shriekings

And he could not help but contrast it with the weak pipings and shrill quaverings of factory girls, ill-nourished and untrained, and with the raucous shriekings from gin-cracked throats of the women of the seaport towns.

Chapter 8 2010

That would be policy, to the exclusion of other shriekings the shriekers make here.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture: 2009

And about us from every part there did come the strange burstings and shriekings and whistlings of the boil of the waters breaking upward from the deep world.

The Night Land 2007

Hammerstone fired twice in quick succession, the echoing thunder succeeded by a series of hard, flat reports and the tortured shriekings of ricocheting needles.

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

Hammerstone fired twice in quick succession, the echoing thunder succeeded by a series of hard, flat reports and the tortured shriekings of ricocheting needles.

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

The air was filled with the shriekings of these fearful projectiles, which exploded with startling frequency above our heads and just behind us; but, fortunately, the rebels aimed high, and many of the shells ploughed the ground in our rear or burst about our hospitals.

Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens

A very pandemonium of sounds saluted our ears as we emerged from the forest -- lowings and roarings and shriekings of fighting cattle, wild hoots from hoarse masculine throats, the shrill tones of a woman's angry voice, the discordant notes of an accordion, the shuffle of heavy dancing feet.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

Throughout the night, they beset Mendoza for confession and absolution, a boon not easily granted, for the seas swept the crowded decks in cataracts of foam, and the shriekings of the gale in the rigging drowned the exhortations of the half-drowned priest.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

At this, the terrified shriekings and screamings of the women and other children suddenly filled the compound's surrounding buildings.

Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Roland Jon Cheney

It was black midnight, and stormy at that; there was such an uproar in the elm branches over his house as if all the Salem witches were holding Sabbath there; the whole village of Sableburg swarmed with windy rushings and shriekings and slammings.

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various