When all was ready the priest gently pulled and tugged and forced the child out of the mother's arms, and stepped quickly out of her reach; but she clasped her hands, and made a wild spring toward him, with a
shriek; but the rope -- and the under-sheriff -- held her short.
"Oh, Gaberelle!" she
shrieked, and slid to the floor an inert and senseless mass.
"You are loathsome to me, repulsive!" she shrieked, getting more and more heated.
And how vulgarly she shouted," he said to himself, remembering her shriek and the words--"scoundrel" and "mistress." "And very likely the maids were listening!
From room to room he went, until he came to one at which a rude, barred door still stood, and as he put his shoulder against it to push it in, again the
shriek of warning rang out almost beside him.
Then some one ran to our master's house and came back with a gun; presently there was a loud bang and a dreadful
shriek, and then all was still; the black horse moved no more.
When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek from the wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat down suddenly upon the floor.
Hour after hour passed away, and slowly Dorothy got over her fright; but she felt quite lonely, and the wind shrieked so loudly all about her that she nearly became deaf.
The slave girls upon the dais shrieked and cowered away.
A blinding gust of smoke blotted out the tragedy within that fearsome cell--a shriek rang out, a single shriek, as the dagger fell.
With a loud shriek of fear the Holy Hekkador grasped frantically at that menacing arm.
At last my hand closed upon the ship's rail and that very instant a horrid shriek rang out below me that sent my blood cold and turned my horrified eyes downward to a shrieking, hurtling, twisting thing that shot downward into the awful chasm beneath me.
"Die!" he
shrieked. "Die!" and then he turned toward the exit at his back.
"Why, madam, MY experience warrants me in stating that that tenor's voice is not a voice at all, but only a shriek--the
shriek of a hyena."
She heard, and, falling backwards in fear, drew in her breath to
shriek aloud.
