screaming

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Spring Awakening, joined by friends and fans, paid a visit to the haunted halls of horror at BLOOD MANOR to see what all the screaming is about!

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  1. Crying or sounding shrilly.
  2. Causing a scream: as, a screaming farce (one calculated to make the audience scream with laughter).

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  • I knew then that Mama wasn't screaming -- knew that Mama was forever past screaming, knew that maybe I never would be. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 01 - January 2000
  • Then I was aware once again of the sputtering radiators and the smell of salami as people rushed to the door to see what the screaming was about. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
  • Sinister and forbidding, even the sunlight could not lessen their grimness As if in memory of the hundreds of victims who had been bidden jump off those ramparts, merely for Christophe's amusement, or who had been hurled, screaming, as penalty for his displeasure, a ruddy moss feeding upon decay, has spread over the stones, and this moss, ever kept damp by the cloud-banks which wreathe the Citadel continually is moistly red, like newly shed blood. —  Plotting in Pirate Seas
  • Mosses, poppies, saxifrages, cochlearia, and other hardy plants began to sprout, and migratory birds innumerable--screaming terns, cackling duck, piping plover, auks in dense clouds with loudly whirring wings, trumpeting geese, eider-ducks, burgomasters, etcetera, began to return with all the noisy bustle and joyous excitement of a family on its annual visit to much-loved summer quarters But here we must note a difference between the experience of our explorers and that of all others. —  The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole
  • Phoebe followed screaming, and the other people now hastened from the cottages Save her! —  The Children of the New Forest
 

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