screechings

The mighty threat of the storm, made articulate by the resistance of the Elsinore, shouted in all the stays, bellowed in the shrouds, thrummed the taut ropes against the steel masts, and from the myriad tiny ropes far aloft evoked a devil's chorus of shrill pipings and screechings.

CHAPTER XII 2010

As for the ACLU's inevitable screechings: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. digg

Michael Jones: A Modest Proposal 2009

It won't make the voices go away entirely, no... but: it'll damp down the volume of their combined screechings, somewhat.

Forget "my Muslim faith." The key line is "these guys love to throw a rock and hide their hand." Ann Althouse 2008

Being away from her family, with their interminable screechings and whinings, was rather sedative.

The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

Then we went upon another island on the other side of our ships, and the captain, the master, and I, being got up to the top of a high rock, the people of the country having espied us made a lamentable noise, as we thought, with great outcries and screechings; we, hearing them, thought it had been the howling of wolves.

The North-West Passage 2003

There were others there that night who had not heard her name, who would have said, if asked, that opera was a collection of nonsensical cat screechings, that they would much rather pass three hours in a dentist's chair.

Excerpt: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 2001

At that moment an aural souffle of screechings and chitterings filled the night air.

Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

The ground seemed torn everywhere now with the dark lightning strokes of rifts, heaving themselves open widely to the accompaniment of awful groans and screechings.

Trumps of Doom Zelazny, Roger 1985

On reaching the ground, he was carried or shuffled off his horse and deposited in the tent amid most terrific screechings.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

You are just off to sleep, forgetful of all troubles and strife, when you are rudely awakened and brought back to the present by the most awful screechings under your window.

Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." Jenny Wren