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  • With a cry that was like an echo of Ascalante's death-shriek, he reeled away from the wall and met the leaping horror with a cast of his ax that had behind it all the desperate power of his electrified nerves.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • Half-naked, and thus manacled, they hurled him into the lake, there about twelve feet deep, with a loud halloo of vindictive triumph, — above which, however, his last death-shriek, the yell of mortal agony, was distinctly heard.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • With a cry that was like an echo of Ascalante's death-shriek, he reeled away from the wall and met the leaping horror with a cast of his ax that had behind it all the desperate power of his electrified nerves.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • With a cry that was like an echo of Ascalante's death-shriek, he reeled away from the wall and met the leaping horror with a cast of his ax that had behind it all the desperate power of his electrified nerves.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • With a cry that was like an echo of Ascalante's death-shriek, he reeled away from the wall and met the leaping horror with a cast of his ax that had behind it all the desperate power of his electrified nerves.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • With a cry that was like an echo of Ascalante's death-shriek, he reeled away from the wall and met the leaping horror with a cast of his ax that had behind it all the desperate power of his electrified nerves.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • With a cry that was like an echo of Ascalante's death-shriek, he reeled away from the wall and met the leaping horror with a cast of his ax that had behind it all the desperate power of his electrified nerves.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • While it still stood, death-shriek bubbling forth, he planted a booted foot on its agony-arched back to tug his blade free.

    Conan The Invincible Jordan, Robert 1982

  • Mahon felt himself shiver at the death-shriek that replied.

    The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan

  • A sharp, piercing cry rose in the air -- my soul identified that death-shriek with the voice that I had heard, and I saw the man who was standing with the lanyard of the lock in his hand drop heavily across the breech, and discharge the gun in his fall.

    Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Anonymous

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