ear-rending

And there shall be much sorrow and playing of heaven-sent, ear-rending guitar solos.

BSNYC Fiday Frun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009

Both monsters and characters make horrible ear-rending sounds in response to the flow of battle, and despite the allegedly large variety of monsters in the game, they all play pretty much identically.

Archive 2006-11-01 Greg Tannahill 2006

Both monsters and characters make horrible ear-rending sounds in response to the flow of battle, and despite the allegedly large variety of monsters in the game, they all play pretty much identically.

Gauntlet: Dark Legacy Post-Mortem Greg Tannahill 2006

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the

Walden 2004

But he couldn't avoid noticing the ear-rending zeeep-zeeep-zeeep of the radiation alarm.

Menace of the Mutant Master Mahr, Kurt 1976

But the crowning glory of all that is ear-rending and peace-destroying, is carried around by the _Pifferari_ about Christmas time.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The sounds emitted by this orchestra were of an ear-rending nature, and of a kind graphically termed by the

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

While these men were shouting, there came along an ugly old woman with a tambourine and a one-legged man with a guitar, and seeing prey in the shape of Caper at his window, they pounced on him, as it were, and poured forth the most ear-rending discord; the old lady singing, the old gentleman backing up against a wall and scratching at an accompaniment on a jangling old guitar.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

When this particular fowl sets up its din at about 3.45 a.m. it is a veritable explosion; an ear-rending, nerve-shattering explosion of noise.

Alone Norman Douglas 1910

Johnny Atwood felt it, and thought of Dalesburg; but as soon as Keogh's mind had arrived at a theory concerning the peripatetic solo he sprang to the railing, and his ear-rending yawp fractured the silence of Coralio like a cannon shot.

Cabbages and Kings 1904