Word: shrieked
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...oarsmen have done well. Faithful work with no vision of the Thames is rewarded today. To all boats from the "Go" to the last shriek of the diminutive coxswain the CRIMSON extends its best wishes with congratulations to the victors...
...before pointing the finger of blame at the coach, the captain, the batteries, the infield or the outfield, the University must pull itself out of the state of lethargy into which it has dropped and consider. It is too easy to shriek accusations at the box score in the Sunday papers, and to criticize over a dinner table. Few men stop to think that it is the undergraduate body as a whole that is responsible for a team; if a better nine cannot be produced it is because the College has not the collective ability to furnish...
Brutal, gashed, and swollen faces; wide gaping mouths, which opened for the last time to utter the death-shriek, and are now fixed forever in rigid agony; jagged, discolored teeth, sunken cheeks, knitted brows, dead, sodden eyes, awful contortions, ghastly smiles, hideous leers, faces of men and faces of women, faces of the young and faces of the old, faces which reek with the slime of years of vice and misery and despair; faces which Dante, groping among the damned, might have dragged from hideous, steaming depths of Lethean mud, and flung forth to front the unwilling...
...lured by his deadly enemy to a quiet place at a quiet hour and murdered. Can we not picture the sudden grapple and the terrible struggle, upon which the cold stars gazed down so unpityingly? No eye saw the savage blow, no ear heard the victim's shriek, as he was flung from the parapet. The night was deaf, and the darkness was blind, and nothing remained to tell the story but the clotted handful of the murderer's hair which the police took next morning from the rigid fingers of his victim. A bulky and heavy sack, stained crimson...
...with a mixed sort of feeling that one listens to the following shriek from the sepulchre. One scarcely knows whether to laugh, or to merely pity the writer...