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  • Wi 'mony an eldritch skriech and hollo. [weird screech]

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • Gien she cam near him ohn luikit for, they said, he wad gie a great skriech, and rin as fast as his wee weyver (spider) legs cud wag aneth the wecht o ''s humpie -- an' whiles her after him wi 'onything she cud lay her han' upo ', they said -- but I kenna.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

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