Word: shriek
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This was greeted by a perfect shriek of laughter. The girls rolled from side to side and clung to their chairs. "Just see that expression!" cried Lu. "Oh, this is too utterly overpowering! You did n't half prepare us, Will. Oh dear me!" and she held her sides together and gasped...
...fire, neither stirring nor speaking. I looked on in dumb amazement; and then, as I looked, I saw him rise to his feet, with a livid light in his eyes; I saw him draw from his pocket a revolver and point it at some invisible mark. I tried to shriek for help; I tried to move. I might as well have been a statue. Then I saw the revolver snatched from him by a hand; I saw a face, distinct and clear as his own - a face whose every line is deeply imprinted on my memory; I saw that face...
...read no more, but with a shriek of "Vichy straight," fell senseless on the floor...
...Freshman manipulate a chair on which a lady was about to sit. He pulled the chair out and then pushed it back, but the lady was too quick, or he was too slow, and, as the edge of the chair met her back, she uttered a loud shriek. Terror-stricken, he seized her by an arm and jerked it frantically. His colleagues ran to his assistance. The unfortunate lady was, in a moment, lifted up and forcibly seated on the chair. But now a general indignation arose against the unhappy waiters, and they were hurled down from...
...mountain peak must wildly shriek...