical fear through the tube
23. He could see the small figures of children running around and shrieking in joy
24. And then they suddenly heard a thin, rising wail that rapidly cascaded into a shrieking cacophony that seemed to pierce the skies
25. I heard the window bars resonating which was because of the shrieking noise that Rajiv produced may be calling Eclipse for help
26. A sled with three shrieking occupants sped past Mr
27. Some beast, no, not a beast, she would be a banshee, an Irish shrieking banshee, haunting him for the rest of his days
28. voice barely penetrating the shrieking klaxons as he warned of
29. Until the creatures came into Pravik, howling and shrieking and tearing and killing, and Skraetock was laughing
30. An instant later, a wind flung Lord Skraetock aside and cowed the shrieking flames
31. I had a whole five minutes left of torturing Levi, but I had been interrupted, cut short in the most amazing, mind shrieking, toe tingling way
32. Almost shrieking, she moved away from the coffin and regained her seat, but all through the church she felt the eyes on her, and somehow knew he was in the congregation, and that he knew she knew he was there
33. It was late that same evening, when she realised someone was in the room with her, and shrieking wildly, she ran outside and went to the house next door, where they took her to the hospital and gave her tranquilizers
34. 41 And the sons of Jacob seeing that they could not prevail over them, Simeon gave a loud and tremendous shriek, and the eleven powerful men were stunned at the voice of Simeon's shrieking
35. to the ground, shrieking in pain, the RCMP repeatedly Tasered him”
36. falling to the ground, shrieking in pain, was Tasered repeatedly
37. 41 And the sons of Jacob seeing that they could not prevail over them Simeon gave a loud and tremendous shriek and the eleven powerful men were stunned at the voice of Simeon's shrieking
38. Shrieking in panic and tattling to the skies
39. I'm not sure what the other kids in the cafe saw, but they went crazy and started throwing their burritos and baskets of chips and sodas at each other, shrieking and screaming
40. They knew only that the chanting melted away one word at a time, then the heat dissipated, and finally the shrieking wind faded
41. The sun rose higher, the heat was intense, even the cicadas had ceased their interminable shrieking
42. Only gannets fractured the peace of the morning, crying and shrieking as they whirled and circled above the somnolent swell before plummeting for fish
43. He was in the middle of the street and moving faster and faster, shrieking and loving every minute of it
44. "Out of the desert on a night when the world was blind and wild with mad clouds driven in frenzied flight across the shuddering stars, and the howling of the wind was mingled with the shrieking of the spirits of the wastes
45. But Conan doubted, for once, in a gold-barred cage in an Hyrkanian city, he had seen an abysmal sad-eyed beast which men told him was an ape, and there had been about it naught of the demoniac malevolence which vibrated in the shrieking laughter that echoed from the black jungle
46. Were they not all slumbering now, the word of his coming would send them raving and shrieking again through the outer gates
47. All know that in that grim chamber lurks some monster from the black night of ages, which devours the shrieking humans Taramis delivers up to it
48. The great horn tumbled upon the battlement and hung precariously, and another robed figure rushed to seize it, shrieking in horror
49. They turned on him, shrieking with fear and unreasoning rage, howling that he was Trocero's butcher, a more evil foe than Amalric himself
50. But his master was shrieking with a note of hysteria in his voice, and the Shemite drove like a bull at the strangers, his thickly muscled arm drawing back for the disemboweling thrust
1. “Honestly Aldous, that horrid man is SO AGGRAVATING! I HAVE to marry him!” Sam allowed himself an uncertain smile at the shrieks of laughter from Kira and Aldous as they cheerfully returned to work
2. He pulled at the tailgate, screwing up his scrawny, twitching features, and slowly but surely, emitting mineral groans and metallic shrieks, the metal and glass door began to inch upwards until, with the tailgate at seventy-five degrees, the little man was able to clamber onto the space made by the flattened seats, cross his legs, and utter a loud harrumph
3. His shaking hand fumbled through the shrieks
4. More shrieks and screams split the night among the sounds of wet tearing and vicious gulping
5. Before they were done, more joined the melee and the shrieks were even worse
6. There was teasing from nearby tables and occasional shrieks from anywhere in the room
7. The loud shrieks in my head were no more than a
8. And the shrieks and whimpers continued
9. The cries and shrieks of the demons could be heard over the rush of the blaze, but the demons were destroyed and the Arrows were safe
10. ” A punch in the stomach, for that one, sent waves of pain and nausea sweeping over her and filled the air with Herminia’s shrieks
11. ” Herminia’s pleas for mercy and horrifying shrieks of agony reverberated in Beth’s head as other questions about log barges, kilos, Boston and forged checks, all of which she had no answers for, were fired at her
12. There was not a sign or sound of a human being, only the splashing water and the interminable crying of birds and the endless shrieks from sheep and horses
13. “Scree! Scree! Scree!” the shrieks of the animated blue and white birds shattered the quiet gloom of the forest
14. She shrieks as he charges through the crowd
15. Christina shrieks so loud I almost jump out of my skin and slaps at her cheeks
16. She shrieks, and then scrambles to her feet, bent over
17. from Islamic killers, someone would trace a perp or two back to an illegal border entry, and great shrieks and cries would be heard from the pacifists
18. occasional shrieks of its resident sahagins
19. Derek could hear shrieks coming from the other side of the
20. The gossamer idealist invariably shrieks, when cornered, that he is being attacked by far right extremists, by religious zealots, by corporate villains, by despoilers of the earth
21. The priest shrieks and flaps pathetically as his first attacker, Jack Jacobin, jabs him—again and again, harder and harder—with the stock prod
22. So they flood instead into an apartment complex down the road—and the ensuing shrieks confirm that they have indeed tracked down easier prey
23. No hunting owl shrieks its cry of triumph to dark skies
24. The next moment, he could hear the distant hum of voices, dogs barking and the higher shrieks of children
25. With his next breath, the two of them are falling through air that shrieks in ribbons of yellow around his head
26. Most of Mark’s family had ducked out of the way of this performance with laughing shrieks and exclamations, and now they moved back as Scout struck a regal pose for them
27. Only then did the wild cheering begin to subside into individual shrieks of joy as relatives recognized their own heroes
28. The shrieks of those who were brutally squeezed inexorably away
29. Only then did the wild cheering begin to subside into individual shrieks of
30. Shrieks were heard from the crowd
31. Unfortunately for the struggling acolytes, Marcus’s quarters were the closest to the summoning chambers and their feeble shouts for assistance went unnoticed as the young girl’s screams of terror drowned out Marcus’s shrieks of excitement, as he fulfilled his torturous desires drowning out all other external sounds
32. ‘SHEBA! COME BACK HERE, YOU STUPID DOG!’ the frustrated shrieks would
33. Except of course, for that one week each year when the colors returned, filling the summer night with dancing lights and shrieks of delight
34. Creatures bellowed, growling and throwing terrifying shrieks
35. His feet were bare, but the soles were as hard as seasoned leather and Reginald heard the snap of several bones seconds before shrieks of agony tore along the quiet street
36. A mindless ball of agony, he hung on for an eternity until shrieks of fury accompanied by a resounding thwack on the railing abruptly terminated the kicking and muttered curses
37. She had a particular gift of imitating her teacher’s speech and mannerisms drawing shrieks of laughter from her classmates
38. Instantly there followed a mad medley of yells, shrieks and cries of blasphemous agony
39. The sound of the hacking swords was like that of butchers' cleavers, and the shrieks, yells and curses were appalling
40. The men in the fort were holding their own; but the shrieks of the Picts did not diminish in savagery
41. For the Academy students, the decision meant that they were forced to endure the catcalls and shrieks of the Evangelicals every time they left a building
42. Common sense told Siri that nothing could be gained by an encounter with whatever was making, let alone causing the shrieks, but he was curious to discover the cause of the unholy noise
43. As the strings came to the opening of the edging to the roadside, they whispered to each other in their high pitched shrieks
44. ” But as he spoke those words there were several thundering sounds and two shrieks from horses
45. shrieks, squirming, and any other sounds or movements the cats
46. believed that the shrieks and screams of subject animals were
47. victimized animal shrieks and speaks with a broken, fearful
48. Then the shrieks came from the same direction, and seconds later from left and right
49. They heard terrible loud shrieks coming from everywhere
50. In addition to all manner of garbled alien words, there were shrieks and snarls emanating from the center of the circle
