screech

• The old man enquired why I seemed so much terrified, and my brothers told him that I would persist in calling a screech-owl, a catamount. —  Stories and Sketches
• Then he gets closer to the fire, for the screech was not pleasant, and goes on with his cooking You are more curious than he, or you want the big cat's skin to take home with you. —  Wilderness Ways
• Their cry is most peculiar and can only be mistaken for a native horn; and although there seems little variety in it to my ear, there must be more to theirs, for they will carry on long confabulations with each other across a river, and, I believe, sit up half the night and talk scandal There were plenty of plantain-eaters here, but, although their screech was as appalling as I have heard in Angola, they were not regarded, by the Ajumba at any rate, as being birds of evil omen, as they are in Angola. —  Travels in West Africa
• I let out a screech--and woke up I should think you did screech," said Felicity. —  The Story Girl
• With a horrid screech, the gate in the East Wing will open. —  IGN Complete

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